As we all know, Shaanxi Xi'an is the ancient capital of the 13 dynasties, is the mainland recognized as a blessed land, no exaggeration to say, in this place in Xi'an, casually a hoe, a shovel down, may be able to dig up the "baby", this is not, 19 years ago Xi'an University of Technology is expanding the campus, "doo" a dig, dig dig, dig to a tomb, dig again, and finally dig out 182 ancient tombs, shocking the country, and even the world.
What I want to introduce to you today is one of the most eye-catching ancient tombs, because the owner of the tomb wears a top on his head."
The most luxurious phoenix crown in the Tang Dynasty
How luxurious is it? Let's elaborate.
Time to go back to November 2001, the engineering team at that time dug up the ancient tomb, immediately notified the relevant departments, archaeologists quickly rushed to the scene, after their preliminary investigation, determined that this is an ancient tomb from the Tang Dynasty, and according to the layout of the site can be inferred, there is more than one tomb below, most likely a Tang Dynasty tomb group, the facts have proved that the experts' judgment is correct. After 3 years of hard work, they dug it out
182
Ancient tombs, the most famous of which is the tomb of Li Wei.
Li Qian, zi Shuxian, is the 5th generation descendant of Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, li jin, the father is Li Jin, the king of Sishu, and her husband is XuandeLang Hou Mochen (the official position is equivalent to today's university professor), Li Qian was ordered by his parents to marry Hou Mochen early, from Li Qian's epitaph, the two had a very good relationship after marriage, and later Li Qian became pregnant, but there was an unexpected storm in the sky, just when the child was born, the weak Li Wei closed his eyes forever, only 25 years old.
Husband Hou Mochen did not want to live, holding the infant child and writing an epitaph for his wife, although the full text is only 267 words, but the words reveal his reluctance to his wife, such as "
Mourning into a groan, a desperate ear, a lot of movement, and a final pain
", and the last sentence"
The wilderness is full of barren grass, and the wind is sad and windy
Since then, there will be no more her in this world, how can this scene not be heartbreaking?
After reading the epitaph written by Hou Mochen for Li Wei, the archaeologists opened her coffin, and for a moment, even the well-informed archaeologists were shocked by the scene in front of them - only to see Li Wei's skull, wearing an incomparably gorgeous phoenix crown, which used almost all the decorative materials that could be used in the Tang Dynasty, such as
Turquoise, amber, ruby, agate
Wait, and so on
Silver
Embedded, the most valuable thing is that there are a lot of inlays on it
pearl
, the diameter of these pearls only
0.1
millimetre
What kind of outstanding craftsmanship can embed them one by one?
However, unfortunately, due to more than 1,000 years of time, most of these ornaments on the phoenix crown are sprinkled around the skull, experts can only carefully pick out all the scattered parts, in the studio to restore it, according to the data, Li Qian's head of the phoenix crown has 480 parts, how to perfectly restore it, has become the biggest problem of experts.
To this end, the state set up a special restoration team, and invited the domestic excellent craftsmen, discussed for nearly 1 year, only to draw its first restoration map, but always feel that where is the almost something, at this time the German cultural relics experts also took the initiative to join the restoration queue, their joining, increased the success rate.
elapse
9
year
With unremitting efforts, this exquisite Tang Dynasty princess crown was finally repaired and met with the world. At the same time, researchers from the School of Information Science and Technology of Beijing Normal University also successfully restored the appearance of the princess, and from the pictures, we can clearly see the original appearance of the crown and the princess, which is really amazing!