In the process of cleaning up the site, experts can determine the identity of the owner of the tomb based on the size of the tomb and the excavated artifacts. In cleaning up the Shangfang tomb, experts found six tiger-shaped sarcophagus seats, but they said: It was a funerary product in the past, but in modern times, it has a different purpose. Today, Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you:
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In 2005, workers were working near the Science Park in Nanjing's Jiangning District, but what everyone did not expect was that because of this construction, an ancient tomb was seen again. In the process of construction, the workers found one green brick after another in the ground, and after the construction team leader saw it, he felt that something was wrong, because the style of the green bricks was very unique, and according to past experience, he suspected that there was an ancient tomb in the area.
The construction team leader immediately contacted the local cultural relics department, and after the archaeological staff arrived at the scene, they immediately protected the local area and began to carry out protective exploration work, and finally determined that there was indeed an ancient tomb in the area. After research and decision, the archaeology staff is ready to carry out protective excavation of the ancient tomb, in the process of cleaning, the staff found that the ancient tomb found in the place is a large brick chamber tomb, the burial chamber brick is as long as 20.16 meters, this length directly set the length of the large tomb brick chamber found in the early Six Dynasties in China.
With the continuous advancement of archaeological work, experts found many precious artifacts in the tomb, such as: gold, silver, pottery and other cultural relics of different textures of more than 170 pieces, one of which is a group of celadon figurines, which is the largest number of excavations in a single tomb in the same period, the most surprising to the staff is that this group of celadon figurines is very exquisite, called the Six Dynasties porcelain fine. Based on the artifacts unearthed and the scale of the tomb, experts determined that the tomb was a tomb of the Sun dynasty of Eastern Wu.
When the archaeologists entered the back room, they found three groups of coffins, including six sarcophagus seats and three pairs of wooden coffins, but the wooden coffins had long been destroyed by tomb thieves and did not have too high research value, which was why the staff was ready to clean up other places first, but an older staff member had a surprise discovery, and the two ends of each sarcophagus seat in the tomb were carved into the shape of a tiger's head. Under normal circumstances, the coffin beds of the Six Dynasties tombs are made of green bricks, and the tiger-headed sarcophagus excavated from the tomb of Wusun in Shangfang is very "special".
Immediately afterward, experts transported the tiger-headed sarcophagus back to the Nanjing Museum for centralized protection. With the arrival of the Year of the Tiger, the staff of the Nanjing Museum put six tiger-shaped sarcophagus seats on display in the hall, and after the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of tourists. Why are these six tiger-shaped sarcophagus so "hot" artifacts? There are three reasons for this:
First reason: moral
In ancient mainland China, ancient people worshipped the image of "tiger", for example: most of the soldiers are in the shape of tigers, and the tigers of the Three Kingdoms era are tigers that have been going on for a long time, representing pioneering forward, never giving up, implying that the tiger is long-lasting.
Second reason: see the coffin to make a fortune
Since ancient times, Huaxia has a saying of "seeing the coffin and getting rich", the word "coffin" is through the word "official", in the feudal society period, in the eyes of many ordinary people, seeing the coffin is equivalent to getting rich, so everyone firmly believes that seeing six tiger-shaped sarcophagus seats is equivalent to seeing the sarcophagus, that is to say, there is hope of getting rich.
The third reason: six six big shun
The tiger-shaped sarcophagus in the Nanjing Museum has a total of six pieces, six six big shun, which is very auspicious, so tourists say that seeing these six tiger-shaped sarcophagus seats, life and career will become more and more smooth.
After the tiger-shaped sarcophagus became a "net red" cultural relic, it became more and more popular, and I believe that the owner of the tomb in this ancient tomb would not dream that the inconspicuous things in his tomb would become auspicious treasures. If you go to the Nanjing Museum, don't miss the tiger-shaped sarcophagus.