In 1958, Hebei Cixian Wanzhang village villagers built a large number of houses, in order to take the soil conveniently, all the villagers dug up a tall mound nearby, with the construction of more and more houses, the tall mound was gradually flattened, and later, the flat land suddenly collapsed, collapsed a large hole, the villagers looked, there was a lot of water in the cave, thinking that this was an ancient well, so everyone began to repair, with the water inside to irrigate the nearby vegetable field, and this use, it took a full 28 years.
Until 1986, the Yecheng archaeological team came to Wanzhang Village to investigate, and after careful identification by experts, they discovered the true identity of this "ancient well".
Through the large hole that sunken down, archaeologists saw that there were colorful murals on the surface of the water inside the huge well wall, so that archaeologists concluded that the well that had been used by the villagers for many years was an ancient tomb, and the age was still very long, which made the villagers marvel, everyone did not believe it, but the judgment of the archaeological team was justified, and the rescue excavation of the tomb was carried out in the following year.
The tomb was originally 25 meters high, directly 110 meters, it looks like a man-made hill, the villagers are taking the soil on the tomb, in the south of this tomb, there is a 15 meters wide and about 270 meters long Shinto Shinto, on the east and west sides of Shinto, there is a tall human figure, behind the portrait is a sacrificial platform, the scope of this altar is more than two thousand square meters, once you see such a large altar, the archaeological team is very excited, because this means that this tomb is most likely an imperial tomb.
After opening the tomb, the tomb has many traces of theft, but more than two thousand cultural relics have been excavated from the tomb, but in the tomb, there is no written record of the identity of the tomb owner, but through the murals and structures in the tomb, combined with the historical records, experts still concluded the identity of the tomb owner, that is, Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi.
Gao Yang was born in 529, only 30 years old, died of excessive indulgence, he was gao Huan's second son, in the Eastern Wei Dynasty was crowned the King of Qi, in 550 AD Wei zili, the era name "Tianbao", the early governance of the country was only orderly, but later he was alcoholic, and cruel and unkind.
The excavation of Gao Yang's murals has allowed the authentic works of the Northern Dynasty more than a thousand years ago to be seen by the world again, which has caused quite a stir in the archaeological community, Gao Yang's tomb is a very high-specification, mural level is also very high royal mausoleum, the murals in the tomb represent the highest level of court painting in the Northern Dynasty period.
The characters in the murals in Gao Yang's tomb are mostly realistic, and the characters in the tomb are also extremely powerful, on the carpet of the tomb, there are 106 figures holding various dependencies, there are Suzaku flying in front, and in the tomb painting, there is no one before the Northern Dynasty, so the Gao Yang tomb can be described as a precedent, and the scene recorded in the mural also let us understand the rituals and life scenes of the Northern Dynasty period.
The faces of the figures in the murals are more diverse, and the personalities are distinct, they look lifelike, and the colors are extremely gorgeous, and the painter restores the real life of the royal family from multiple angles, avoiding the dullness of the characters.
As for the picture of the sacred beast in the tomb, the painter also drew from multiple angles, and drew several movements of looking back, so that the characters, animals and gods in the painting were integrated and shining.
Nowadays, the "Northern Dynasty Murals" in the tomb is stored in the Hebei Museum, friends who are interested in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period must go to see, although Gao Yang is not a competent emperor, but the murals he left behind provide too much help to us study history and customs today, although Gao Yang's tomb has been stolen many times, but this mural is the most valuable, fortunately it has not been destroyed.