Hubei found the tomb of the Ming Dynasty prince, unearthed 3400 pieces of precious jewelry, experts: simply rich and invincible
In ancient times, in addition to the countless funerary items in the emperor's tomb, the identity level of the prince is also very rare, which can be seen from the ancient tomb of the prince found in our later generations. Today we will introduce the tomb of a Ming Dynasty prince found in Hubei,
The precious jewelry unearthed in this tomb reached more than 3400 pieces, it can be said that the funeral products of this prince are rich and invincible, and then we will look at the specific details.
In 2001, Hubei formed an archaeological team to excavate the tomb of King Liangzhuang found in Dahong Village, and through excavation we found that this ancient tomb has a unique burial custom
Later, from the objects in the tomb, it was judged that this was the joint burial tomb of Zhu Zhanyuan and Concubine Wei, the ninth son of Emperor Akihito. Zhu Zhan'an was the great-grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, the younger brother of Zhu Zhanji, and the only Liang king of the Ming Dynasty.
Since The King of Liangzhuang, Zhu Zhanyuan, was childless when he died, and after the feudal state was removed according to the custom, his precious family property would naturally enter the tomb, so the tomb of the King of Liangzhuang must be a treasure house
。 In this tomb of King Zhuang of MingLiang, we have excavated more than 5340 funerary artifacts.
There are more than 4,800 gold, silver, jade and beaded gemstones, the content of gold alone has reached 16 kilograms, silver has reached 13 kilograms, and jade is 14 kilograms, and the gemstones are not only well preserved, but also more than 700.
This is an ancient tomb with the highest rank, the most funerary products and the highest value among the tombs of the princes of the Ming Dynasty that we have found, and it has overthrown the position of the first dingling in the Ming Tombs.
The tomb of the normal prince is definitely a place that tomb robbers like to patronize, and this tomb of the Ming Liang Zhuang king has indeed been stolen many times, but why can so many cultural relics be found?
This is actually because the ancient tomb is immersed in water, and the tomb robbers lack the tools and capabilities of underwater tomb robbers, so they have to look at these cultural relics from a distance and cannot get close.
In order not to cause damage to the cultural relics of the ancient tomb, archaeologists first pumped the water in the tomb, and did not expect that the time of extraction alone took 10 days, which shows the amount of water in this ancient tomb. After pumping the water, the experts saw that the tomb's closed door had not been passive at all, so they confirmed the conjecture that the tomb's cultural relics had not been stolen.
After entering the burial chamber, it was found that it was covered by a layer of 2.7 cm thick lime, and when the silt in the burial chamber was cleared, people were shocked by the exquisite and dazzling jade objects they saw in front of them.
Of course, not all cultural relics are well preserved, hard utensils, such as gold, silver and jade, are indeed well preserved, but soft utensils, such as silk and linen fabrics, have been corroded.
Due to the age of the tomb, so many of the artifacts inside are collapsed on the ground, the scene is very messy, in order to maximize the protection of these cultural relics, experts carefully sorted out, the back found that although the location is messy, but the object itself has not been destroyed.
Most of the gold and silver that we found later were found in the back room of the tomb.
Many people may be curious, where did all these jewels in this prince's tomb come from? Through appraisal and consultation of history books, experts finally determined that these jewels were brought back by Zheng He when he went to the West.
From a history book called "Yingya Shengyan", we know that Zheng He's fleet purchased a large amount of jewelry in the West, but after the purchase, these jewels have not been exhibited to the public, people do not know what they look like, do not know where they are stored, and who collected them.
In the Ming Dynasty Liangzhuang King this period, the Ming Dynasty in order to open up the exchanges between neighboring countries, but also in order to promote the development of trade, many times sent Zheng He to the West, Liangzhuang King Tomb excavated cultural relics among the ruby, sapphire, emerald, golden emerald and other four precious gemstones, the origin is from Southeast Asia, thus confirming the provenance of these jewels.
The tomb of only 31 square meters, but the number of excavated cultural relics is as many as 5,000 pieces, and its value can be conservatively estimated, and it can also buy a small country.