In 1957, the archaeological team conducted archaeological excavations on the Dingling Tomb in Wanli. When the bricks of the King Kong Wall were removed, suddenly, the decaying gas in the tomb gushed out with an eerie and terrifying "boom" sound, and the previous legend said that the team members really believed that the poisonous gas in the tomb was really believed. At this time, some team members actually thought of letting dogs and chickens in, who expected that chickens and dogs would not work.
In mid-September 1957, the reclamation of the mausoleum was completely cleared, and a King Kong wall made of Daming bricks lay at the end of the mausoleum. The diamond wall is based on huge strips of stone, and the stone foundation is solidified with green bricks, and the ramparts are as high as forty or fifty floors. In the center of the Kongo wall, there is a "Kei"-shaped door, and due to the lateral pressure of the mausoleum filling for many years, the brickwork on the "Kei"-shaped door is recessed inward by about 2 cm.
These bricks are not cast with molten copper, but are built dry. Seeing this scene, everyone had mixed feelings, and they all knew that it was not far off to enter the underground palace.
Facing the King Kong wall, which had exposed the tomb door, the archaeology team members were both excited and embarrassed. Behind this closed stone wall, apart from Wanli's coffin and funerary objects, what else will be waiting for them? For a while, various speculations made the atmosphere tense.
On September 17, the demolition of the Kei-shaped door on the King Kong Wall began, and migrant workers opened a hole in the upper end of the Kei-shaped door. With the removal of the Ming bricks, the decaying gas in the tomb gushed out with an eerie "boom" sound, and with the previous legend, the team members really began to believe that the poisonous gas in the tomb was really believed.
Legend has it that there are throwing knives, dark arrows, poison gas, traps, it is said that there are noses and eyes, and it is also said that this trap has a sharp knife inserted in it, and after falling, there are stone bars on top to hit you, and sharp knives to pierce you below. It is also said that the bow and arrow inside, the dark weapon, are soaked in poison, and the blood seals the throat.
It was said so hard that the archaeology team was afraid. Some team members said, first get a dog and put it in. The archaeological team bought a dog, which was quite large and bit when he saw people, but it was unsuccessful. The team members also talked about putting a big rooster in again, and poisoning it first if it was poisonous. As a result, I got a rooster and threw that chicken in, and it didn't fly inside, because there was a light at the mouth of the hole, and it flew to the light, and Gala Gala flew out of the hole and ran.
Chickens and dogs don't work.
At 4 p.m. on September 17, 1957, the archaeologists disassembled several rows of wall tiles on the King Kong Wall, ready for the daring archaeologists to try to enter. The danger was there, but it wasn't necessarily too big, and everyone tied a rope woven of rattan and linen around his waist, soft, and led him.
After the archaeology team went down, they walked slowly in circles and found that nothing happened. But there was water in the ground, and this water had accumulated for more than three hundred years, and there was a layer of white dirt on it, which was water alkali. When the team members found that it was okay, they called everyone, come down, it's okay.
After taking the first step without risk, the team members quickly demolished the "Kei"-shaped door and entered the underground palace, but then another difficult problem lay in front of them. A large stone gate stopped in front of the archaeological team.
This large stone gate weighs about 7 tons, and when you look through the crack in the door, there is a long stone behind it, and the shape and thickness of the long stone cannot be seen. How to open this stone door?
The team members got a 2-meter-long wire, made a bend in front, reached through the door crack, bent and sent, the head of the wire turned around the top door stone, the team members used pliers to twist the wire into a set, pulled the stone, and then asked someone to take a bamboo bar from the door crack to top the upper end of the stone strip, top and pull down, top the top door stone will stand up a little, and then push the door open a little, so that push the door, push the door again, repeat the operation, the door will be pushed open.
After the stone door opened, the underground palace finally appeared in front of people. The entire underground palace is made of huge stone blocks, and there are three main halls along a longitudinal central axis, namely the front hall, the middle hall and the nave, and there is a side hall on the left and right sides. In contrast to the Forbidden City, the central hall of the underground palace symbolizes the former dynasty of the Son of Heaven, where the dragon chair carved from white jade and the 10,000-year lantern symbolizing the immortality of life are placed, while the apse of the underground palace symbolizes the emperor's residence, which houses three tall coffins.
After many twists and turns and difficult slow work, the Wanli Emperor, who had been sleeping for nearly 400 years, finally appeared in front of people. As recorded in historical records, he was accompanied by his two empresses, Xiaojing and Xiaoduan.
From this point alone, we can see how this Son of Heaven was suppressed: Wanli was overly disciplined and suppressed by Zhang Juzheng, the minister of Shoufu, and his mother Empress Dowager Li since he was a child, so that he was unable to raise the woman he loved the most, Zheng Guifei, as empress when he became an adult. In the years to come, his greatest concern was the construction of this underground palace where he lay in peace, but in the end, it was not the woman he hoped for to accompany the infatuated emperor to rest underground.
With the gradual opening and cleaning of the coffin of the Wanli Emperor, exquisite burial objects such as royal daily necessities, handicrafts and costumes, which represent the highest level of the Ming Dynasty, have been met with the world, and their brilliance has conquered all the experts, officials and groups of tourists at that time, and also caused a sensation all over the world.
However, a thorny problem arises, once these precious treasures from hundreds of years ago leave the relatively constant environment in the underground palace and are exposed to people, the temperature, humidity, and illuminance change dramatically every day, especially those fragile but often highly valuable wood, paper and silk fabrics, which will soon deform and fade.
Such a problem cannot be solved well in the current archaeological community, and how did people do it under the humble conditions at that time?
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