In the Urumqi area of Xinjiang, archaeologists have found a strange ancient tomb, although the ancient tomb is not deep in culture, but the utensils buried in it are unique in the world, and there is a large gold medal weighing nearly 1 ton. Who is the owner of the tomb? Where did this big gold medal come from? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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In 1976, with the advancement of railway reform in the mainland, some border areas also began to build roads, aiming to build a national railway network. In the area near Alagou in the Nanshan Mine in Urumqi, Xinjiang, the local authorities are organizing a large-scale railway construction project to build a unique railway line in southern Xinjiang. But no one expected that soon after the project began, the workers would discover a new situation.
The workers who built the railway found that near the Yuergou Railway Station, many objects with a sense of age were unearthed underground, and many railway workers at that time believed that these excavated objects should be ancient cultural relics. To this end, the engineering team quickly contacted the local archaeological department and requested that it send experts to provide support to prevent the destruction of the underground site.
Sure enough, not surprisingly, in the two years from 1976 to 1978, archaeologists have found 85 ancient tombs near Alagou, and according to the style of cultural relics and tombs excavated, it is determined that these tombs are all ancient tombs of the Warring States period. For the excavation of 85 ancient tombs, archaeologists have made great efforts and found many valuable artifacts from them.
As we all know, the Xinjiang region was a famous choke point of the ancient Silk Road, where Chinese and Western cultures intersected, which also made a unique cultural tradition and custom here appear. This can be glimpsed from the excavated tomb funerary products, and the cultural relics unearthed in the tomb this time include gold, silver, jade, bronze, etc., and there are also some silk and bamboo relics. However, the most eye-catching is still one of the 85 tombs, which is rare in the world in terms of its scale, the amount of gold buried in the burial, and the weight of gold.
This particular tomb is located near the east of Yuergou Railway Station, and its owner is a woman. Archaeologists believe that the owner of the tomb should belong to the high-pointed hat race, they are an ancient people, and prefer gold, most of them look high nose and deep eyes, and the tomb owner in the tomb should also belong to the aristocratic class. When archaeologists opened the coffin of the owner of the tomb, they found that its bones were not completely decayed, and the skull was partially preserved. In order to restore the woman's facial features, archaeologists specially sent the skull to the identification department for restoration, recreating her prosperous appearance thousands of years ago.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of skull restoration, archaeologists found that there was a small drill hole in the skull of the owner of the tomb, and it was not until later that someone unveiled the mystery. It turned out that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the local ethnic minorities had a way to drill holes in the head to treat head diseases, the purpose of which was to reduce intracranial pressure and then relieve pain. However, in ancient times, when medicine was relatively backward, this surgical operation was obviously very dangerous, and the owner of the tomb was likely to die of a bacterial infection after this operation.
What's even more interesting, of course, is that the perforated skull is not the most peculiar artifact in the tomb, and a golden lion plaque seems even more shocking. In this tomb, more than 40 pieces of gold and silver products have been excavated, including gold vessels with tigers, lions, animal faces, petals, and tianzi, as well as various silver foil products. Although the Golden Lion medal we mentioned earlier also belongs to gold, it is completely different from other gold objects, because its weight is almost 1 ton.
At this time, a question ensued, since it was for the burial of the owner of the tomb, why did the ancients melt the gold into such a huge piece? To uncover this secret, we first need to understand a small historical story.
Legend has it that during the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a bandit named Zhang Jun, who once occupied the mountain as king and was known for his corrupt military discipline. At that time, Zhang Jun's troops called themselves the "Freedom Army" and tattooed their legs to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, so the people also called it the "Flower Leg Army". Zhang Jun's strength is strong, for the evil side, the government has encircled and suppressed him many times, but it has never succeeded, and finally can only be summoned in the form of greeting. Since then, Zhang Jun, with his own ability, has calmed several upheavals for the Southern Song Dynasty, and has won the reward of the imperial court, becoming one of the great richest people in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The property under Zhang Jun's name increased with the rise of his own status, which can really be described as "the field is everywhere, and the gold and silver are like mountains". The wealth is more, naturally there are thieves who have the idea of Zhang Jiayin, Zhang Jun got up in the green forest, and he also knows the reason. In order to prevent the theft of gold and silver, he actually came up with a super strange method, that is, to order people to cast these silver into a thousand and two large silver balls, and proudly named it "Helpless".
Speaking of this, we may have a lot of inspiration, perhaps the purpose of the creation of the Golden Lion in the Alagou Tomb coincides with the previous anti-theft method. However, archaeologists have also proposed another possibility, that is, they believe that the golden lion medal may not be a funerary object, such as a war, some people in the name of the death of the tomb owner, and deliberately buried the cellar, they waited for the war to pass, and then the gold was raised. It is very likely that all the people who knew the secret of the Golden Lion Card died, and the matter was over.
But then again, because the age is too old, the above speculation can only be regarded as a family statement, and there is not much strong evidence to prove it. Xiaobian hopes that archaeologists can finally and completely reveal the secrets through unremitting efforts.
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm