In 2002, workers were mapping the land at a construction site in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province, where they were going to build a highway, all for the grand construction of the western development.
When the route was finalized, Hubei Province began to arrange the construction of the expressway.
When the mapping work was completed, they quickly raised funds and found workers responsible for building roads.
It didn't take long for the workers to be summoned to Zaoyang City to take charge of the construction of this section of the road.
At this time, the workers know that if the road is connected, the transportation will be more convenient and the economic development will be more rapid.
For a better life, they work hard one by one.
The construction of highways requires that the road be as smooth as possible, and then lay cement and steel on it.
Just as the workers were proceeding with the construction work as usual, one of the workers suddenly observed a different color from the other lands.
So he squatted down and dug with his tools, and in a few moments he found a broken tile, and as he continued to dig down, he found more broken tiles.
The worker was very curious, but he was also a person who had seen the world, and knew that these tiles were not simple, and they were probably antiquities.
Thinking of this, the worker stood up, found the foreman with the broken tiles he found, and informed the foreman of his conjecture.
Together, the two of them thought it was really possible, so they took the debris to the public security bureau to report the case.
When the police of the local public security bureau learned of the incident, they were very cautious and contacted experts on the same day, hoping to determine whether the tiles were antiquities through research and investigation.
When receiving the tiles handed over by the police station, the experts began intense identification work, and finally, after identification, the experts determined that they were antiquities, and they were not small, and they were likely to become another major archaeological discovery in the country in 2002 after The Hunan Liye Qinjian!
Based on the pursuit of "history and culture" and the idea of protecting antiquities, experts immediately summoned relevant personnel to prepare to go to the construction site to find out.
At first, they were a little worried about what to do if they misjudged, but after investigation, the results surprised them. What happened then?
First, a thousand-year-old tomb was found in Hubei
It turned out that after the expert arrived at the site, after a preliminary investigation, it was determined that there was "something" in the ground, and it was most likely a tomb group.
At this point, the experts were overjoyed, because their assumptions might be true, but while they were happy, they were a little worried.
Since the new China, the construction of the country's archaeological undertakings has become more and more scientific and sustainable development, and the principle of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, and strengthening management" is the principle.
Nowadays, with the current strength, it is impossible to excavate the antiquities buried in the ground intact, so it may be better not to actively excavate the antiquities, even if this may be another major discovery.
At this time, archaeologists are very contradictory, on the one hand is the highway, on the other hand is the protection of antiquities, they do not know how to be good.
In the end, after internal consultation, the archaeologists decided to seek help from the relevant authorities in Hubei Province, hoping that the relevant authorities would agree to transfer the construction land.
However, when the two sides communicated, archaeologists learned that this solution was not feasible, and it turned out that due to the economic strategy of Hubei Province, the construction land could not be transferred.
After the first failed consultations, the two sides are still looking for a suitable solution to meet each other's needs.
Things didn't go so well!
After several consultations, they still did not find an optimal solution. Time flies, and when the two sides can't stand each other, things turn around!
It turned out that in order to save time and better protect the discovered antiquities, the experts continued the investigation work while consulting with the relevant authorities.
Under the investigation of the experts, they accidentally found traces of the theft of the ancient tomb: there was a 13-meter-long robbery hole inside it.
The existence of the tomb robbery shows that the tomb robber has entered the inside of the tomb, and after the tomb is excavated by the tomb robber, the contents will inevitably be destroyed.
At this time, it is no longer a simple problem of conflict between cultural relics protection and economic construction, but a situation of "having to dig up".
In this way, the expert gave up the original idea and began to prepare for the excavation work.
In order to ensure the foolproof nature of ancient cultural relics, experts contacted the Cultural Relics Bureau on the one hand to request instructions for excavating ancient tombs, and on the other hand, requested the Cultural Relics Bureau to transfer people to assist in the excavation work.
In the face of the request of archaeologists, the Cultural Relics Bureau actively cooperated, approved the instructions, and gathered some manpower in a very short period of time to excavate and do miscellaneous work.
In addition, they also gathered a large number of archaeologists to form an archaeological team to add manpower to the excavation of antiquities and carry out cultural relics excavation work together.
Time was tight and the task was urgent, and after the preparations of the Cultural Relics Bureau were ready, they immediately sent someone to lead the people who helped rescue the antiquities to set out.
Within days, the archaeologists, who had gathered from all directions, arrived at the construction site where the tomb had been found.
After arriving at their destination, the archaeologists simply got to know each other and immediately began to prepare for archaeological excavations.
After a tense investigation, it didn't take long for them to determine the specific location of the tomb.
After continuous measurement and excavation, archaeologists have a preliminary understanding of other information such as the length of the tomb.
It is worth mentioning that through further excavations, archaeologists determined that the tomb is from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period a thousand years ago.
According to the Spring and Autumn Warring States period corresponding to the Chu state located in Hubei at that time, archaeologists concluded that the ancient tomb belonged to the Chu tomb.
Because this ancient tomb is composed of nine tombs, archaeologists have been named "Jiuliandun Chu Tomb" in order to record the time and place of excavations thereafter.
Second, the tomb unearthed 6 "Rolls Royce"
Information about the Jiuliandun Chu Tomb was determined to have saved a lot of time for archaeological excavations.
Through the study of tomb habits in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the excavation and identification of tombs became more and more smooth.
After a long period of excavation of ancient tombs, many antiquities have been revealed, among them, in the process of excavation of antiquities, six "Tianzi cars" have reappeared.
