Because it is the ancient capital of the Five Dynasties, there are indeed many ancient tombs in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Gansu. In particular, Zhang Xiliang, because of the 59 years of the capital in Gansu, so many princes buried xiangdu here.
In February 2014, a young man named Song Jin from Suzhou District, Jiuquan, Gansu Province, returned to his hometown for a holiday. As a result, an ancient tomb was accidentally found while climbing the mountain, and due to the landslide, half of the tomb was basically exposed to the air.
Song Jin was frightened by the scene in front of him, and when he slowed down, he immediately searched the phone number of the Jiuquan City Cultural Relics Bureau on the Internet and immediately called to tell the situation in detail.
After receiving the news, the comrades of the Jiuquan City Cultural Relics Bureau urgently sent an archaeological team to the scene.
After a brief exploration, experts believe that the scale of the tomb underground should not be small. So with the consent of the superiors, archaeologists immediately launched protective excavations. Since the landslide destroyed the original structure of the tomb, experts entered the burial chamber effortlessly.
Through the epitaph, it is learned that the owner of the ancient tomb is named Sun Tingjian, who is the son-in-law of Zhang Jun, the fourth monarch of the former Liang regime.
Sun Tingjian was born into a wealthy merchant family in Jiuquan, Gansu. Although his father, Sun Jie, came from a poor background, he did a lot of business in Jiuquan due to his flexible brain. By the time Sun Tingjian was born, the Sun family had become a rich family.
However, Sun Jie was not satisfied with this, and he wanted to become an official eunuch family in his son's generation. So since Sun Tingjian knew a little about personnel affairs, Sun Jie began to work on his son's education.
Sun Tingjian was also very competitive, and under the education of his father, he gradually became a young man who was full of poetry and books and had a great future. In 340, Liangzhou Mu Zhang Jun was looking for a husband for his daughter Zhang Shi in the territory of his rule.
Sun Jie thought this was a good opportunity, so he spent a lot of money to bribe the selection personnel and sent his son to Zhang Jun. For this young man full of Confucianism, Zhang Jun was very fond of it. Therefore, under the mediation of the parents of both sides, in 342 AD, Sun Tingjian became Zhang Jun's son-in-law and was given the title of capital lieutenant.
In 344 AD, Zhang Jun died. After his son Zhang Chonghua ascended the throne, he had great trust in Sun Tingjian and made him an official of the main government.
In 353, the brutal and incompetent Zhang Zuo usurped the throne as emperor. In order to consolidate his own power, Zhang Zuo made a big fuss after coming to power, killing many people, including Sun Tingjian.
Although Sun Tingjian was executed by the king, due to his status as a donkey, the size of the ancient tomb and the number of funerary items were not low. According to statistics afterwards, experts unearthed a total of 19 pieces of goldware, porcelain, silk from the Pre-Jin Dynasty...
One of the most precious is the 8 gold bars placed in the coffin, and I don't know what the meaning is. It is worth mentioning that there is also a silk top pressed under the gold bar, and experts have determined that this is a women's top after identification.
Experts speculate that this is likely to be sun tingjian's unjustly killed, his wife Zhang Shi put into the tomb to mourn.
Since the location of the cemetery has been exposed, it may attract tomb robbers, so for the disposal of the burial items in the tomb, archaeologists firmly said, "Must be taken away!" ”
So the experts took away all 19 cultural relics in the tomb, including 8 gold bars and the women's blouse on the other side, and then sealed the tomb.