At noon on August 30, 1534, a flock of sparrows suddenly flew from the sky of Taicang, Suzhou, and landed neatly on the house of a rich and noble family! Then, a baby cry sounded...
This family's surname is Wang, which is a famous rich family in Taicang. At this time, it happened that the lady of the house was about to give birth during her pregnancy, but there was a housekeeper who came to report that there were suddenly a number of sparrows flying above the wall of the hospital, and they stopped row after row, which was really strange...
When the old master of the Wang family heard about this strange incident, he was about to go forward to see what was going on, but at this moment he suddenly smelled a crisp and loud cry!
Born! Born! Still a boy!
The old master of the Wang family was overjoyed! The lady has been in labor for several days and nights, and she is about to give birth to a corpse and two lives! Now, the sparrow sends a child, the mother and child are safe, it is a great fortune!
Therefore, this newborn baby boy was named Wang Xijue (the ancient knight and the bird are tong fake characters)!
Wang Xijue did not live up to the expectations of everyone, he was ranked first in the Jiajing Forty-first Year Examination (Huiyuan), and the court examination was ranked second (list eye). His real glorious period was in the Wanli Dynasty, where he was valued by Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the dynasty, and entrusted with heavy responsibilities. The highest official to the head of the cabinet ...
More than four hundred years later, this "successful political figure" during the Ming Dynasty will meet our modern time and space in another way!
In December 1966, the Suzhou Huqiu Mountain Xinzhuang Brigade found an ancient tomb while leveling the land. The tomb is located in the southwest of Tiger Hill Mountain, northeast of Maple Bridge, and is a shaft-type coupon-roofed two-chamber brick chamber tomb.
The burial chamber is made of green bricks, surrounded by grout, and broken into two chambers with a length of 3.09 meters, a width of 1.65 meters and a height of 1.77 meters in the middle. It can be seen that this is a double burial chamber structure for husband and wife.
After the archaeologists entered the burial chamber, they found that the place was in good condition and there was no trace of theft. Among them, the male coffin is in the left room and the female coffin is in the right room, both of which are made of nan wood.
The whole tomb has obvious Ming tomb features, and when people see the two lines of large characters on the coffin lid of the left chamber, they further clarify the judgment!
"Crown Prince Taibao Official Shangshu Jianjidian University Scholar Gift Taibao Yuwen Su ..." The handwriting is clear and legible. Combined with the two-sum epitaph found in the tomb, the identity of the owner of the tomb is also revealed to the world.
He was Wang Xijue, who served as the first assistant to the cabinet of the Wanli Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. He is also the highest official figure in the history of Taicang!
Wang Xijue's tomb was not stolen, and when he was buried, the Wang family was still official and prosperous, so the burial goods were quite rich, which opened the eyes of the world...
According to the cleanup, the burial items in the tomb include 161 pieces such as crown clothes, jade ornaments, and ming utensils.
The most special thing is that the placement of the burial items is quite peculiar. In the first half of Wang Xijue's coffin, various burial items are directly displayed. They're like a scaled-down version of a life appliance scene.
Among them, a wooden table is placed in the middle, which is 33 cm long, 22 cm wide and 23.7 cm high. On the table is a shrine to the Lord, and twenty-eight sacrificial vessels such as pots, cups, and plates are displayed. On the left side of the table is a black gauze hat, and on the right side is placed the simulated brick platform.
On the left side, there is also a cloud head wooden hanger, and the hanger actually hangs a cloud pattern yellow silk coat and a jade belt...
On the right side, there is a wooden basin, and there is a wooden box, which contains six small wooden combs and a plain copper mirror...
These mingware, which are smaller than real daily necessities, are very exquisitely made, and are completely configured according to the miniature version of the scene used by the owner of the tomb before his death, and it can be seen that he hopes to enjoy the same life in another world.
The most important day to open the coffin has arrived. Inside the heavy wooden coffin, the archaeologists saw a shocking scene...
Only to see Wang Xijue wearing a black "Zhongjing" crown lying quietly in the coffin, his face was as if he had just died, his facial features were clearly visible, and he was buried with a white jade seal next to him, with the word "Xi Jue" on it!
The underground burial of more than 400 years is actually incorruptible, which is a great miracle!
Inside its coffin, archaeologists found a number of square mica pieces wrapped in silk, and mercury was also found at the bottom of the coffin.
These two things are recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of the Dynasty": injecting mercury into the corpse and using mica to pad the corpse can play an antiseptic role...
Of course, Wang Xijue's body was buried for more than four hundred years without decay, mica and mercury can not play a decisive role, there are many complex factors in this joint decision...
However, unfortunately, in the archaeology of the sixties, there are still many gaps in consciousness and technology. Lord Wang, whose body is not incorruptible, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the disaster...
However, these exquisite and abnormal Ming Dynasty burials give us a close understanding of the luxurious life scenes of the rich families of that year... #Ancient Tomb Time and Space Machine ##趣逛博物馆 #
