The writer Nan Pai San Uncle mentioned many magical tomb objects in his series of novels "Notes on Tomb Robbery", such as: the millennium Qilin exhaustion that can be used to repel insects and avoid poison "Qilin blood" when eaten, the bronze sacred tree with materialization ability, the bronze ancient coffin with exquisite mechanisms, and so on. The whole series of novels in "Notes from the Tomb Robber" is twisted and bizarre to read, and it is very interesting. Some friends who have read too deep into the pit will fantasize about whether there are tomb objects that appear in the "Tomb Robber Notes" novel in real life?
Just as the so-called art comes from life and is higher than life, in reality, there are really things in the tomb mentioned in the novel "Notes on the Tomb Robber", but they are not as magical as the notes say. What we are talking about below is a mysterious bronze coffin that is more than 2,000 years old in reality.
First, the farmer dug up the mountain to quarry and accidentally dug out a mysterious black coffin
5,000 years of historical civilization has been passed down from generation to generation, and the ground and underground carry rich historical relics and relics. Therefore, there are often incidents of accidental digging up treasures on the mainland. In the early 1960s, construction of Xiangyun Airport began in Xiangyun County, Yunnan Province. The stone used to build the airport was mined from the local Grand Bonarong Mountain. In the process of digging and quarrying, the local farmers found that a pit dug at the foot of the East Mountain had been strangely bubbling out of the water, and driven by curiosity, they dug deep here to see what was strange inside.
During the deep digging, the farmers first found several pieces of black wood, and then dug out a wooden wall arranged with square roots. After seeing the wooden wall, the farmers thought that there was a house hidden in the mountain, so they continued to dig deeper, and finally saw a mysterious coffin with a black shiny roof embedded in the mountain. There must be a tomb in the mountain of the coffin, and after receiving the report, the local cultural relics management office immediately rushed to the scene to carry out rescue excavation work.
In the intense excavations for several consecutive days, archaeologists have successively excavated many burial items such as wooden coffins, bronze hoes, and scrolls from the mountain. Based on the characteristics of the excavated artifacts and the shape of the tomb, archaeologists confirmed that the tomb embedded in the mountain was built more than 2,000 years ago in the Warring States period.
Second, the mysterious Hongda bronze ancient coffin
The ancients of the mainland attached great importance to the matter of funerals after death, so the concept formed a complete set of funeral rites everywhere. One of the funerary systems in this set is the burial specifications and shape system. In the Warring States and the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the mainland prevailed with earth pit wooden tombs. The tomb accidentally discovered by the digger farmer above is of this form. Archaeologists have named it the Wooden Coffin Tomb. The pit of this wooden coffin is a rectangular shaft, and the shaft is a wooden rafter chamber made of carbonized huge square wood stacked.
The wooden walls that the farmers saw during the deep excavation were part of the rafters. The square wood gap in the rafters is stuffed with waterproof, anti-corrosion, and non-breathable white paste mud. The bottom cushion is waterproof and mothproof charcoal, wood ash, in such a waterproof and mothproof confined space, the bronze coffin in the rafter room has been preserved intact for more than 2,000 years. After the bronze coffin was unearthed, archaeologists named it the Great Bona Wooden Coffin. The copper coffin weighs 2,571 kilograms, is 2 meters long, has a width of 0.62 meters and a vertical height of 0.82 meters.
The overall shape is modeled on the dry-column house building popular on the ground at that time, and is a dry-column house with a "human" shape and a two-sided slope roof. This feature vividly reflects the ancient concept of funeral death as if it were a matter of life. The entire copper coffin is made up of 7 detachable bronze plates, and the surface of the coffin wall is covered with cast cloud and thunder ornaments, and the coffin lid is cast with bird and animal ornaments. The coffin lid is roof-shaped and is a patchwork of two herringbone-shaped covers. The four ends of the coffin are cast with supporting corners to prop the coffin off the ground. At that time, after carbon fourteen testing, the bronze coffin was cast more than 2350 years ago, that is, the early Warring States period.
The bronze casting culture of the mainland is divided into many genres according to the region. The Yunnan region is a School of Yunnan Bronze Culture. From this bronze coffin, we can see that the bronze casting technology in Yunnan in the early Warring States period has been quite mature and superb.
Third, according to the coffin Chinese, the gender of the tomb owner and related historical records, the mystery of the copper coffin is unveiled
There are many exquisite funerary items in the bronze coffin of Da Bona, the most worth mentioning is the leopard head copper staff. This copper staff symbolized a position of power in ancient times and was generally used as a funerary for kings. According to the relevant historical records: the ancient town of Dabona in Yunnan was once the capital of the ancient Baizi State, and was called "Dabolong" in ancient times. Signs of the bones of the tomb owner in the coffin show that it is an adult male tomb owner.
Based on these clues, archaeologists deduced that the owner of the tomb in the copper coffin was a figure with great power in the Baizi Kingdom, most likely one of the 33 kings of the Baizi Kingdom. But who it is is yet to be examined in detail.
Fourth, follow-up
After being excavated and cleaned, the bronze coffin of Dabona was eventually transported to the Yunnan Provincial Museum for preservation. The great bona bronze coffin is of great academic significance for the study of the development and casting level of the Dian bronze culture in the Warring States period. The bronze coffin of Da Bo Na has also been taken out of the country for exhibition and exchange many times, and because of its rare shape, exquisite casting, and large volume, it can cause a sensation in foreign academic circles every time.
This ancient bronze coffin, which has sensationalized the Chinese and foreign academic circles, will also be passed down from generation to generation on the mainland, so that every generation of Chinese descendants can witness the thick history behind it.