Chapter 1211 The tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty

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Liu Dong has no intention of paying attention to the situation of the white man who spies on him, because this kind of surveillance has no effect on his subsequent actions.

After returning to the tent, Liu Dong glanced at Wukong, who was lying motionless, and then raised his feet and jumped into the black deep hole that appeared in front of him.

Before those bull ghosts and snake gods who coveted the underground tombs made a move, Liu Dong had to take the first step to take away all the contents inside.

After going about 50 meters underground, Liu Dong finally found the edge of the tomb.

Looking at the King Kong wall in front of him, which was completely built with bluestone and modeled on the form of Han tombs, Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "No wonder there is no trace of the tombs of more than a dozen emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, and even the tombs of many ministers cannot be found." It's so deep buried, there is not the slightest sign on the surface, and it is a sparsely populated vast prairie, it is really strange to find it! ”

In China, and even in the world archaeological community, the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty are incredibly rare. Not to mention the emperor's mausoleum, the tombs of many ministers of the Yuan Dynasty have rarely been found.

So much so that many people suspect that the so-called 'secret storage' of the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty is cremation! Of course, this is just speculation. The existence of the mausoleum in front of him obviously made Liu Dong understand that the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty did exist, but it was difficult to find.

After calming down the chaotic emotions, Liu Dong waved his hand and used the relics to open a two-meter-square hole in the diamond wall, rubbed his body and jumped in.

For various considerations, Liu Dong did not go through the main gate of the tomb, but after opening the King Kong Wall, he entered an ear chamber!

I briefly took a look at the ear chamber, which is less than 30 square meters. and the carcasses of cattle, horses and sheep that have turned into white bones. Liu Dong walked to the southeast corner.

Put away the heavy plug stones that clog the portal. After passing through a narrow tomb tunnel that is one meter wide, two meters high, and less than three meters long, Liu Dong enters a main tomb road that is nearly twice as large as the previous one.

Along this main tomb road, after walking for nearly 10 meters, Liu Dong came to a flat edge octagonal dome tomb! The entire shape of the burial chamber is similar to that of a yurt, but it is larger. The height alone is more than 5 meters, and the area is not small. There are hundreds of square meters. Moreover, the whole body is made of bluestone with a length of 52 cm and a width of 30 cm, and the middle is plastered with loess mixed with glutinous rice, which is extremely strong!

However, Liu Dong appreciates the beautiful frescoes that cover almost the entire tomb and still maintain bright colors rather than the building materials.

The mural depicts a war, and judging from the style and color of the armor of both sides, it is clear that one side is the Yuan Dynasty army and the other side is the Ming Dynasty army.

Whether it is the 'braided jacket' worn by the army of the Yuan Dynasty. It is still the red 'step armor' of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong is extremely familiar with it!

However, judging by the content shown by the murals on the walls. This war was won by the Yuan army!

And of course, no one is stupid enough to paint a mural of a lost war in their tomb!

In addition to the exquisite murals, there are also many porcelain and pottery funerary goods placed in the open space of the burial chamber.

These ceramics include zun, pots, bowls, cups, cups, etc., but most of the porcelain is rough and not in good condition! In addition to ceramics, there are also firing male and female figurines, pottery figurines of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, as well as pottery with the shape of sharp weapons in the Warring States period, such as ding, pot, jue, gui, zun, oxen, plate, case, stove, etc.

After taking two steps forward, Liu Dong casually picked up a blue and white porcelain bowl with a dragon pattern from the ground and turned it over to take a look! Amazingly, there was a four-character bottom paragraph of 'Dayuan Xuanguang' on the circle foot!

Generally speaking, the porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty has very few bottom models. In fact, this was not only the case in the Yuan Dynasty, but also in the Song and Tang dynasties.

Of course, there are exceptions!

For example, the porcelain used by the court in the Tang Dynasty generally appears on the bottom of the foot. In the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, the court porcelain will also appear in the bottom of the names of various palaces and even users.

But although these bottom paragraphs are there, they are not regulated like in the Ming and Qing dynasties!

However, the existence of this blue and white dragon pattern bowl also made Liu Dong understand who the owner of this tomb was!

Yuan Zhaozong's '孛儿 only Jin * Ai Yu Zhi Litra', another Yuan Dynasty emperor after the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Hui Emperor, the second Northern Yuan Emperor, his year name is 'Xuanguang'!

Speaking of which, this Yuan Zhaozong also belongs to the representative figures of 'Lost Knowledge' and 'Prodigal Son's Return of Gold is Not Exchanged'.

When he was young, Yuan Zhaozong and the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Huizong, indulged in tantric Buddhism, indulged in prostitution, and favored traitors, until he was driven back to the grassland by Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army, the former crown prince of the Yuan Dynasty really lost his way, learned from the pain, and tried to restore the Central Plains and rejuvenate the Yuan Dynasty.

Moreover, taking the meaning of "Zhou and Han were revived, Xuanguang Guo Mingzhe" in Du Fu's poem "Northern Expedition", the era name was changed to "Xuanguang", hoping to become the monarch of Zhongxing like King Xuan of Zhou and Emperor Guangwu of Han.

