Chapter 1393: The identity of the owner of the tomb
A set of robes, a Buddha bead made of one hundred and eight red sandalwood beads, a total of one hundred and eight golden Buddhas, silver Buddhas, and jade Buddhas, a golden silk nanmu fish, and a yellow pear bowl, and some jade slips carved with Buddhist seals, a stack of yellowed thread-bound Buddhist scriptures. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
That's all the objects on display at the bottom of the sarcophagus, all of which are related to the Dharma.
Seeing these things, several experts were dumbfounded, and Professor Xie on the side was also dumbfounded, and at the end, he sighed heavily and said, "It seems that Yeshi is right!"
The contents of this sarcophagus all indicate the identity of the tomb owner before his death, and he was a monk.
However, if he is really a cultivator, how can he get the burial of the second-rank members of the court? There are still so many burial goods, and the specifications of this tomb are much higher than those of ordinary princes and nobles, and the owner of the tomb dares to use the dragon pattern on himself in a grand manner, which shows that his real body is the son of the dragon.
It can be inferred from this that the owner of this tomb was once a noble person before he became a monk and practiced, and he was the emperor of a country, and he was once above 10,000 people.
Huo Sining has always felt that most of the wild history is not credible, but when she saw this sarcophagus, she realized that the wild history may not be groundless.
This coffin sleeping under the water is really the place where the soul of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen returns!
Emperor Huizong, full of legends and tragedies, was deeply influenced by Confucianism, gentle and scholarly, and had a life of compassion and compassion, gentleness and benevolence, but he was ousted by his uncle Zhu Di after only four years of reign.
In the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di led the Yan army to cross the river and approach the city of Nanjing, and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, and Li Jinglong, the prince of Cao Guo, opened the Jinchuan Gate to welcome the surrender, and the Beijing division was broken.
The Yan soldiers entered Beijing, and in a scuffle after the arrival of the Yan army, a fire broke out in the palace compound in Nanjing, and after the fire was extinguished, several charred remains were found in the ashes, which were pointed out by the palace eunuchs as the corpses of Emperor Hui Zhu Yunwen, the empress and her eldest son.
But no one can be sure that Emperor Huizong was really burned to death like this, and Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts eventually became an unsolved case, and later the folk history flowed out, perhaps because of Zhu Yunwen's imperial cause, and some historians say that he disguised himself as a monk and fled Nanjing.
No one expected that Yeshi would have a crooked time, this benevolent emperor who had been in charge of the government of a country and led the great cause of the empire, would really become a monk!
Professor Xie and several experts took out the Buddha statues and books in the sarcophagus one by one, and this cleaning took out more than an hour, and a total of more than 200 Buddhist objects were taken out.
And just after several experts worked together to clean up the burial goods, after lifting the robe, there was an unexpected discovery.
Next to the bones of the owner of the sarcophagus, another skeleton appeared!
Huo Sining and Su Qingqing were both involved in the archaeological excavation work at such a close distance for the first time, Professor Xie and those experts were already surprised when they saw the bones, and turned out a corpse, these people all had a familiar expression, and even faintly excited, Professor Xie directly took the gloves and picked up the strong light and magnifying glass and began to examine the teeth of the corpse.
Huo Sining and Su Qingqing glanced at each other, and the two unconsciously leaned together, with a creepy look in their eyes.
Although there were so many people at the scene, Huo Sining also thought that he was quite bold, but in this gloomy and strange tomb, facing this sarcophagus, there were still two ancient corpses hidden in this sarcophagus, how strange it felt.
Especially seeing that Professor Xie actually put his face on the dead man's skull with the help of a magnifying glass, and didn't know what to pick with tweezers, Huo Sining only felt that his scalp was about to explode.
Archaeology needs to involve a wide range of fields, in addition to the major of history, geography and chemistry, and the field of medicine, especially when studying the remains of ancient tombs, it is necessary to know whether the corpse died a natural or unnatural death, and what the cause of death may be.
However, like Professor Xie, with such close contact with the bones, Huo Sining asked herself, I am afraid it will be a little difficult for her to be as dedicated as Professor Xie.
"This is a woman's skeleton, and judging by the wear and tear of the teeth, it should be between twenty and thirty years old. ”
Professor Xie analyzed while examining the bones, and several experts on the side looked a little solemn, and one of the experts asked directly: "Is it a living person who was buried?"
As soon as these words came out, Su Qingqing and Huo Sining's faces changed.
The so-called living burial, a common custom in ancient funerals, is usually the wife and concubine of the deceased, and the attendants are accompanied by the burial, which is also called human martyrdom.
The burial of the living can be said to be an extremely cruel and barbaric custom in ancient China, because of the lack of humanity, after the Qin Dynasty, this system was slowly outlawed and replaced by wooden figurines and terracotta figurines.
However, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the custom of human martyrdom began to resurgent, and Ming Taizu set a precedent and used forty-six concubines and palace maids to be martyred, and in the following seventy years, this barbaric human martyrdom system was popular among the emperors and kings, knowing that Ming Yingzong only issued an edict to stop human martyrdom before his death, and finally abolished this barbaric system.
"Could it be that it was reburied after death?" Huo Sining asked.
The martyrs of the Ming and Qing dynasties were all after the concubines committed suicide, accompanied by coffins, and buried on both sides of the emperor's tomb.
Therefore, the reburial that Huo Sining refers to is the most common practice in the Ming and Qing dynasties, that is, after the construction of the mausoleum is completed, if the queen dies first, it will be placed in it first, and after the emperor dies, the tomb door will be opened and reburied.
It is precisely because of this method that the tombs of many emperors are widely known to the world, which is why the tombs of Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi were looted by tomb robbers.
However, Huo Sining's point of view was directly refuted by Professor Xie.
"There will be no such possibility, if it is reburied after death, it will not be buried in a sarcophagus, and you have also seen that this is an underwater tomb, if it is reburied after death, it is very difficult to operate, it needs to release water, the project is very large, if it is really so exciting, it is impossible not to record. This ancient tomb has not been visited by tomb robbers before this, indicating that it was formed at one time and should be buried in a smooth manner. ”
Professor Xie said, flicking the head of the corpse, but he didn't expect that in the process of stirring, two blue beads suddenly rolled out of the skull.
"What is this?"
Professor Xie paused, stretched out his hand and grabbed the two beads, his face was surprised. (To be continued.) )