In 1968, at the foot of the Mancheng Ling Mountain in Baoding, Hebei Province, a unit was ordered to excavate an air raid shelter, and with the loud explosion of a lifetime, the sappers heard a piercing echo, which showed that there was a huge empty hole in the place of the explosion.
After the geology stabilized, the sappers went to the blast site to check, and found that under the explosion, there was a huge hole, and there was a black and dark patch inside, which felt that the area was very huge, so they sent people down to investigate.
When the soldiers entered the cave, they found that there were several house-style buildings in the cave, and they also found a lot of bronzes, pottery figurines, pottery, and some ancient books and the like, no doubt this is an ancient tomb, and this news was reported to the local cultural relics department.
After entering the tomb, archaeologists found the tomb owner's epitaph, which is a tomb of a prince of the Han Dynasty, the tomb owner is Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, this ancient tomb is not stolen by tomb thieves because it is in the belly of the mountain.
Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan jing in the Western Han Dynasty, was the most fertile prince in Chinese history, he had more than a hundred children, he was faint during his reign, plundering and greedy for money, and his tomb was also decorated with grandeur, and there were many funerary products.
Among them, the most precious is the golden jade cloth, which has been lost for nearly two thousand years, which is a kind of cultural relics unique to the Han Dynasty, because of its high cost, it has been banned by later emperors.
The legend of the golden jade coat can prevent the body from decaying, this golden jade coat has 2498 pieces of jade, about 1 pound of gold wire made of money, which is of great value, this cultural relic is listed as a first-class national treasure of China, and it is forbidden to export exhibitions.
There was once a counterfeit businessman Xie Genrong, who made a golden jade coat himself, deceived the experts of the Palace Museum to buy it from overseas, and as a result, the vice president of the Palace Museum offered a price of 2.4 billion, and finally the local police station intervened to prohibit the sale of cultural relics, and this golden jade coat also proved that it was a fake, but it can also be seen from it that the preciousness of the golden jade coat.