Where is the Jasper Princess now?
Text/Guo Fangquan
The mausoleum, for the Chinese emperor, is the last permanent "home" of life.
Therefore, their first priority in life is to explore, select sites, and build a final home for themselves.
Princess Jasper was the daughter of the king of the Xiangrong Kingdom (襄戎邑) of the Western Qiang Dynasty, named Jasper, Zhiwu Shuangquan, once known as Xiong I, leading the army to guard Xiangrongyi behind closed doors and dangerous points, practicing the art of elite soldiers, and clashing with the enemy, all of which were victorious. Later, jasper was made a princess, praised her for her purity and integrity, and renamed the closed door of the garrison pass to Jade Pass.
So, where is the tomb after the death of the Jasper Princess? For thousands of years, it has been a mystery.
Niuluo Village Xiangrong Ancient Cemetery Area
Jasper scholar Guo Hanbiao analyzed from the group of more than a dozen large ancient city ruins near Jasper Pass, Xiangrong State had at least a thousand years of history before the establishment of Tianshui County and Pingxiang County, in such a long time, there should be a certain scale of ancient tomb areas, and where is the ancient tomb area?
Guo Hanbiao believes that the xiangrong state ancient tomb area should be located in Niuluo Village, Jasper Township.
He believes that the capital of Xiangrong (the site of Lijiaping, the jade shangdianzi) and the jasper guan are a large city pool, and the earliest cities around the city should be Yuguan and Shiguan (Ranjia Shitan), and it is said that from west to east, Niuguan (now Xiakou), Huguan, Rabbit Pass, Longguan, Snake Pass, Maguan, Yangguan, Monkey Pass, and Jiguan (now Jichuan) were built in turn, and Jiguan should be the last and relatively good city in Xiangrong State.
There will be no tomb area in the city. Lijiaping, the capital of the country, is full of pottery pieces, and some pottery jars for burying children like the Banpo site in Xi'an have been excavated, but no ancient tombs have been found. I think that the children buried in the city pool are the Stone Age sites before the establishment of the capital of the Xiangrong State, and it is impossible to establish an ancient tomb area in the city after the establishment of the capital.
There may not be an ancient tomb area in the Napo mountains south of the city, because there is also a Niugu River in the middle, which is not easy to manage.
The Mawazi River (now Xincheng Village) west of the castle will not have an ancient tomb area. Mawazi River is the place where the army trains on horseback archery, and it is the least secluded place. The ancients would not have chosen that place.
Niuluo Village, just north of the city, is the most likely place to establish an ancient cemetery. The establishment of ancient tombs just north of the city is in line with the thinking of the ancients, and the geographical location is within the jurisdiction of the army. Niuluo Village is located on a flat at the intersection of Niuluo River (north-south direction) and Wangcha River (east-west direction), with a large mountain in the east, Niugu River and Leiye Mountain in the west, and Wangcha River and Jasper City pool in the south, which is the best place to establish an ancient tomb group. Of course, Shanghe Village cannot be ruled out, and the history of Shanghe Village under Lei Ye Mountain is also more mysterious.
Ancient tombs of napo river dynasties
The jasper scholar Zhang Guofan pointed out in an article that the Neolithic tombs in Napochuan are all ancient burial areas hundreds of meters long to the southeast, and there is a phenomenon of superposition. In recent years, a knife coin, more than five beads, two bronze mirrors, one Ding, and one Taocang have been excavated during the excavation of the base, which belongs to the Han tomb funerary products. Dao coin is a typical currency of the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties. Two kilns of copper coins were dug up in another place, and the generation is unknown. In the 1960s and 1970s, after the flooding of the Niugu River, there were often coffin bones on the cliff surface, and the coffins were decayed and the bones were white, which was obviously a tomb from 400 to 500 years ago. Because most of the tombs in the Qing Dynasty are Shangdianzi Guo's ancestral ancestors, they are still there today. More than a dozen tombs have been found along the ridge along the Napo River and Qiantsui, which are half-roll brick tombs with a brick width of 20 cm and a thickness of 38 cm. The rolled arch bricks are either rectangular or wedge-shaped bricks, and the width and narrowness are shaped like the Sui and Tang Tombs, which is another cemetery area of the Lijiaping people. Zhang Guofan collected two bricks, which were identified by experts as non-Han bricks. Excavated artifacts include armor pieces, seals, etc. Hejiuwan Slope Ancient Tombs and Zhongbao Han Tombs Under the Dianzi River Jiuwan Slope Ancient Tombs are shallow, for vertical single tombs, each tomb with two burial ash clay pots, one large and one small, very regular. This area may be the tomb area of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The Zhongbao Han tomb group is six or seven miles away from jasper, and in recent years, the phenomenon of illegal excavation has been serious, and a large number of bronze and pottery have been excavated.
Yuecha Village is said to be a mausoleum with mountains as a mausoleum
The author believes that in addition to the factors such as sitting north and facing south and Gathering Qi in the ancient character cemetery, the characters also have a strict hierarchical burial system. Therefore, the tomb of the jasper princess is not a tomb group, at most it is a tomb with the prince. The Jasper Princess is diligent in government and loves the people, and is bound to follow its thin burial system, and should also be a mausoleum by the mountain. This simple and sensual cognition can represent the high recognition of the merits of the Jasper Princess in later generations.
Longfeng Mountain is located in the northern foothills of Yuecha Village, the mountain is abrupt, the peaks are straight, the ravines are longitudinal, the mountains are surrounded by water, there is Tianshui Lake surrounded by it, and it is the highest point of Qingyang Peak, with an altitude of 1888 meters, and the eastern, western and southern peaks are facing each other, which is also an excellent place.
"The king takes the whole world as his home, but why should he have things in the tomb, but for himself." Longfeng Mountain is a mausoleum, not hiding gold and jade, people and horses, utensils, using civil and wooden tools, a few good thieves, no tiredness. ”
The burial system of "because the mountain is a mausoleum" also had a profound impact on later generations, such as the imperial tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the tombs of the Wei and Jin emperors, and the sui and Tang emperors. Its influence also spread to the general tomb architecture of the Han Dynasty, such as the two Eastern Han portrait stone tombs of baishan guzi in Pixian County, Xuzhou, and the Eastern Han tomb of Daquan in Tongshan, Xuzhou, all of which were buried on the mountain using the original earth mounds that were higher than the ground. This burial system with the frequent exchanges between the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty and the surrounding Siyi, and profoundly affected the four sides, the Sichuan Cliff Tomb, may be one of the more prominent representatives.
The Jasper Princess, unlike ordinary people, does not hide gold and jade because the mountains are mausoleums, just as she is as pure as jade.
For more than three thousand years, the Xiangrong Kingdom is full of mystery and color for the world, and the jasper princess is like Fuxi and Nuwa, Wuding and The Woman, but also the young marshal and the princess, so that jasper guan has a symbol of life, and her mausoleum has also witnessed the rise and fall and change of jasper guan...