The tomb of King Yingjing, which belongs to the imperial level tomb of the Ming Dynasty, is located in the four groups of imperial city bay in Sanchahe Village, Jiuli Hui Nationality Township, Zhongxiang City, and the owner of the tomb is the joint burial tomb of Zhu Dong, the twenty-fourth son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and his concubine Guo.
Foreword: Many people know that Yuan Qinghua is of extremely high historical value, and is also known as one of the national treasures by the mainland archaeology community, before the "Ghost Valley Down the Mountain" yuan qinghua was auctioned out of 230 million, it is also amazing, so that many people are also very impressed, in addition to this work, there is actually a yuanqinghua is also known to the world, and "Ghost Valley Down the Mountain", its value can only be higher, and the process is also very good, it is from the early Ming Dynasty Yingjing King Zhu Dong's tomb in the yuanqinghua "four love Tumei vase", And the tomb of King Ying Jing is also famous for it.
King Yingjing was the 24th child of Zhu Yuanzhang and a famous king of the early Ming Dynasty. His tomb is in the middle of Hubei Province, his tomb is also one of the most representative Ming Dynasty tombs, and the overall tomb area is also very large, the red city wall inside has reached 127 zhang, from the ground, his tomb is also very majestic and spectacular, but because of this, so that his tomb has been coveted by tomb thieves after that.
In 1937, the Japanese heard that there were many cherished treasures in the tomb, so they used explosives and shells to blow up all the buildings above the tomb of King Yingjing, and after many days of destruction, they did not take away the cultural relics in the tomb, so that they were defeated. This is enough to see that his tomb is very firmly built, and there are certain organs, and it is difficult for people who do not know much about the structure of the tomb to enter it.
After liberation, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage still protected the tomb of King Yingjing, in the early years, because the technical means were not very developed, so it failed to complete the mining work, and in 2005, the state cultural relics authorities were forced to excavate his tomb, the reason is that the tomb of King Yingjing has been stolen 7 times by tomb thieves.
After cleaning out the tomb, the experts also found a lot of robbery holes, the deepest one is up to 8 meters, basically to reach the location of the underground palace, which also allows the experts to dig a sweat, after the first discovery is a broken tombstone short wall, because it is very broken, but also let the experts spend a lot of effort to repair it.
After reaching the main entrance of the tomb, when the tomb door was opened, a gas spewed out, which also made everyone stop digging into the tomb, after examination, these mysterious gases were not poisonous gases, but water vapor, which made everyone more suspicious, and then entered the underground palace, the scene was also very amazing, in the underground palace of his tomb there was nothing, but also let the archaeologists think that it may be that the tomb robbers stole successfully, will make the underground palace so clean.
Found nothing in the dungeon, the experts entered the ear chamber and found some decaying wooden boxes, many of which had been reduced to dust, leaving only some hard silverware, other artifacts had died out over time, and what was even more surprising was that there were 6 female corpses in the ear chamber, all about 16 years old, which were burial concubines.
And then everyone also found in the main burial chamber, found the tombs of the king and princess of Yingjing, including some of their daily necessities, and gold jewelry, etc., the value of cultural relics is still very high, but the highest value is still in the main burial chamber in the plum vase, is the yuanqinghua, such a national treasure level cultural relics, is indeed very rare, now "four love tu plum bottle" has become the treasure of the Hubei Provincial Museum.
To sum up: the ancient royal family is still more particular about tombs, many people will build their own tombs before they die, and it is for this reason that tomb robberies will continue to occur, which has a great impact on the excavation and archaeology of cultural relics experts.
References: "Excavation of the Tomb of King ZhongXiangming", "Record of Terroir Archaeology in Yingzhou"