In 1983, an engineering team excavated a deep bottomless black hole while working on Xianggang Mountain in Guangzhou. Some say it's a fortification left over from a time of war, while others say it's a masterpiece left behind by aliens.
Deng Qinyou, the chief of the infrastructure section in charge of the construction, saw that everyone had gathered together and rushed over to verify the situation. He participated in several archaeological excavations, and after seeing the black hole, he felt that this was not trivial, and immediately let people block the scene, and also contacted the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau.
After the experts arrived, they carefully inspected it and sighed excitedly that the legendary ancient tomb had finally been found. The day before the re-reconstruction of this ancient tomb, there has been a lot of controversy.
During the Three Kingdoms period, in order to dig up the treasures in the tomb, Sun Quan specially sent a general to lead an army of 5,000 to search around the Lingnan region.
It took half a year, the army sent by Sun Quan, digging three feet into the ground, did not find the real ancient tomb, only dug out a small tomb, took some treasures and barely made a difference.
In addition to Sun Quan, this legendary tomb has also attracted many tomb robbers. These mercenary guys, exhausted their means, still did not find a trace of the ancient tomb.
The real owner of the tomb is the emperor of the State of South Vietnam, a pattern regime established during the Western Han Dynasty, with a sphere of influence mainly in the Lingnan area.
The person who founded the South Vietnamese regime was named Zhao Tuo, who was originally a general of the Qin Dynasty, and after being ordered to attack Lingnan, he took advantage of the chaos at the end of Qin, began to support the army and respect himself, and finally occupied the land as king.
Zhao Tuo was a very suspicious person, arranging the aftermath for himself decades in advance and establishing dozens of suspicious tombs in the Lingnan area. At the funeral, four groups of people and horses escorted the identical coffins from different directions.
This method of burial has confused almost everyone, and also made the tomb of the South Vietnamese royal family a legend with many doubts. In the past two thousand years, countless people have tried to excavate Zhao Tuo's ancient tomb, but the results have been fruitless.
The ancient tomb found by archaeologists in Xianggang Mountain is not Zhao Tuo's, but the tomb of his grandson Zhao Xi. Zhao Xiao is the second-generation monarch of the State of South Vietnam, and his tomb is also a legendary tomb that has been searched for many years.
After obtaining approval, archaeologists quickly excavated the ancient tomb of Zhao Xuan and unearthed a large number of rare treasures from it. Inside, there are pearl pillows first discovered by domestic archaeologists, 1.26 meters of African ivory products, and the only silk jade coat found so far.
In total, archaeologists unearthed tens of thousands of precious cultural relics in Zhao Xiao's ancient tomb. It provides valuable materials for archaeologists to study Lingnan culture, and to a certain extent, makes up for some historical gaps in the Western Han Dynasty.
Speaking of the treasure of this ancient tomb, archaeologists are always full of praise, often using words such as "first", "only", "irreplaceable" and so on.
Some experts even claim that the excavation of the ancient tomb of Zhao Xi has made the history of more than 2,000 years ago hidden and seen again, and this archaeological excavation can be called one of the most brilliant discoveries in the history of mainland archaeology.
Because of the huge value, many treasures in Zhao Xiao's tomb have been listed in the list of prohibited export exhibitions. The ancient tomb itself has also been rated as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the state and has been properly protected.
The excavation of the ancient tomb of Zhao Xi has allowed the world to see the glory of the Lingnan culture on the mainland, and also made people more curious about the tomb of Zhao Tuo, which has not yet existed.
It is generally believed that compared with Zhao Xiao's ancient tomb, the specifications of Zhao Tuo's tomb are definitely higher, and there will be more treasures inside.
When archaeologists excavated the tomb of Zhao Xi, they tried to use the clues obtained in the tomb to speculate on the whereabouts of the tomb of Zhao Tuo, and as a result, they found several places and threw themselves empty. To this day, Zhao Tuo's tomb is still an unsolved mystery in the archaeological community.