At the end of 2008, a group of uninvited guests came to Dayun Mountain in Yunshan Village, Maba Town, Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province.
The leader of the group is called Zhao Jianxin. Zhao Jianxin's identity is very special - he is a tomb robber, and he is a master of tomb robbery. At that time, in the tomb robbery circle, Zhao Jianxin's name was extremely loud. There are rumors in the circle that when Zhao Jianxin is looking for a tomb, he does not need instruments, but relies on rich experience to find a quasi-child and never loses his hand.
Zhao Jianxin came to Dayun Mountain, of course, not for tourism, but to make a "big deal". He had read an ancient book and knew that there was an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty hidden in Dayun Mountain, so he recruited 5 helpers to "work" together.
They were a group of 6 people, and they swung around the Dayun Mountain for more than a month. In the end, Zhao Jianxin did indeed lock in the location of the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty.
This Ancient Tomb of the Han Dynasty is somewhat special, and there is a pool above the tomb, which creates certain difficulties for tomb robbers. This is not difficult for Zhao Jianxin. Under the command of Zhao Jianxin, a group of people carefully bypassed the pool, directly found the location of the tomb chamber, and began to excavate the tomb.
The area around the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty was sparsely populated, but in order not to arouse the suspicion of the villagers, Zhao Jianxin and his gang rested during the day, started work at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and left on time at two or three o'clock in the morning. The excavated dirt was all taken away by them and sent far away to dispose of it. In this way, they dug for more than a month and finally approached the burial chamber.
Seeing that success was in sight, they could not help but be a little anxious, and made a "faint move" and used explosives when digging the last paragraph. After the explosion, the two grave robbers entered the cave first. Because there was no movement for a long time, Zhao Jianxin followed him with another tomb robber and did not return.
The two tomb robbers outside the cave saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly pulled the rope tied to Zhao Jianxin and dragged them out. The other man was dead. Zhao Jianxin struggled for a while and also died.
It turned out that the air in the ancient tomb was thin, Zhao Jianxin used explosives to exhaust all the oxygen in the air, Zhao Jianxin entered the tomb, and soon went into shock due to carbon monoxide poisoning, and quickly died.
The two tomb robbers panicked, threw the bodies of Zhao Jianxin and the two people in the car, and fled by themselves.
In early 2009, the bodies of Zhao Jianxin and two people were found by the police. After careful investigation, the police found that the cause of their death was unknown, but through the green paste mud and white paste mud on the soles of their feet, it was judged that they may have entered the ancient tomb of high specifications. Because these two kinds of plaster were only used in tombs of particularly high specifications, such as the tombs of emperors and princes. So archaeologists also intervened in the case. With the cooperation of archaeologists, the police found the Ancient Tomb of the Han Dynasty in Dayun Mountain and found the bodies of two other tomb robbers in the tomb.
Since this Ancient Tomb of the Han Dynasty has been discovered by tomb robbers, and there are more than 40 quarries on Dayun Mountain, sooner or later the Ancient Tomb of the Han Dynasty will be dug up. Therefore, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Institute of Archaeology of Nanjing Museum set up an archaeological team to carry out rescue excavations of Han Dynasty tombs in Dayun Mountain in the first half of 2009.
Archaeologists found that the pool above the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty was not naturally formed, but a huge robbery cave, which also contained tomb robbery tools from various dynasties. This shows that in ancient times, the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty have been stolen many times by tomb thieves, and many of the funerary items in the tomb have been stolen and excavated. Fortunately, because the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty were too large, the ability of tomb robbers was limited, and the basic shape of the tombs was not destroyed.
After more than a year of drilling and excavation, archaeologists have explored the total area of ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty to reach 250,000 square meters, which is equivalent to about 595 standard basketball courts. Three large tombs running north-south directions have been found in the ancient tombs, as well as 13 funerary tombs of various grades, 2 weapons pits, and 1 carriage and horse pit. From the remaining foundations and roads of the cemetery, we can imagine how grand the scale of this ancient tomb was.
A large number of precious cultural relics have been excavated from the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty.
Archaeologists found golden jade clothes, jade coffins, and yellow intestine inscriptions in Tomb No. 1 and Tomb No. 2.
The golden jade garment, that is, the jade garment knotted with gold thread, was the highest standard funeral dress of the Han Dynasty and belonged to the emperor or a very small number of princes. Other nobles could only use silver jade clothes, copper jade clothes, etc. At present, a total of 8 sets of golden jade clothes have been unearthed in the country, which shows its cherishing. The jade coffin is a jade piece on the wooden coffin, which is also the exclusive tool of the emperor. At present, a total of 2 jade coffins have been unearthed in the country. Yellow intestine inscriptions are frame wall structures stacked with precious wood around the rafters in tombs, and only 14 yellow intestine inscriptions have been found in the country.
Among the tens of thousands of precious cultural relics unearthed, there is one cultural relic worth mentioning alone. It is called copper beryllium (Jiangdu King Spear), is a two-sided bladed, shaped like a sword, equipped with a long handle of the long weapon, the production process is more complex than the famous Gou Jian sword. The copper beryllium has a delicate dark pattern on the body, which is amazing. Because this dark pattern technology has long been lost, even today's most advanced technology cannot be replicated.
In addition, the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty also unearthed chimes, chimes, chimes, cadmiums, copper ding, gilded dragon head copper instrument holders, wrong gold and silver inlaid jade onyx copper town, copper koshi, copper tiger, wine barrel, money cabinet, copper haiku figurines, copper ancestors, copper mirrors, hooks, sterling silver umbrella handles, gold wisps, red, yellow and green and other colored gems, ring handles wrapped in gold and iron knives, copper lamps, all kinds of exquisite jade, pottery ear cups, pottery pots, etc., gold, silver, copper, iron, pottery, jade, lacquered wood ware are readily available, covering ceremonial utensils, musical instruments, weapons, living utensils and other aspects. This shows that the owner of the tomb hopes that after his death, he will be able to continue the luxurious life of his life underground.
So, who is the owner of the burial chamber?
Through the seals and seals of the word "Jiangdu" unearthed so far, archaeologists judged that the owner of the tomb was Liu Fei, the fifth son of the Han Jing Emperor and the King of Jiangdu.
Liu Fei was born in 168 BC to Cheng Ji, who was favored by Emperor Jing of Han. Liu Fei was very popular with the Han Jing Emperor and was crowned the King of Runan at the age of 13. When Liu Fei was 15 years old, the famous Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms occurred. Despite his young age, Liu Fei took the initiative to ask for war, and made a military contribution to quelling the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and was given the title of King of Jiangdu, with a fief in Guangling (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu). Liu Fei is humble and has great respect for talents. The great Confucian Dong Zhongshu once criticized him, and he accepted it with an open heart and respected Dong Zhongshu even more.
In December 129 BC, Liu Fei died of illness at the age of 41. Perhaps, because Liu Fei had made great contributions to the country, and was able to fulfill his duties and be loyal to the emperor and his ancestors, Emperor Wu of Han allowed him to enjoy the highest level of burial treatment.
In order to popularize archaeological knowledge to the public, archaeologists opened to the public three times in the process of rescue excavation of ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty, attracting media such as CCTV and Jiangsu Satellite TV to report. In 2017, CCTV also produced a documentary program "Excavation of the Han Tomb in Dayun Mountain", which was broadcast in two episodes on CCTV Channel 10's "Exploration and Discovery" column.