Today, humans have enough technology to trace the cultural monuments of history.
In order to continuously improve the historical footprint, mainland archaeologists have visited various places and made many amazing discoveries.
Speaking of the thousand-year-old female corpse, I believe that most people's first impression is the series of "characters" such as "Notes on tomb robbery" and "Ghost Blowing Lights".
Due to the needs of the story, their appearance is often full of eerie atmosphere, so that it always feels a little creepy.
In fact, there are also thousand-year-old female corpses in reality, so do you know what they really look like?
01 The thousand-year-old tomb of the Western Han Dynasty
In July 2002, a thousand-year-old tomb was unearthed in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province.
According to the results of the survey, this is the tomb of the husband and wife in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty.
Although the size of the cemetery is small and somewhat rudimentary, the four coffins unearthed in the tomb are all extraordinary.
The traces on the surface of the coffin have been densely packed for thousands of years, but they still can't hide the cloud patterns and carvings that are full of ancient and thick atmosphere.
In order to find out the truth, the experts continued to investigate further, dividing the four coffins from 1 to 4 and opening the museum in turn.
When Coffin No. 1 was opened, as expected, the body had been decayed for thousands of years, but fortunately, the funerary goods inside were relatively intact.
The second one was opened, but the harvest was similar to No. 1.
At that time, the expert shook his head, maybe he thought too much, maybe this was just a mediocre Western Han tomb.
However, just as the main tomb of Coffin No. 3 was opened, everyone was dumbfounded. How is this empty?
Although the main tomb is empty on the surface, archaeologists have experienced all sorts of things, and they understand that the body may be under the plank, so they did not see it.
When they looked inside, someone tried to uncover the plank, but then there was a pungent smell, one of the suspected white objects slowly revealed, when the guy who opened the way looked closer to see that it was a living thigh.
Seeing the situation, the people next to him were also frightened, and the expert did not hesitate to cover the coffin again.
02 Creepy thousand-year-old female corpse
Why did the experts react so violently?
It should be known that in the entire archaeological community to see a hundred years, a thousand years of immortal wet corpses can be counted on one hand, such as the tomb of "Lady Xin Chai" excavated in the Mawangdui in 1972.
She was the first wet corpse to be found to have her body and internal organs intact, and her "appearance" attracted significant attention from the archaeological community at the time.
However, it is not surprising that the female corpse that appeared this time is only an incorruptible female corpse, but do you believe that this thousand-year-old incorruptible female corpse actually began to speak after being lifted out?
In addition, the ancient female corpse also shocked the medical workers responsible for dissecting the corpse, her muscles still maintained resilience, and the nerves and internal organs were basically intact from the human body.
Such a performance can't help but make the staff and researchers look crazy, which is simply a medical miracle for medical scientists!
03 The mysterious background of the Han Dynasty beauties
At this time, the archaeologists present as her could not help but look forward to it, and the previous "Lady Xin Chai" was said in history to be the lover of the famous Han Dynasty general Han Xin, and even Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, coveted it.
So will this person also be a well-known figure in history or someone related to it?
Through the relics in the coffin and the traces of the site survey, the experts finally found a related relic that could prove his identity - a bronze seal engraved with "Ling Huishi Ping".
The bronze seal was found in the coffin of "Ling Huiping", which is as well preserved as her body.
But at this time, her identity still exists a little, for this reason, experts plan to dig out the no. 4 main tomb and study the identity of the two together.
However, the opening of Tomb No. 4 is a great disappointment, because No. 4 and No. 1 and No. 2 are the same situation.
This makes experts wonder: Why is only one body intact in the husband and wife tomb?
For a while, the experts were also confused for a while, and could only continue to follow the vine to touch the melon, and finally, the experts locked the clue on the inside of the rafter.
They found the ancient script engraved on it, but it was not difficult to see that it was the word "Donggong" engraved!
In the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the word "gong" alone has been a superb existence, and in addition, Mu Mu also records that local officials of all sizes have come to participate in the funeral.
Although the treatment of the couple was known, the experts never found their identity. In the end, experts can only make up their minds for the time being: a lifetime of wealth and prosperity, food and clothing.
04 Two millennium "sleeping beauties" looking north and south
So, what did this lifelike Western Han woman look like lying flat in a coffin?
In this regard, experts used cutting-edge technology to reconstruct and image Ling Huiping's historical appearance.
Since the plump skull shape is retained, the whole restoration work is not so complicated. In the end, it was restored by experts: "Ling Huiping's round face, willow eyebrows, double eyelids, cherry mouth, can be called a superb beauty." ”
Today, "Ling Huiping" is preserved in the museum of Lianyungang City, and experts have also made high-reduction wax figures for this purpose like Mrs. Xin Chai, which are displayed in the museum of Lianyungang.
"Lady Xin Chai" and "Ling Huiping", two Han Dynasty beauties, one "lived" in the Southern Museum and the other lived in the "Northern" Museum.
The two not only represent the beginning and end of the history of the Western Han Dynasty, but also look at each other on the north and south sides of the mainland...
brief summary
The thousand-year-old incorruptible corpse of "Ling Huiping" can be said to have almost no recorded existence in the literature, but it also laid the foundation for the importance of archaeological history in tracing the entire history of China.
The records in ancient documents are true and false, and there are also false truths, which also need to be confirmed step by step by mainland archaeologists in future harvests.
Of course, I believe that with the continuous improvement of technology, this will not bother everyone in the future.