The story begins with a day in 1954. A construction team came to Wufeng Mountain in Jiangsu. They are going to build a training base here. In order to ensure that the project is completed on time, everyone works overtime. Suddenly, a worker exclaimed. It turned out that he had dug a big hole. Looking inside, there are vague stones. When the foreman saw it, he knew that the situation was not simple and immediately notified the local cultural relics department.
The expert group rushed to the scene quickly. After preliminary investigation, it was confirmed that it was an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty, so a rescue excavation was carried out. Then a family burial tomb appeared in front of people, in which 1 men and 4 women were buried.
According to the epitaph, the man in the tomb was named Zhang Anyou, a scholar in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty. There are few records about him in history, which shows that this man has not made great achievements in officialdom and has been reused. These four women are the wives and concubines of Zhang Anyou. Although it was normal to have three wives and four concubines in ancient times, not many people chose to be buried with their wives and concubines after death. This shows that Zhang Anye loves his three concubines very much.
Because he was just a little-known scholar, Zhang Anyou's tomb did not find any terrible funerary objects, which made the archaeological team a little disappointed. However, just as they were about to finish their work, they made an important discovery in the tomb of one of the concubines, and one of the experts even exclaimed on the spot.
I saw an unknown princess lying quietly beside her head? Jin chan? Say this golden cicada is wonderful.
On a jade leaf as thin as a cicada's wing, a golden cicada stood quietly. Its body is round, its body is slightly sideways, its wings are slightly open, its mouth is slightly open, as if singing, and its legs are bent, as if ready to fly. After testing, the gold content of the whole golden cicada is as high as 95%.
And holding its leaves, there is Gankun, which is finely crafted from white jade of sheep fat in Hotan, Xinjiang. The craftsmen polished it to only 0.2 mm with their own hands. Under the illumination of the light, it was crystal clear and touching. If you look carefully, you will find that the leaves are engraved with veins, the main vein 1, and four branches, with symmetrical sides. The veins on the front of the leaves are cut into curved grooves, and the veins on the back are correspondingly cut into convex ribs. This technology is shocking. This is why well-informed experts will exclaim on the spot, and later experts will do it for this one. Golden cicada and jade leaf? It is estimated that 900 million.
At the same time, cicadas have special significance in the minds of the ancients. The ancients believed that people would be reborn like cicadas after death, so cicada-shaped vessels often appeared as funerary objects, which also showed that this unknown concubine was very favored at that time.
Then the question is, why does an unknown Jinshi have such precious treasures, and there are no precious funerary objects in his tomb, but he will? Golden cicada and jade leaf? Gave it to a concubine? Is this concubine not an idle generation, but a good girl? Maybe one day, someone will find the answer.