Ancient cultural relics are of great significance to us modern people, not only because they are of great value, but also because they can restore the historical background through cultural relics, which has brought a lot of research value to archaeologists.
In the past, people were always full of curiosity about history, and could only understand one or two through history books or historical TV series, but AFTER all, TV dramas were fictional, so that future generations could not understand it well.
Later, archaeologists appeared, and as long as they entered the tomb to study, they could know which dynasty it belonged to and the background of the people's lives in that dynasty.
As we all know, the specifications of the emperor's tombs are very high, not only the mausoleum to be built brilliant and magnificent, but also to put valuable cultural relics in the tomb to show their status.
It can be said that the emperors have begun to build when they were young, not only to pay a lot of manpower, but also to pay a lot of money, such as the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, the first construction took 6 years, not satisfied with the demolition and reconstruction, it took another 13 years, of which the real money and silver spent is even more immeasurable.
In fact, the more brilliant the mausoleum is built, the more exciting it is for archaeologists, and presumably the rare treasures in the tomb are also countless, and it is also a big harvest for the country.
In 1979, a worker in Tianshan Town, Jiangsu Province, was working on a project, and in the process of mining, he found a large black hole in the ground, which frightened him.
The worker quickly told the local cultural relics bureau, and the archaeologists immediately came to the construction site after receiving the news, and after investigation, it was determined that it was an ancient tomb.
This made the archaeological team very excited, so they continued to excavate, through the situation in the tomb, it was learned that this is a mausoleum built in the Western Han Dynasty, the owner of the tomb is Liu Xu, the son of Liu Che of the Han Wu Emperor, which is a husband and wife burial tomb, and his wife is also buried in the tomb.
The pit is 18 meters deep, 23 meters wide from east to west, 28 meters long from north to south, 60 meters long from the tomb, and the burial chamber is filled with about 20,000 square meters. Archaeologists have found many valuable cultural relics in the tomb, among which the most representative of the high-level etiquette of the Han Dynasty is the fragment of "yellow intestine inscription" and "golden jade clothing" made of Nanmu.
The golden jade garment is the highest standard funeral burial dress of the Han Dynasty, which is a symbol of the wearer's status and rank, and roughly appeared in the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, people were more superstitious, believing that gold and jade could make people's essence not leak out, so that the bones of the corpse would not rot, and could be regenerated in the next life, so jade had a very important position in the Han Dynasty.
Because the golden jade cloth symbolizes the identity of the emperor and the nobility, there are very strict production process requirements, from the appearance of the jade clothing and the human body is almost exactly the same, and the jade pieces are designed into different sizes according to different parts of the human body, and then connected with gold thread, the cost of making a jade coat is equivalent to the sum of the family property of a hundred medium-sized families at that time, which is enough to see its preciousness, even if the fragments of the golden jade cloth are also valuable.
In addition to the fragments of the golden jade coat, the most amazing thing for archaeologists is the "Yellow Intestine Inscription", which can be said to be the highest specification and the grandest burial tomb.
In Liu Xu's mausoleum, a total of 856 pieces of wood were used, and all of them were the best golden silk nan wood, for the golden silk nan wood, presumably everyone knows something, this is a unique Chinese precious wood, not easy to deform and crack, in the sun, the surface of the wood will be golden, there is a gold wire emerging, and there is a light fragrance.
Golden silk nan wood has always been a noble furniture material for the royal family, because of its small number and extremely slow growth, it is very precious. A few years ago, a piece of golden silk nan wood was worth more than 20 million yuan, if calculated according to this price, then the golden silk nan wood in Liu Xu's tomb was at least worth 17.1 billion yuan, which is really incredible.
In addition, Liu Xu's tomb also unearthed a large number of jade, pottery, bronze, wood carvings and other cultural relics, this excavation for archaeologists to harvest a lot, fortunately did not be stolen tomb thieves found, otherwise so many valuable cultural relics will be looted by tomb robbers, for the country heavy losses.
Resources:
"The Golden Jade Dress"
"Yellow Intestines"
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