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Lan Ruo Temple
Next to a Lanruo Temple in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, the mainland, accidentally found an ancient tomb that has existed for hundreds of years, this ancient tomb is not the same as the general ancient tomb, it is an ancient tomb from the Southern Song Dynasty, and its scale is very large, comparable to the luxurious tomb used to bury the supreme ruler at that time, but this huge ancient tomb has undergone very serious excavations, then in this ancient tomb archaeologists will find what kind of funerary products, and what kind of status will the tomb owner behind it have, Only after death can we enjoy such a standard tomb, and who destroyed this luxurious tomb so badly? Let's take a look at it together.
In December 2017, a group of archaeologists were excavating an ancient tomb in a large mountain east of Shaoxing, Shaoxing is a very old city, dating back to the Xiaohuangshan culture of 8000 or 9000 years ago, and in 1130 AD, it was in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then Song Gaozong came here and officially changed the original Yuezhou to Shaoxing. In the year before the archaeological operation began, that is, in August of this year, the local cultural relics department received a message that there was a valley near the local Lanruosi Reservoir, and local enterprises wanted to carry out commercial development of this place, according to the relevant local processes, before developing a place, it was necessary to let the local cultural relics department personnel investigate and test it to prevent the destruction of ancient buildings underground. If there are no ancient ruins or tombs under this underground, it can be developed.
Archaeologists carry out excavations
Lan Ruo Temple Reservoir
This Lanruo Temple reservoir was built in the fifties of the last century, and the name of this reservoir is more interesting, it is said that there was a ruins called Lan ruo temple here at that time, but after the completion of this reservoir, the site was flooded, and some of the older people living nearby have not seen the ruins of this Lan Ruo Temple, but have heard some rumors related to it, the location of this reservoir is a local suburb, so the nearby people are relatively sparse. But this place has a very dense forest vegetation, and the valley here is composed of a Qinglong Mountain and a Rizhu Ridge, in the previous exploration work, the archaeologists who came here did not find anything, and in this routine exploration, the archaeologists found some ancient tomb bricks in this densely vegetated valley, after testing, these broken bricks are from the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, although the scale of these tombs is generally relatively small, However, their age is still relatively old, and the earliest of them can be found to have tombs from the Southern Song Dynasty.
Ancient tombs of the Song Dynasty
In the Zhejiang area engaged in archaeological work personnel will certainly have some understanding, in this area, they will often find some tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty, and in the relevant historical records, there are also books mentioning a lot of tombs built in the Song Dynasty, they all have some characteristics and laws, and among them, archaeologists according to the records in the relevant historical books, found that the Lanruo Temple in Shaoxing and some of the relevant features and laws mentioned therein have a high degree of similarity, Because behind the Lanruo Temple there are two big mountains of the Imperial Tomb Mountain and the Qinglong Mountain, and there is a reservoir named Lanruo Temple on the side, in ancient times, the society at that time was generally very superstitious, so the burial place chosen after their death, generally will be selected in a good place with mountains and water, if it is some people who have a noble status at that time, then their choice of such a feng shui treasure will become more critical, and the Lanruo Temple here is just next to the mountains and waters, There is a rare feng shui good land.
Vajrapani
After that, the archaeologists continued to walk towards the depths of the mountain, the more they went in, the more difficult it became to travel, just at this time, someone found the existence of a robber cave on the side, to know that the place where they were at this time was not far from Lan Ruo Temple, and the traces of the robber cave were found on the side of the Lan Ruo Temple, which inevitably made the people present feel some panic, after everyone conducted an investigation of the thief cave, it was determined that the thief cave was about twenty years from the current era, that is, This robbery cave was left in the late 1990s, and the appearance of the robbery cave here indirectly indicates that there is an ancient tomb in this place, and this tomb has a great possibility that it has been stolen by tomb robbers, and in the subsequent excavation of this place, the staff still excavated a remnant of The seat of Meru, which is also called vajra, which is an artifact introduced to China from India, usually used as a pedestal at the bottom of the Buddha statue.
