Mainland ancient has the custom of thick burial, the more dignitaries and nobles are more luxurious, especially the emperor's ancient tomb, it is simply luxurious to the extreme, the specifications are so large that they are called "mausoleums", such as the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the Tomb of Qing Dongling, the Tomb of Ming Xiao, etc., and it is precisely because these ancient tombs have a lot of treasures, attracting a total of many tomb robbers, such as the tomb of the son of Emperor Akihito Zhu Gaozi introduced today was stolen 3 times, archaeologists "rescue excavation", dug out 32 pounds of gold cultural relics.
The joint burial tomb of King Liang zhuang and his princess Wei
This ancient tomb is the tomb of King Liangzhuang, a joint tomb of King Liangzhuang and his princess Wei, located in Jingmen City, Hubei Province. Why a joint burial? According to historical records, King Liangzhuang and his princess Wei were very affectionate, and there were two children, and they had just been together for 8 years, King Liangzhuang died first, Wei still could not be emotional, missed King Liangzhuang very much, heartbroken, wanted to go although he left, the orthodox emperor also had great pity on her after knowing it, and enlightened her to let her raise her and King Liangzhuang's children, the princess lived for ten more years, but finally died due to excessive sadness, and buried her with King Liangzhuang at her request. Such a touching love story, such a deep feeling, who is not moved?
Cultural relics excavated from the tomb of King Liangzhuang
The tomb was stolen 3 times, but the tomb robbers did not succeed. In 2000, there were tomb robbers who wanted to steal this tomb, in order to enter the tomb to steal gold and silver treasures, they did not hesitate to use explosives to violently explode the ancient tomb, so that the ancient tomb suffered damage, and archaeologists finally discovered this tomb, and in April 2001, under the approval of the state, rescue excavations were excavated, and very precious cultural relics were unearthed, such as silverware, bronze, iron, ceramics, jade, etc., the number of as many as 5300 pieces, including 32 pounds of gold cultural relics, and all are very well preserved. The gold also emits a forced glow. The rank of the tomb and the number of funerary items are the highest tombs of Ming princes except for the Ming Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum, Dingling.
A colorless sapphire on the top of a gold-set gemstone cap
However, it is regrettable that although the texture of these cultural relics is relatively hard and well preserved, some of the softer texture of cultural relics, such as silk fabrics and linen fabrics, have decayed, and the air that cannot be avoided after opening the tomb will enter, and some cultural relics will disappear in the blink of an eye after contact with oxygen. But fortunately, a large number of precious cultural relics can be completely excavated, in all the excavated cultural relics have to mention a colorless sapphire on the top of the gold-encrusted gemstone hat, it is olive-shaped, about 200 carats, is the world's largest sapphire unearthed so far, well-deserved national treasure level cultural relics.
Most of the jewelry artifacts were brought back by Zheng He when he went to the West
Most of these excavated cultural relics are treasured in the Hubei Provincial Museum, and were publicly exhibited on June 15, 2014, while a small number of them are treasured in the museum collection of the land, experts said that most of the jewelry relics were brought back by Zheng He when he went to the West, and there are also relevant records in the historical material "Yingya Shengyan", but people do not know what these jewels look like in this batch of cultural relics, and now they finally know. Zheng He's voyage to the West should be no stranger to us, and it is recorded in the history textbooks, and this deed has promoted exchanges between the mainland and the world, which is of great significance.
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Another point has to be mentioned, that is, although the tomb of King Liang Zhuang is very high and luxurious, his area is very small, the size does not exceed 30 square meters, and people can't help but wonder, how did such a small-scale burial chamber put down more than 5,000 funerary objects? I really have to admire the extraordinary wisdom of the ancients. If anyone wants to see these gorgeous gold and silver treasures, take a moment to walk into the museum and take a look, it will definitely benefit you a lot and linger.