China has a long history, but also has a wealth of underground historical sites and tombs, with great archaeological value. Xi'an Metro Line 8 is an archeology while digging, and 1574 ancient relics of various types have been discovered, which is busier than the construction team.
In May 2016, a farmer in Qianjiao Village, Huangyan Yutou Township, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, was preparing to build a new house, and just after the workers dug up a blood-red strange stone, which looked like a coffin on closer inspection, because this place has also been called "Big Tomb", everyone suspected that it was an ancient tomb and immediately called the police.
The police and archaeology department came to the scene to do preliminary investigation and excavation, found an epitaph, archaeologists confirmed that the owner of the tomb is Zhao Bopeng, the wife is Li Shi, is a Northern Song Dynasty husband and wife tomb.
However, just as archaeologists were preparing to carry out further investigation and excavation work, some villagers came to block it, saying that it was their ancestral grave that would not be excavated. The villagers took out the "Huangyan Xiqiao Zhao Family Genealogy", indicating that this area is full of ancestral graves.
After the local village committee and village organization and coordination of the villagers allowed the expert archaeology, archaeologists combined with the excavation of the date of birth and death and the "Huangyan Xiqiao Zhao Clan Genealogy" comparison, found that the owner of the tomb is the tomb of Zhao Bopeng, the seventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty, and his wife Li. This moment excited the archaeologists present, this is a relatively well-preserved tomb!
Archaeologists have carried out archaeological excavations for days and nights, and even packed the entire coffin to the Huangyan Museum for indoor excavations to ensure that the culture will not be oxidized by exposure to outdoor air. This is the only well-preserved Southern Song Dynasty tomb in Zhejiang Province so far, and the tomb has a number of well-preserved historical relics.
The crystal wall excavated from the tomb of Zhao Bopeng
In August 2016, the G20 held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, exhibited exquisite cultural relics excavated from the tomb of Zhao Bopeng, shocking the world.
Southern Song Dynasty costumes unearthed by Zhao Bopeng
More than 60 pieces of textiles have also been unearthed in the tomb, and their fabric varieties are complete, covering silk, luo, yarn, aya, embroidery and so on. The crystal bi and clothing ornaments are all seen in the elegant Song Dynasty ancient style, and from the unearthed clothes and jade, it can be seen that Zhao Bopeng was a very well-dressed person before his death, and should be a gentleman. At the same time, it also reflects the characteristics of the times at that time, pursuing elegance rather than vulgarity and vulgarity, and exuding a pure and elegant atmosphere.
The tomb can be preserved so completely without being stolen, mainly because in 1947 the Wenling people also went to this side to go to the grave, which was once a group of tombs protected by the family, and there was a memorial arch in front of the tomb, which is known by the name of the "big tomb". After 1949, the cemetery gradually disappeared and the archway was demolished during the Cultural Revolution. Today, there are no remains on the surface of the earth, and the descendants of the Zhao family have later come to look for the ancestral grave, but they have not returned, and in this way, the tomb has been preserved and has not been excavated.