Is the royal tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty an ancestral tomb?
When the man brushed the video, he accidentally found that the ancient tomb unearthed at the archaeological site was his own ancestral grave.
He rushed to the scene with a family tree and learned that the tomb was dug up by villagers from their yard when they built a house more than 800 years ago.
A bright red coffin was unearthed inside the tomb, and experts quietly opened the coffin in the middle of the night and found a large number of national treasure artifacts and epitaphs.
It is written on it his male family tree.
So, is this ancient tomb really the ancestral tomb of the man's family?
What is the identity and story of the owner of the 800-year-old tomb?
An ancient tomb in the courtyard, a red coffin
The tomb was found in a small village in the Huangyan District of Taizhou, Zhejiang Province.
In the village, there is a family surnamed Yang, who has become rich through hard work, and the original poor living conditions have gradually improved.
Old Yang built a red brick house, with the whole family to live, in the blink of an eye, 30 years have passed, in 2016, the new house has become an old house, Old Yang's two sons have also grown up, each child has his own home, they all want to live with their father, but the Yang family refuses to move.
Two sons, a doctor and a teacher, are not short of money. Seeing that their father would not move away, they decided to simply tear down the old house and rebuild it.
The problem is that in such a reconstruction, the two sons found a construction team, but because both of them were busy with work, it was usually Lao Yang watching from the construction site.
The day after the construction began, before Lao Yang could rush to the scene, he received a call from the construction team saying that something strange had been dug up under the patio floor.
After a while, Yang found that there were still some red stones in the bucket of the excavator, and there was a hole in the soil that was used to dig a coffin that looked waterlogged.
The coffin was painted vermilion, and I don't know how long it's been underground, but it's still very bright. "Ah!" Someone shouted, and then several others screamed and ran out of the house. They were not looking for the bodies of the dead, but for the sons of the dead. "Quick! Frightened, the workers called the head of the household and asked him what to do.
Old Yang was also stunned, he saw that this coffin was so bright, and he was worried that the construction team had dug up someone else's newly buried coffin. As soon as Old Yang entered the house, he was stunned by the scene in front of him: it turned out that there was a large wooden box in the coffin of his family's newly buried tomb! This wooden box has not been opened for more than 10 years, what does it contain? But his family has lived here for more than 30 years, and if there is a new coffin, it must have been buried at least 30 years ago.
In other words, has the family slept on a lipstick coffin for more than 30 years? The house where Lao Yang and his wife live is a small two-story building, and his eldest son, Yang Jungang, is also more than 70 years old, and their home lives next door. Lao Yang and his youngest son Yang Jun had children shortly after they got married. Old Yang felt dizzy and quickly told his two sons about it.
The sons are all cultural people, after listening to their father's words, they immediately realized that this was an ancient tomb dug up, and hurriedly told their father not to move when they watched the scene, and at the same time called the Civil Affairs Bureau.
The small village, which had been quiet and peaceful, was now bustling with people from all over the country. It turned out that the secretary of the village party branch was explaining to everyone what was happening in the village. "Today, I discussed the election of the villagers' committee with several representatives of the villagers, and everyone spoke enthusiastically and the atmosphere was warm." The secretary of the village party committee introduced. "This election was a success! At this time, the network has been very developed, the villagers have mobile phones, not only to come to the scene to watch, but also to take pictures of the situation, uploaded to the Internet.
Archaeologists arrived later, and no matter what they found, the villagers took pictures, even though there were police officers at the scene to maintain order. "Look!" A policeman pointed to the wall of a village and said, "There are a lot of people playing with their mobile phones!" I think it's a mobile phone problem, right?" The villagers nodded in agreement. The villagers simply sat on the roofs of the surrounding houses and continued to watch.
Photos and videos of the archaeological site circulated online, and a man brushed his mobile phone at home and watched archaeologists carry the coffin to find the epitaph.
The man had been paying attention out of curiosity, but when he saw the name on the epitaph, he immediately became agitated.
Because he found that the name of the tomb is the same as the name of the ancestor recorded on his family tree, archaeologists are digging his ancestral grave!
"Zhao Kuangyin's seventh grandson?"
A man brushed the video and accidentally ran to the archaeological site with a family tree after discovering that the graves of his ancestors had been excavated
Experts at the archaeological site at the time were unaware of this.
After receiving the news, they rushed to the Yang family compound and immediately began archaeological excavations, and soon found that there was more than one coffin underground.
Hearing this, the construction team suddenly fidgeted, and quickly explained that they had not done it, making the experts cry and laugh.
Of course, this could not have been a construction team, because this ancient coffin had been destroyed for a long time, presumably by former tomb robbers, and the remains of its owner had decayed into pulp, leaving only a few fragments.
But experts know from past experience that ancient tombs should be jointly buried by husband and wife. However, archaeologists unexpectedly found that this was not an ordinary tomb, but a large cemetery that had been stolen and excavated. The man named Liu Jinsheng was a hooligan. He had a marriage that could not be looked back. They pinned all their hopes on the sealed bright red coffin, trying to find out who it belonged to, starting with that red coffin.
But the experts did not immediately open the red coffin, but left it there to continue excavating and cleaning the surrounding burial chambers.
Previous grave robbers had already destroyed the dome of the burial chamber when they looted the tomb, and the excavators of the construction team had recently increased the extent of the damage. According to the on-site investigation, it was found that after digging more than 3 meters deep underground, it was found that there was a large earth pit, and the bottom of the pit was a piece of gravel soil. After digging, many small stones and some broken bricks and tiles were excavated. Fortunately, there was no damage to the interior of the burial chamber, and experts found an epitaph slab with an inscription inside.
