Uncover the secrets of the tomb of the Father of Gou Jian and discover the 8-meter robbery hole at the excavation site! What exactly is in the tomb?

Uncover the secret of the tomb of the father of the Yue King, and excavate the scene to surprise the 8-meter robbery hole! True documentary

In 1973. When a forest farm in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, demarcated the boundaries of the mountain, suddenly on a section of the nearby Yinshan Mountain, a layer of rammed earth was accidentally found, and it should be known that the Yinshan Mountain at that time was just a sparsely populated barren mountain, and how could there be a rammed earth layer for protecting ancient tombs? Soon, the forest farm personnel reported this discovery to the cultural relics protection department in Shaoxing. After sending an investigation team to conduct several surveys, it was found that this is likely to be a large-scale ancient tomb of a Vietnamese nobleman, and of course, it cannot be ruled out that it is the tomb of the Yue king. Due to the immature level of archaeological technology at that time, the cultural relics department listed Yinshan as a key cultural relics protection center and only waited for the right time to excavate. With the postponement of time, the cultural relics department began to relax the protection of this ancient tomb, which gave some tomb robbers an opportunity.

In 1996, the cultural relics department found that there have been three modern robbery caves on the Indian Mountain, after getting the news, archaeologists rushed to the scene in the first time, after investigation, it was found that the three robbery caves were lined up along the direction of the sealing soil, and the interval between them was about ten meters, and the robbery cave in the middle surprised several experts present, and a large amount of green plaster mud and charcoal was piled up around the mouth of the cave, which could not help but make everyone suspect that the tomb robbers had already entered the tomb, although the specific conditions inside the tomb they did not know, But one thing is certain, the tomb robbers have caused devastating damage to the cemetery, judging by the depth of the robbery cave and the scattered mud, this should be an unprecedented large-scale deep earth pit tomb in the local area.

In order to minimize the losses caused by tomb robbers, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the rescue excavation operation of Yinshan M1 was urgently launched in Shaoxing. Yinshan is located in the southwest direction of Shaoxing City, the height of the entire mountain is only more than twenty meters, which provides a lot of convenience for the excavation operation, and the tomb is located on the top of the mountain, the archaeological team is also the first time to excavate such a large-scale ancient tomb, many people present are excited, but some people are worried that the tomb robbers have swept away the cultural relics inside.

When surveying the terrain, experts soon found a strange geographical phenomenon around the Yinshan Mountain, there is a wide and regular "L" shaped trench at the foot of the mountain, which looks like it has existed for a long time, compared with the map, there are also trenches in the other two places, only the northwest corner of the direction is nothing, after field investigation, the northwest corner of the trench is used by the villagers as a reservoir to store water, it does not appear on the map, the location and layout of the four trenches are very regular, respectively in four directions to surround the Yinshan. According to the explanation of archaeologists, the four trenches surrounding the ancient tomb are "huang trenches", which are used to indicate the boundary range of the cemetery, the trenches surrounding yinshan are very similar to the trenches of the Shaanxi Qin Gong Tomb, in 1976, the archaeological excavation of the Qin Gong No. 1 tomb in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, similar trench facilities were found, and the other aspect of the trench was the characteristics of the royal tomb, and there were other similar mausoleums in the same historical period, which in the hierarchical feudal society more than two thousand years ago, it can only prove that the Yinshan Tomb is excavated now. It is most likely a Yue king mausoleum.

The excavation work was carried out for four months, mainly facing the huge sealing project, after field measurements, the length of the entire surface burial chamber reached 72 meters, the width of the sides was nearly 40 meters, and the highest point of loyalty was 10 meters. ", meaning that the size of the sealed soil, often symbolizes the status of the tomb owner before death, is an important symbol of the classification of the cemetery, according to the current scale, this Yinshan tomb is indeed a royal tomb, since the scale of the cemetery has been determined, then the next is to clean up the sealing layer, archaeologists have found that the sealing soil of this tomb is not simply piled up, but has multiple layers of compact soil for compaction.

When the sealing soil was cleared to a depth of two and a half meters, a wooden tool suddenly attracted everyone's attention, the tool was about one meter eight, the overall shape was preserved very completely, and it was proved through research that it was used to ram the wooden pestle of the sealing soil, the excavation of this tool made the archaeologists full of expectations for the tomb to be excavated, as the archaeological work gradually advanced to the burial chamber, there was also a blue-gray viscous soil layer, which is common in the ancient tombs in Jiangnan, it is a very fine structure of clay, after burning drying, The green paste mud will become very strong, not to mention that the rain cannot enter, even the air is difficult to enter, and it can be a good sealing and isolation effect. Soon, another eye-popping situation occurred, in addition to the three robbery holes left by the tomb robbers, seven other huge robbery holes were found on the Indian Mountain.