Under the hard work of Yuan Zhaozong's 'son only catty * love and knowledge of Litra', the political situation in the Northern Yuan Dynasty gradually stabilized. Moreover, in the northern expedition of the Ming Dynasty in 1372, the army of Xu Da and Li Wenzhong was defeated. This war thwarted the Ming army's offensive spirit and preserved the lifeline of the Yuan Dynasty, which was a major achievement under the leadership of Yuan Zhaozong.

However, the Yuan Dynasty is difficult to return, and even if Yuan Zhaozong tries, he will not be able to recover the general trend of the decline of the Northern Yuan.

However, it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the hard work of Yuan Zhaozong's 'love and love for Litra' that the regime of the Northern Yuan Dynasty existed for 35 years.

"It's a pity that this is the tomb of Yuan Zhaozong!"

Looking at the funeral goods around him that were not outstanding, Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh.

An emperor who was defeated and withdrew from the Central Plains and lost his teacher and land, even if there was a slight prosperity in the middle period, there would inevitably not be too many valuable things in the funeral goods.

Otherwise, the funerary objects that appeared in this front room should not be these rough porcelain and pottery, but exquisite porcelain from the royal family of Jingdezhen.

However, even if these porcelains are not outstanding, Liu Dong has no intention of leaving them behind. Because museums are different from private collections, museum collections not only value fine products, but also pay attention to the genealogical integrity of the collection.

This batch of representative porcelain of the Northern Yuan Dynasty can greatly enrich the collection of the current Liu Dong Yuanming Museum!

Of course, Liu Dong did not let go of the murals on the surrounding walls, which are much more precious than these porcelain and pottery burial objects.

After Liu Dong finished cleaning the front room, he soon followed the connected tomb road to the middle room of the tomb, and the architectural pattern of the middle room was the same as that of the front room, which was modeled after the yurt style of a flat edged octagonal dome structure. However, the area of the middle room is half larger than the front room, and there is about 150 square meters of space!

Similarly, there are brightly colored frescoes on the walls of the central room, but the frescoes are no longer about wars, but about scenes from the reign of ancient emperors.

In the middle, there is the image of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty wearing a hat on his head, two braids hanging from his ears, wearing a yellow 'quality grandson suit', a gold belt around his waist, and sitting on a dragon chair.

And under him are courtiers with different images, but at the same time wearing yellow clothes.

This is also the special feature of the Yuan Dynasty costumes, in the Yuan Dynasty banquet activities, the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials to wear a uniform color of clothing, called "quality sun clothes", also known as "one color clothes"!

In addition to the emperor and the hundred officials, on this mural, there are also images of dancing girls, eunuchs and waiters, but these people have a lowly status, so they are much smaller in image than the emperor and the hundred officials.

In addition to the murals, the middle room is naturally indispensable for funerary goods.

However, except for a dozen boxes of gold and silver, and some jewelry, which was a good harvest, the rest of the silk and satin were already decaying. Even Liu Dong's relics are difficult to repair and complete.

"What a pity!"

Looking at the books and picture scrolls in several boxes that had almost decomposed into ashes, Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh.

When Yuan Zhaozong was a child, he followed the southerner scholar Zheng Shen to study Confucian classics such as the Book of Filial Piety.

Deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, especially the thin gold body of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he once collected a lot of handwriting of famous artists in the Song Dynasty. I think that these boxes of old papers that have been corrupted to ashes should have Song Huizong's handwriting.

The calligraphy and paintings of Song Huizong are now a top first-class cultural relic, and some of them are almost national treasures.

Of course, even if Liu Dong is a pity, he is weak in the face of a pile of dust!

Although the relics are magical, they are not omnipotent!

After calming down and collecting the valuable burial goods in the middle room, Liu Dong walked along the tomb road towards the back room. As the main burial chamber for the coffin of the tomb owner, there are more defenses than the antechamber and the middle chamber. Although there were no traps, between the middle room and the back room, a thick white marble door blocked Liu Dong's way.

In addition, behind this heavy stone gate, a 'running stone' device commonly used in the tombs of Chinese emperors is also used.

The so-called 'tap stone' is just a hard stone bar.

Generally speaking, when digging the tomb, the craftsmen will first make the upper and lower ends of the stone door shaft into a spherical shape, and then carve out a groove with a protrusion on the surface of the same part of the door crack in the middle of the two stone doors, and then chisel out a shallow front and deep groove on the stone paving ground not far from the central axis of the door.

Before closing the stone door, people first put the stone strip with considerable width in the groove in the ground, and slowly lean forward to make it contact with the stone door.

When people withdraw from the underground palace, the stone bar, with the help of its own inclined pressure and the "ball" action of the shaft end of the door shaft, automatically pushes the stone door to close, until its top falls into the convex groove of the stone door on both shoulders. At this time, whoever wants to push the stone door open from the outside can only be wishful thinking.

It sounds simple, but what is so worthless in the eyes of modern science and technology is indeed a great invention that contains the ingenuity of craftsmen and the ingenious application of many scientific principles in the obscurantist era of underdeveloped productive forces in ancient times. (To be continued.) )