After a simple cleaning, it was found that the owner of the tomb of Zhao Baoyan identified in the tomb owner Zhao Bopeng's epitaph died in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty, which has a history of more than 800 years.
Experts are familiar with the name "Zhao Bopeng", but can't remember where they heard it.
However, the epitaph prompted archaeologists to confirm that the tomb was indeed a husband and wife burial cemetery, and Zhao Bopeng and his wife were buried separately, but it is unclear which one the lipstick coffin belongs to.
Just as the archaeologists were about to leave the epitaph for a while and dispose of the red coffin, a man appeared at the excavation site, holding in his hand what looked like a thick book.
Upon arrival at the site, the man shouted at the archaeologists to stop digging, saying, "Stop digging!" This is my ancestral grave! ”
Archaeologists were stunned by the man's arrival, wondering why he was so sure the 800-year-old tomb would be the home of his ancestors.
The man was sad to see the excavated tomb, and in the face of the expert's question, he took out the thick book he had been carrying. "I'm here to ask you for advice." The gentleman said, "Isn't this our family tree?" "You see how there's so much text on it?" A woman asked. It turned out to be his family tree, and on the page he opened, it was written word by word "Zhao Bopeng".
What shocked archaeologists even more was that the epitaph was written about his life, just like the epitaph, and there was also an introduction that read "Zhao Kuangyin II Grandson".
"Southern Song Dynasty Wardrobe"
When the villagers built houses, the red sarcophagus of Song Taizu was unearthed.
The amount of information is too great for even archaeologists to react immediately.
Finally, an archaeologist remembered why the name "Zhao Bopeng" sounded familiar. It turned out that this name was given by his father, and it was quite special! Zhao Boguang was a native of Fuqing, Fujian Province, whose ancestral home was Shangyu, Zhejiang, and was born during the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620) and died during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. According to the "Chronicle of Huangyan County", Zhao Bopeng's father was a native of Huangyan County, and his specialty was Huangyan Five Cave Bridge.
Epitaphs, genealogies, and county chronicles are mutually corroborated and mutually reliable.
Only under the early policies of the state, this ancient tomb with a history of more than 800 years now belongs to the state, and even the descendants of the family tree cannot interfere.
This person also did not expect that in order to prevent the ancestral grave from being dug up, he not only failed, but even the self-genealogy of his own family tree was dug up.
After Ann calmed the man, the experts were finally about to open the red coffin. Experts opened the lid of the coffin and found that it was an old lady in her eighties who pried up the tomb with a shovel! This caught the attention of those present. They all looked at the old lady curiously. It was thought that the coffin would be sent to the lab before it was opened in the traditional way, but experienced experts immediately stopped the practice.
They believe that there is plenty of rain here, even if the coffin is well sealed, there must be a lot of water inside, and moving it at will only destroy the artifacts in the coffin.
So the experts first drilled a small hole under the red coffin. Sure enough, the stagnant water flowed out of it.
They then set up a makeshift shed with plans to open the coffin. When they opened the coffin, they found a female corpse inside! This is big news, because this is a recent murder in our village, and it was killed by someone. The onlookers were already eager to try it, pulling out their mobile phones to prepare for remote recording.
Who knows, before opening the coffin, the experts will have everyone evacuated immediately and wait until midnight to open the coffin.
This puzzled the villagers, wondering if archaeologists were also superstitious.
In fact, experts are not superstitious, but for the sake of safety.
The red coffin has been sealed underground for more than 800 years, and it is likely that toxic gases have been produced inside. These toxic substances can affect people's health. If these substances can be removed in time, it should be a good thing for us. The remains of the owner of the tomb may also have been treated with mercury, and mercury is toxic.
In addition, because the coffin is not opened in the laboratory, the temperature and humidity in the environment are uncontrollable, but the temperature and humidity in the middle of the night are more appropriate, and opening the coffin at this time is most conducive to the preservation of cultural relics.
The lipstick coffin did not disappoint the experts, who found some valuable artifacts because the water in the coffin protected the funerary goods inside.
There is a crystal clear crystal, when unearthed, even the woven rope worn is intact, whether it is crystal crystal or woven rope, it is like a modern product, people can't help but marvel at the ancient craftsmanship.
In addition, experts also found that a large number of silk fabrics, covering clothing, shoes and socks and other aspects of the material is very complete, from silk to yarn to silk, a variety of unusually rich, can be described as the crown of Song clothing.
When the silk fabric experts arrived, they thanked the archaeologists who asked to water the coffin first. "This is the first time we have found that there are still so many silk relics preserved in ancient tombs!" An archaeologist excitedly told reporters, "This shows that the ancients had a high degree of research on Chinese culture." Seeing the unearthed silk fabrics, the experts were excited and exclaimed: "This is like opening the wardrobe of men in the Southern Song Dynasty!" ”
No one thought that a small red coffin could excavate so many precious national treasure-level cultural relics. Recently, when the author found a late Western Han Dynasty tomb in Yangjia Village, Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, the villagers found that there was a bed of mahogany furniture made of wooden planks in the tomb! What's going on? Even the Yang family is very happy, because they have been forbidden to build houses.
Their new house is no longer built, and Old Yang does not dare to live here anymore. Old Yang thought that he was old, his health was not good, and he did not have children to accompany him, so he really did not want to go out to the world, so he sold his old house and bought a piece of land to grow vegetables and raise ducks, and his life was quite moist. But the good times were short-lived. Fortunately, the local government helped find a more suitable location and helped the old Yang family build a house.
Today, many excavated cultural relics are exhibited across the country, showing fragments of the life of the nobles of the Southern Song Dynasty.