During the Tang Dynasty, the scope of use of the Meru Seat also became more extensive, it was not only used to place some Buddha statues, but also used in some ceremonial buildings, such as in some places such as the shadow wall and the platform foundation, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court at that time had such a book, its name was "Building the French Style", in this work, it explained in detail how to make the Sumeru seat at that time, and needed to be built strictly according to this method. Its general shape is that the top and bottom need to protrude outward to ensure stability, and the middle part is retracted to make the appearance of the Sumire seat more beautiful, and it will also be carved with some lotus petals as decorations in the middle, from the appearance point of view, this is a kind of exquisite decoration that is both practical and beautiful, after cleaning up the ruins of the Sumire seat found in Lan ruo temple, archaeologists were shocked by the scene in front of them.
"Building the French Style"
Because in the general tomb, even if there is a Sumire seat, its range is only slightly larger than a coffin, but the Sumire seat found here in Lan Ruo Temple is different, its length actually reached about ten meters, and on this is also carved some very exquisite three-dimensional pattern decoration, the building above it is also the appearance of the shadow wall, and according to some of the previous excavation experience of archaeologists, behind such a shadow wall, is where the burial chamber of an ancient tomb is located. According to the appearance of this huge Meru seat found by everyone at this time and its size, the tomb hidden behind it should be a tomb from the Southern Song Dynasty, and the overall scale of this tomb must not be small, and then in order to be able to understand more about this tomb, archaeologists entered the nearby village to conduct an investigation, they wanted to see if only anyone in the nearby village would know about the tomb, and it turned out that they came here to the right place. Because not long after they entered the village, an elderly man came to their side and told the archaeological team who had come to investigate that he had entered the tomb.
Lan Ruo Temple Tomb Vajrayogini
Taifu
After hearing the old man's words at the beginning, most of the archaeologists did not immediately believe it, but after this old man said something, but let everyone present begin to believe what he said, according to the old man, he was a person who had been released from prison, in that year he had been to this tomb, and also found an epitaph inside, there were many words on the epitaph that he did not know, but he could still read a few words, such as the first lady and taifu, After hearing the details of the tomb that the old man said, the people also began to believe his description, in ancient times, Taifu usually refers to a position of auxiliary government, but those who can become Taifu generally have another identity, that is, the supreme ruler at that time, or the person who was responsible for teaching the prince at that time, that is, his teacher, and in the history of the mainland, from ancient times, the person who taught was very respectful, and in the previous feudal hierarchy, he could sit in the position of Taifu. He is also known as the culmination of a human subject, so a man with such a status must have been unusual at that time.
Taifu film and television image
The tombs are huge
After hearing the old man's words, the staff in charge of the investigation also realized that the owner of this large tomb was likely to have a very noble position at that time, so they did not dare to delay, and immediately launched a series of surveys on the place where the ruins of Meru were found, and it did not take long for them to find the location of the main tomb of the tomb, and also surveyed a cemetery here, and the overall scale of this cemetery was also very large, and then after basically surveying the local tomb, The archaeological work was suspended, because the archaeologists came here for the task of only being responsible for the investigation, and did not take the relevant permission to excavate the tomb, so the archaeologists reported all the situation found in the survey this time to the leaders of the relevant departments, and hoped that the higher departments could approve the rescue excavation of the tomb of Lan ruo Temple. In 2017, with the consent of the relevant cultural relics departments, a group of archaeologists who were responsible for inspecting the tomb came here again to officially carry out the rescue excavation of the tomb of Lan Ruo Temple.
