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"Kan Li Zhen is divided into four elephants, and Qiankun Gongxun contains eight directions. There are life and death gates in the eight directions, and Yamazawa breathes wind and thunder. "This is the recipe for Hu Bayijin Ding's cave in the "Dragon Hunting Recipe". As a lieutenant of touching gold, Hu Bayi is a good hand in the tomb! As long as his treasure in the tomb is absolutely handy!
Hu Bayi stills
It is said that there is now such an ancient tomb that has been visited by all the lieutenants of the dynasty, and it is strange that no one can take such a treasure away. Who is the owner of the tomb? Why do experts say he is noble? After thinking about the details of the problem, I watched the video of this issue and touched the mysterious treasure that Lieutenant Jin could not steal. If you have different opinions, please leave a message in the comment area, your support is my motivation to continue to create.
A mysterious ancient tomb was discovered in Wang Guo Village
The Jinci Temple in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is the earliest surviving royal garden in mainland China, and it is also one of the famous tourist attractions on the mainland. Unfortunately, the starting point of today's story is not the Jinci Temple, but the Village of Wang Guo, five kilometers south of the Jinci Temple.
Taiyuan Jinci Temple
Wangguo Village is an ordinary small village that is nothing new, it is worth saying that there is a tall tomb here. It is precisely because of its existence that it has attracted the attention of archaeologists. Local villagers say the mausoleum is thousands of years old. After inquiring, I found that no one in the village knew who was buried in the tomb.
Taiyuan Wangguo Village
In 1979, the staff led by experts from the Shanxi Institute of Archaeology discovered its difference when conducting a census of cultural relics in the province. Looking at the tomb experts full of robbery holes, they shouted: "Big things are not good! According to past experience, this tomb is largely an empty tomb. Even so, experts carried out rescue excavations of the tomb. What if there is any major discovery?
Robbery hole
Strictly speaking, the tomb in front of us is not within the scope of the archaeological team's census at all. Experts had previously targeted the ruins of Jinyang City, where locals often say that the Tomb of the King of Jin was there. The local chronicle clearly records that "the tomb of the King of Jin is located at the foot of the Hanging Urn Mountain, and the five-mile road south of the Jin Temple" is the tomb of Tang Shuyu, the ancestor of the Jin people. The local chronicle also describes the appearance of the tomb: "The tomb is huge, and there are stone tablets on the south side as evidence." ”
Experts searched according to the description of the local history, and really found a tall mound, but the legendary stone stele was lost. The experts first used the Luoyang shovel to make a few eye-catching points to understand the soil conditions nearby. Experts who wanted to spend a few days came to the conclusion that this was made of miscellaneous soil, which was only mixed with porcelain pieces of Ming Dynasty blue and white, and there was no trace of the existence of the tomb.
Poke your eyes
This large mound should have been built by people in the Ming Dynasty or after the Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Tomb of the King of Jin" is also only a fake tomb built by the Ming Dynasty according to the guidance of the history books. Just as everyone was preparing to go back to their hometown, the villagers in the village said that they knew where the tomb was and could take archaeologists to find it. In this way, experts came to Wang Guo Village, the site of today's excavation of the ancient tomb.
Ancient tomb of Wang Guo Village
Is the owner of the tomb a prime minister?
You don't have to talk about the ancient tomb of Wang Guo Village, the ancient books are also recorded. The "Taiyuan County Chronicle" during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty records that the tomb of Hu Luxiang was fifteen miles southwest of the county.
The "Taiyuan County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty Daoguang Years records it in more detail: the tomb of Xiang HuLujin is fifteen miles southwest of the county, the father of light, the king of Fengxianyang. Experts unanimously believe that the tomb is the tomb of Northern Qi prime minister Hu Lujin. Knowing who the owner of the tomb is, the excavation will begin. Looking at the disastrous cemetery experts in front of them, they immediately formulated a special excavation plan.
The excavation work continued in an orderly manner, but the experts who thought about it were dumbfounded.
The regulation of this ancient tomb is obviously higher than that of the tomb of the prime minister. From the outside, the tomb is five or six meters wide and seven or eight meters high. According to the villagers, this tomb was not only excavated by the ancients, but also patronized by many groups of tomb robbers many years ago, probably because there has been no trace of tomb robbers in recent years.
It seems that 80% of this is an empty tomb, and when you think about it, this is a tomb of the prime minister.
Finally, archaeologists sank their hearts to carefully excavate this ancient tomb. Archaeologists have obtained a lot of data using drilling and have a general understanding of the tomb. It is a brick single-chamber tomb in the shape of a "A". The tomb sits northeast to southwest, and the narrow passage slowly extends down along a slope of about 5 degrees. Reach the burial chamber about ten meters above the ground, the top of which is curved.
This burial chamber has a professional name: the dome-roofed square burial chamber is typical of the tombs of the Northern Dynasty period.
A brick single-chamber tomb in the shape of a "A"
Exquisite frescoes were found in the tomb
Archaeologists cleaned up the fill in the graveyard, and thought that exquisite murals appeared on the walls on the east and west sides of the tomb.
mural
Finally, the fill was cleared away, and the tomb passage extended down twenty-two meters to reach the tomb door. The two walls of the passage leading to the tomb door are lined with two huge walled frescoes. Look closely at the murals divided into three columns in a horizontal direction. The front and middle of the tomb on the east and west sides are painted with marching teams of horses and camels, while the frescoes behind show a neatly arranged honor guard.
