In 1998, in the southern suburbs of Nanjing, when the construction workers were building infrastructure, they inadvertently found several cultural relics, and then the Staff of the Nanjing Museum went to check and investigate, and they were very happy to find that this was a cultural relic from the Ming Dynasty. The archaeological team then began excavations, and an ancient tomb buried for 600 years was also revealed.
The identity of the owner of the tomb was easily found, this is Zhang Kejun, a Ming Dynasty horse sher, and his mother, Princess Fuqing.
According to the epitaph, Princess Fuqing was born in 1370, the eighth daughter of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the mother of Princess Zheng Anfei, and in 1385, Princess Fuqing married Zhang Long's son Zhang Ling, and gave birth to a son Zhang Kejun, until her death in 1417, at the age of 48.
In the tomb of Princess Fuqing, a large number of green glazed glazed tiles and phoenix-pattern drip components and fragments have been unearthed, in addition to a gold button, compared with the male tomb, this princess tomb is relatively simple, but as the daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang, but it is also the only Ming Dynasty princess tomb with a complete and complex structure found in the mainland today, which is of great significance for the study of the funeral customs of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
However, the story also has a very strange twist, in 2000, after the decision of experts and the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, Princess Fuqing was rebuilt and placed in a more appropriate place for protection and repair, and the original address of the Princess Tomb, as a public attraction, is free for all citizens to open, people can freely visit the ancient ruins, they were eventually listed as nanjing cultural relics protection units.
However, the story does not end here, as the heat of the initial excavation of cultural relics has passed, coupled with a large number of precious cultural relics have been cleared away, the original address of the tomb of Princess Fuqing has gradually become less popular.
However, in 2019, after feedback from netizens, in the original tomb of Princess Fuqing, traces of living people were found.
The cultural relics department quickly intervened in the investigation, and sure enough, the tomb was already a bit of a mess, full of bedding, as well as discarded plastic bags and other domestic garbage, but the answer also made people feel sad, living here is not others, but twenty or thirty migrant workers who have entered the city to work.
It turned out that they did not have a place to live, the rent was somewhat unbearable, so this piece of Fuqing Princess Tomb, it has become their place of residence, in the center of the stone tomb, there is a stone coffin, here was once the place where Princess Fuqing lay, but now it has slept on the living, and the east and west south sides were once stacked with niches during the Ming Dynasty, and now it is also used to place all kinds of idle items, the entire burial chamber has no electric lights, only during the day the sun can shine in a faint sunlight. It was also pitch black at night.
Through inquiry, it was found that many workers, who had been living here for 4 years, seemed to have completely set up camp. This is somewhat difficult to understand, the "tomb school" in the TV series, but it is clearly visible in real life.
After the arrangement and persuasion of the staff, the workers left the burial chamber, and the relevant departments arranged accommodation for them to be within the affordable rent. I also hope that in the future, the lives of workers can be more guaranteed.