There is a big detective abroad, named Holmes, who only needs to look at the dry corpse in the wild a few times to tell the real cause of death of this dry corpse, which is definitely an admirable thing. However, when archaeologists identified a dry corpse in Gao Changguo, they directly pointed out the cause of death of this dry corpse more than a thousand years ago.
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Gaochangguo was a small western state during the Tang Dynasty, and according to legend, the country had only 4,000 soldiers, but the king Ju Wentai was aggressive by nature, and did not bird Li Shimin, who was called the Heavenly Khan. Why is Ju Wentai so crazy? There were three reasons: first, he had the support of the Turkic state; second, Gaochangguo was too far away from the Tang Dynasty; third: he had a famous general under him, and this general who could fight was named Zhang Xiong.
Zhang Xiong was originally a Nanyang Baishui person, this white water is now Nanyang, when the sui and early Tang dynasties, the change of dynasty, the war was endless, Zhang Xiong in order to avoid the chaos of war, at first avoided Hexi, and then, from Hexi to Gaochangguo.
Ju Wentai still had a certain amount of eyesight, and he fell in love with Zhang Xiong at a glance. Immediately, he grasped Zhang Xiong's hand and said, "Brother, follow me, not only have wine and meat, but also horse riding and officialdom!" ”
Zhang Xiong is also a man, and he is a man with revenge and ability, he also has the dream of making meritorious achievements in his heart, he thought about it before and after, he made a decision, that is, to follow Ju Wentai to break into the world.
Zhang Xiong successively served as the general of the Left Guard, the general of the palace, and the head of the palace guards of the Gaochang Kingdom, and married his wife Gao Changguo's royal family, koji, it can be said that in Gao Changguo, Zhang Xiong was not only powerful, but also became the super "grassroots" king of Gao Changguo's inspirational figures from a homeless man who fled.
But then, at the critical moment of this article, Zhang Xiong died of a violent illness at the age of 47. How to die, you need to look down...
A generation of stars fell, do not think that Ju Wentai was also like a mourning concubine, tears rippled, when Zhang Xiong was alive, he advocated belonging to the Tang, because Ju Wentai and Zhang Xiong were Han after all, and after Zhang Xiong's death, Ju Wentai quickly slid into the arms of the Xiongnu, began to be an enemy of the Tang, and finally was destroyed by Li Shimin, think about it, a brave general with foresight, for a dynasty's role, is still quite large.
After Zhang Xiong's death, he was buried in the "Northwest Old Mo" outside Gaochang City, because Gaochangguo was a small country, and after being destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, it disappeared like a gust of wind. Since Gao Changguo practiced simple burial (the countries in the western region were not rich, that is, rich burials, it is estimated that there were not many burials buried in the ground), so this "northwest old mound" can be regarded as a "poor" cemetery. (In fact, this cemetery is a rich tomb, because a lot of special national treasures have been unearthed, not as good as the brocade of the Tang Dynasty, etc.)
The burial custom in the Central Plains is that whether you have money or not, you must prepare a coffin for the deceased, but in Gaochangguo, the local people's funeral method is to dig out a tomb in the loess layer mixed with Gobi stone, and then wrap the body with felt pieces, firewood and other objects, and put it in the tomb, and after the tomb is sealed, it is even if it is completed.
Zhang Xionggui was a general, so naturally he could not be buried so hastily, but Gao Changguo was located in the western region, and without trees, he naturally could not make a coffin. In his tomb, there was a simple earthen platform on which there was a straw mat, and Zhang Xiong's body lay on top of the grass mat.
For a period before liberation, many tomb robbers gathered in Gaochangguo in the world, and they went to the "Northwest Old Cocoon" just to steal a "rare" thing, that is, dry corpses.
The unique geographical environment of Gaochang's "Northwest Jiuzhi" is extremely easy for corpses in the cemetery to form dry corpses. Zhang Xionggui is a general, his tomb is naturally standing out from the crowd, the town tomb beasts in his tomb, wooden figurines and other artifacts have been stolen by tomb robbers, because the nobles of Gao Changguo died, and their mouths will contain Persian silver coins, or Eastern Roman gold coins, so Zhang Xiong's head was also removed by tomb robbers (suspected to be looking for coins in their mouths)...
In 1973, the cultural relics workers in Turpan City carried out a protective excavation of this ancient tomb, and in Zhang Xiong's tomb, an epitaph was unearthed, and people knew that the dry corpse whose head was removed was the famous General Zhang Xiong.
When Zhang Xiong's corpse was unearthed, he was 1.68 meters tall, with a thin face, a wig, a low belly, and a contracted skin and flesh of his body, showing a dry state. After further research by archaeologists, it was found that his vagina, sac showed a strange swelling state, it was a section of intestine, into the vagina, sac, this is a very typical inguinal oblique hernia, we all know that once the hernia occurs, it is very painful, in modern times, hernia is just a small operation, even the hospital does not have to live.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, once the hernia occurred and caused intestinal necrosis, it would definitely kill people.
Archaeologists looked at Zhang Xiong's dry corpse and pointed out very directly that the great general who was famous for his mighty style at that time was suffering from a small disease of intrigus and oblique hernia in the groin.
People eat grains, and whoever does not get sick. However, in ancient times, big heroes like Zhang Xiong were knocked down by small hernias, and we lived in modern times with developed medical conditions.