1June, 983, an engineering team carried out foundation construction in xianggangshan. This hillside will be leveled by booming excavators and replaced by apartment buildings that have sprung up. Dozens of construction workers have been fighting day and night, and have dug out 17 meters from the top of the mountain less than 50 meters above sea level. The project is progressing smoothly, during which several ancient tombs were excavated, from Han Dynasty and Jin Dynasty to Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that this place is indeed a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Cultural relics workers in Guangzhou attach great importance to this and send working groups to investigate every time, but these cemeteries are very small in scale, and they were basically visited by grave robbers in their early years, leaving only empty tombs. With the deepening of the excavation project, archaeologists believe that there can be no tombs in such a deep soil layer, and the project has entered the normal construction stage.
However, at noon the next day, after rough excavation by the excavator, the workers began to clear the earthwork and level the working surface, and suddenly found that the sand layer was gone, replaced by huge and regular stone slabs with narrow gaps between them. It is incredible to say that it was built artificially. The worker didn't think much, so he used a T-pick to pry along one of the slates. The gap gradually widened, revealing a bottomless black hole. The audience is talking about it. Some people say that this was an air defense fortification dug by Lin Biao troops in those days. Some people say that this is an accidental coincidence of geological movement, and some even think that this is a trace left by alien civilization. At this time, Deng Qinyou, the chief of the infrastructure responsible for the construction site, happened to pass by. When he saw the crowd, he went to check it out. At first glance, it doesn't matter. Based on the experience of excavating ancient tombs in the past and the archaeological common sense learned from the cultural relics staff, he felt that this matter was serious, so he quickly reported it to the general office of the Guangdong Provincial Government and contacted Huang, the duty officer of the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau. At that time, Deng Qinyou did not expect that his move played a very good role in protecting the big secrets buried under the construction site.
After receiving a call from Huang, he and his colleagues came from the Cultural Relics Bureau. He bent down to look in with a flashlight. I saw the huge space in the cave, the rough shape of the stone wall, and a huge bronze tripod in the visible corner. His heart suddenly tightened, and it can be preliminarily concluded that this place is by no means an ordinary tomb of the Jin Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, but a noble tomb before the Han Dynasty. You know, no tombs before the Han Dynasty have been found in Guangzhou, and such huge tombs are unprecedented. With great significance, Huang urgently contacted Mr. Mai, director of Guangzhou Cultural Relics Management Committee. This man is an experienced archaeologist and the curator of Guangzhou Museum. When he received the phone call, an idea flashed through his mind: Has the tomb of the King of Yue, which has been debated since ancient times, appeared?
Nanyue State was a feudal regime that carved up a large territory of Lingnan in the Western Han Dynasty. Zhao Tuo, the founding monarch, struggled for more than 70 years, initiated the great cause of South Vietnam, and made great achievements in the South at the age of 100. In the last decades of his life, he has been carefully arranging things after death. In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen after death, he sent envoys to dig dozens of suspected tombs in the vast mountainous areas outside Panyu, the capital. After Zhao Tuo's grandson Zhao Hu succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to hold a secret and grand state funeral for him. First, people were stationed in the mountains around Panyu, and then four identical funeral teams held high banners to escort the identical four-way coffin from the four gates of Panyu City to different burial sites. This unprecedented way of funeral really confuses people's eyes. Plus dozens of suspected graves before Zhao Tuo's death, no one knows where the great monarch was buried, let alone where the rich treasures buried with him are, leaving the most legendary mystery of ancient tombs in China history.
In the following more than 2,000 years, the tomb of the King of Nanyue has been one of the focuses of private grave robbers, and even experienced the unbearable past of national search in some dynasties. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, ordered Lv Zhi, a general, to lead a 5,000-strong army to search everywhere in Lingnan, aiming at the tomb of Nanyue King. But after half a year, there was no result. Lu Yu led a good soldier to dig three feet, only to find the tomb of Zhao, the great-grandson of Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam. Although the funerary objects were not enough to shock the world, they were presented to Sun Quan, and the grave robbery farce ended hastily. Then grave robbers swarmed around Lingnan, searching for all kinds of clues, and finally failed.
19 16 years, while building in Guigang, a suburb of Guangzhou, Lingnan farmers came across an ancient tomb in Nanyue. Although the unearthed funerary objects are rich, experts believe that this is just an ordinary noble tomb, and the real tomb of Nanyue is still hidden in the vast mountains. But through this noble tomb, archaeologists believe that the tomb of the King of Nanyue is not out of nothing, it is undoubtedly in Lingnan. Accordingly 193 1 established Guangzhou Huanghua College, and 1950 established Guangzhou Cultural Relics Management Committee. During this period, all archaeologists have been focusing on the tombs of the royal family in South Vietnam.
