In March 2011, during the warm spring season of the revival of all things, in Guanxi Village, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, a villager named Liu Wen, estimated to be in his forties, recently discovered a strange thing.
In the dead of night, the light of a flashlight faintly comes from a small hill not far away, and it is observed for several days. The ancestral graves of many villagers in Guanxi Village are there, Liu Wen's grandfather is buried there, and the question of who is there has always haunted him.
This night, Liu Wen saw the flashing lights again, and secretly thought in his heart, the feng shui of the ancestral tomb must not be destroyed!
The next morning, Liu Wen came to the police station to explain the situation to the police, although Liu Wen only suspected that there were lawbreakers, but Officer Zhang was suddenly alert, because the news that "there will be big materials" in the local cultural relics market recently spread like wildfire.
Officer Zhang is sharp
target
It is highly likely that it is a grave robber.
In order to avoid hitting the grass and startling the snake, the police station took advantage of the night to carry out reconnaissance, and sure enough, there were shadows busy back and forth. Without further ado, under the careful deployment of the police, the grave robbers were successfully put on the side.
In the interrogation room, the tomb robber confessed the fact that the tomb was excavated.
Looking for the dragon and looking at the mountain, a heavy entanglement is a heavy pass, and if there is a thousand heavy locks in the closed door, there will be a prince living here.
It turned out that the tomb robbers had begun to prepare for the early work from two months ago, because the location of the tomb was very close to the village, and there was only one way into the mountain, in order to avoid being discovered by the local villagers, the tomb robbers specially used woven bags to transport the soil in the cave to other places, and these could only be carried out at night, so the progress of the cave was relatively slow.
The police seized a number of cultural relics, and after professional identification by the cultural relics department, it was determined that these cultural relics were the funerary products of Liu He, the Marquis of Haixia.
Liu He was the ninth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, the grandson of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, his life was extremely legendary, as an emperor, there was no birth date in the history books.
He first served as the King of Changyi for 12 years, then ascended the throne with the support of the general Huo Guang, and was deposed after only 27 days on the throne, known as the Deposed Emperor of Han.
Later, Emperor Xuan of Han enfeoffed Liu He as the Marquis of Haixia, with a fief in Haidian County, Yuzhang County, which is the newly built district of nanchang in present-day Jiangxi. Four years later, Liu He died.
In the archaeological community, there has always been a saying that "han tombs are mostly stolen, ten rooms and nine are empty", and there is a reason why the imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty are always stolen by tomb thieves.
For a long time, people have attached great importance to the matter of death, and from ancient times to the present, there has been a funeral concept of "death as a matter of life", especially for emperors.
During the Han Dynasty, with the implementation of the policy of recuperation with the people, the Han Dynasty gradually prospered and became stronger, and paid special attention to the luxury and exquisite funerary items in the funeral, and the gold and silver jewelry and antique calligraphy and paintings in the imperial tombs were innumerable, which was an important reason for tomb robbers to patronize.
In order to realize the dream of sudden wealth, many desperate tomb robbers have emerged, such as the infamous Dong Zhuo and the famous Cao Cao, who set up a "Lieutenant Touching Gold" organization to rob tombs.
In the northwest corner of the tomb of The Marquis of Haixia, a robbery cave left over from the five generations period was found, but the tomb robbers did not succeed. After more than 1,000 years, the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu has not been visited by tomb thieves, so why is it so lucky. This has to start with a major earthquake in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Historical records record that in 318 AD, a large-scale earthquake occurred in Yuzhang County, the tomb chamber of the Marquis of Haixia collapsed, in addition, the underground water gushing caused by the earthquake flooded the tomb, and the underwater tomb robbery was extremely difficult, coupled with the changes in geographical landform brought about by the earthquake also allowed the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia to escape a disaster, so the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia was preserved.
According to the characteristics of the geographical conditions of the north and south, the tomb robbery circle is divided into two factions, relatively speaking, the north faction is better at "dryland operation", the Luoyang shovel is used to get the magic, and the southern faction is better at "underwater operation", and the underwater mentioned here is only relatively wet, not real diving.
The tomb is flooded with water, forming an environment isolated from oxygen, which avoids the growth of microorganisms to a certain extent, which is a good thing for the cultural relics in the mausoleum, avoiding oxidation and corrosion, and laying the foundation for later archaeological excavations to better see the light of day.
After archaeological excavations, the tomb of The Marquis of Haidian is composed of two main tombs, seven funerary tombs, a funerary pit, in addition to the garden wall, gate, ancestral hall and other buildings, and surprisingly there are also very complete road facilities and drainage systems.
The Tomb of Hai Di Hou was identified as the largest, best preserved and most connotative Han Dynasty Marquis grade tomb found in China, and was successfully selected as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China" in 2015 and the "Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries in a Hundred Years" in 2021.
In the tomb of The Marquis of Haixia, a total of more than 10,000 pieces of various cultural relics have been excavated, including many cultural relics and treasures of great value, which are listed below to feel it.
Later, archaeologists also cleared out a lot of gold plates in the tomb of Hai Xiahou, these gold plates are about 23 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide, and after inviting qin and Han archaeology experts to identify and confirm, the gold plates found here are the first time to be found in the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty.
In addition to these exquisite gold objects, there are also a large number of jewelry jade, of which the more special ones are the jade sword up to 80 centimeters long, and the amber that is the size of a grape and has two sections of micropores drilled through, which is precious because there are insects in this amber, which is an extremely rare insect.
In the west room of the main chamber of the tomb of Marquis Haidian, the lacquerware screen unearthed here has a portrait of the great thinker Confucius and a text recording the life of Confucius, which clearly states that Confucius "in the word Ni, surname Kong, Zi", there has been no complete record of Confucius's surname before.
In the second column of the screen text, there is "The sixth year of Lu Zhaogong, Confucius covered thirty-one", from this sentence, it is accurately deduced that Confucius's birth year should be the seventh year of Lu Xianggong, that is, 566 BC, which is fifteen years earlier than recorded in the "Records of History".
There is also a heavyweight discovery, that is, the known part of the Analects unearthed in the tomb, which is the "Qi Theory" version of the "Analects" that has been lost for more than 1800 years, and Zhu Jian can see the text on it after scanning through modern technology, which is a major cultural discovery.
On December 14, 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced that the Bailuyuan Jiangcun Tomb in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, is the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han, and ten years later, the miracle of the Han tomb has reappeared in the world.
In the Han Wen Emperor's Tomb unearthed pottery figurines, copper seals, copper carriages and horses, as well as iron and pottery, a total of more than 1500 pieces, in the Han Wen Emperor's Tomb next to the Bo Empress Nan Mausoleum excavation, found hundreds of very exquisite, with obvious grassland style of gold and silver jewelry, even with modern eyes is also very shocking.
In the past ten years, there have been two miracles of Han tombs in the land of China, which provides precious information for in-depth excavation and study of history, and also fully demonstrates the brilliant splendor of Chinese civilization.
It can be said that cultural self-confidence, we have enough confidence!