These seven circular robbery caves are also lined up, the largest one is close to ten meters in diameter, it is likely that it has been opened into the tomb, this kind of large-scale tomb robbery, will definitely give the tomb back to great damage, just full of confidence archaeologists, this is a complete despair, originally the modern tomb robbers have been robbed once, did not expect that even the ancient tomb robbers did not let go of this mausoleum, do not think until the cultural relics inside are basically stolen, which can be left with some fish that have slipped through the net is already very good, Since the seven robbery caves have long been filled very strongly, according to the tomb robbery tools left at the scene, it can be inferred that they were stolen at the end of the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago. Although Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period was the grandfather of the tomb robbery industry, he was not the earliest tomb robber, the earliest recorded tomb robber in the history books was Wu Zixu, who opened a coffin and whipped the corpse in the Spring and Autumn Period to avenge his family, and even Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, was also a tomb robber, and he also beat the idea of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, but in the end it ended in failure.

The archaeological community circulates the saying of "ten thieves and nine empty spaces", many archaeologists have made the worst plans for the excavation work, but the emergence of ancient tomb robbers still brought them a lot of blows, and the archaeologists who rekindled their morale excavated a thick layer of charcoal under the green paste mud, which is exactly the same as the charcoal left at the mouth of the original robbery cave, and also covered the surface of the entire tomb in a trapezoidal shape, countless fine pieces of charcoal laid out particularly strongly, and all kinds of insects can be isolated, and then the bottom of the charcoal layer is also covered with a layer of bark At this time, the bark of the outermost part of the wood was specially wrapped, all of which were cut into thin tiles, although only 20 cm thick, but there were more than 140 layers laid.

To know that the south where Zhejiang is located is rainy all year round, the climate is also hot and humid, as early as 2,500 years ago, the Vietnamese people knew the great harm caused by water to the cemetery, and will also accelerate the decay of the tomb and the corpse, so they use green paste mud, charcoal, bark three kinds of strict waterproof protective layer, if there is really water seeping into the tomb inside, the first is to be blocked by the green paste mud, the remaining small part of the water will also be isolated by the moisture-proof charcoal, in case the charcoal can not resist, Finally, there are more than one hundred and forty layers of bark as a defense, allowing the infiltration of water to flow along the sloped bark surface and to the sides of the burial chamber. This makes today's archaeological work, in the cemetery did not find any phenomenon of standing water, in addition to the outermost layer of rammed earth, in fact, there are a total of four defensive measures, in the waterproof and anti-corrosion and insect prevention is quite scientific, and such a large-scale protection project, even many rich princes and nobles at that time are difficult to achieve this degree, enough to once again show how noble the identity of the tomb owner is.

After seven months of continuous archaeological excavations, the true face of the entire burial chamber appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the entire burial chamber was divided into three sections, showing a rare isosceles triangle shape, this kind of tomb is the first time found in China, rammed earth, green paste mud, charcoal, bark composed of protective structure, effectively guaranteed that the tomb after more than 2,500 years, still intact, can not help but let us see the wisdom and superb skills of the Vietnamese people, this Yue king mausoleum after many tomb robbers looted, How many cultural relics are left behind is also unknown, after cleaning the periphery of the tomb, the first problem now is how to go inside, before because the tomb robbers penetrated the protective layer into the tomb, the main structure of the tomb was seriously damaged, after the cave opening caused by the tomb robbers, the archaeologists successfully entered the inside of the tomb, but the scene inside can't help but feel shocking, the entire tomb in addition to a small space, most of the others are filled with thick mud, And what kind of treasure will be covered under the dirt? Which Vietnamese monarch will be buried here? All the answers are slowly being revealed.

In the process of cleaning the three sections of the tomb, the archaeologists' mood is more and more heavy, in order to prevent collapse, they carefully cleaned the soil, while using steel pipe brackets to strengthen the sides of the tomb, cleaning to the northeast of the tomb, suddenly appeared urea woven bags and white gloves, archaeologists after repeated identification, confirmed that this is left by modern tomb robbers. It shows that they have taken advantage of the cultural relics protection center before not paying enough attention, has been stolen from the cave entrance into the tomb, now these archaeologists only have a share of regret, in 1982 in the east of the Indian Mountain 4 kilometers, excavation excavation of Shaoxing No. 306 noble tomb, the entire cemetery area is one-twelfth of the Yinshan tomb, although also patronized by the tomb robbers, but found the bronze house model and many other exquisite bronzes, so archaeologists still have a particularly great hope for the looted Yinshan tomb, To their surprise, the bronze musical instrument was a heavy instrument of the Xia Shang Wednesday Dynasty, and was a common funerary object excavated from almost all the tombs of the pre-Qin period, but when they arrived at the Yinshan Tomb, the burial chamber was turned upside down by archaeologists, and still no bronze musical instruments were found. This strange phenomenon puzzled archaeologists.

