In recent years, archaeologists have found many ancient tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, of which the best-preserved ones are in addition to the tomb of Wuyi Xuzhi, the tomb of Yuyao Shisong, and the huangyan Southern Song tomb.
This Huangyan ancient tomb is located in Huangyan Yutou Township Qianjiao Village a place called "Big Tomb", when a villager found this ancient tomb when building a house, so he quickly reported the news to the local cultural relics bureau.
Through the epitaph, archaeologists confirmed that the owner of the tomb was Zhao Bopeng and his wife was Li Shi, and it seems that this ancient tomb is a tomb where husband and wife are buried together.
People who have a deep understanding of the culture of the Song Dynasty know that during the Song Dynasty, some literati and heroes would have two sleeves and fresh wind and first-class clothes. Zhao Bopeng was a literati in the Song Dynasty, and his father was a county magistrate in Huangyan County, so Zhao Bopeng grew up in Huangyan since he was a child.
In the excavated funerary objects, we can also see Zhao Bopeng's elegant taste. These excavated cultural relics and costumes are rich in production and have many types. In addition to clothes, pants, shoes and other jewelry, there are also some silk brocade, etc., from these cultural relics, we also know why the Southern Song Dynasty was known as the "crown of Song costumes".
The superb handicraft art reflects the industrial development of the entire Southern Song Dynasty and provides important research value for archaeologists to study textile technology.
All these cultural relics, about 60 pieces, let our descendants understand that this place in Zhejiang was a prosperous place for foreign silk trade, and the silk relics unearthed in this ancient tomb also provided new testimony for archaeologists to study the trade economy of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In addition to the excavated cultural relics such as silk textiles, there are also antique cultural relics, which makes us understand that Zhao Bopeng also liked to collect antiques before his death. Among them, the dragon jade bi is a very important antique, the jade bi is pure, smooth and indiscriminate, and it is carved with inscriptions, involving the sacrifice of the emperor.
This also shows that Zhao Bopeng attaches great importance to activities such as emperor sacrifices. This jade bi cultural relic is very precious, and the historical materials provided above fill the gap in the Chinese historical system.
At the end of the archaeological work, archaeologists have made another major discovery, in these burials there is also an incense box, this box is round, is a very delicate jewelry box, the material of the box is made of bamboo, archaeologists believe that bamboo products like this can withstand hundreds of years of erosion, not yet completely decayed, is really very rare.
Inside this box are a number of regular pieces of raw wood incense, and through careful analysis of these pieces of incense, archaeologists have finally confirmed that the pieces of incense are agarwood.
At that time, incense was very popular in the Jiangnan area, and many powerful people would carry these incense boxes with them, and if someone died, the incense boxes would also be buried. Judging from this incense box, Zhao Bopeng still respected the history and culture of the time. Agarwood, bronze mirrors, belts, etc. these are the standard of eight official uniforms, and Zhao Bopeng's merits in the Southern Song Dynasty are enough to flow through the ages.
These unknown details excavated by archaeologists have given our descendants a deeper understanding of the history and culture of the Southern Song Dynasty. This 800-year-old tomb standing in Huangyan has been greatly respected by the local people.
People pass by to leave their names, and geese pass by to stay. Zhao Bopeng was a Qing official, and during his reign, the West Bridge was the only bridge from Huangcheng to the vast Xixiang. This left the people of Huangyan with endless thoughts, and Zhao Bopeng benefited the local children and grandchildren.