To say that the most familiar historical figures of the Liao State are probably the Empress Xiao in the story of the Yang family. During the regency of this strong woman, she reused the ministers of various nationalities, defeated the Song army several times, and signed the alliance of Liaoyuan, pushing the national strength of the Liao state to its peak.
Empress Xiao is so famous that the collecting community is of course eager for collections related to her. Therefore, in recent years, the news that a golden birthday coat worth 3.4 billion yuan has been unearthed from the tomb of Empress Xiao has really made many people interested under the celebrity effect.
Why didn't the grave robbers take her birthday clothes? Friends who want to see the auction records of shouyi or listen to the fantasy story of tomb robbery may be disappointed this time, because this golden shouyi incident is a farce at all!
Although Empress Xiao's mausoleum was stolen many times, experts still found a gold filigree inlaid four-phoenix shou robe during excavation. This shou robe contains about ten kilograms of gold and hundreds of precious gemstones, which are well preserved and are worth 3.4 billion yuan after being evaluated by cultural relics expert Pei Yuanbo, which is worth more than the golden jade coat.
Is this really the case?
After Empress Xiao's death in 1006, she was buried in Qianling with her husband Emperor Jingzong of Liao. This Qianling has the same name as the Qianling of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, the Khitan people love gold and silver jewelry, and the wind of thick burial is prevalent, so the beginning of Empress Xiao's burial must also be accompanied by countless treasures, I am afraid that compared with Wu Zetian's Qianling, it is not much more.
But the treatment of these two Qianling is very different. Due to the particularity of the structure, Wu Zetian's Qianling has never been stolen and excavated for thousands of years, and is now an important historical and cultural heritage, a national 5A-level scenic spot, and tourists are endless. And Empress Xiao's Qianling tomb is really full of holes and unbearable to see.
Located in a barren mountain range in the territory of present-day Beizhen City, Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, it is only a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, and it is still facing delisting at any time, because it has been stolen too many times since ancient times, and it has not been well protected since then.
As early as 1117, 111 years after Empress Xiao's death, Qianzhou, where Qianling was located, and Xianzhou, where Xianling (Tomb of Emperor Yelü bei of Emperor Yizong of Liao) was located, surrendered to the Jin Dynasty.
The ancestors of the Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty were enslaved by the Khitans, so they had great hatred for the nobles of the Liao State. In 1119, Jin soldiers burned the above-ground buildings of the Qian and Xian'er Mausoleums, dug up the underground palace, and looted the internal treasures.
Just like Sun Dianying's looting of the Qing Tombs, can these soldiers leave something for you? Of course, everything that can be moved away has been moved away. The rest was either too heavy or at least not worth much at the time. For example, Sun Dianying and his gang looted the Qing Tombs, opened the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi and took away the pearl of the night, but discarded the equally valuable Drake Sutra at will.
However, the Dravidian sutra is made of silk, and the average person does not necessarily know its value, and does not this garment contain ten kilograms of gold and hundreds of precious stones? Don't know anything else, not even gold? Isn't that a slippery slope?
Qianling was not as simple as being dug up by Jin Bing once. Soon, the Jin people moved the capital to Beijing, and the land of the Liao State that had been seized was deserted, so many thieves took a fancy to the unattended royal tombs and looted them again.
In the following hundreds of years, the Area around Qianling became a barren mountain and a wild ridge, and gradually fewer people asked about it. Until the early years of the Republic of China and the Japanese invasion of China, it was excavated by local starving people and Japanese Kou twice on a large scale, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it also encountered two groups of tomb robber gangs to "pick up leaks", and finally ushered in Pei Yuanbo, the so-called experts.
The question is, is it possible that so many people have been in and out of it for nearly a thousand years, and they can't see that the golden birthday clothes are worth much? I can't say anything about it!
Since it is called "the first treasure in the world" by Mr. Pei Lao, it should be treasured in a national museum, right? Non also! This shou robe is now in the hands of this Mr. Pei Yuanbo himself. Well, co-author old man, you are not going to dig protectively, you are going to "Taobao" by yourself! What's the difference between you and a grave robber? In view of the fact that the old man was not caught, it can only mean that the museum believes that this birthday coat is fake and resolutely does not want it.
Of course, the online text may not be true, and another is that Pei Yuanbo bought this shouyi in the antique market, if so, the authenticity of this shouyi depends on the credibility of what the old gentleman said.
You may think that this Pei Yuanbo is an expert at the Palace Museum and a researcher at the National Museum, which is a big mistake. The title of this old gentleman is the former executive vice president of the Liaoning Provincial Cultural Relics Folk Collection Research Association, the chairman of Liaoning Boya Art Collection Trading Co., Ltd., without any official position in the cultural and research institutions, at best a folk enthusiast.
Some people may also say that the master is in the folk, and the lack of an official title does not mean that it is not strong. Then search on the Internet, Pei Yuanbo is known as an expert in liao dynasty coin research, but he has been denounced by coin lovers on the Internet more than a decade ago, saying that he has taken a few fake things to deceive, and his reputation is really not bad.
Now, you should understand what's going on! The so-called Empress Xiao's golden birthday clothes are a gimmick used by a folk "collector" to coax his own value and deceive laymen, and no one pays any attention to him in the field of cultural research.