We know that after death, whether in ancient times or in modern times, we will bury people in tombstones, but ancient times and modern times will be a little different. Modern people will cremate it and choose a place to erect a tombstone. In ancient times, it was different, at that time, people would not be cremated, people would be buried directly with coffins, some rich officials and nobles would also choose some gold and silver treasures for their burial, and the treasures buried after the death of ancient royal families were even richer.
These buried gold and silver treasures will inevitably be remembered, and some people will value these money and will go to the tomb. In recent years, the TV series about some tomb robberies are like this, the cemetery is full of dangers and organs, so is the real situation like this? There are many elements of fiction and exaggeration in TV dramas, and the reality of the situation will certainly not be so sinister, but some organs will also be set up to prevent tomb robbers from stealing treasures. Recently, a thousand-year-old tomb was found, there were actually 9 robbery holes, but none of the treasures were lost.
The rise of tomb robbery
Historically, the phenomenon of tomb robbery is very common, so tomb robbery has developed into a profession. In some places, the trend of tomb robbery has also been formed, and there are also some who make a fortune by robbing tombs. There is not much difference in essence between a grave robber and a thief, the only difference being that a thief steals the money of a living person, while a grave robber steals the money of a dead person.
Because the tomb robber is to go to the cemetery to steal the money of the dead, then it is necessary to have a strong psychological quality, after all, it is to deal with the dead, that overcoming the psychology of terror is necessary, often can go to the tomb robbery is the bold person. High returns are linked to high risks, and once the tomb is successfully robbed, the treasures obtained are generally valuable. Therefore, the huge profits attract many people to go to the tomb robbery.
The earliest recorded tomb robbery in history is the tomb of Shang Tang, the first king of the Shang Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ceremony collapsed and the wind of thick burial rose, so some people aimed at the treasure in it, and tomb robbery slowly began to rise. Later, especially the tombs of the emperors, they were often stolen.
The rise of tomb robbery is not a good thing, on the contrary, it is an extremely bad thing, and it also brings a certain degree of harm. First of all, if the tomb robber wants to rob the tomb, then the process of operation must be very barbaric, which destroys the mausoleum, and this act alone is a great disrespect to the deceased. Not only that, but the tomb robbers also took away the belongings in the mausoleum and took them for themselves, which was even more disrespectful.
This is not the most serious case, what is worse is that the tomb robbery damages some cultural relics or cemeteries. Tomb robbers usually choose relatively light and easy to take away property when robbing tombs, and some bulky ones cannot be taken away, at this time some tomb robbers will destroy it, and even some in order to cover up their tomb robbery, it is possible to burn the entire cemetery.
From the perspective of later generations, some of the cultural relics that existed in ancient times are our cultural heritage, and some cultural relics in ancient times are likely to be only this one, which is not renewable. Such a barbaric act of tomb robbery is undoubtedly a huge loss for future generations.
Nine robbery caves in the thousand-year-old tomb
We know that Xi'an often has the discovery of ancient tombs, Xi'an as the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties in the history of the mainland, many famous and prestigious families have chosen the cemetery here, so now we see the discovery of ancient tombs on the news is not surprising in Xi'an. This is not the discovery of this thousand-year-old tomb that Xiaobian wants to talk about today is also in Xi'an.
The cemetery was found in a suburb of Xi'an, originally planned to build an industrial park here, just after the construction, the construction staff suddenly found the ancient tomb, once found the construction staff immediately stopped the construction, so as not to cause damage to the ancient tomb. At the same time, they informed the local antiquities bureau of the news.
When the Antiquities Bureau learned of this news, it sent archaeologists to investigate. After the archaeologists studied this is indeed an ancient tomb, and subsequent excavations were carried out. However, in the process of excavation, they found that there was a robbery hole next to the tomb, which was obviously a tomb robber, and the experts present were vaguely uneasy, because the cultural relics in the tomb were likely to be stolen.
After the excavation work is completed, archaeologists have found a total of nine robbery holes, experts unanimously feel that this cemetery may have been stolen by the tomb robbers stole most of the cultural relics, in the face of such a situation, everyone feels very sorry, even so experts still need to carry out comprehensive archaeology, after all, to determine which dynasty the owner of this tomb is the dynasty and so on. But when archaeologists delve deeper, something unexpected happens.
Witty tomb owner
To determine the identity and dynasty of the owner of the tomb, the sarcophagus is a first-hand source of information, and usually there will be an epitaph on the sarcophagus. After studying the epitaph, experts roughly deduced that it was the tomb of a Sanpin official, but the specific dynasty needed to be studied more carefully.
In order to facilitate the study, the experts decided to hang the sarcophagus out of the ancient tomb, which surprised the experts. When the sarcophagus was hoisted, there was a dark passage under the sarcophagus. The experts went down the dark passage, and there was actually a secret room inside, and the secret room contained all kinds of cultural relics.
Experts took these cultural relics back to study, and found that these antiquities have very precious Tang Sancai, and they are still very well preserved, and after preliminary statistics, there are more than 80 pieces. It should be known that the excavation of this batch of Tang Sancai is of great significance to the study of the development of ancient ceramics, and this batch of Tang Sancai was later collected in the Shaanxi Museum.
People saw this secret chamber of the owner of the tomb and understood that although there were nine robbery holes, none of the treasures in it had been stolen, and the tomb robbers who came to the tomb basically returned empty-handed. The owner of the tomb specially designed a chamber in order to keep his funerary treasures from being stolen by the tomb robbers, and blocked the entrance to the chamber with a sarcophagus weighing 3 tons. This operation of the tomb owner makes us have to admire his wisdom and also lament his cleverness. It is also this operation that allows for the well-preserved preservation of cultural relics, and only then can we have the opportunity to witness ancient cultural relics.
epilogue
This is undoubtedly a wrong act with regard to tomb robbery, and such an act is very shameful. In ancient times, some people were driven by profits or forced by life to engage in this line of work. But we must understand that the act of robbing the tomb is harmful, which will not only destroy the appearance of the original ancient tomb, but also disrespect the owner of the tomb, and also be a sinner in the future generations.
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