The tombs are huge
Discover the robbery hole
In the early excavation of this tomb, the staff noticed the difference between the tomb, on the top of the seal it is very interesting design, in today's highway, we can often see that the buildings on both sides of the road will have some specially built bricks to block the mountain, its main role is to place the mountain landslide and other unexpected conditions, and in this Song Dynasty Lanruo Temple tomb, there is also the same building, but in the process of excavating the tomb, The staff found a piece of masonry, which has some differences with other surrounding masonry, after prying open this masonry, there is actually a robbery hole underneath, but after careful observation by everyone, it is found that this seems to be different from the general robbery cave, because this hole did not dig through the burial chamber, and some traces that are considered to have been repaired can be seen from it, which means that it is not a robbery hole, and may be a repair work carried out by the descendants of the tomb owner.
From this small detail, it can also be seen that the tomb in front of them should have been cared for for a long time at that time, but the later discovery contradicted this point, in the subsequent excavation process, the archaeologists found the first robbery hole of the tomb, followed by the discovery of the second, third and more robbery holes, and they have all been passed into the tomb, and the time difference between these robbery holes is not much longer, and what is more strange is that. These caves were later repaired artificially, so if the tomb was guarded by someone, why was it stolen so frequently? With the follow-up excavation work step by step in progress, the tomb masonry in the hillside has also begun to be cleaned up, and the sealing layer of the entire tomb has been slowly cleaned up, at this time, the mystery of the entire tomb has gradually been unveiled, and its true appearance has also been presented in front of everyone's eyes.
Four corners of the que tower
After circling the appearance of the entire tomb, the observant archaeologists immediately noticed that there were traces of a four-cornered quelou in one place of the tomb, in the previous ancient times, the outside of the palace where the emperor of quelou was located, the high platform-like building built symmetrically, there were also some people who would refer to the emperor himself with such a ceremonial building, and those who could be qualified to build the quelou at that time must be officials of three pins or higher ranks in the court, after the archaeologists saw the remains of such a quelou, It is also a heartfelt sigh, did not expect that a building like this, it is buried under the land of only a dozen centimeters from the surface for nearly a thousand years, and then after a period of excavation work, the people cleared out the drainage channel of this tomb, to the end of this drainage channel, there is also a large-scale architectural remains, this large architectural relics are only about seventy meters from the entire tomb, so after seeing this situation, the relevant experts present have speculated, Maybe the area beneath their feet was all part of the cemetery.
Four corners of the leak marks
Lan Ruo Temple Cemetery
If this large building is about seventy meters away from the core of the tomb, then the area of the entire cemetery is very likely to have reached about 10,000 square meters, or even larger, and it is not easy to clear out the entire cemetery in a relatively short period of time, not only in this process, there must be a lot of manpower and material resources, and the commercial development in this area will also be delayed indefinitely, paying such a huge price. Just to explore an ancient cemetery that may not exist, and the archaeologists under such great pressure are also very helpless, and then some people began to persuade these archaeologists to clean up the main burial chamber of this tomb, and then properly preserve the surviving funerary products inside and leave, because before this tomb has been excavated many times by tomb robbers, so archaeologists spend a lot of time and materials, and in the end they may not find anything, but waste time.
Although there are many people who persuade archaeologists, they have their own ideas, because they have a very strong will to their work, archaeological work is not a field treasure hunt, but a rigorous scientific research, archaeologists are repeating the work in various different terrains every day, in order to re-present the unknown stories hidden under the land, and based on the clues found in the process, so as to deduce the real story that happened in history, Although the funerary items cleared out in the archaeological process have a very high physical value, but in this process of finding information, as well as the tombs being cleaned, they themselves may be more valuable than those cultural relics, and then in March 2017, as the scope of excavation by the people became larger and larger, the first batch of archaeologists who came here also became somewhat inadequate, so with the support of the local cultural relics departments, the excavation of the Lanruo Temple tomb was manned. From the very beginning a dozen people supplemented to more than fifty people.
