introduction
China is a country with an ancient and prosperous history, and it is also extremely exquisite in terms of tombs. Many people with status, after their deaths, will put a lot of gold and silver treasures in the tomb. It is recorded in the "History of the South" that Xiao Jian once found a tomb in which "there is no compound coffin, but there are stone rafters, more than ten kinds of bronzes, and three ancient jade bi, many treasures, not all recognizable, gold and silver for the silkworm snake-like people." And with Zhusha as the fu and mercury as the pool." It can be seen that the owner of this tomb should be either rich or expensive.
When some people build tombs, they will also do some organs in the tomb to prevent people from entering their tombs and stealing their own funerary products. The "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" records a tomb robber's description of a tomb robber's experience: "When it was opened, the arrows came out like rain, shooting several people, and the crowd was afraid to come out. "These tombs are of great help to our current research, and it can be said that every time a new tomb is discovered, it can fill a gap in the study of history."
Archaeological excavation site
In the process of excavating tombs, some of the more precious cultural relics can be found. These cultural relics can reflect some of the cultures of the dynasties at that time, and they also have high collection value in modern times. However, in the eyes of archaeologists, the most valuable thing is not these cultural relics, but some written records found in the process of excavating tombs. We all know that from ancient times to the present, writing is a major carrier of inheritance. Therefore, these written records are very helpful for the research of the most archaeologists.
Moreover, to a certain extent, the preservation of writing is much more difficult than the preservation of some cultural relics. Because the ancient crafts, the material is made of copper or porcelain, after thousands of years ago, basically can still remain the same. But the text is generally written on paper or bamboo, and neither paper nor bamboo can be well preserved. So many of the texts we have found so far are engraved on some utensils.
body
Our country has a long history and has experienced many dynastic changes, so there are more ancient tombs and so on. Because there is no exact record, it is not possible to accurately find the location of the tomb. However, sometimes when some underground works are carried out, ancient tombs are often dug up by chance. Around 1980 AD, when workers were working on a power plant in Taiyuan, they dug up a thousand-year-old tomb, and experts rushed to enter and found a man sleeping on a gold and silver pile!
The discovery of this ancient tomb has also provided a lot of value for archaeology. The size of ancient tombs was different, and the size of the tomb had a great relationship with the identity of the person buried in the tomb. The larger the tomb, the higher the identity of the person in the tomb, and the higher the research value. The tomb found this time is a relatively large tomb. In the course of the workers' work, there was some damage to the burial chamber. Fortunately, even though the workers realized that it was a tomb, there was no further damage to the tomb.
Unfortunately, however, the burial chamber destroyed by the workers was the burial chamber where the coffin of the owner of the tomb was located. The experts had given up hope that the coffin must have been destroyed as well. Unexpectedly, the coffin of the owner of this tomb is more "luxurious", with three floors, so the important third layer has not been substantially damaged. This kind of relatively luxurious coffin can generally only be used by the rank of Qing Dafu, which shows that the identity of the owner of this tomb is certainly not low. After investigation, it was confirmed that this was the tomb of Zhao Martin, the grand master of Jin Guoqing.
In Zhao Martin's tomb, archaeologists found many funerary items, and the gold and silver jewelry in the coffin alone was innumerable and extremely precious. Because there were too many jewels in the coffin, Zhao Martin's body had to be placed on top of these jewels in the end. That is to say, after Zhao Martin died, he was buried on these gold and silver jewelry.
In addition to Zhao Martin's coffin, four relatively small coffins were also found in the tomb. These four small coffins look much more ordinary, and there are no funerary items. After studying it, experts concluded that the four small coffins should belong to the people who were martyred. In ancient times, after the death of some large families, they would let concubines or servants of the family be buried. Archaeologists speculate that the identity of the martyrs in these four small coffins should also be concubines or servants.
Open the coffin
The tomb eventually unearthed a number of valuable artifacts, including many bronzes and a number of gold and silver jewelry. In addition, there are nearly 20 carriage and horse pits in the tomb. On some of the funerary items unearthed, experts also found some words engraved on them, and Zhao Martin's identity was also inferred from these words. From the surviving texts and the scale of the tomb, it can be seen that Zhao Martin's identity at that time was definitely very honorable.
Unearthed jade
epilogue
These cultural relics unearthed this time have provided archaeologists with a lot of research materials. As far as the history of the Jin Dynasty is concerned, experts can also make better supplementary explanations. It can be said that the excavation of this tomb has very important historical significance. In addition, we ordinary people can also experience some historical charm and enrich our historical knowledge from these cultural relics unearthed.
References: "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", "History of the South"