Introduction: Death in the eyes of the ancients is not real death, they feel that it is only the death of the body, and the spirit is still in the world, so as early as the Neolithic Age, people will build tombs, and place in the tomb some of the living utensils used by the tomb owner before death.
In later dynasties, rulers not only worried about their own life but also about their own deaths, and now there are some rare treasures and terracotta warriors unearthed in the tombs of Qin Shi Huang, which reflects the fact that the tombs of the ancient aristocratic class had a large number of funerary items.
During the Han Dynasty, some superiors specially developed a dress in order to preserve their corpses from rotting, this dress is woven from gold thread and jade pieces, and the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose are all blocked by clothes, why did the ancients want to weave such a set of clothes to wear after their deaths? The ancients believed that jade was naturally conceived, jade can raise people and raise corpses to make the corpse incorruptible for thousands of years, and blocking the mouth and nose is to seal the nine holes so that the corpse is more well preserved, so it is made of golden jade clothes.
Funerary goods became valuable after undergoing dynastic changes, and this is how the antique market arose, and some people saw that it was profitable and started a crooked idea, and this group of people was the predecessor of the tomb robbers. Grave robbers are a dangerous profession, although dangerous, but the profits are considerable, so many people are willing to do this industry.
When archaeologists cleaned a tomb, they found that the burial items of the tomb species had been looted by the tomb robbers, but a large number of jade pieces were scattered next to the coffin and were not taken away by the tomb robbers.
Later, after inspection, it was found that the owner of the mausoleum was buried in a golden jade robe, why did the tomb robbers only take away the gold wire and ignore the jade pieces, in fact, the tomb robbers did not take the jade pieces, the reasons are the following points.
First, jade tablets are not valuable. In ancient times, jade was a particularly valuable thing, ordinary people could not own jade, and the value of jade can be seen in the story of the return of Bi bi to Zhao. Since jade is so valuable, why should the tomb robbers discard it, the production process of golden jade clothing is very complicated, each piece of jade must be ground very thin and drilled on all four sides, and then woven with gold wire to make a piece.
If the tomb robber takes the jade clothes out for sale, others can see at a glance that he is the proceeds of the tomb robbery, and when the money is not earned, he will cause a commotion, which can be said to be more than worth the loss. Even if the jade pieces are processed, the things made of thin jade pieces are not worth much money, so there will be no tomb robbers who will be moved by the jade pieces.
The gold wire woven with jade pieces is worth a lot, so the golden jade clothes that usually appear in the tombs patronized by tomb robbers are only jade pieces without gold thread.
Second, the jade piece is too heavy. Tomb robbers usually carry out tomb robbery activities in sparsely populated places, if there are many people, they will rob the tomb when the night is dark and the wind is high, they usually only hit a robbery hole that can accommodate one person to drill, so the proceeds of each tomb robbery are some light objects.
For them, the golden jade robe is certainly valuable, but the weight and volume of a golden jade coat is not something that the robber can bear, so they generally do not take the complete golden jade coat out of the mausoleum, but pull out the lighter gold thread.
Third, jade tablets bring disaster. In the Han Dynasty, only high-ranking and powerful people could be buried in golden jade clothes, and well-made golden jade clothes often had some exquisite texture patterns on them. During the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent tomb robbery, the rulers implemented a series of laws, which clearly stipulated that the theft of treasures in the tomb would be exiled, and the opening of the coffin in the tomb was directly punishable by death.
These tomb robbers must sell the stolen jewels after stealing the jewelry, and the unique texture of the jade pieces on the golden jade clothes betrays the fact that they have robbed the tomb, so they generally do not take the jade pieces out of the tomb, and the gold thread without too many obvious marks has become the target of a group of tomb robbers.
Conclusion: Although the golden jade cloth is exquisite, but it can not be preserved as the ancients expected the corpse for thousands of years, in some tomb robbery activities, the tomb robbers in order to pull out the gold thread will also burn the body of the tomb owner, archaeologists found that the intact golden jade cloth also did not have the body of the tomb owner.
People are born without care, so they can't take anything with them after death, and those funerary items can only prove that they have appeared. After the founding of New China, the cremation system was implemented for environmental protection, and the previous system of burial and funerary products was no longer the same, which showed that the times were developing and people's ideological concepts were also progressing.