Cultural relics are the most direct bridge connecting ancient and modern times, they have a guiding role for modern people to study ancient culture, and they are also the most convincing objects, which can intuitively feel the ancient atmosphere more intuitively than ancient books.
The most direct source of cultural relics is the mausoleum and cultural site, of which the cultural relics found in the ancient tombs account for a large proportion. In addition to being able to find artifacts in ancient tombs, archaeologists are lucky enough to find corpses from a hundred or even a thousand years ago.
Some corpses have been put in place because of the anti-embalming measures, and even after thousands of years, they can still see the appearance of their lives. This can also allow future generations to see the appearance of the ancients most intuitively, the most famous corpse is Mrs. Xin Chai, her excavation has made the medical and archaeological circles ecstatic.
In fact, it is strange to say that most of the undeformed corpses are female corpses, but it is rare to see uncorrupted male corpses, and what I introduce to you today is the female corpses of the Ming Dynasty unearthed in Jiangsu.
After hundreds of years of baptism, this corpse still maintains a good face. After the experts removed their clothes, they called it a "beautiful woman".
First, Jiangsu found a Ming Dynasty pouring tomb
The Ming Dynasty mausoleum is located in Tai'an City, Jiangsu Province, when a construction team was working on it, when it suddenly found that the excavated soil was mixed with a lot of wood chips, and there was a strange smell in the air.
Because the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are relatively rich, and similar news has been broadcast before, the members of the construction team have realized the importance of the matter and quickly reported the news to the local cultural relics department.
After receiving the task, archaeologists rushed to the scene to investigate the mausoleum at the first time. They also sealed off the scene for the first time to prevent unscrupulous grave robbers from taking advantage.
Experts have made a preliminary judgment through the shape of the tomb that the owner of the tomb should not be a member of the royal family, but rather a large family in the Ming Dynasty.
The biggest feature of this tomb is that it is a glue tomb, which is the most popular in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, that is, the wooden coffin is built with glue pulp, and the air outside is isolated from the wooden coffin, so as to prevent the body from decaying too quickly.
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Pulp tombs are extremely sealed, so bodies buried in this way will last longer than bodies buried in other ways.
It is not a tomb for royalty, but we all know that jiangnan has always been very rich, and many merchant families in ancient times would settle in Jiangnan, and there are many water-like beauties here, which makes countless people yearn.
In the process of excavating the grave, the experts also found many precious gold and silver jade and other funerary items, but the most surprising to the experts was the owner of the tomb.
Second, the body of the tomb owner has not decayed for a hundred years
In the end, the experts found three wooden coffins in the tomb, two of which were placed side by side and the other was placed separately. At first, the experts were curious, was it difficult to bury three people here?
However, the answer to this question emerged the moment the coffin was opened, and the two wooden coffins placed side by side were the burial items of the tomb owner, and the coffin placed separately was the tomb owner.
After the experts opened the coffin of the tomb owner, they were all shocked by the phenomenon inside, only to see the female corpse lying peacefully in the coffin, as if asleep, and the body was quite well preserved.
The contours of her face were still clearly visible, even her eyebrows and hair were well-defined, and later experts touched her feet and found that the feet were still a little elastic, as if they had just been buried.
The reason why the female corpse has not decayed for a hundred years has a lot to do with the pouring tomb, on the one hand, because the tomb created in this way can isolate the air, and many microorganisms cannot survive without air, so the female corpse will not be decomposed.
On the other hand, the female corpse itself has also undergone embalming treatment, and the two ways are superimposed to make such a situation appear.
Third, for the female corpse to remove the clothes, experts directly called out the world's beautiful women
After the female corpse was unearthed, experts removed the quilt wrapped around her body and found that the female corpse wore a valuable emerald ring on the right middle finger, a sachet hanging from her neck, and the bun on her hair still retained the appearance of the download.
Unfortunately, there is nothing in the tomb that can know the identity of the female corpse, but this does not affect the experts' admiration for her "appearance".
The height of this female corpse is about one meter and six meters, which can be said to be quite tall in ancient times, even in many areas of modern society, the height of the female corpse can be regarded as medium to high.
And her face shape is very good-looking, coupled with the fact that she comes from a large family, her temperament will certainly not be bad. It can be seen that in the society at that time, she could also be regarded as a first-class beauty.
epilogue
Sometimes everyone is curious about the appearance of the ancients, whether their appearance is very different from modern people, these questions can not actually get a good answer.
However, judging from the excavated female corpses, the appearance of people at that time was actually not too big a gap with modern people. Therefore, the excavation of these female corpses not only has great historical value, but also satisfies the curiosity of many people.