"Folding the sand and sinking iron is not sold, and it will be polished and washed to recognize the front dynasty."
This is a good sentence in Du Mu's famous work "Chibi", when Du Mu came to the Chibi Ancient Battlefield Site, saw a folded halberd buried on the shore, and immediately had a feeling of nostalgia, and then wrote this masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages.
In fact, this poem for the purpose of nostalgia and poetry is also a kind of "archaeological" poetry.
Although archaeology is a discipline that has only been introduced to China in modern times, from the perspective of history books, the "archaeological" feelings of the ancient Chinese people have always existed.
China's long history and thick ruins have also made great contributions to the archaeology of modern Chinese, laying a deep foundation for the development of archaeology in later generations.
However, in the archaeological process, Chinese archaeologists have also encountered large and small troubles, such as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, which cannot be preserved intact, and the Ming Tombs, which frequently occur strangely.
In the 1950s, when Chinese archaeologists excavated the Ming Tombs, they encountered many strange things, first unusual burial chamber organs, and then the sudden appearance of strange old people, revealing a trace of strangeness everywhere, which brought great trouble to the archaeological excavation work of scholars.
Because the excavation of the Ming Tombs was so bumpy and chaotic, a group of scholars eventually announced the stagnation of the excavation work.
So what strange and strange things were encountered in the excavation process of the Ming Tombs? What happened to the archaeologists who were involved in the excavations?
I. Thirteen Tombs Late Xiao Xiao: The Emperor's Tomb Death
Blessed land is blessed to live in a blessed place, and blessed people live in a blessed place.
Nowadays, when it comes to the Ming Tombs, most people think that this is a scenic spot, or just a group of emperor tombs.
However, for China, the Ming Tombs are a world cultural heritage and have an important protective role.
The Ming Tombs were built on the mountain, and with the mountains, the construction was magnificent and imposing, which was a rare feng shui treasure for warlocks, and because of this, thirteen emperors were buried successively.
During the feudal dynasty period, the emperor's mausoleum naturally carried many treasures, which had been polished over the years and had become unique cultural relics in China.
What's going on here?
Originally, archaeology began in modern China, and the officials intended to make a difference in this regard, and successively set up many archaeological teams to conduct archaeological research on Chinese ruins.
In 1955, China once again ushered in the climax of archaeological research.
At that time, scholars led by Guo Moruo made a report on the excavation of the Ming Tombs, intending to carry out Chinese archaeological work from the Ming Tombs.
However, this proposal was opposed by most scholars at that time, who believed that the archaeological technology and cognition at that time were too backward to support the excavation of the Ming Tombs, and if it was rushed to excavate, it would definitely bring immeasurable damage to the imperial tombs.
Even Professor Chen Congzhou of Tongji University openly opposed the excavation of the Ming Tombs.
Unfortunately, due to various reasons, Guo Moruo and others applied for the archaeology of the Ming Tombs and finally passed.
Immediately afterwards, the group began the excavation of the Tomb of the Divine Sect.
The doom of the Ming Tombs and the haze on the archaeologists in this line gradually began to surface.
Second, the river of life and death? Strange things happen a lot
Mercury spots, minglers, and dragon tower treasure halls go to countless places.
In the process of excavation of the imperial tomb, the village next to the tomb also began to appear frequently, and many villagers showed symptoms of madness after the excavation work began.
Just when people thought it was okay
One day, an old man came to the archaeological site.
The strange old man had words in his mouth, saying that he was a tomb keeper, and there was a "river of life and death" in the imperial tomb, and only those who met the fate could enter the imperial tomb, while the rest of the people would be "cursed" if they entered the imperial tomb.
Such a statement led to a stalemate in the archaeological work of the time.
It turned out that when archaeologists began to open the dark room of the imperial tomb, a black smoke suddenly drifted out of the imperial tomb, and a bunch of archaeologists were stunned at that time.
Later investigations revealed that the black smoke was the mechanism in the tomb of the imperial tomb.
Although archaeologists survived the tomb organs and finally entered the burial chamber and saw the cultural relics from a hundred years ago, they still failed to protect the subsequent storage of cultural relics.
Eventually, due to the immaturity of archaeological techniques, these valuable artifacts were severely oxidized and destroyed.
The Chinese archaeological community was also greatly hit, and the failed archaeological work was forced to end.
So did the curse that the old man said work?
Third, is it a curse? The end of the scholar
After the archaeological work was forced to end, some archaeologists did encounter some bizarre events.
The historians who led the excavations at that time committed suicide in prison, some archaeologists were killed in the air, and the photographers accompanying the team also hanged themselves...
All kinds of deeds have cast a haze on archaeology at that time, and now it is also an untouchable pain in the archaeological community.
epilogue
The village has a heart of gluttony, and the desire is not enough.
But in the end, there is no certain scientific basis for the strange and chaotic god argument, and we can only look at this event with a scientific eye.
However, for modern times, in the case of immature technology and unclear cognition, the behavior of hastily excavating imperial tombs is not worth advocating.
Even for the development of archaeological work, we still work under the premise of guarantee.
Although the excavation of the Ming Tombs has passed, the pain it caused is always a reminder to those of us who will be hereafter.