Shanxi Daily reporter Meng Miao reported that on January 12, the Shanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute released the news that in the process of excavating the ancient tomb involved in the construction project of the Sixth Avenue road of the Linfen Ganting New Industrial Park in the Linfen Economic Development Zone, a brick carved tomb with imitation wood structure in the Yuan Dynasty was found. In the land purchase coupons excavated from the tombs, information records about the "Yuan Dynasty earthquake in Hongdong County" were found, and their archaeological value was very important, providing a reliable record basis for understanding the disaster.
Hongdong Yuan Dynasty imitation wood structure brick carved tomb is composed of 5 parts such as tomb passage, tomb door, Yongdao, tomb chamber, ear chamber and other 54 relics, including 24 pieces of pottery pots (bowls), 20 pieces of large-mouth jars (urns), 7 pieces of glazed pottery vases, 4 pieces of copper coins (4 copper coins including "Kaiyuan Tongbao" and "To HeTongbao", 1 piece of copper hairpin, 1 piece of land purchase coupons, etc. Among them, 37 clay pots (urns) and pots contain the bones of relocated burials, which were buried as burial tools in this tomb.
An important discovery of the hongdong yuan dynasty imitation wood structure brick carving tomb is that a land purchase coupon was excavated in the tomb chamber, located in the middle of the tomb. The land purchase coupon is made of green bricks, square, dark gray, the side length is 30 cm, the thickness is 5 cm, the ink book, from left to right, the coupon text belongs to the standard writing form, the opening paragraph points out the location, people, the reason for the construction of the tomb, the middle part is the usual direction of the land purchase coupon, the language of the gods, and the burial time, the content is complete.
According to the voucher, the burial time was from the Yuan Dynasty to the eleventh year of zheng (1351 AD), this tomb is the tomb of the Guo clan in Dongkong Village, Hongdong County, the Guo clan ancestral tomb was damaged by the 8-magnitude earthquake that occurred in the Hongdong in the seventh year of Yuan Dade (1303 AD), and within the next 50 years, the descendants felt guilty when they saw this during the sacrifice, and could not bear the destruction of the ancestral tomb, so they still chose to build a large-scale, exquisitely structured, and stronger brick chamber tomb in the land of zuma in the northwest of the village, and moved the severely damaged ancestral bones here. According to the land voucher, this tomb is more like an ancestral hall.
According to reports, there are many brick chamber tombs in the Song and Jinyuan dynasties, and the structure of this tomb is simple, the brick carving is simple, and it is not complicated, but the record of the "Yuan Dynasty earthquake in Hongdong County" in the excavated land purchase coupon is very important. There are many historical records about the earthquake. "Yuan Shi Wu Xing Zhi" Yun: "In August of the seventh year, the earthquake, especially in Taiyuan and Pingyang. There are 100,000 bad officials and people. "Zhaocheng County (present-day Hongdong County) Fan Xuanyi Washi forted for more than ten miles." The "Biography of Yuan Shi Xiaoyou" says: "The earth was shaken, the mountain of Gaobao moved, and the residents who passed through it were all crushed and poured." Wanli's "Linfen County Chronicle" Yun: "The hills are ponds, and the city is Pi." "At that time, more than 200,000 people died, and they were miserable." "There are countless historical and local records about the earthquake.
Bai Shuzhang, deputy director of the Jin Cultural Research Institute of the Shanxi Archaeological Research Institute, said that the earthquake had a wide range of impacts and a large impact, and was the first 8-magnitude earthquake recorded in China's historical documents. From the records of the earthquake collected in recent years, there are more than 30,000 words, and the records of 51 provinces, prefectures and counties in Jin, Shaanxi, and Henan record the damage of the earthquake. This land purchase voucher unearthed by this excavation provides a reliable record for us to travel through the time and space of history, enter the earthquake area, and understand the disaster.
Source: Shanxi Daily