introduction
"Throughout the history of the former virtuous country and home, it has been broken by thrift and thrift. Why should the amber square be used as a pillow, and the pearl should be a car? Transported to qinghai horses, it is difficult to pull out the Shu mountain snake. Several people had pre-nan Kaoru, and finally the ancient Cangwu cried Cuihua. - "History of Yong""
Our country's traditional culture attaches great importance to funeral culture, these contents can be clearly seen from some film and television works, for the ancient kings, funerals are incomparably grand, especially after the Qin and Han Dynasties, the funeral rites of the emperors have become more magnificent. For the ancients, there were three major events in life, the first was birth, the second was marriage, and finally the funeral. Our country has many ethnic groups with different cultures, regions, and development history, and for different ethnic groups, the way of burial is different, of which the more typical ones are cremation and sea burial. Ethnic minorities in some areas of the southwest of our country have inherited the tradition of cremation, compared with earth burial, cremation is more cost-effective, for some of the unique cultural holders, such a funeral method is more reasonable, sea burial only exists in the coastal areas of the people.
So why is burial so troublesome and wasteful and so many ordinary people choose? First of all, the ancients emphasized a fallen leaf to the root, that is, everything about man originates from the land that nurtured us, and it is an act with the meaning of belonging that people can return to the land after death, and it is precisely because the burial has a lot of complicated etiquette and ceremonial order. The existence of these things makes people very ritualistic, and the treatment of the deceased is to send off in the most solemn form, and it is precisely with the existence of these unique cultures that the ancient working people will be so obsessed with the burial form and take great pains.
Speaking of burials, we have to talk about mausoleums, which can be largely defined as the home of the deceased in another world, and all people are very concerned about and attach importance to the construction of mausoleums, so that in the thousands of years of historical development, various styles, various terrains and structures of mausoleums have appeared on the historical stage, we can see very clearly from the various ancient tombs found in modern times. And the main content of this article is related to the ancient mausoleum, the owner of this mausoleum is a very famous Ming Dynasty official, its tomb is very secretive, until many years ago was discovered, the structure of the tomb is extremely complex, experts have used a variety of methods have not been able to enter the inside of the tomb, and finally helplessly used a very extreme method, that is, the use of blasting methods, but the content inside surprised the experts.
The Ming Dynasty Tomb is alive
In fact, it is not that the experts involved in the exploration want to use explosives, but this tomb has been blasted not long ago, and the tomb after being blasted has no way to excavate normally, the remaining external wall, not stable enough, may be dangerous in the process of excavation, and then the experts will choose to use the blasting method again to deal with the remaining external wall to ensure the excavation work, so what kind of group of people will think of using explosives to explore the secrets of the tomb before this? Is there really any very valuable treasure hidden in this? Who is the owner of this tomb?
This matter goes back to 1987 AD, the accident site was in Zhangpu County's Tongkeng Village, which is a very calm small mountain village, at that time the countryside is far from developed transportation, this small mountain village still has a lot of traditional things, in the early morning of one day, the villagers were awakened by a very loud explosion. The location is in an unknown mountain behind the mountain village, at least a few kilometers away from the village, if the explosion is not too loud, probably the villagers will not be frightened by something so far away. The villagers were not sure what was happening at the first time, so after discussion, everyone decided to go to the back mountain to see what was happening, and everyone was afraid of encountering something unknown.
When everyone went to the mountain together, a very strong smell of gunpowder came over, and everyone discussed with each other who would use gunpowder in this mountain. They saw a place under a cliff that had been blasted by explosives, this was a grave that the villagers all knew about, everyone knew about the existence of this place, but no one had thought about who was buried inside, the outside of the tomb that had been blown up was a large area of work, the ground was full of various excavation tools, and from the outside you could see the coffin inside the grave and some broken bowls and broken bottles that had been brought out.
The villagers immediately understood that this was an ancient tomb that the tomb robbers had explored, but it seemed that they were not very smooth, the main part of the tomb had not yet begun to work, only the side of the tomb was opened, and there were many walls in it, it was not difficult to see that the tomb robbers did not have much good discovery, otherwise they would not have left in such a hurry. Even with blasting tools, the main burial chamber could not be opened.
Fortunately, the villagers were awakened by the explosion, otherwise if the tomb robbers continued to work like this, it was also a matter of sooner or later to open the tomb, and the villagers immediately chose to call the police when they saw this situation, after all, no matter how to deal with this kind of thing, it is not reasonable. When the relevant cultural relics protection department received the notice, it was very exciting, the area has never found any ancient tombs, although this time has been the tomb robbers arrived first, but perhaps these excavations can bring a lot of research value. Many experts of the Cultural Relics Protection Bureau arrived at the scene of the incident for the first time, after a small meeting of preparations immediately began the excavation work, they were first stunned by everything at the scene, did not listen to the villagers to explain and thought that this place has been looted by the tomb robbers, consulted countless information, experts also according to the introduction of some elderly people in the village to initially know the owner of the tomb.
He is the Ming Dynasty Jiajing period of the household attendant Lu Weizhen, Lu Weizhen from the official road can be said to be very bumpy, most of his career is in the struggle with the magnates, talk more to the point he offended a lot of people in the dynasty, but whether in the hearts of the people or in the heart of the emperor he is a clean and dare to tell the truth, when he wants to enter the old age he is tired of the fight between the hundred officials of the dprk, and finally the emperor also agreed to his request, and finally he returned to his hometown, And he was buried here after he died. Experts excavated the Ming Dynasty tombs, suspected that the digging was too slow, directly with explosives to explode, what was the result?
Did not expect that hundreds of years later, there is a group of tomb robbers with explosives to open this quiet place, if it is not the appearance of this group of tomb robbers this tomb will be uninhabited for many years, this quiet place is rarely set footed, although some of the villagers know the existence of the tomb, but never said to the outside, perhaps in order not to let people disturb the quiet here. Entering the outside of the burial chamber, there is a huge tombstone, and the information recorded on the epitaph clearly shows that the owner of the tomb is Lu Weizhen mentioned above, and those objects that have been moved out are the funerary items in the tomb.
After analysis by the experts, it was decided that the situation here was no longer suitable for manual excavation, because the walls here were about to be broken, and it might be dangerous if human work was done, so the experts decided to use the blasting method to open the last wall and explore the interior of the tomb. After the operation, people finally saw the appearance of the main chamber of the tomb, the external structure of this tomb is somewhat complicated, but the content of the tomb is slightly monotonous, there are only two wooden coffins, which belong to the host and the hostess, and the owner of the male coffin is Lu Weizhen, and the experts did not expect to find the tomb of this historical celebrity in this place.
epilogue
The contents of the tomb are not as gorgeous as everyone thinks, and it is even a little shabby compared to the status of the owner, perhaps this is why Lu Weizhen is a very clean official. There are very few funerary items in the tomb, and many things that can be found look relatively simple and ordinary, the most valuable is some piecemeal silver two, such as abacus, porcelain and other things are more. One of the most surprising to the prospectors is a purple sand pot, which is a purple sand work from the hands of the famous Master Dawei during the Ming Dynasty, this work alone has a very high value, and the artistic value is also very high, which makes everyone very happy, and sure enough, they still found something precious. Subsequently, these things were well protected by the local cultural relics department, and the original site of the cemetery was also protected.
Reference: History of Wing Chun