When he slid to a depth of several meters, Yang Jun smelled a strange and rich fragrance, and he just wanted to cover his nose, when he suddenly remembered that this might be the smell of cypress wood. After that, the smell lasted for three years, but in fact, it was not the smell emitted by cypress wood.
In 2011, a tomb robber walked into an antique shop in Nanchang, pulled out a golden thing and asked the treasurer: "Bao Zhen Bao old bag to the generation, or not?" The treasurer's fixed eyes looked at it, and he was suddenly shocked, and said busily: "Don't dare, don't dare to receive!" ”
"Pack the real bag old bag to the generation" is the term of the antique circle, to the effect that this thing is genuine, absolutely not fake.
This is indeed the case, the treasurer's gaze is like a torch, and at a glance, he can see that this golden dragon is an old object.
If this is the case, why does the treasurer dare not collect it?
It turned out that this was a golden dragon of pure gold! In ancient times, only the emperor could have a golden dragon, which meant that this golden dragon that had been passed down to this day would most likely become a national treasure-level cultural relic, so even if he gave the treasurer 100 guts, he did not dare to receive it!
Soon, word spread that someone was peddling treasures in Nanchang Antique City, and then several villagers in Nanchang found an unfathomable robbery cave on a small earthen mountain called "Dundun Mountain".
Peddling treasures and finding stolen holes, these two things will inevitably be associated with each other, and the villagers dare not be careless and rush to report. The relevant departments are also aware of the seriousness of the matter, so they urgently arrange for the cultural relics department to dock the matter. The Cultural Relics Bureau immediately made a decision and immediately arranged for Yang Jun, an expert on cultural relics, to lead a team to investigate.
When Yang Jun and his party rushed to the Mountain, Rao was well-informed and stunned by the huge thief cave in front of them.
After measurement, the diameter of this cave is half a meter and the depth is 14 meters! If it weren't for the mountains, I'm afraid the groundwater would have been gushing out.
Yang Jun looked at the hole in front of him, which was comparable to a well, and wanted to enter the probe, but he did not know how to start.
"Well..." Yang Jun muttered, and suddenly slapped his head, he thought of a good way.
Then, he immediately asked someone to borrow a reel truck from a local well driller, and after installing it, he tied the rope and slid it down.
When he slid to a depth of several meters, Yang Jun smelled a strange and rich fragrance, and he just wanted to cover his nose, when he suddenly remembered that this might be the smell of cypress wood.
Cypress wood is a precious wood species, with the characteristics of hardness, water resistance, corrosion resistance, etc., coupled with its natural fragrance, so it has become a good choice for imperial tomb materials. Thinking of this, Yang Jun was suddenly excited, and the tomb owner was not small!
Yang Jun was agile and quickly touched the bottom, he found that the robbery hole had hit the underground river, and by the faint light, he found that the entire burial chamber was soaked in water, and the rafters exposed to the water had been sawn off. Yang Junqiang endured the heartache and quickly took a few photos.
He never thought that these few photos would shock the entire archaeological community.
Soon after, the tomb was named "Tomb No. 1", and in order to protect the cultural relics, the local cultural relics department carried out rescue excavations of the tomb. And this tomb did not disappoint, just excavating the funerary area, it took 2 years.
As the excavations progressed, experts excitedly announced that this was a very large and well-preserved Western Han tomb.
This discovery shocked the entire archaeological community. You know, in the folk and archaeological circles on the mainland, there has always been a saying that "Han tombs have ten rooms and nine empty spaces", which shows how rare it is to complete large Han tombs.
So, why has this tomb survived for thousands of years and survived to this day?
Interestingly enough, this is thanks to those two earthquakes more than 1,000 years ago.
According to local county records, in 318 AD, Nanchang, where earthquakes rarely occurred, occurred twice in February and December.
Experts speculate that it was the two earthquakes that shook the burial chamber of the tomb, and soon after, the poyang lake was flooded with water, and the entire tomb was flooded. On the one hand, because the groundwater is isolated from the air, the cultural relics in the tomb can be preserved, on the other hand, due to the low productivity in ancient times, when the tomb robbers find that the tomb is full of water, they can only helplessly return home.
More fortunately, the newly dug 14-meter-deep robbery hole discovered by Yang Jun and others was only a few centimeters away from the main coffin. In other words, the tomb robber can dig through the main coffin by digging a few more hammers, and at that time, the tomb robber only needs to put on diving equipment to sweep the main tomb away.
Fortunately, the villagers found out in time and once again protected the tomb.
Knowing the value of ancient tombs, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage attaches great importance to it, and has sent 7 well-known experts from the archaeological community at home and abroad to Jiangxi to guide archaeological excavations at the long-term construction site in Jiangxi.
