As an outstanding politician, military expert, writer and poet in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao is a household name in Chinese history, known to women and children.
The project of protecting and displaying the Gaoling tomb of Cao Cao in Anyang, Henan, which has attracted much attention from the public and the literary and archaeological circles, has recently entered the stage of cultural relics installation, and will be built into a Three Kingdoms Cultural Heritage Park, which has become an important platform for studying the culture of the Three Kingdoms and the history of the Han and Wei Dynasties. Among them, the A area site museum, mainly used for Cao Cao's life deeds and cultural relics display, the main project of the district since the completion of the end of last year after the internal exhibition work immediately began, as of now, the total amount of about 30% has been completed.
Tomb No. 2 of Cao Cao Gaoling sits facing west and east, 110 degrees. The slope of the tomb road, the tomb plan is a trapezoidal shape with a width of front and a narrow back, with a length of 18 and a width of 19.5 to 22 meters, covering an area of about 740 square meters. The tomb door is 1.95 meters wide and 3.02 meters high, with a brick roof. There is a stone door, and outside the stone door there are three layers of sealed door bricks to close. The burial chamber is a brick chamber, divided into two rooms, the front and the back, and both have north and south side chambers. The anterior chamber is nearly square with a pointed roof at all four corners; the south chamber plane is rectangular and curved; the north chamber plane is also rectangular, with a pointed roof at all four corners. The posterior chamber is a four-cornered spire, and the north and south chambers are curved roofs. The burial chamber is paved with bluestone, and the four side chambers are closed by stone doors.
Judging from the fragments of the tomb door, some of the tomb doors should have exquisite stone carvings, including "Divine Beast", "Revenge of the Seven Women", "Song Wang Che", "Ten Sons of King Wen" and so on. A total of 3 individual human skulls were found in the tomb, of which 2 female skulls were located in the back chamber and male skulls were located in the doorway of the anterior chamber. The male was identified as around 60 years of age and the female was around 50 and 20 years of age.
According to preliminary statistics, there are about 250 cultural relics that can be restored. The types include ceremonial utensils such as bluestone gui and bi; weapons such as iron armor, swords, hammers, and crossbows; weapons such as copper-lipped bow hats, umbrella hats, bells, and coal-fine stone tiger carvings; pottery stones, stone pillows, copper belt hooks, buckles, heads, plutonium, rings, hat nails, silver buckles, heads, ornaments, iron tent components, mirrors, cuts and other utensils; jade beads, crystal beads, agate beads, jade pendants and other ornaments; ceramics such as stoves, ear cups, plates, pots, pots, pots, trays, and pots; and 59 inscribed stone plates.
The inscription stone tablet is a gui-shaped one, on which are inscribed inscriptions such as "Euphorbia of the Tiger Commonly Used by King Wu of Wei" and "Short Spear of the Tiger Used by King Wu of Wei"; the other is a hexagonal shape, and the content of the inscription is the name and quantity of the burial items, such as "Huang AyaPao Jin Leader I", "Dan Silk Silk Psalm One", "Mirror Platform I", "Book Case I", "Canal Pillow I" and so on. The vast majority of inscribed fonts are Han Li, commonly known as "octets", with regular fonts and strong strength.
Cao Cao's lifelong conquests, for the reunification of the whole country as soon as possible, in the north of the extensive tun tian, the construction of water conservancy, had a certain role in the restoration of agricultural production at that time; secondly, he used meritocracy, broke the concept of the family door, suppressed the strong, and the social economy of the areas he ruled was restored and developed. In addition, he was also proficient in the art of war, and wrote books such as "A Brief Explanation of Sun Tzu", "The Continuation of the Book of Soldiers", and "The New Book of Meng De". As a generation of tyrants, he was proficient in musical rhythms, good at composing poetry, expressing political ambitions, and reflecting the suffering life of the people at the end of the Han Dynasty, generous and sad.