01、Duling "Ghost Shadow"
In August 2010, late at night, there was silence...
Xi'an City
In a huge cemetery in the south of Sanzhao Village, there were faintly a few "ghost shadows" who were about to move!
This is not an ordinary place!
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Within an area of more than 120 acres, there is a tomb of the emperors of the Han Dynasty that dates back more than 2,000 years - the "DuLing" of the Han Xuan Emperor!
View of Duling
Emperor Xuan of Han (also known as Liu Yijie), great-grandson of Emperor Wu of Han Liu Ce and Wei Zifu,
After the scourge of the witches, the infant Liu Yuan was imprisoned and later adopted by his grandmother Shi Family.
By chance, Liu Qian succeeded Liu He's class.
Selected by the powerful minister Huo Guang, he ascended to the throne and became the tenth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty...
On the night of August 25, Li Junping and Li Bo, two villagers from Sanzhao Village, quietly entered the Duling Ruins Conservation Area at night.
The purpose of these dark night "ghosts" is very clear - to steal the wadang in Duling!
It turned out that they had heard that the Han Dynasty tiles were everywhere in the mausoleum area, and they could sell them at a good price in the cultural relics market...
Seeing that the village where he lived was near the imperial tomb, how could this "cheap pick up by the white" be spared? The uncle and nephew summed up, and they came up with this method, hoping to come to the fast money!
02、 The "treasure" that fell from the sky
The uncle and nephew, together with another accomplice, quietly came to 300 meters southeast of the tomb of Empress Duling, found a location and began to excavate...
Who would have thought that just dug down about 70 centimeters, actually dug up the "hard stuff"!
Immediately after, I dug a few more hoes, and there was actually a harvest...
A few people took advantage of the moonlight to see clearly what they had dug up, and almost shouted with joy!
Only to see three huge jade cups and a pair of conjoined jade people appear!
The good luck of the crooked fight made several people ecstatic, and they couldn't think about how they could dig up the treasure so easily.
Quickly packed several things, sneaked home...
In the following days, Li's uncle and nephew sold the jade cup and jade man to the cultural relics dealer for 500,000 yuan!
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world! Word spread quickly in the village, and soon after the local police also knew about it!
I heard that there was a tomb robbery case in the tomb of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the public security organs were also shocked into a cold sweat!
The case-handling personnel interrogated several people as quickly as possible, quickly obtained clues to cultural relics, and kept on recovering national treasures...
A few months later, an inter-provincial cultural relics scalping gang was served by a pot, and Duling's stolen jade cup and jade people finally returned!
At this time, the cultural relics experts saw the true appearance of these things clearly, and could not help but marvel at them, and even lamented "national treasures..."
03. Objects used by Emperor Xuan of Han
The four pieces of jade are carved from a whole piece of fine Xinjiang Hetian jade, the jade is delicate and hard, the size is very close, the shape is basically the same, all of them are deep abdomen and high circle feet, and the upper part of the flat mouth abdominal wall is larger.
Two of the three jade cups are tied with gold hoops on the rim, waist and bottom, and the cup body is made in a regular and polished manner.
DuLing stolen gold buckle jade cup
This form of gold hoop inlay is recorded in ancient books as a "golden buckle".
Before the Sui Dynasty, the "Golden Buckle Cup" has always been only found in ancient books and has never been physically.
Nowadays, the emergence of these Western Han "golden buckle jade cups" has made us feast our eyes...
Looking at the pair of conjoined jade dancers, they are also graceful and slender. They are different from the common "flat carving" of the Han Dynasty jade people, but they use the three-dimensional circular carving technique, which makes the jade people more realistic and very exquisite...
Duling unearthed a conjoined jade dancer
Experts also believe that the three jade cups found this time are the highest grade Han Dynasty jade cups unearthed so far!
A pair of Kodama dancers have also been discovered so far
The largest, highest-ranking and only conjoined round carved jade dancer!
Well, there's a huge question lingering in everyone's mind—
With such a high-standard jade object, how could the uncles and nephews who robbed the tomb get their hands on it so easily? It is said that it was dug up just 70 centimeters below the ground?
In response to this problem, archaeologists were also very confused, so they went to the jade land for field investigation.
It turned out that the place where several "ghost shadows" had stolen that night was most likely a sacrificial site in the mausoleum area!
These pieces of jade are not open objects, but can be determined as practical utensils.
According to records, the emperor of the Han Dynasty had the habit of "drinking nectar from the court", and this big jade cup was a cup for the emperor to drink with nectar...
In other words, jade may have been the royal objects of Emperor Xuan of Han's life at that time, enshrined in the sacrificial area!
Such an analysis is even more surprising!
It seems that these exquisite and abnormal jade cups are not only treasures, but also properly used by the emperor's royal property, and the historical value has risen several times!
Nowadays, they have long been out of danger, collected in the Xi'an Museum, and have become the real "treasures of the town hall"...
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