Many years ago, in Xiazhuang Village, Nanyang, Henan Province, the night of cicadas chirped, but a dull explosion sound was heard in the distance.
Sure enough, the next day the villagers found that there were many mysterious pits on the cultivated land in the village for no reason!
Experts from the local cultural relics department rushed to the scene to take a look, and the situation in front of them made everyone feel shocked!
Grave robbers are so rampant, and the crazy behavior is really breathtaking!
However, in terms of the scale of the robbery cave, this underground is definitely a proper tomb!
Sure enough, the experts found some unusual black particles next to the cave, which were all charcoal grains.
As we all know, charcoal absorbs water and prevents moisture, but everyone also knows that charcoal is also one of the necessities used in ancient tombs for anti-corrosion.
It seems that 80% of the underground is a large charcoal tomb! Tanji tomb is a special form of burial in Chinese history.
To prevent moisture and seal, the craftsmen would fill the burial chamber with a large amount of charcoal during the construction of the burial chamber.
You know, the construction of the charcoal tomb is extremely difficult, after all, in the ancient times when productivity was low, it was not easy to burn so much charcoal!
Therefore, this kind of tomb is only popular in the Warring States period, and as I just said, its construction cost is amazing!
Therefore, this kind of tomb has always been only worthy of high-ranking nobles such as Zhou Tianzi and the princes!
So, the owner of this carbon deposition tomb is a high-ranking prince and nobleman of the Spring and Autumn And Warring States period?
As we all know, the tombs of high-ranking nobles in ancient China must have a huge surface sealing layer.
Only because the size of the sealing layer also represents the level of the identity of the tomb owner.
But the village of Xiazhuang is a flat plain. The tomb is so inconspicuous that almost no one thinks it is related to the tomb.
Did not want to visit, experts know that dare to love here is not a small hillside!
Due to the excellent soil quality here, the villagers have been taking soil to build houses here for many years, and the hillside has gradually disappeared!
However, speaking of which, the villagers are also ignorant and not guilty, if they want to know that the house was built with someone else's grave soil, they are afraid to kill them!
According to the results of the visit, experts speculate that the original sealed soil of this tomb may be 20 meters high!
This tomb is not only the height of the sealing soil layer, but also the original three layers of sealing mud on this soil layer!
Not only that, I heard that the surface of this tomb is a cemetery cemetery, and the temple Shinto is readily available! It's like a giant cemetery!
Listen, these buildings are not the configuration of ordinary people after death!
You know, building temples and pavilions on top of the enclosure is extraordinary!
The real name of these pavilions and temples built on the earthen layer of the tomb is actually called ''Enjoy Hall''".
The hall was specially built for the worship of the owner of the tomb.
According to the clues, the restoration map of the hall on the tomb seal can be said to have been drawn after several turns.
However, the experts were shocked to see it!
The buildings on the restoration map are very similar to the ruins of Yin Ruins in the Anyang area of Henan!
This architectural pattern can not be said to be the same, it can be said that it is simply not bad at all!
You must know that the owner of the Yin Ruins site is a famous strong woman in the history of the Chinese Shang Dynasty! She has a great achievement!
She is not only fierce, but also deeply loved by the emperor, which is the wife and wife of the Shang King Wuding!
It should be known that the woman is a queen, has made great achievements in battle, has a lifelong status, and is infinitely respected by Wu Ding and future Shang kings. So it seems that the owner of the tomb in Xiazhuang Village is also a prince or queen?
To prove this inference, the experts continued to make continuous visits to the village.
Soon, a more important clue appeared, and it was this clue that gave the experts a little clue to solve the problem.
The Tsukaoka Temple near the village is the original temple on the mound, but the temple that exists today was rebuilt with funds raised by the villagers. I think back then, the original temple area on the ground was not small!
According to the records, the original temple had three main halls of considerable size and 27 houses. The total area is more than 2,000 square meters!
At this time, experts judged the approximate year of the tomb through the inspection of the charcoal grains near the cave.
This huge tomb is a large tomb from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty dating back more than 2,200 years!
Shortly after the date was verified, experts learned from the townspeople that there were more than a dozen stone tablets in the original village, which were destroyed for various reasons.
Fortunately, the last stone stele recording the specific history of the tomb still stands in the village.
The surviving stone stele was carved during the Daoguang years, and it explains that the tomb is named "No Tomb".
And this missing tomb is recorded in detail in local literature.
No one expected that this large tomb without sealing soil was the largest Warring States period tomb found in Nanyang City so far! The burial chamber is 43 meters long and 41 meters wide, and the tomb passage is amazingly long at 60 meters! Comparable to the size of 24 football fields!
This is more than double the size of the tomb of the Chu State Fengjun unearthed in the Nanyang area in 1994!
People don't know that the title of prince is the most honorable noble title under the princes. Power is comparable to that of future generations of prime ministers!
Thus. The owner of the Xiazhuang Village Tomb must be a prince who has not run away!
In order to solve the mystery of the identity of the tomb owner, excavations continue.
Soon, on the west side of the main burial chamber, experts discovered a long, narrow rectangular area. This area is a big surprise to experts!
This is a large chema pit of about 70 meters long and 9.5 meters wide, which is also the first time in the archaeological history of Nanyang to discover the remains of a noble large chema pit!
Be aware. In 2002, at the site of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty In the center of Luoyang, 26 vehicles and 68 horses were buried in the carriage and horse pits.
The pit of Zhou Tianzi's burial car and horse pit is 42.6 meters long and 3.8 meters wide, which is the specification of Zhou Tianzi's carriage and horse burial in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty!
However, the area of the Xiazhuang Village Tomb Che Ma Pit far exceeded the specifications of Zhou Tianzi's Che Ma Burial!
