In 2015, in a university in Nanjing, an expansion project was underway, and the construction team accidentally excavated an ancient tomb during construction, and the local archaeological team immediately rushed to the scene and sealed it.
Because the construction team did not know that there was an ancient tomb here in advance, the tomb had been damaged and located on campus, and it could not be preserved, so the archaeological team decided to carry out a protective excavation.
After preliminary exploration, there is no trace of theft of this ancient tomb, and there are no robbery holes in the rammed soil layer of the ancient tomb, and the tomb door is completely preserved. Moreover, the style of its architecture belongs to the ancient tombs of the Ming Dynasty.
The expert carefully opened the tomb door and entered the ancient tomb, and when the experts entered the tomb, the scene in front of them frightened everyone, because the tomb owner's coffin was tied with chains and suspended in mid-air.
This kind of tomb is called the hanging coffin tomb, in fact, some of the ideas of He Daoist are related, the ancients believed that the hanging coffin can absorb the essence of heaven and earth, so that the deceased in the hanging coffin can be feathered and soared, and become immortal.
Experts found the epitaph of the tomb owner in the ancient tomb, the owner of this ancient tomb is called Yang Qing, a eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, and he also went to the West with Zheng He and was one of Zheng He's cronies.
According to the interpretation of Yang Qing's epitaph, experts found that when Zheng He went to the West for the sixth time, it took only ten months, but in the history books, Zheng He's sixth voyage to the West was from March 1421 to September 1422.
Why the time recorded in the tomb of Zheng He's voyage to the West is inconsistent with the time recorded in the history books, and what Zheng He encountered when he went to the West for the sixth time would return in such a hurry, for a time also made the experts a little confused, and this epitaph was also placed by experts in the museum for research and interpretation.