Now Mai Haoying is crying in his heart, and he is trying to calm himself down, because what he said on the phone is only a slightly larger tomb that may belong to the Han Dynasty, and the specific situation will not be known until he sees it with his own eyes. After arriving at the construction site, Mai observed through the cracks in the slate and took photos with a flashlight, confirming that this is a huge tomb of the Han Dynasty, but it is still unknown who the owner of the tomb is and whether the tomb was stolen. For the sake of safety, he arranged for personnel to be stationed, dismissed construction workers, and blocked the news of the discovery of the cemetery. In the evening, Mai let the emaciated Huang enter the tomb to investigate. After entering the gloomy and cold underground palace through the cracks in the slate, Huang was suddenly immersed in the wonder brought by the scene before him, and the original fear disappeared. Countless bronzes and ancient jade ornaments shine under the irradiation of flashlights, especially the well-preserved bronze chimes are shocking. Obviously, this place has not been visited by grave robbers, and it is undoubtedly a well-preserved royal tomb of the Han Dynasty.
The results of the investigation made Mai Haoying have a bottom in his heart. This is probably the mausoleum of the South Vietnamese royal family, and the archaeological holy land he has been looking for for for decades will be presented in front of him. He suppressed his inner excitement and reported the relevant findings to the leaders of the Guangdong provincial government. Leaders attached great importance to it, and a serious telegram quickly reached National Cultural Heritage Administration, China: "A colored stone tomb was found in Hongkong, Guangzhou. The tomb is well preserved and the funerary objects are extremely rich. It is preliminarily inferred that the owner of the tomb is likely to be a member of the Nanyue King or Nanyue King family. " Mr. Xia Nai, director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, urgently called the deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and the director of the Guangzhou Museum to report to Beijing. He was also very excited after hearing the details. He thinks the grave has been found. From the point of view of protecting it from theft, this matter must be properly solved as soon as possible. Subsequently, the State Council approved the request for excavation, and a secret that had been sealed for more than two thousand years was solved in such an accidental opportunity.
At 9: 00 a.m. on August 25th, 1983, a special ribbon-cutting event was held at the site of Xianggang as scheduled. Although the leaders of local provinces and cities were all present, there were no onlookers and journalists from all walks of life to interview. Under the command of Huang Zhanyue, vice captain of the archaeological team of Xianggang, the excavation of the ancient tomb officially began.
Archaeologists built a huge shed above the excavation site to prevent the ancient tomb from being exposed to the sun or rain during the excavation. At the same time, grid drilling survey and sampling were carried out in a considerable range to avoid damage to possible burial pits due to improper excavation of the main tomb. However, the survey results are shocking. The top of the hill in Hong Kong is a grave. In other words, this tomb was built by hollowing out Xianggang and taking the mountain as the mausoleum. On such a grand scale, its owner must be the royal family.
In the process of cleaning up the ancient tomb, the team members found that the anti-theft measures here were extremely extreme. The whole tomb is filled with huge stones, the heaviest of which is 2 tons. Only by using a large crane can the cleaning work continue. According to the preliminary survey, the pyramid-shaped mound is rectangular, about10.5m long, about 2.5m wide and about 3.2m deep. By 4m in front of the tomb, the pyramid-shaped mound began to become a vertical pit, in which a large number of funerary objects such as bronzes and pottery were piled up, and the seal with the words "Changle Palace" was found. Changle Palace was the residence of Empress Dowager Cixi in the Western Han Dynasty. If it weren't for the king of South Vietnam who claimed to be the emperor, it would be impossible for others to use this word. At the same time, the team members also found two martyrs. All kinds of signs clearly point out that the owner of the tomb has an extremely noble background.
At the end of the tomb, there are two huge stone gates. After more than 2000 years of erosion, the door shaft has broken and is in danger of falling down at any time. With the help of cranes, the archaeological team lifted huge stone gates and thresholds from the grave. After the tomb door was opened, the tomb full of exquisite portraits finally appeared in front of people. The moire patterns on the black and red walls are gorgeous and elegant, as if telling the master's omnipotent life. At the same time, in the front room of the underground palace, the archaeological team found huge bronze dings, Yu Pei, jade jade, two iron knives and a "King Lane Seal" and other precious cultural relics. However, compared with the artifacts found in the east ear chamber of the tomb, the number of these artifacts is the same.
The East Atrium is about .2m long,1.7m wide and1.8m high. It is completely excavated from the rock structure inside Hong Kong. In addition to exquisite products such as gold, silver, jade, stone, ivory, lacquer wood and pottery, the most precious are numerous and varied bronze and stone musical instruments. Among them, there are two sets of chimes, namely, Yong Zhong and Button Zhong. A set of five bells, a set of 14 buttons, fine workmanship, accurate melody and melodious music. There are also two sets of stone chimes near the chimes, arranged from big to small, totaling 18 pieces. In addition, there are some bronze musical instruments and harps, and two painted xylophones. Even today, the arrangement of such a huge instrument group and such a complete band is very neat. In fact, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule, the emperor implemented the policy of "sealing princes and building the same surname", and royal nobles all over the country were enfeoffed. On the basis of "divide and rule", Zhou Gongdan systematically established a set of "rites and music" system. According to the idea that "music" is subordinate to "ceremony", the distance of patriarchal clan system is distinguished by "ceremony", and the hierarchical order of "ceremony" is integrated by "music". The two complement each other and show the power level through "courtesy and joy". There are eight people in the dance team. Let's call it a row. According to the Book of Rites, the Tianzi Dance Team used eight rows, six rows of princes, four rows of princes and two rows of scholars. In this way, different classes have different numbers of dancers, which greatly promoted the popularization and consolidation of feudal hierarchical thought.