Long hate people's hearts are not as good as water, waiting for idle waves. The Ming Dynasty Wanli Emperor buried in the ground for a long time, after all, he could not get a permanent rest, his cemetery was excavated for archaeology, gold and silver jewelry, Wuhua Tianbao, silk brocade and other funerary items were tragically damaged by oxidation, and the glory passed away.
When the roof leaked overnight, the bones of the Wanli Emperor were burned miserably, and the keel turned into a wisp of light smoke and disappeared into the world forever.
How could Dingling, the burial ground of the Wanli Emperor, encounter such a disaster? Unexpectedly, this incident was not the malicious act of the tomb robbers, but a practice of the archaeological emperor's tomb.
Finally see the true face of Dingling
In the 1950s, historians led by Wu Han and Guo Moruo proposed to the state a plan for the archaeology of the Ming Dynasty, which was the first archaeological plan proposed by historians in mainland history for the archaeological tombs of ancient emperors.
The first to bear the brunt was the Changling Tomb where Emperor Zhu Di was located, and the brilliant historical achievements of the Ming Dynasty during Zhu Di's reign laid the foundation for the high value and scale of Changling. However, archaeologists have shown that the current archaeological technology and protection measures are not yet mature, and it is not possible to rush to excavate the Changling Tomb under the premise that the measures are not perfect. Multi-party brainstorming,
In the end, it was decided to excavate the Dingling Tomb of the Wanli Emperor as a test point.
In May 1956, the Tomb of the Wanli Emperor became a slaughterhouse for slaughter. According to the signs of the cemetery stone stele, archaeologists successfully reached the gate of the mausoleum - the Diamond Wall, and the tomb door was finely carved from a whole piece of Han white jade, which was particularly majestic. Workers and archaeologists worked together to open the door to the burial chamber and solve the flying stones hidden behind the gate.
The long effort finally made Dingling see the light again,
The moment the gate of the mausoleum opened, the magnificent decoration, the brilliant gold and silver jewelry, and the carved beams and embroidered columns abounded.
The whole audience was stunned, and the extravagance and beauty of the mausoleum room can be described as earth-shattering and ghostly.
After entering Dingling, archaeologists looked around along the tunnel and found that the building of Dingling should be a design that imitated the Forbidden City. At the center of Dingling are three main halls, namely the front hall, the middle hall and the rear hall. With the east and west palaces as the axis wing, pay attention to the pair called beauty.
Three white jade carved dragon thrones stand in the center of the nave, the throne of the Wanli Emperor is located in the middle of the three, and the thrones on both sides are the special seats of the two empresses of the Wanli Emperor. There is a long lamp shining next to the throne, but it has long been extinguished.
The apse, located behind the nave, is where the coffin of the owner of the cemetery is placed in the mausoleum. The same is true of the apse of Dingling, where three coffins are neatly arranged on the huge coffin bed, which correspond to the three thrones of the nave. Next to the coffin is indispensable is a large number of funerary items, gold silk jade bracelets, fine porcelain, bronze utensils and brocade silk abound, after the baptism of time is still dazzling, golden and brilliant.
The treasures of cultural relics have suffered devastating losses
Archaeologists carefully opened the coffin of the Wanli Emperor, and when the coffin was first unveiled, due to the imperfection of the protection technology, a large amount of air poured into the coffin, and the fabric and paper documents of the tops and paper documents of the bones of Wanli were either in ashes or shattered and could not be formed.
There are as many as 11 layers of funerary objects piled up above the decayed corpses, but many archaeologists, without any protective measures, touch the valuable cultural relics as funerary objects with their bare hands, and they take out the cultural relics one by one with bare hands to count and dispose of them. This measure destroyed a large number of cultural relics,
Many cultural relics have lost their integrity and appreciation to a greater or lesser extent due to human destruction.
After moving away from the 11-story cultural relics and treasures, people finally saw the remains of the Wanli Emperor, only to see the Wanli Emperor wearing a black crown, wearing a noble dress, and a jade belt tied around his waist.
Due to the lack of timely protective measures by archaeologists and the immaturity of archaeological technology, a large area of murals in ancient tombs has been corroded, and the murals that have faded colors and traces have lost their soul and lost their major ornamental and research value.
The restoration of cultural relics is also not satisfactory. There are some cultural relics, because of the lack of knowledge reserves of people at that time, when the relevant personnel decorate the cultural relics, the decoration is the back of the cultural relics, resulting in posterity has been unable to face the original front of the cultural relics, unable to correctly understand the appearance and meaning of related cultural relics. The cemetery also failed to achieve the desired results in the technical treatment and protection of the excavated brocade material. Many cultural relics unearthed in Dingling have been irreparably damaged for no reason because of people's ignorance.
There are more than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics and utensils unearthed from Dingling.
The Wanli Emperor's golden silk wing crown is the most precious piece of excavated cultural relics.
It is the only imperial golden crown on the mainland that is currently well preserved, which is of great significance.
The imperial bone only turned into a wisp of green smoke and drifted away
In 1958, the excavated cultural relics of Dingling were sorted out, and the national government began to publish relevant information and carry out viewing of cultural relics. After 1958, political movements on the mainland appeared one after another, and in these nearly 20 years of turbulent days, a large number of barbarians emerged, and ignorant ideas have long been deeply rooted in their hearts.
They have always regarded the Dingling Tomb and the excavated related cultural relics as a thorn in their eyes.
The ill-fated Dingling is in a precarious situation.
Soon, the Tomb of the Wanli Emperor and the cultural relics unearthed by the Wanli Emperor were unsurprisingly subjected to unprecedented harm and humiliation.
In August 1966, the burning sun scorched the earth, and the scorching summer days shackled the misdeeds of the ignorant masses. The absurd day began, when the Wanli Emperor and his two empresses, who had been in the dormant for 400 years, were absurdly humiliated by radical and unreasonable ignorant people after being excavated by archaeologists, and they painstakingly arranged a huge cremation for the Wanli Emperor.
Ignorantly, they placed the three bones of the Wanli Emperor on the square in front of the Dingling Museum. In order to highlight the unusualness of the movement, they made a careful arrangement. Not only did many people come to watch, but after many insults, they arranged for burning. The three corpses were smashed to pieces by the stones, and the scene was in a mess. Flames rose and the square was filled with fire.
The bones of the Wanli Emperor were gone, and the smoke was dispersed.
The archaeological dingling incident was finally a lose-lose situation, and hasty archaeology caused many cultural relics and treasures to be damaged, and the era rioted and burned the bones of the Wanli Emperor. When lamenting for the Wanli Emperor, it is reasonable to reflect on the wrong behavior and not to rush to archaeologize the imperial tomb when the technology is not mature.