Just on the north side of the tomb, there was finally a surprising discovery, two exquisite pieces of jade, carved from black and white jade, one of which has been broken into three sections, both jade are dragon-headed hooks, which are carved with many fine patterns, from the shape and various indications, it is used to insert into the wooden structure of the jade hook, is used to hang bronze musical instruments, which shows that there were once large bronze musical instruments in the tomb, but all of them were stolen by tomb thieves, the most amazing discovery in the whole tomb is a jade sword, Unfortunately, when it was excavated, the body of the sword had been broken into five sections, distributed in various places in the tomb, after comparison, it was found that the shape of the jade sword was extremely similar to the Yue Wang sword unearthed in the Chu tomb, in the entire Spring and Autumn Period, the ability of the Yue kingdom to forge weapons was a big step ahead of other countries, and even the originator of the ancient Chinese sword, Ou Ye (yě), was also a Yue, it was because he smelted and cast the first iron sword "Longyuan", which created the precedent of Chinese cold weapons. Less well known were the other two sword casting masters, Mo Xie was his daughter and Gan General was his son-in-law. Ou Yezi also cast five swords for the Yue King: Zhan Lu, Ju Que, Sheng Evil, Fish Intestine, and Pure Jun, so the excavation of the jade sword significantly added some weight to the Yinshan Tomb, and also fully represented the top forging technology of Yue.

As the archaeological excavation work gradually came to an end, for the identity of the owner of the tomb, everyone has high expectations, in addition to the tomb room is left with the single wooden coffin is not opened, perhaps there are extremely exquisite funerary products inside, when the single wooden coffin is found, the paint on the surface is also painted very completely, the single wooden coffin is carved from a huge log, half as the coffin and the other half as the coffin cover. The huge size of the coffin exceeds the records of previous discoveries, experts after many discussions on the opening of the coffin, finally intend to reveal the mysterious identity of the tomb owner, ready to open the coffin board at the moment, all the people present are holding their breath, want to witness this moment that is about to shock the archaeological community, after the coffin is opened, it really shocked the entire archaeological community, the original inside is empty, the tomb owner's body has long disappeared, not to mention what funerary products, these have drawn a huge question mark for the entire archaeological action?

In order to open the tightly sealed coffin, the tomb robber sawed open one of the corners of the wooden coffin, plundered everything inside, even the corpse of the tomb owner was not spared, so that the ingenious wooden coffin was damaged very seriously, and the trees used to make this giant wooden coffin had to grow for at least two hundred years, and the craftsmen smeared the wooden coffin from the inside out with a thick layer of paint, the entire coffin was extremely exquisite, in addition to the entire unique triangular burial chamber, the construction technology is very skilled, Unfortunately, the owner of the tomb lacks attention to anti-theft measures, which gives tomb robbers the opportunity to take advantage of the void.

On the other hand, there has been no conclusion about the identity of the owner of the tomb, after consulting many historical materials and combining with the existing information, the owner of the cemetery is a Yue national army, but it is not the Yue King Gou Jian, but his father, the Yue King Yun Chang, because the Yue King who lived in the late Spring and Autumn Period only had Yun Chang and Gou Jian, and Gou Jian had built a mausoleum for himself in Dushan. Judging from the distribution of the seven real robbery caves, all of them are arranged in an orderly manner, and even completely coincide with the direction of the tomb, without exception, they have entered the tomb room, and they do not interfere with each other, and from the perspective of several huge openings, it is not like a few experienced tomb robbers alone can do it. This is obviously a deliberate attempt behind the scenes.

In the "History of the First Emperor of Qin", there is such a record: "Wang Qi then fixed the southern land of Jingjiang, descended to Yue County, and set up Hui ji County." ", Huiji is now Shaoxing, which means that Wang Qi pacified the land south of the Yangtze River, made the monarch of the Yue Kingdom surrender, and set up huiji County there, and after the Qin Dynasty recovered the Yue Kingdom, Qin Shi Huang also suspected that there was Tianzi qi there, in order to prevent the strong Yue people from making a comeback, he carried out political excavation and destruction of the tomb of the Yue King of Yinshan, from the perspective of feng shui, the dragon vein of the Yue Kingdom was destroyed, and even the corpse of the Yue King Yunchang was not spared, and the precious treasures inside were most likely in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.

As the first Yue king mausoleum that has been officially excavated and confirmed so far, the Yinshan Burial is grand in scale and unique in shape, which fully shows the various characteristics of the Yue king mausoleum system. It is not only a major discovery in the archaeology of the Vietnamese culture, but also an important milestone in the promotion of The study of The Vietnamese culture.