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People who have frequent contact with tombs can be roughly divided into two categories, one is the staff engaged in the field of archaeology, and the other must be tomb robbers. Although both are dealing with tombs, the purpose of the two can be very different. Archaeologists are interested in the history and culture behind what is left in the tomb, while the tomb robbers go to the precious funerary goods. The valuable things that the two types of people seek are also very different. The story to be told today is closely related to the two types of archaeologists and tomb robbers.
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In 2009, Shaanxi police arrested a large number of people behind the theft of cultural relics, which is also known as tomb robbers.
The leader of the tomb robbers was a man named Yang Bin. The criminal gang led by Yang Bin is closely linked to the case of Wu Huifei Jingling Stone Rafter, and they have been profiting from selling murals inside Wu Huifei's tomb.
Based on the testimony provided by Yang Bin, the police successfully recovered the Stone Rafter of Wu Huifei, the Empress Dowager Tang Zhenshun, from the United States, so that this national treasure-level cultural relic was not left behind.
In the process of tracing the stone rafters, the police also searched Yang Bin's home and obtained a hard disk containing a large amount of ancient tomb information. The hard disk is filled with various murals from the Tang Dynasty period, and after some interrogation,
Yang Bin informed that the tomb was an ancient tomb group from the Tang Dynasty, located in Guozhuang Village, Chang'an District, Xi'an.
When archaeologists arrived here, they felt that this place was a treasure of feng shui, because many celebrities of the Tang Dynasty were buried here.
On the west side is the tomb of the Wei family and the eldest grandson Wuji family of the Tang Dynasty, on the south side is the Tomb of Wu Huifei Jingling, on the east side is the family tomb of Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Du Ruyi, and the tomb where the mural displayed on the hard disk is located on the Shaoling Plain, two kilometers southeast of Duling.
Before archaeologists could reveal the identity of the owner of the tomb and continue to excavate the tomb, they did not have much hope for the artifacts left inside.
Because the tomb was seriously damaged by the tomb robbers, there were six robbery holes dug by the tomb robbers, which was the trace of Yang Bin's many crimes.
According to speculation, it is not difficult to guess that the owner of this tomb, who has not yet revealed the identity mystery, also has a very noble identity. Sure enough, after successfully excavating the tomb and integrating it according to cultural relics information, the owner of this tomb is also in a high position, which is the tomb of Han Xiu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and his wife Liu.
Although Han Xiu did not reach the level of thunderous, he himself was indeed the prime minister during the reign of Tang Xuanzong, and in history he was a person who did not pay attention to fame and fortune, but was particularly upright and upright, and there was no stain in his life.
This joint burial tomb is very large, and it is only because of this that Yang Bin and they have come here again and again to commit crimes.
After measurement, it was concluded that the tomb had a depth of 11 meters, the distance between the tomb and the burial chamber was about 40 meters, and there was a very high-level tomb composed of 4 holes, 5 patios and long slopes, which was second only to the tomb of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The more archaeologists surveyed, the more they felt sorry for the theft of tombs of this level.
The only consolation they felt was that the structure of the tomb was still relatively intact and had not been much damaged
, which can also be analyzed for research. But they never expected a windfall to come.
The artifacts inside the burial chamber have long been stolen and empty by tomb thieves, but
The walls of the burial chamber are full of exquisite frescoes, and in addition to the entrance, the east, west, south and east are filled with frescoes. The music and dance diagrams and landscape maps are very well preserved and exquisite.
The people who play music and dance in the music and dance diagram are all realistic and vivid, and there is a banana tree that is very rare in the northwest mural in the music and dance diagram, which makes people can't help but study carefully. The landscape map is 2.2 meters high and 2 meters wide, showing everyone a pair of pavilions framed by red frames, which is the first large-scale landscape mural in the Tang Dynasty. The research value behind this mural is immeasurable, which makes archaeologists happy and excited.
epilogue:
In the end, these murals were relocated to the Shaanxi Museum by professionals as a whole, and after being exhibited, the world was sensationalized, and the beauty of the murals was sighed.
I have to say that the behavior of the tomb robbers is spurned. Because of their personal selfishness, many of our cultural relics have been destroyed or ended up in exile. As a Chinese, we must always have a reverence for cultural relics, rather than falling into the well, you and I encourage each other.
Resources:
"Music and Dance"
"Han Xiu Cheng Xiang"