The museum tour is a historical journey. Every tour of the museum is deep in the river of history. In Wuhan, what fascinates me the most is the Hubei Provincial Museum, which walks here one after another and feels the changes in the jingchu land.
In addition to the treasures of the four major town museums, there are many cultural relics in the Hubei Provincial Museum that are worth staying in, carefully appreciating, and thinking carefully, such as the tomb of King Mingliangzhuang.
The Chinese of the tomb is extremely valuable, some people calculate more than 2 billion, and some people think that they can buy a small country. Among them, I was impressed by two gold ingots.
For history, in addition to reverence, it is also interested in the burial culture of ancient people.
Although the tomb of King Liangzhuang is small, the number of funerary items and the price are breathtaking. This tomb is built on a mountain, located in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, known as the suburb of Ying in ancient times, and was the capital of the Chu state capital. During the Ming Dynasty, it was named the three directly subordinate feudal provinces of the country along with Beijing and Nanjing at that time.
The tomb owner, King Liangzhuang, was the ninth son of Emperor Mingrenzong, the great-grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the sole Liang king of the Ming Dynasty, but died early at the age of 30. Because King Liang Zhuang was childless under his knees, he used all the treasures as funerary items after his death, and this rumor attracted countless tomb robbers to dig wildly.
Later, archaeologists also confirmed that the tomb was repeatedly visited by tomb robbers, but because the tomb was soaked in water as a whole, its interior was spared from destruction.
When the archaeologists pumped water for more than 10 days, they found that none of the tomb robbers had succeeded, which was an ancient tomb that had been stolen and excavated many times in history, but all ended in failure. Because the tomb door is hidden under the stagnant water, the tomb robbers cannot find the entrance and exit, and although they have "patronized" many times, they have returned empty-handed.
After the water was completely drained, when the dusty century-old tomb door was opened, the gold, silver and jade artifacts everywhere were like stars in the sky under the light of the detection lamp, shining brilliantly.
The archaeological team believes that the reason why there are thousands of treasures in the tomb of King Liangzhuang is because it is a joint burial tomb of the king and the concubine, so there are so many and exquisite funerary items.
All the excavated cultural relics are more than 5300 pieces, including more than 1400 gold, silver and jade, and more than 3400 beaded gemstones. It can be imagined that when the tomb door is opened, it will shine and shine.
Among them, to the shock of the archaeological team, a large number of jewels in the tomb of King Liang Zhuang were brought back by Zheng He when he went to the West. According to the "Yingya Shengyan", Zheng He went to the West to buy a lot of jewelry, but what these jewels looked like in the past, people did not know.
According to the appraisal of the expert group of China University of Geosciences, during the liangzhuang period, the Ming Dynasty sent Zheng He to the West several times before and after, which not only expanded China's exchanges with the world, but also brought back many "Western things".
The precious stones such as rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and golden emeralds unearthed in the tomb are all from Southeast Asia, and experts have sorted out cultural relics and interpreted epitaphs to confirm that these gems were brought back by Zheng He when he went to the West.
Among them, on the top of a gold-set gemstone cap, there is an olive-shaped colorless sapphire of about 200 carats, the largest sapphire found so far.
In addition, two gold ingots are particularly important. One of the inscriptions reads: "With the driving silver bureau to sell into the color of the gold Wu pick up the double work of the first Ji Ding and other craftsmen Huang Min Di Yongle pick up the year of the month and day". The ingot is 140 mm long, 100 mm wide at the head, 53 mm wide at the waist, 8 mm thick and weighs 1874 grams. "Accompanying the driver" literally means to follow the emperor around, but here refers to the gold ingot that was cast as a reward for the emperor's silver bureau.
Of course, in addition to a large number of jewelry and gold, silver and jade, there are several cultural relics in the tomb of King Liangzhuang that interest me a lot, that is, 38 silver coins unearthed in the bed of the Princess Palace, the money is large and thin, all of which are round, and the money system is made of a whole silver plate, which is used to cushion the corpse. This kind of cushion corpse money is also available in the bed of King Liang Zhuang, but for money.
There are gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, pottery, and mud, but they are also buried and burned. The burning is generally a paper coin, which is one of the coins used in folk sacrifices to worship ghosts and gods and funerals and tomb sweeping for the enjoyment of the deceased. And funerals, such as silver money and money excavated from the tomb of King Liang zhuang, are of this kind.
"Death is like life", the ancients believed that after the death of people, they still lived a life similar to the yang in the underworld, so the above, underground buildings and burial supplies of the mausoleum should be imitated in the world. This is especially true for the royal nobility, as can be seen in the tomb of King Liangzhuang.