Who will he be? He actually honored Zhou Tianzi? But don't be surprised, things of trespassing happened from time to time during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Not only that, there is more than one large ancient tomb in xiazhuang village!
Under the continued investigation, the experts have successively found 29 ancient tombs from the Warring States period!
According to the arrangement, experts believe that the 8 rows of 29 ancient tombs were later discovered as funerary tombs of the main tomb.
Of these, 6 are medium-sized tombs and the remaining 23 are smaller tombs.
Although the burial tombs vary in size and have different rules, they are all large tombs in the shape of a figure.
The tomb groups lined up to the east in unison, like guards, guarding their master's tomb together.
To be on the safe side, experts decided to excavate 29 funerary tombs to practice their hands.
The first to be excavated was Tomb M1, which is closest to the main tomb, and the excavation has two unique advantages.
First, because it is adjacent to the tomb, it is obvious that this person has a good friendship with the owner of the tomb.
Second, the tomb is based on the main tomb regardless of its size and orientation. It's a scaled-down version of the main tomb!
Based on these two points, experts believe that there should be very important clues hidden in Tomb M1!
As the soil layer gradually cleared, it wasn't long before an all-red artifact was unearthed, a bronze piece!
In the Zhou Dynasty, it played a rather important role, both for cutting down trees and for planing soil.
Subsequently, the excavation of a Han Dynasty copper tile made the tomb full of doubts, and the truth became confusing.
The ancient tombs of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period appeared more than 600 years after the Han Dynasty cultural relics, could it be that the speculation of previous experts was a problem?
Then you look down on the experts, look closely at the experts want to cry without tears, M1 tomb has long been poisoned by tomb robbers!
And these two Han Dynasty cultural relics unearthed in the soil are left by tomb robbers in the middle of the emperor!
Because of the intrusion of thieves into the tomb, the burial chamber has long been empty.
This result makes everyone feel very disappointed, but what makes everyone more collapsed is still to come!
Later excavations of 4 medium-sized tombs, because they were also invaded by tomb robbers, the tomb with burial goods called a complete trace!
Now that only Tomb M25 has been left unexhumed, will this miracle happen?
The answer is no, it also failed to escape the poisoner! But it's a little bit luckier. The contents of the tomb have not yet been stolen by the tomb thieves
Experts excavated two bronze dings, two bronze pots, a bronze plate, and a bronze pot from Tomb No. 25.
You know, za is the washing utensils of the ancients, its design is very clever, very rich in life wisdom.
In the Warring States period, people who could bathe with a turning instrument needless to say that Tie Ding was a high-ranking nobleman with extraordinary status.
However, due to the lack of cultural evidence, the identity of the owner of all the tombs excavated by experts is an unsolved mystery.
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Experts urgently need more clues to the cultural relics and want to verify the true identity of the owner of the tomb.
Experts then set their sights on 23 small tombs, and a new round of excavations began.
The first excavation in the small tomb is a large number of broken pottery, and after hard work, more than 300 pieces of pottery have been restored.
Ancient Chinese fruit plates appeared in the pottery! This ancient fruit plate is called tao bean.
There are also three-legged and two-eared pottery in the pottery, chubby pottery mounds, which are of a wide variety and a huge number.
Some experts have also found in medium-sized tombs and small tombs that there was a clear differentiation of rank and wealth during the Warring States period.
It should be known that the burial items in the medium-sized tombs here are mainly bronze, while the pottery is mainly used in small tombs.
This phenomenon also shows that China during the Warring States period had entered a hierarchical feudal society.
Hierarchical differentiation and uneven distribution of wealth have influenced Chinese society for thousands of years, until now.
Just when the experts were discouraged, the excavation of another piece of pottery can be said to have lifted the spirit of the experts!
Unearthed is a pottery figurine, the human figurine looks peaceful, the eyes are round, and the corners of the mouth are slightly drooping.
On closer inspection, this figurine was dressed in the wide sleeves of the wide robe commonly seen in the Zhou Dynasty, and their hands seemed to have held some precious objects. Immediately after that, the second piece of ceramic figurines also appeared, and his shape and demeanor were roughly the same as those of the human figurines unearthed before.
Shortly thereafter, a bronze golem was unearthed near the figurines. Ge Ke was one of the long-range lethal weapons in the pre-Qin period!
Go is very rare on the battlefield, could it be that the prototype of these figurines is the personal bodyguard of the tomb owner?
The unearthed golem is extremely sharp, and there are obvious marks and openings on the Gobi.
This also shows from the side that these weapons have been on the battlefield, and their bodies have been covered with the blood of the enemy.
It seems that the owner of the tomb is not only a high-ranking nobleman with a guard, but also the owner of the tomb himself may also be a warrior who has experienced hundreds of battles!
Sure enough, experts have excavated many bronze swords in these 23 small tombs, and almost every tomb owner will be buried with a sword.
Bronze sword
In this tomb, a total of 17 bronze swords have been unearthed, all of which were cherished and used by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime. Not only that, but a large number of cold weapons have also been unearthed in this tomb group, and the number and breadth of categories are staggering!
You think these are all kinds of small arms in the tomb? Then you have a small look at the tomb masters!
Clusters of arrows made of bronze have also been unearthed in the tomb group! In addition, there is the Warring States period ''King of Killing Blades'' - crossbow strikes. You know, the strong bow and crossbow in the Warring States period can be described as invincible on the scene, and no one can beat it!
Crossbow strikes
Wonder why the Qin people were able to unify the Six Kingdoms? Rely on a strong bow and crossbow!
But then the question arises, why are these warriors buried here? What did they experience before they were born?
Regrettably, these questions have not yet been answered, and they are likely to become a perpetual question.
However, regret is also a different charm of life, and it is precisely because of regret that the truth of history is so precious.