Tomb robbers in the tomb robbery circle
This article is written by Ni Fangliu
What is the ability of the grave robber to look after the family? I tell you, it's not about punching holes, it's about finding graves!
Tomb robbers who will look for tombs are real tomb robbers, if they steal ready-made tombs, everyone will - modern tomb robbers are basically like this, and it has been repeatedly rumored that the ancient tombs under national key protection have been stolen, which is what is not in the flow of tomb robbers, borrowing what metal detectors, underground image instruments to pull gangs to rob tombs - if their ancient predecessors know, they will laugh and lose their teeth.
Therefore, tomb robbers are good at finding tombs. Like the Kanyu master of the feng shui circle, "three years of searching for the dragon, seven years of pointing the cave", it takes ten years of work, in order to find the dragon vein, point the true cave, non-long-term observation and accumulation, it is impossible to become a tomb robbery master.
In modern times, the evaluation of tomb robbers in Luoyang in the circle is very high. Why? It is that they can look for tombs in the soil and carry a Luoyang shovel all over China.
In the northern suburbs of Luoyang, Mt. Yao used to be the final resting place of dignitaries and nobles, and the so-called "living in Suzhou and Hangzhou, dead and buried in Beiqi" is what it means. But over thousands of years, wind and rain erosion, vicissitudes and mulberry fields, the terrain has changed long ago, those tombs with rich burials are basically hidden underground, if you want to steal these tombs, you have to find the hidden place of the tomb.
In this case, the luoyang shovel, a tomb exploration tool invented by local tomb robbers in Luoyang, has trained the ability to find tombs.
There are always traces of tombs, and ancient tomb robbers were often good at finding hidden tombs from the surface - without the help of any tools, you can see whether there are tombs in the ground, what kind of tombs there are.
Modern archaeology explores the site of an underground burial
As we all know, Cao Cao is a very professional tomb robber, the first professional tomb robbery team in the history of Chinese tomb robbery, appeared in Cao Cao's army, and now netizens often say "Touching the Gold Colonel" and "General Fa Qiu Zhonglang", which is a full-time tomb robber in Cao Cao's army.
Cao Cao had a master-level figure under his command, very powerful, a look can see whether there is a tomb in the ground, without the help of any tools, a look at a quasi, absolutely will not look away.
This person's name is Wang Yue, and let's talk about him simply.
Statue of Wang Cang
Wang Yue is one of the few talented sons in Chinese history, one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the other 6 are Kong Rong, Xu Gan, Chen Lin, Ruan Yu, Ying Yue, and Liu Zhen. Wang Cang is one of the more accomplished ones, and is called "Cao Wang" with Cao Zhi - netizens who have graduated in Chinese language should know.
The first person to discover Wang Cangcai was Cai Yong, a writer and calligrapher who had a good relationship with Cao Cao. At that time, Dong Zhuo threatened tianzi to order the princes to bring Emperor Xian of Han to Chang'an, and Wang Cang, who was only 15 years old, also followed. Cai Yong was zuo zhonglang at the time, and when they first met, they felt that this child was not ordinary, a wizard, and he was ashamed of himself. Cai Yong's original words were like this, "This Wang Gongsun also has different talents, I might as well do it!" Cai Yong, who loved cai, gave him all his books.
Statue of the Seven Sons of Jian'an
But Wang Yue was born in a famous and prestigious family, and in today's words, he is the second generation of X, but he has not met for a long time.
At the age of 17, Wang Cang was recruited by Situ and was summoned as a Waiter at the Yellow Gate, but due to the chaotic situation in Chang'an, he was unable to take up his post. Soon, Wang Cang defected to Jingzhou to mu Liu Biao, but Liu Biao took people by appearance, and Wang Yue was informal, Wang Cang was not valued, lived a life of exile, and could not exert his ambitions.
But the "one thesis and two books" he drafted for Liu Biao made him famous and well-known to the whole country. One was the "Three Auxiliary Treatises" of Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha, and the other was yuan shao's illness and death, and the exhortation books "For Liu Jingzhou and Yuan Shangshu" written for his second sons Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were "For Liu Jingzhou and Yuan Shangshu".
Situation map at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty
After Liu Biao's death, Wang Cang returned to Cao Cao, and was appreciated and valued by Cao Cao, and Only then did he show his great achievements.
