Shao Chaofeng, former deputy secretary of the Party Group of Mengcheng Education Bureau, was born in Shao Zhuang, Shuanglong Village at the age of 58, and has taught in local schools for many years. "When I was a teacher, some students in my class once dug up' leather money' (Mengcheng dialect, that is, metal coins in the ancient outer circle) and rusty swords by the ditch. Unfortunately, it has not been preserved, and now I know those cultural relics that were originally more than 2,000 years ago. " Shao Chaofeng also said that he had seen bronze mirrors and coins dug by villagers. There is an inscription on the bronze mirror, which should be Zhao, and it was popular in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty. The copper coins in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty should be five baht. These are what he learned after consulting relevant materials. According to historical records, 1 13 years ago (the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty returned the power to the central government, ordered the coins from all over the country to be transported to the capital for destruction, and set up a special coin-making institution to be responsible for casting five baht. After receiving the report, Mengcheng County Cultural Relics Bureau immediately organized relevant professionals to rush to the tomb site, and found that the four isolated piles leveled by Shuanglong Village belonged to the cultural relics of the tomb group determined by the third national cultural relics survey, and immediately recovered three bronze mirrors, two rusty iron swords and a broken pottery dug up by the villagers. "All the graves here have been stolen, and with the destruction during farming and the Cultural Revolution, many tomb bricks were taken home by villagers to build pigsty and toilet, leaving only the tomb base and a few funerary objects. What can be left is even more precious. Bronze mirrors are typical, especially the unearthed painted pottery, which fills the gap in the excavation of cultural relics in Han Dynasty in our county, and the ongoing exhibition in the county museum enriches cultural relics. " Cai, deputy director of the County Cultural Relics Bureau, was very excited when he talked about the discovery of Han nationality in Shuanglong Village.
On June 65438+1October 10, Zhang Yizhong, a cultural librarian of the Provincial Institute of Archaeology, and his party came to Mengcheng to conduct a field investigation on the tomb of Shuanglong Village in Le Tu Town, and confirmed it as a tomb of the Han Dynasty, and then organized a provincial archaeological team to conduct a comprehensive excavation. The excavation covers an area of 20,000 square meters, with more than 40 tombs and more than 65,438+050 bronze mirrors, coins, swords, pottery and other cultural relics unearthed. "The archaeological report of the province has not yet come out. The archaeological and research value of this Han group cannot be underestimated. How big it is, it will not be announced until the report comes out. " The rulers of the Han Dynasty learned the lesson of the demise of the Qin Dynasty. They govern the country with Taoist thought and adopt the policy of "abolishing taxes and protecting the people". Therefore, economic production has been significantly developed, political stability and social peace. Mengcheng County, the hometown of Zhuangzi, naturally enjoyed the bonus of governing the country with Taoist thought and became a typical example of a rich country, Qiang Bing. From the Han Formation unearthed in Mengcheng County and the Han Formation unearthed in Zhenlong Village, we can get a glimpse of its leopard.
Why are there so many Han tombs in Mengcheng County? Cai said that the economy of the Han Dynasty was relatively prosperous, the funeral customs were also very particular, and thick funerals prevailed. The places where the Han tombs were unearthed are the main areas of the Han Dynasty, which are not only economically prosperous, but also have a high population density, which may be the reason for the large number of Han tombs in these places. According to his speculation, if these tombs were not stolen, the number of funerary objects should be very considerable, and the identity of many tomb owners at that time should be very high, and there should be more Han tombs in the county, waiting for further exploration and excavation.
"In the Han Dynasty, the funeral customs here were very particular." This was also confirmed by Shao Chaofeng. "The solitary heap is a farmland, much higher than ordinary fields. The solitary pile is buried in the tomb, which is called' water to the mountain' in Feng Shui. It will not be soaked by floods in summer and the tomb will last for a long time. " Shao Chaofeng said, "In the past, we dug ditches in the village and dug them on solitary piles. It took five shovels to see the raw soil." The "five shovel depth" is about one and a half meters, that is to say, this one and a half meters high is all cooked soil piled up artificially. If it were not for that enlightened and prosperous era, if it were not for a big family, then the big project could not have been completed at that time.