The news of the discovery of ancient tombs has been seen frequently, but it can often attract people's attention, this is because each ancient tomb can basically give us a different surprise, found in Jiangxi Zhu Yuanzhang's granddaughter-in-law tomb, after the appearance of restoration, experts directly called: This is impossible!
What the hell is going on? Read on.
The Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has rescued a Ming Dynasty tomb in the campus of East China Jiaotong University in Changbei Development Zone, Nanchang City, and unearthed a large number of precious burial items, and more valuablely, the female corpse in the coffin is basically well preserved.
The responsible archaeologists rushed the female corpse to the Jiangxi Provincial Museum for basic treatment and protection. At this time, a large number of news media reporters heard the news and also rushed to conduct on-site interviews and reports.
The general public also learned about the excavation of the female corpse of the Ming Dynasty through the news newspaper, and there was a lot of talk in the streets and alleys. The excavation of the female corpse, known as the "dressed female corpse", has become a major hot spot of concern from all walks of life. The Jiangxi Provincial Museum, which had been silent for a while, suddenly became lively again.
When the archaeologists cleaned up the clothes on the ancient corpses, they consulted the relevant documents according to the characteristics of the excavated cultural relics and the shape of the tomb, and determined that the tomb should belong to the late Ming Dynasty, about 500 years ago.
As early as 1982, 4 Ming tombs were excavated in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and the burial methods and funerary products of the ancient tombs in Jiaotong University were very consistent with the Ming tombs in Nancheng. And the Provincial Archaeological Institute will excavate the situation. Report to the experts of the China Cultural Relics Research Group. In this regard, experts said that this may be the tomb of a small concubine.
So why is this female corpse called a "dressed female corpse"?
Originally, it was because this ancient corpse had a total of 2 cloaks, 1 official uniform and 1 jacket, 1 underwear and 4 or 5 skirts, and its fabrics were silk, cotton and brocade, and the name of the female corpse was also derived.
In addition, six golden phoenixes with a thickness of little fingers and more than ten centimeters long were found on the head of the tomb owner. The female corpse had a faint green thread in her hair, and experts unexpectedly found that the owner of the tomb was already bald before his death, and wore a wig on the top of her head, sewn with needles on a brown cloth, and then covered on the head.
So, what is the real identity of the "dressed female corpse"?
After the excavation of the "dressed female corpse", no relevant records can be found.
Tombstones and epitaphs are crucial to determining the identity, age and age of the tomb owner. But this tombstone is likely to have been scattered in pieces, or even no tombstone at all. Therefore, the identity of the tomb owner becomes a mystery.
But later, the epitaph was "sent" to the public security sub-bureau on its own initiative.
According to public security officials, they received a report the day after the tomb was discovered, saying that the construction workers had encroached on the tomb's belongings. Later, after many investigations, it was confirmed that Tao had "moved" the remaining epitaph away. Later, under his education, Tao handed the epitaph to the public security organs.
Then, the archaeologists immediately examined the epitaph, and finally confirmed the burial time of the tomb owner, and more importantly, the identity of the tomb owner also surfaced.
Experts said that only half of the epitaphs found, a total of more than 100 words, but fortunately this is precisely a record of the age of the tomb owner.
Originally, the owner of the tomb was Wu Shi, the wife of the King of Ningjing, who was born in 1439 and died in 1502. The owner of the tomb is 64 years old according to the imaginary age, which is consistent with the 64 gold and silver coins that were cushioned on the back of the funeral.
At this time, experts determined that the owner of the tomb was a concubine of King Ning, the 17th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, so the tomb belonged to the tomb of the princess.
In addition, during the dissection of the ancient corpse, the archaeologists were still in the jaw of the tomb owner. A gold bead and a silver bead were found, only the size of a soybean. Experts say that this phenomenon is consistent with the custom of large families at that time when they were buried with gold and silver coins. This also confirms that the identity of the tomb owner is not low.
However, after learning the truth, the experts were confused: since it is the tomb of the princess, why is it not large, and there is only one tomb?
After that, they did not hesitate to survey its vicinity, but the result was that they were dead-hearted, and this princess tomb was indeed only as small as what they saw.
According to the later excavations at the Jiaoda cemetery site, Director Xu of the Provincial Archaeological Research Institute explained that in the early han and Jin dynasties, the burial method was multi-burial chamber, and after the Tang and Song dynasties, especially in the south, the burial chamber would be relatively simple.
However, in general, there is a lot of rain in the south, and the soil is acidic, after so many years, the body will definitely decay, and the body of the tomb owner is so well preserved, which is really rare, and the reason for this needs to be examined.
Because the burial technique of the tomb is very distinctive, in addition to its tomb of the Ming Princess, etc., the tomb is of great research value. Therefore, the provincial archaeologists planned to move the entire tomb back to the collection for research data.
Then, the experts restored the appearance of the princess, wanted to see her style, but the result made them dumbfounded, the princess appearance is indeed not outstanding, and they imagined a far cry, may be the ancient people's aesthetics and modern times are different.