Ancient Chinese princes and nobles emphasized thick burials, which was also the custom culture of the time. They all want to enjoy the same honor after death as they did before they were born, and naturally build their resting places to be luxurious and prosperous and exquisite. This has actually led to the rise of tomb robbers, but the princes and nobles will not bury themselves thinly because they are worried that the tomb will be stolen by tomb robbers after death. In addition to the money and cultural relics in the tomb, modern archaeologists have also paid great attention to the examination of the specifications of their cemeteries and the exploration of the owner of the tomb. However, sometimes some ancient tombs encountered are very peculiar, after all, thousands of years of time naturally have any situation. The thousand-year-old tomb excavated a 5-year-old bride, wearing 11 gold rings in her hand, sitting in a coffin for thousands of years. So who is she?
As we all know, the funerary items in the tombs of the ancients are some cultural relics, which are also the reasons that attract tomb robbers to come and steal. After all, as long as you sell it, you can sell many cultural relics and earn a lot of money. In fact, for modern archaeologists, these funerary items are very precious historical classics, and they are also the exact historical materials that trace the development and evolution of history, which has a great role in the study of history. And today we are going to talk about a special funeral, so where is her special?
In 2003, experts were working on the maintenance and repair of Wang Xizhi's former residence in Shandong Province, and in the course of the project, experts accidentally discovered an ancient tomb. Subsequently, after the approval of the superiors, the experts began to explore the ancient tomb and found that the ancient tomb had been damaged due to its age, so the experts immediately carried out rescue excavation work. As the sealing layer was excavated little by little, the burial chamber gradually appeared in front of the experts. Looking at such a large tomb, experts speculate that the owner of this tomb must have a high status, which also means that there will be many funerary products in the tomb.
Later, after entering the burial chamber, the experts found many precious artifacts. In addition to the artifacts, they also accidentally found two smaller coffins in the funerary items, and after opening them, the two coffins lay two very small corpses, which showed that the two tomb owners died at a very young age. If the discovery of these two coffins shocked the experts, then the discovery of another coffin in another burial chamber made the experts very sad.
They also found an unusually ornate coffin in another burial chamber, and when the lid of the coffin was opened, inside lay a small corpse dressed in bridal costumes, wearing a gold hairpin on its head, and wearing expensive and exquisite jewelry all over its body. Experts speculated that the person's identity should be the bride based on his dress, and then after examining the corpse, they found that the corpse was only 5 years old, which was reminiscent of the old custom of burial.
In order to unlock the secrets and identities of the three corpses, the experts consulted many texts, and finally learned a tragic past with the help of the inscriptions. It turned out that the tomb owner of this ancient tomb, which dates back a thousand years, was Sima Huan, the son of Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Sima Anguo, the grandson of Sima Anguo. Sima Rui was very fond of this young son, but unfortunately he was not in good health since birth, and he had not seen any improvement in his health. Finally, he died of a sudden illness on the day he was crowned king of Langya. Sima Rui, who suffered this blow, was very sad, and then faced a blow, and his grandson Sima Anguo also died prematurely.
After the loss of his son and grandson one after another, Sima Anguo was very sad, so he built an exceptionally gorgeous ancient tomb for them, and the two children's bones in the tomb were also these two people. So who is the body of a 5-year-old bride who still wears 11 gold rings in her hand and sleeps in a coffin for a thousand years? It turned out that Sima Rui, in grief, decided to hold a secret marriage for his son, and she was the object of marriage. And there was also a tradition of funerals at that time, so after the marriage, the poor girl was sent to the ancient tomb, and her life ended before it began.