It is recorded in "Book of Rites·Tan ??Gong Shang": "Those with high soil are called tombs"; "Tombs are called Zhaoyu, and they are now called tombs." The earth is built as a tomb and the cave is called a tomb, commonly known as a "grave". "Guanzi·Nine Bian": "The big ones are where the graves of relatives are."
The construction of tombs is a way for future generations to respect their predecessors and a way for future generations to commemorate their predecessors. It has a history of thousands of years. At the same time, graves also represent the final destination of people.
In the concept of the Han people, from ancient times to the present, people will be buried underground after death. The difference is that in the past, people would distinguish between tombs and tombs, and the scale and form of their construction were also determined according to their superiority and inferiority. Zheng Xuan once said: "Han regulations say that the tombs of lieutenants are four feet high, and the height varies from the princes of Guan Nei to the common people." In ancient feudal society, the larger the official title, the larger the tomb, and the shape of the tombstones were also different. But now, there is rarely such a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority, and the choice of cemetery is also based on one's own economic conditions.
In ancient times, funerals were not just about burying people. People would also bury the deceased’s belongings along with them. Among these funerary objects, there were many precious things. This is what future generations would like their predecessors to do. To live a better life in another world after death. But it is precisely because of these precious burial objects that later generations have the idea of ????robbing tombs. Throughout the ages, tomb robbers have emerged in endlessly. Whether they are ordinary people or princes and nobles, as long as they have precious things, they will be the targets of tomb robbers, and the methods used by tomb robbers are also various.
In Hubei, there was smoke coming out of a farmer’s ancestral grave. After experts came to investigate, they immediately sealed off the entire mountain. People often say that there is smoke coming out of ancestral graves. This sentence has both positive and negative connotations. In Feng Shui, green smoke coming out of ancestral graves is a good sign. According to ancient people, it means that the descendants will become high officials. But in fact these are inaccurate. Scientists say the smoke is just a phenomenon caused by the geology of the land. But the smoke coming out of the farmer's ancestral grave was not caused by geology.
This farmer's surname is Sun and they live in Dayuan Qiaoshang Village, Jintang Town, Chongyang County, Hubei Province. As usual, Sun took his things and prepared to go home after working, but on the way home, he saw thick smoke billowing from his ancestral grave. This phenomenon made him worried. After all, no one wanted anything to happen to their ancestral graves. After some inspection, he found that his ancestral grave had been blown open, so he quickly called the police.
After the police arrived and learned about the situation, they immediately contacted the Cultural Relics Bureau. After testing by experts, it was discovered that this was an ancient tomb from the Song Dynasty. According to Sun, this ancestral tomb existed a long time ago. Not only that, there are other ancestral tombs around here, where the ancestors of the Sun family are buried. Later, when the county wanted to build a road, it had to pass through the ancestral grave. In desperation, the Sun family had to report the matter to the relevant departments, and then they were able to build a road over the ancestral grave, bypassing it. It is precisely because of this that it attracts the attention of tomb robbers. Experts said that most of the funerary objects in this ancient tomb have been looted, but there are still a few funerary objects available for inspection. Considering that there were other ancient tombs around, the police ordered the entire mountain to be cordoned off to avoid further damage.
Later, the police also tried their best to track down these tomb robbers, but there was still no news. By chance, the police traced back the cultural relics in the ancestral graves, but these were accidentally picked up by passers-by. Out of fear, they turned themselves in and handed them over.
Whether it is ancient or modern, the identity of tomb robbers is disgusting. Because they not only destroyed the tombs, but also caused a large number of cultural relics to leak into the world, which greatly restricted the study of ancient history. Regardless of the reason, this behavior is shameful and illegal. But it is precisely because of the appearance of tomb robbers that some cultural relics appeared in the world early.
Anyone who has watched movies and loves history knows that the technology of tomb robbers is ahead of archaeologists. Many cultural relics were discovered by tomb robbers first, such as the oracle bone inscriptions, the earliest written text in my country, and the Luoyang Shovel etc. Therefore, tomb robbers still have some benefits to a certain extent.
Although they discovered historical relics earlier than archaeologists, this does not mean that they are recognized by the world.
The destruction and loss of cultural relics is a crime that cannot be made up for in any case. Future generations should also be vigilant and not do things that harm themselves or the country.