After the number of this archaeological team has been more than five times the number of supplements, they also intend to carry out a comprehensive large-scale excavation of the tomb, after a period of time, the archaeologists have arranged as many as one hundred and six exploration parties in this area, which is equivalent to the excavation site, the area of 10,600 square meters has been arranged, and archaeological excavations of this scale can be said to be relatively rare, in the past related work, Archaeologists are excavating some of the more famous ancient sites will appear such a big scene, archaeologists not only in other areas of the cemetery to carry out excavation work, there are also some people in the entire tomb in the main burial chamber is also excavating, after the surface of some of the stones and soil piled up after the removal, there are some more primitive building parts, after the discovery of this situation, there are archaeologists are also found, the scene that appears at this time, It is exactly the same as when the excavation of the Song LiuLing Tombs was carried out before.
The tomb was badly stolen
The Song Liu Ling was a mausoleum group built for the six rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, and what is even more coincidental is that the Song Liu Ling is not far from the location of Lan Ruo Temple, and they are only separated by a distance of about eight kilometers. After a month or two, after a long period of excavation, the archaeologists finally opened the main burial chamber tomb door of the Lanruo Temple Tomb, but the situation presented inside did not bring rewards to everyone's hard work in the past few months, and the archaeologists on the site did not find any artifacts of relevant value in the tomb, because the Lanruo Temple Tomb had been excavated more than once or twice before, so most of the things inside had been stolen by the tomb robbers. Even the coffin where the body of the tomb owner was placed disappeared, not to mention the epitaph mentioned by the old man before.
The tomb was badly stolen
From the number of robbery caves in this Lanruo Temple tomb to analyze, it has been stolen many times, even if the time is relatively low tomb robbers into it, I am afraid that they will not steal any precious funerary goods, and then the archaeologists investigated some of the relevant information related to the Lanruo Temple tomb, and found an important clue in it, that is, they found the culprit behind the theft of the Lanruo Temple tomb, he is a monk named Yang Zhenjia, he is called "demon monk", After the fall of the Song Dynasty, this person, as the president of the Southern Yuan Dynasty at that time, because the people who guarded this tomb at that time were afraid of yang Lian Zhenjia's identity, so there was no way to take him, he under the support of Sang Ge, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, he excavated many tombs at that time, and dug out the treasures in them and offered them to the rulers, and the Song LiuLing of the former dynasty did not escape the poisonous hands of Yang Lian Zhenjia, but because the owner of the tomb of Lan Ruo Temple was not a member of the imperial family, so although it was also excavated, However, the original cemetery has been preserved.
Yang Lian Zhenjia film and television image
Although the archaeological process is very difficult, but the archaeologists to overcome the difficulties, or in this place, the area has reached more than 12,000 square meters of the huge mausoleum was cleared out, the entire mausoleum has four large steps, and it is divided into the upper half of the park and the lower part of the park two parts, in the archaeologists for a long time under the unremitting efforts, this tomb that has been sleeping for more than 700 years finally reappeared in the human world, and the Lanruo Temple mentioned earlier, It is the temple that prays for the blessing and sacrifice of the tomb owner in this large tomb, and as the excavation of the ancient tomb has come to an end, there is only one last question left at present, that is, who is the person who owns such a large cemetery? Because the tomb was stolen very seriously, almost no cultural relics were unearthed, so everyone can only analyze it through historical data combined with this tomb, and it can be compared with the two people of the two dynasties, Shi Miyuan and Shi Song, who are uncles and nephews, although these two people have great rights, their tomb area is only less than one-third of the lanruo temple tomb, and later everyone put the identity of the person behind the tomb on the person who was related to Song Lizong at that time, his name was Jia Xiangdao, But in the end, because there is no specific evidence, there is no way to determine the true owner of this tomb for the time being, but perhaps in the near future, we can learn the truth through other clues. The above is all the content of this issue, if you have anything you want to say, welcome to leave a comment in the comment area below!
Lan Ruo Temple was surprised by the super tomb, the scale is not inferior to the imperial tomb, but it was excavated by a generation of "demon monks"