But experts never expected that even if a large number of scientific and technological means such as geophysical detection, GPS positioning, electronic total station network measurement and control, and global geographic information system records were used in the excavation process, the excavation still lasted for 5 years before the things in the tomb were basically cleaned out.
This is a tomb, it is a treasure trove!
Complete sets of excavated cultural relics such as qin, ser, pai gong, and trick figurines, as well as other cultural relics such as bamboo janes, wooden sticks, and lacquer and ear cups with writing, are in the thousands. What is even more astonishing is that nearly 4 million five-baht coins have been unearthed, weighing about 20,000 catties!
There are also bronze goose and fish lamps with their own "purification" function, bronze hot pots that are essential for foodies, bronze mirrors inlaid with various gemstones, etc., all of which are han dynasty archaeological relics.
To the excitement of music archaeologists, the tomb also found two chimes that had been sleeping for more than 2,000 years, a total of 24 pieces, the chimes are well preserved, and they can still play beautiful music! In addition, an iron chime was also found, because the previous excavations are all stone chimes, the iron chimes can be described as the first case in the country, with high cultural relics value!
Excavated here, a legendary historical figure that integrates emperors and princes has gradually surfaced.
Experts speculate that the owner of this tomb should be Liu He, the emperor of the Han Dynasty! Only the tomb of Liu He, the first generation of Marquis Hai, has such a big hand.
On November 17, 2015, there was good news that a staggering amount of gold and gold objects appeared on the west side of the tomb owner's rafters, including dozens of horseshoe gold, unicorn gold, two boxes of gold cakes, etc., with a total weight of about 230 pounds!
The tomb owner had such an astonishing fortune! Is he Liu He or not?
All eyes were focused on the tomb owner's coffin, waiting for the moment when the mystery would be revealed.
On January 17, 2016, archaeologists finally opened the inner coffin, found that there were still traces of the remains of the tomb owner in the coffin, and then found a seal at the waist of the tomb owner, with the word "Liu He" engraved on it, and the excavation of this private seal made the speculation and discussion about the tomb owner in the past five years settle.
Liu He was the grandson of Emperor Wu of Han, four or five years old, he became the second king of Changyi in the Western Han Dynasty, he should have eaten, drank and had fun for a lifetime without worry, at the age of 19, he was supported to the throne by Huo Guang, who knew that the emperor's throne was not yet hot, only 27 days, he was deposed by Huo Guang on the grounds of doing 1127 absurd things, becoming the shortest emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. After being deposed, Liu He first degraded Shandong Changyi, and then degraded Jiangxi Haidian.
At the age of 33, Liu He fell ill and went to Huangquan, ending his short life.
In just a few decades, Liu He experienced the ups and downs of the emperor, the king, and the hou, and his life cannot be described as legendary. What is even more legendary is that his tomb full of treasures has spent more than two thousand years in the ground, and finally appeared in full in front of the eyes of the world.
Liu He's tomb discovery has shaken the entire archaeological community and aroused the attention of countless archaeology enthusiasts, and several of these problems have also aroused heated discussion among netizens.
1. Since Liu He was deposed, why is he still so rich?
In this regard, historians believe that whether Liu He was the king of Changyi or the emperor, he accumulated a lot of wealth, although he was eventually deposed, but under the Western Han Dynasty's gold system, the deposed princes could perfectly avoid the conditions for handing over gold.
2. Where did the little golden dragon peddled by the stolen tomb robber come from?
Originally, next to the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia, there was also a tomb of Lady Hai xiahou, because the sealed vegetation on the tomb of the lady was more, it looked larger than the tomb of Liu He, so it became the object of robbery by tomb robbers, and the golden dragon was stolen from the lady of the Marquis of Haixia, and now it has also been recovered.
3. Is the strange fragrance that archaeologist Yang Jun smelled when he entered the cave cypress?
In fact, this strange fragrance lasted for three years, but it was not cypress. Experts found that there were some strange spaces around the coffin of the Marquis of Haixia, which may have been reserved for the placement of the "yellow intestine inscription", but in the end, for some reason, the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia did not place the yellow intestine inscription. The so-called "yellow intestine inscription", that is, the large rafters made of peeled yellow-hearted cypress wood are laid layer by layer. As for where the fragrance came from, it is still a mystery...
Time flies, millennia go by. Prosperity was lost to time and yin, luxury turned into smoke and dust, and the sea dusk, which was once known to everyone in Yuzhang, was also reduced to a piece of yellow earth. Rich or poor; beautiful scenery or downfall, all are big dreams. You and I, it is better to cherish the present and cherish the people in front of you.