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Recently, an archaeological discovery of the Northern Song Dynasty crossing the Xianqiao Bridge rushed to the hot search, and the "dog food" brought by this husband and wife burial tomb in the Yangjiawan Ancient Tomb Group in Ningxiang, Hunan Province, is really shocking (very) sighing (acid). Joint burials of husband and wife are no more common, as they have been common since ancient times when monogamy began. Although the ancients had three wives and four concubines, only one wife could be recognized by the clan and buried with her husband. Judging from the tomb shape system and funerary products found this time, this joint burial tomb belongs to a higher-level civilian tomb, which should be one of the tombs of a local large family.
Think about it, a thousand years ago, a couple in a high-gate household in the south, loving for a lifetime, stable and rich, sleeping together at birth, and unwilling to separate at the end of their lives, instructed future generations not only to be buried together when they were buried, but also to open a small window between the two people's burial chambers, so that the two could see each other in the underground from time to time, and they could continue to marry in the next life... What a fairy love ah this is!
The Bridge of Crossing the Immortals has not been clearly recorded in the official texts, and it is now known that it should be a companion to the tomb of the alien burial, and there is a passage or an excavated earthen cave between the two tombs, praying that the two tomb owners can continue to communicate in the underworld. These references can be learned from some folk husband and wife burial tombs in the Western Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.
A talented netizen commented: "Even in the ancient times of three wives and four concubines, there were always people who were favored", the author quite agreed, and the dog food received from ancient times in recent years can be more. What Liang Zhu, Xi Shi Fan Li, Liang Hong Mengguang, Lu You Tang Wan, Han Shizhong Liang Hongyu... However, many of these books are contained, and they have long been well-known, so they will not mention them. Today, let's talk about a more and longer period of fairy love from the actual objects found in archaeology.
(Ding, you have a bag of oversized dog food from a long, long time ago, please check it out!) ）
Looking at the Central Plains three thousand years ago, people have been out of their primitive state for some time and are under the rule of the Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC - about 1046 BC). The Shang attached great importance to sacrifice, and the status of the sacrificial group was very high, and the Shang king also needed to rely on the divine power to maintain the royal power. The twenty-third monarch, Wu Ding, was diligent in government affairs, expanded his territory, and made the country prosperous again, and was a wise prince. During his term of office, he took over to himself the ultimate right to appoint wizards and interpret the divination, and to clarify many of the king's supreme rights. Behind these feats, we have to mention his original queen, the woman.
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In 1976, when the archaeologists excavated the Zongmiao area of the Yin Ruins Palace, they accidentally found a tomb next to the palace area where the Shang King handled official affairs, which was the tomb of the famous Woman. Although the shape and specifications of the tomb are not top-notch, the excavated cultural relics, artifact inscriptions, etc. are really amazing.
She was the first female military commander in the history of our country, and she was also an outstanding politician, hero, priest, and so on. She was of extraordinary origin and was supposed to be a princess of the northern tribes of the Shang Kingdom before marrying Wu Ding. She is also intelligent and resourceful, both literary and martial, and intelligent and courageous, and the oracle bone records that she has repeatedly conquered the four sides and calmed the war, as we often hear of the ghost party is a woman who leads the army to pacify. Women were still rare female priests, and they had the most important thing in the country at that time - the right to preside over sacrifices. Of course, she is also the original match of Wu Ding, the first queen, and Wu Ding's lifelong companion, but also each other's close friends and confidants. The two are like-minded, mutually respectful and loving, and the woman should be the only woman in Wu Ding's life who has truly loved.
Wu Ding completely trusted the woman, entrusted her with many great powers such as sacrifice and military affairs, and gave her a fairly rich fief and a soldier. He also fought with her at both ends of the enemy army, and after the victory, he abandoned his attendants and the army and celebrated together in the vast expanse. Wu Ding even often used the tortoise shell and beast bones that would only be used when praying for rain and conquest in peacetime to personally divinate women whether the production would be smooth, whether the conquest would be successful, and when the disease would be cured.
But the good times did not last long, the woman died young at the age of 33, and you can imagine how sad Wu Ding was to lose his lover. In order to be closer to her, in the choice of the location of the cemetery, Wu Ding disregarded the ancestral system of the royal family's tomb area, and unexpectedly buried the woman next to the palace where he worked every day, and posthumously called "Xin". With the strength of the country, many treasures were gathered for the women to accompany the burial. As a result, there are a very rich tomb of women's good burials today, with a total of 1928 pieces of burial items of different materials, and more than half of them have "women's good" inscription bronzes. Equivalent to specially made, old collections, can give all given, many Shang Kings' tombs may not have this volume, fine products, national treasures level funerary products are not in the minority. A considerable part of the material material related to the Shang Dynasty is related to women's good, and in the National Museum of China, there are several display cases of jade excavated from the tomb of women's good on display alone.
The tomb of the woman was unearthed with a jade phoenix
The tomb of the woman was unearthed from the Owl
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You think it's over, but no, Wu Ding's "spoiled wife" is still continuing.
After many years of death, even if Wu Ding had a successor queen and more than sixty "wives", he still missed his deceased wife all the time, often worried about whether she was doing well underground, and often personally divined how she was doing after her death. Come to think of it, the funeral goods given to her have reached the top, and there should be no shortage of money, so what else can help her? Wu Ding thought that his wife might be bullied for being alone in the underground without protection, so he personally arranged the secret marriage for her many times, putting her together with the long-dead Sage King, hoping that through this, these dead ancestors could protect his wife in the underworld. This point is difficult to explain with the current concept, but from the perspective of the Shang Dynasty's superstitious belief in ghosts and gods and advocating the Mandate of Heaven, it is no problem. Wu Ding himself knew that there was a great cause of the country that had not yet been completed, and he could not give up his life to go with his wife, so let the ancestors of the wise and wise protect her.
There are three children recorded in Nühao and Wuding, the eldest of whom was named Zu Ji, and because of his filial piety, he was called "Filial Piety". Zu Ji was deeply favored by Wu Ding, but his mother died early, and his stepmother often said bad things about him in front of Wu Ding. Wu Ding originally wanted to pass it on to him, but at that time, the contradictions in the royal family struggle were too sharp, so he imitated his early experience and exiled zuji. But Zu already felt devastated, and soon ended in anger. The two daughters, Zituo and Zimei, served as officials in the Shang government and had their own fiefdoms like their mothers.
As Tang Xianzu said in "Peony Pavilion", "Love does not know what to do, it goes deep, the living can die, and the dead can live." He who is born and cannot be with death, and who is dead and cannot be resurrected, is not the most emotional." Throughout the ages, from the royal family of Wu Ding's wife to ordinary people like Xianqiao, fairy-like love has always happened. Finally, I hope that they can still meet across thousands of years, and I hope that every reader can have such a beautiful love!
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