But then I don't think there is any museum in Changsha that can be as powerful as the Hunan Museum in Changsha, and actually moved the entire tomb thing over.
After removing a lot of earthworks, a huge coffin was found, and it was not easy to remove it directly from the grave, so the lemon board could only be pried open first. As soon as the lemon plate was opened, archaeologists realized that the hard work of many days had not been in vain.
Digging up the charcoal revealed the yellowed bamboo mats, and the archaeologists carefully opened the 26 bamboo mats buried deep in the ground, and a huge lemon chamber was fully displayed in front of the people. The entire chamber is made of heavy pine wood and is 6.73 meters long, 4.9 meters wide and 2.8 meters high
The four partitions divide the room into four parts in the shape of a "well", with auspicious patterns painted on the inside and outside, supplemented by vermilion lacquer as the inner black lacquer
Originally placed on three square sleepers at the bottom of the tomb, there are two layers of cover, one layer of top plate and two layers of bottom plate. Imitating the living room of the tomb owner, it is composed of a coffin chamber and four side compartments, shaped like the word "well", which is called "well" in ancient texts. The total area of the side compartment is 6.8 square meters, the volume is 9.79 cubic meters, and more than 1,000 pieces of burial items are placed. There are four layers of coffins in the coffin room. The whole camphor is made of fir wood and is made of a combination of buckles, rods and bolts, of which the largest siding is 4.84 meters long, 1.52 meters wide and weighs 1.5 tons. This is the largest and most complete Han Dynasty well rafter to date.
The tomb shape and coffin structure of the Mawangdui Han Tomb show the wisdom of the working people in ancient China.
Compared to people, this chamber is really big
Originally, Mawangdui was on a high ground, and when building the tomb, the lower part of the tomb pit was first excavated on the hill, the bottom of the tomb was 7.6 meters long and 6.7 meters wide, and the upper part of the huge lemon chamber and the four-layer coffin (the fourth layer was the inner coffin of the direct dangerous corpse) were covered with a roof plate and two layers of cover, which were made by the process methods of fastening, purlining and bolting, using wood of about 52 cubic meters; and then using the plate construction method to build the upper half of the tomb and the tomb passage, and the bottom of the tomb and the rafter room were stuffed with a thickness of 0.4 to 0.5 meters. With a total weight of about 5,000 kg of charcoal, charcoal has the effect of absorbing water and preventing moisture to keep the tomb dry
After that, the white plaster mud with a thickness of about 1.3 meters was accumulated on the periphery of the charcoal, and the white plaster mud was viscous and low permeability, which played a decisive role in sealing the tomb; then the layers of soil were filled, compacted and compacted, and piled up into a mound about 16 meters high, so that the rafter chamber buried deep underground formed a constant temperature, constant humidity, hypoxia, and sterile environment, and the coffin, the tomb owner's body and the burial materials were well preserved.
Now we come to the 3rd floor of the museum to see the size of the whole pit, which is really spectacular.
A tomb like this, do you come to see?