Wang Cang's ability to find thieves was revealed in the process of following Cao Cao's southern expedition to the north.
In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207 AD), Cao Cao personally conquered Dun.
Jian Dun was the leader of wuhuan in western Liaoning at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In August of that year, at the Battle of White Wolf Mountain in Liucheng, the Cao army broke the armies of Wuhuan and Yuan Shao, and Zhang Liao, the vanguard of the Cao army, beheaded Jian Dun in the battle.
On the way through the Northern Expedition, Wang Cang followed Cao Cao to a mountain ridge, looked away, and saw a high hill bare, without vegetation, which was obviously different from the scene of overgrown weeds next to it.
Cao Cao (modern stills)
Cao Cao: What's going on?
Wang Cang said: There is an ancient tomb below.
Cao Cao: Why affirmatively?
Wang Cang: The tomb owner took Baokang medicine ore for a long time before his death, and when he was buried, he placed a lot in the tomb. Over time, the poisonous gas in the tomb evaporated, resulting in no vegetation on the surface.
Cao Cao: Really?
Wang Yue: Sure!
Five stones scatter raw materials, of which there must be gravel
Gravel, is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, the late Eastern Han Dynasty popular longevity health care medicine "five stone scatter" raw materials, there are blue stone, white gravel, rat township, Ze milk, Taibai stone, stone salt and other aliases, modern laboratory laboratory laboratory test analysis, it is a toxic sulfide mineral. Its toxicity has been discovered by the Qin and Han people, and the Huainanzi Says Lin Xun has a saying that "people eat stones and die, and encroach on them without eating".
In order to verify the accuracy of Wang Yue's statement, Cao Cao immediately ordered the soldiers to dig up the post, and there was indeed a large tomb below, and the tomb was full of graves.
This incident is recorded in the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty Song Dynasty Liu Jingshu's "Alien Garden", and it is also recorded in the Book of Searching for Gods. The original text is:
"Wei Wu's northern expedition to The Dun, The Elevation of the Mountains, and seeing that there is no grass in a post. Wang Yue said, "It must be an ancient tomb." This person was alive, serving the stone, and when he died, the stone steamed out, so the wood was scorched. Even if you look at it, the great tomb of the fruit is full of gravel. It is said that Yue was in Jingzhou, from Liu Biao to mount Yanshan, and saw this difference. Cao Wuzhi Ping Wu Huan, Yue Yu is still in Jiangnan, this statement is deserved. ”
This extraordinary function of Wang Cang should come from his careful observation and understanding of past burial customs and living customs.
When the ancients had the conditions to be buried, they would place antiseptic materials in the tomb and coffin, and the body should be embalmed, and even before dying, they began to feed such things, and gravel, cinnabar, mercury were all commonly used antiseptic materials by the ancient nobles.
At the excavation site of the Western Zhou Tomb in Hengshui County, Shanxi Province, the bottom of the tomb was red due to the placement of cinnabar
These toxic substances are emitted to the surface, which not only pollutes the air, but also affects the environment, the grass and trees are difficult to grow, and the insects and ants do not grow, so they show abnormal surface characteristics.
It was based on this situation and phenomenon that Wang Cang knew that there were tombs underground.
Like Wang Cang, many old tomb robbers are well versed in the underground tombs found by observing the surface.
Of course, there are many ways to find underground tombs by looking at the surface, according to local conditions.
The grave head does not grow grass
Generally, the ancient tomb sealing soil is filled with artificial soil mixed with lime and broken bricks, which is extremely strong and difficult to grow grass. Even if you can grow plants, they are different from the normal soil around you, short and thin, and you have to pay more attention when you encounter such a place.
For another example, tomb robbers like to go out in the wild in abnormal weather, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jiao Si, a master of tomb robbery in the south and Guangzhou, was like this, and he liked to go out in the weather of wind and rain.
Why? It is because of such weather that it is easy to find underground tombs, especially large tombs.
The tomb collapsed
Because the sealing soil on the tomb is artificially rammed, containing impurities, the water absorption rate and surface temperature are different from normal, thus showing a different dry and wet condition - generally where there is a tomb underground, the rain is easy to dry in summer, and the snow is easy to melt in winter.
For example, where there are tombs, it is usually not easy to see the convexity, and once there is rain and snow, it will reveal its original shape, and some will even collapse - this is not a superstition, but a real existence.
Cloudy graveyard