Painted front and middle parts
This stunned the experts present, and it is a miracle that the tomb that has been frequented by tomb robbers can still preserve such a complete and exquisite mural! The works of the top Northern Dynasty painters were thus presented to everyone. Caravans and honor guards are not things that ordinary people have, even the pomp and circumstance of the prime minister's house is also a bit big.
Honor Guard
Is the tomb in front of you really buried by Xiang Xiang hu lu jin? If not the owner of the tomb, who is it? What kind of untold story is hidden in the exquisite murals?
Hu Lujin
People read another layer of meaning in Leonardo da Vinci's "In the Last Supper". The bread on the table, together with the hands of the master and disciple and Jesus, forms the score of the Requiem.
The Last Supper
The classic novel "The Da Vinci Code" is about the fact that the curator of the Louvre Museum was killed, and if he wanted to solve the case, he had to solve the seemingly unsolvable code next to the corpse, and the real answer was hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting.
Look at this figure with a mutilated upper body. The eyebrow arch protrudes the bridge of the nose and is high, how to see is not the Central Plains, the forehead and the back of the head have three handfuls of black hair, reminiscent of the ancient Central Asian cannibals.
This man was followed by a caravan of seven or eight camels, carrying soft sacs and silk on their backs, reflecting the scene of the Silk Road. The two camels are tall and tall, wearing a felt hat and a gray and white round neck robe, and black boots on the feet, which is obviously not the dress of the Central Plains!
The four people in the picture are blowing the horn vigorously, and the horn in the picture is a long barrel horn, which is obviously not a central chinese instrument.
It is estimated that the Central Plains people in the Sui and Tang dynasties called this musical instrument "Big Horn" the military instrument of the Xianbei people in battle.
Xianbei was a nomadic people in northern China. Legend has it that they possessed the ferocious wisdom and extraordinary military prowess of the Mongol steppe wolves. A thousand years ago, the Xianbei people relied on Xiao Yong's cavalry to unify northern China in only ten years. It created the northern Wei Dynasty, the first powerful dynasty established by steppe peoples in Chinese history since the Western Zhou Dynasty. Could it be that the owner of this tomb is a humble man?
Humble
The expert continued to look at the frescoes on the tomb walls. The lintel of the tomb door is engraved with five golden lotus flowers, and there is a vicious avoidance of evil in the middle of the front of the door, if the owner of the tomb is a shaman who believes in shamanism, there should be no Buddhist color in the tomb.
Golden lotus
When cleaning to the tomb door, experts found many painted pottery figurines in the tomb passage. One of them is very interesting, it wears a round felt hat, a high nose and deep eyes, two figure-eight whiskers, and its right hand is held high and held high, like a camel with its head held high. The most important thing is that he is not a person from the Central Plains, but a person from the Western Regions.
Terracotta figurines
With a lot of doubts, the experts continued the unfinished cleanup process. To avoid the destruction of the burial chamber frescoes by air currents, an expert led a photographer along the cave into the burial chamber. The four walls of the burial chamber are all frescoes, which are painted with well-known zodiac patterns such as cows, rats, rabbits, dogs, tigers, etc., as well as the mythical Dragon, God of Heaven and Lei Gong.
Looking at the mural experts who have changed in front of them is extremely painful! It wasn't long before experts and photographers became dizzy. In the next few days, there was a phenomenon of hair loss, and experts thought of mercury beads scattered on the ground, and quickly brought them back to professionals for examination, and the results showed that the mercury content in the beads exceeded the safety index by 13 times.
Mercury beads
These mercuries only play an antiseptic role, as long as the tomb door is opened to allow air circulation, there will be no problem.
After the tomb door is opened, more frescoes are presented in front of the experts' eyes. The huge picture occupies the north wall and the east and west walls of the burial chamber, and the fresco depicts the lively scene of the host feasting on the guests. The mural also hides some small secrets that are not known, and the male and female masters under the curtains wear flower crowns and wide-sleeved court dresses to show their aristocratic status.
Male and female hosts entertain guests
The musicians on the master's side are playing the lute or singing, and it seems that this is a huge band. A person with a band of this size should be a high-ranking aristocrat.
Lehime
The attendant prepares the kurama for the master to travel, followed by many entourage, and the scene is very grand and luxurious.
There are two drivers driving ox carts on the east wall of the tomb, but from the appearance of them and the style of the Western characters, a closer look at them turned out to be the ancient black race "Kunlun Nu". So far, there are people of different races on the murals, most of whom are attendants and the like, and it seems that the identity of the owner of the tomb is very prominent!
Kunlun Nu
At this time, experts found that the epitaph in the tomb room recorded the words "Lou Rui, King of Dong'an", and it seems that the owner of this tomb is still a king! According to the Book of Northern Qi and the Biography of Lou Rui, Lou Rui was a humble man with an extremely prominent family lineage, his uncle was the famous King of Taiyuan, and his aunt was Empress Dowager Wuming, the wife of Emperor Shenwu of Northern Qi.
He went from being the governor to the Grand Sima and later as Taifu and Taishi, and eventually became the King of Fan, who was in charge of the party alone. The Book of Northern Qi also says that Lou Rui not only had no real talent and practical learning, but also relied on his status as a foreign relative to corrupt the law and act recklessly during his tenure.
After all the excavations of this batch of murals, there are about seventy-one pictures, which is a representative work of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, fortunately, the tomb robbers cannot take away these murals, otherwise this is definitely a great regret in the archaeological community! This concludes the video in this issue, and we'll see you next time!