Visit the tomb of Cui Zhuanghan
Jiang Baobing
Yucheng City Xinzhai Town Cuizhuang northeast, there is a dense apple orchard, 50 meters east of the orchard, harvest canal through the north and south, the Han tomb area cut into 2 pieces, in 1976 to engage in agricultural water conservancy construction, in the harvest canal construction excavated 2 Han tombs, unearthed with green glazed pottery chicken, pottery dog each 1 piece, these two pieces of pottery hard pottery, beautiful shape. The existing Municipal Cultural Center and cui zhuang han tomb are also brick chamber tombs, all made of blue bricks with patterns. The tomb area is large, covering an area of 22,500 square meters, belonging to the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Eastern Han Dynasty society, advocating thick burial, family burial, and has "regard death as life, regard death as survival", with "the gift of life and burial", all the enjoyment before life is reflected in the tomb.
Ancient tombs are always full of curiosity, and most people are more interested in what treasures are there, how much is it worth? Therefore, in some of the excavated tombs, many of them have been stolen. This has left archaeologists who study ancient Chinese history without first-hand material. Nowadays, there are more ancient tombs excavated, which we can often see in the news, but among these excavated tombs, especially the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty.
As we all know, the ancient tomb culture is very developed, the number of imperial tombs in the past can be described as innumerable, the imperial tombs of the emperors are not only the scale of the external building, but also the internal underground palace is luxurious. In particular, the tomb buried a variety of rare treasures that the owner of the tomb loved most during his lifetime, which also led to the birth of another profession, which is the "tomb robbery industry". Tomb robbers in order to steal the property in the tomb is to exhaust a variety of tricks, for this reason many tomb robbers do not hesitate to take their lives to take a risk, so it is not easy to preserve the ancient tombs to this day, especially the imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty are even fewer. Therefore, the archaeological community has the saying that "the Han tomb has ten rooms and nine empty spaces".
It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, who was the dominant side, set up a military branch specializing in tomb robbery in order to raise military funds. The head of this unit is called Lieutenant Touching Gold, and in layman's terms, Lieutenant Touching Gold is the head of the tomb robbery who holds an officially issued tomb robbery permit.
Chen Lin of the Han Dynasty said in the article "Yuzhou for Yuan Shao": "Cao You specially placed the general Of Qiu Zhonglang, touched the Lieutenant of Jin, and passed through the turbulence, and no skeleton was revealed." It is even said that Cao Cao personally organized and directed the excavation of the tomb of King Xiao of Liang, and cao Cao was very inferior. It is said that Cao Cao, who was suffering from a head disease, looked at it and broke out in a cold sweat, and his head immediately stopped hurting. Later, Yuan Shao's army was defeated, and Chen Lin was subordinated to Cao Cao, who was dissatisfied with his insulting ancestors in his writings, but seemed to adopt a tacit attitude towards the tomb robbery.
In addition, Lu Xun once said: "Cao Cao set up staff such as Lieutenant Touching Jin to specialize in tomb robbery."
In later generations, Lieutenant Touching Gold gradually became the title of tomb robber, and even among the tomb robbers, there was also the "Gold Touching School", which was juxtaposed with the three gates of Faqiu, Moving Mountains, and Unloading Ridges, and the difference between Lieutenant Touching Gold and the Tomb Robber Sect of other families was mainly reflected in the door rules and methods of action: Lieutenant Touching Gold preferred to fight alone, unless it was too difficult for a person to charge the battle, he would form a tomb robbery group of less than five people with his very trusted partner; Lieutenant Touching Gold was convinced that the rules set by the grandfather of the grandfather did not touch gold When Lieutenant Touch Gold entered the burial chamber, he had to light an oil lamp or a candle in the southeast corner of the burial chamber, because they were worried about "ghost blowing lamps".
Lieutenant Touching Gold is good at accurately locating the location of the cemetery through the knowledge of astrological feng shui, such as the skills and skills of "finding dragons" and "dividing gold and fixing caves"; Lieutenant Touching Gold can only do things against large tombs, and the tombs of ordinary people must not move; Lieutenant Touching Gold can only take one or two meditative artifacts every time he robs the tomb, on the one hand, he wants to leave food for his peers to eat, on the other hand, he does not do anything to do things, leaving a way back for himself. Although there is no formal mentor-apprentice relationship in the Gold-Seeking School, as long as you understand the terms of the rules and regulations and implement them in your actions, you can be regarded as a peer. The Gold Touch Sect also has its own identity authentication system, that is, people who have the gold touch character will be counted as the real Gold Touch DoorMen.
The tomb robbers were more numerous, and Cao Cao realized that thick burials were easy to attract tomb robbers. As a result, Cao Cao became the first ruler in Chinese history to advocate "thin burial". In 218 AD, he issued a "Final Decree", proposing not to bury himself in a thick burial after death, but to bury himself on barren land, according to the original height of the ground as a base, and not to seal the soil on the mausoleum and not to plant trees. Gold, jade, jewelry, bronzes, etc., should not be buried with them.
"Notes on Tomb Robbery" must have been seen by everyone, at that time it was shocking to see, the ancient tomb in reality is not like this, it contains rich history and culture, carrying a lot of long-lost historical information.
CCTV April 1, 2020 [Exploration and Discovery] program reported that the Han Tomb in Yucheng Hanhuai Park is huge, complex in shape and rich in artifacts. Excavated in 1955, the Han Tomb in Hanhuai Park, Yucheng, Shandong, was owned by an official with an annual salary of up to 2,000 stones (the historical figure Sima Qian of the Ages was only 600 stones at that time), and was the Jiuqing of the central government or the local Taishou at that time. This proves that Yucheng has been a treasure land of personal excellence and talents since ancient times!
About the author: Jiang Baobing, Zi Jian Mei, Number Sword Mei Lou Lord, Qingfeng Hall Master. He is a member of the Chinese Essay Literature Association, a member of the Whole Committee of the Dezhou Writers Association, a member of the Dezhou Calligraphers Association, a director of the Yucheng Writers Association, and an editorial board member of Yucheng Literature.
The work "Night Reading Lu Xun" won the second prize of the national "Walking with the Republic, Good Books Grow with Me" Reading essay competition, and "Looking at Social Changes from Dietary Changes" won the first prize of the National Day Essay contest for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. "The Green Plane Tree" won the third prize for outstanding literary and artistic works in practicing the core values of socialism. "Growing Up with the Great Motherland" won the first prize of the "Lucky Color Cup, I and New China" with an award for essays. "The Ancient Road of the Yellow River" won the Excellence Award in the Prose Group in the 4th China Xiajin Yuguo Poetry (Prose) Competition.
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