As soon as these six carriages appeared, they attracted the attention of experts.
In fact, at the beginning, experts were not sure that the antiquities found were horse-drawn carriages, because they were covered with a lot of dirt, and the carriage style was different from the carriage style of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
It was not until the cleaning of these six carriages that the patterns, colors, etc. on them were gradually revealed, and it was this that the experts determined: there was no doubt that this antiquity was a carriage.
Knowing that the antiquities were carriages, the curiosity of the experts was even greater.
You know, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only the Son of Heaven could ride six carriages, and at that time, the six carriages were a symbol of the noble status of the Son of Heaven.
Although dynasties have changed and the majesty of the Son of Heaven has ceased to exist, in that era of collapse and happiness, it was rare to ride in six carriages.
Moreover, according to the pattern, material, decoration, etc. of the carriage that was cleaned out, it can be seen that the owner of the tomb is extremely exquisite in the shape of these carriage materials, which is certainly of great value.
These six carriages, whether in terms of status or price, were definitely in the front place at that time, and ordinary people could not obtain them. It is no exaggeration to say that each of the six carriages has the status of a Rolls-Royce among today's carriages.
Of course, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, these six carriages could sweep away other carriages and become the Rolls-Royce among the carriages. But today, because of the cultural value they confer, it can be said that Rolls-Royce is inferior to them.
Since these six "carriages" are so high in terms of price and status, what is the identity of the owner of the tomb to be worthy of these six carriages?
In fact, through the materials used in the carriage, it can be known that the owner of the tomb is a rich and enemy of the country. In addition, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the status of six carriages driving together was extremely special. Therefore, in addition to being extremely wealthy, the owner of the tomb who could ride six carriages also had a very high political position.
In the end, after a long period of research and investigation, experts speculated that the identity status of the tomb owner was very likely to be comparable to that of the King of Chu, and the status of the King of Chu at that time was similar.
Unfortunately, the experts roughly determined the scope of the tomb owner, but did not clearly indicate who the tomb owner was, and there are still doubts about the identity of the tomb owner, but in any case, the wonder of history is here.
Nowadays, we cannot know his identity explicitly, but over time, the confirmation of his identity will also become less difficult.
The tombs of Chu in the third and ninth consecutive piers amaze the whole country
In addition, in addition to these six Rolls-Royce-like "Tianzi cars", there are other antiquities found in the Jiulian Dun Chu Tomb.
Not only are there bronzes common in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, but also some lacquered wood, gold and silver jade and other utensils, in addition, tables and chairs benches, pots and pans, gold and silver jewelry and other items have been found.
Among the many funerary items, the number of lacquered wood objects accounts for a large proportion of these funerary products, which shows that the owner of the tomb is very fond of lacquered wood products.
Perhaps in today's view, lacquered wood is obviously not a valuable item, but in ancient times lacquered wood was the standard of the rich family at that time.
In addition, the lacquer used in the lacquered woodware in the ancient tombs was also different from the lacquer used today.
The lacquer used in ancient times is called large lacquer, which is obtained from the lacquer tree, and after it is precipitated, it is reddish-brown, painted on the wood to depict the pattern for decoration, and the color remains unchanged after thousands of years, and today's lacquer is more of the paint of industrial products, and it will be warped and painted over time.
From these extremely large numbers of lacquered wood utensils, we can once again confirm the high status, high status and wealth of the owner of the tomb.
With the step-by-step excavation of ancient tombs, the relevant media are also paying attention to ancient tombs step by step.
At the beginning of the excavation of the ancient tomb, some media reported the discovery of ancient tombs from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province.
Under the attention of the media, archaeologists are working intensively about the excavation of ancient tombs step by step.
After one antiquities after another were excavated, the media also reported these antiquities truthfully and presented them to the world.
At first, people did not pay much attention to the Jiuliandun Chu Tomb, and everyone thought that the Jiuliandun Chu Tomb was stolen by the tomb thieves and there was nothing in it, so everyone did not have a great interest in excavating the antiquities.
However, until the experts excavated step by step, the antiquities unearthed from the Jiuliandun Chu Tomb can be described as stunning the whole country.
First, the ancient tomb comes from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has a long history and great archaeological value; second, after the Chu tomb was excavated, the ancient tomb has a rich type of antiquities and a large number, which to a certain extent makes up for the lack of Chinese Chu tomb culture.
When people knew the value and quantity of antiquities, the Jiulian Dun Chu Tomb also caused an uproar, and a "Chu wind" blew up.
It is worth mentioning that after the countless antiquities they own have been cleaned up, people can roughly see the style they had during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
After a thousand years of precipitation, these antiquities have not lost their own brilliance, but because of the changes of the millennium, they have left an unparalleled unique style, so that they have amazed the whole of China and even the world.
IV. Conclusion
In the whole excavation process of jiulian dun chu tombs, heavyweight antiquities explain the identity and status of the owners of the ancient tombs, and supplement the types and categories of cultural relics in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
The meaning of antiquities is here, the materials, patterns, shapes, etc. of antiquities can reveal some information, which can tell us when, where, and who the antiquities came from.
Through these antiquities, we seem to be able to walk through a hundred years, a thousand years, and have a dialogue with the ancients, which is silent but extremely powerful.
In the future, more and more antiquities will be excavated, but with the development of science and technology, one day, our protection of antiquities can be "foolproof".
5, References
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