The Mystery of the Seven-Star Giant Coffin in Guangxi A rectangular boulder was found in a construction site in Shangsi County, Guangxi, China. This boulder is an ancient coffin wrapped in concrete. Careful observation shows that there is a bigger coffin hidden in the boulder, and the whole concrete coffin is hexagonal sealed, which has never been seen in Guangxi, causing various speculations of local people. How did the three sarcophagus, which was mainly popular in the southeast coast during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, appear in Shangsi County, Guangxi, which is located on the border of southern Xinjiang? Various mysteries are puzzling the local people. Who is the owner of the giant coffin? Read on!
Under the auspices of the Cultural Relics Bureau of the autonomous region, the Palace Museum, the Cultural Relics Protection Centers of Peking University and China, and cultural and artistic institutions of relevant provinces and cities jointly tackle key problems. After nearly three years of rescue and excavation, a shocking secret is coming to us step by step: thinking? Concrete? Giant coffins and the Ming Dynasty? Missing? He is inextricably linked with Emperor Wen Jian and has great humanistic value.
The Seven-Star Giant Coffin in Guangxi was investigated.
Up here? Stone? I found this almost during the investigation? Stone? Rectangular, what is the upper part? People? Zigzag, 2.40m long,1.16m high and 0.96m wide. And on the hillside, the other one is similar? Stone? Its head has been above the ground. After measurement, these two pieces? Stone? The two rows are 0.5 meters apart. Find this big one later? Stone? It is 2.50m long,1.45m high and1.15m wide. Are these two big? Stone? Shape, like the shape of a coffin. By two big? Stone? Investigation, the conclusion is: these two? Stone? Unusual? Stone? , but two departments? Concrete? Ramming the tomb.
It is preliminarily inferred that it belongs to Ming tombs. But also decided to? Concrete? Where are these two tombs facing the outside world? Concrete? There must be a coffin in the coffin. This kind? Concrete? Rammed coffins, also called locals? Seven-star giant coffin So-called? Seven-star giant coffin is just a common name of local people. This is not a real stone coffin. In fact, the seven-star giant coffin is an adoption? Concrete? A coffin formed by stamping around the coffin. Just came in? Concrete? After drying, its hardness is as hard as stone, even harder than ordinary stone.
And the so-called seven-star giant coffin? Concrete? This is just a common term in archaeology. ? Concrete? It consists of many components, but its main components are clay, lime and sand. Among them, there are many lime components, clay also accounts for a certain proportion, and the proportion of sand is relatively small. After textual research, adopted? Concrete? Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, rammed coffins appeared from time to time in China, which prevailed in the coastal areas of Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The reason is that the coastal land is wet and strong in acidity and alkalinity. If the coffin buried in the soil is eroded by acid and alkali for many years, it will rot easily. Therefore, in order to better protect the coffin and the bodies and articles in the coffin, we adopted? Concrete? Mix them together and bump them around the wooden coffin to form a kind of? Concrete? Outside the coffin, in order to achieve the long-term protection of the wooden coffin. In the future, coastal immigrants in this area will continue to migrate to the mainland, then? Concrete? The funeral custom of rammed coffins is followed everywhere.
Experts concluded that this time such a complete six-printed seven-star giant coffin was found. Concrete? This coffin was discovered for the first time in Guangxi, and it is also rare in China. Dr. Liang Honggang from China Institute of Cultural Relics inferred from the traditional funeral custom in China that this should be a husband-and-wife burial tomb.
Strange funeral customs caused by the seven-star giant coffin in Guangxi
According to relevant documents, the custom of husband and wife being buried together began in the Western Zhou Dynasty in China, that is, husband and wife were buried together in two tightly built tombs. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this system of joint burial of husband and wife in points was more common. I don't know when, from? Feng shui? From a scientific point of view, all family tombs, the tombs of elders must be above the cemetery, while the tombs of younger generations can only be below the cemetery. Otherwise, what is it? Riding ancestors? , is the performance of human relations upside down. This is a taboo in funeral customs.
Since the custom of husband and wife being buried together in different caves appeared, people have followed this funeral for thousands of years. Feng shui? Rules, and has continued to this day. After a complete excavation, these two giant coffins with seven stars were found? Concrete? Coffins are one big and one small. According to the volume calculation, the weight of the big coffin should be about 5 tons, and the weight of the small coffin should also be about 4 tons. According to the arrangement of tombs, the big coffin is located in the east of the cemetery and the small coffin is located in the west of the cemetery. In the funeral custom of Zhuang nationality, the arrangement of burial in cemetery is male left and female right. Therefore, it is inferred that the tomb owner in the big coffin is male and the tomb owner in the small coffin is female.
Guangxi Seven-Star Giant Coffin was opened.
The seven-star giant coffin was found in Guangxi, and the Big Dipper was found on the bottom plate of the black inner coffin. Found it next to the seven-star giant coffin? Swiss watch? . Is the outer layer of the seven-star giant coffin about 20 cm thick? Concrete? Mud seal. This archaeological excavation is the first time that the cultural relics department of Guangxi has formed an expert group composed of experts in archaeology, cultural relics protection and medicine. For the archaeological community in Guangxi, multidisciplinary archaeology is an attempt, which also provides experience for the excavation of another "three-soil" coffin. It is understood that these two coffins should be husband and wife's tombs. The coffin excavated this time is very small, only about one ton, and the larger coffin is about five tons, about twice as much as the small coffin. Experts said that they would hold scientific discussions before deciding whether to open the "Three Earths" coffin.
On February 20, 2008, at 65438, the expert group "opened" the coffin of the little deputy. First, the "three concrete" outer layer of the coffin was opened, and then the inner layer of the coffin was opened, only to find that it was still a black wooden coffin. Experts say this is a coffin, a coffin wrapped in "concrete". This coffin doesn't adopt the way of "three long and two short", but "three long and three short", that is, it has a bottom.
On June 5438+February 2, 20081day, the lid of the small deputy coffin was lifted. There is a pile of black bones in the coffin. The white hair on the skull is clearly distinguishable from the eyebrows. Hair is coiled on the back of the head with a hairpin, and the surface is covered with a layer of net linen. Judging from the skull, pelvis and clothing, the expert concluded that the owner of the tomb was an elderly woman. There is a gold-patterned dress in the coffin, which is well preserved. There are seven small holes in the bottom plate of the inner coffin, which are arranged in the shape of "Beidou". Some experts speculate that the owner of the tomb may be related to Taoism.
Because the coffin was buried with a straw ash pillow, and the dead body was covered with a layer of straw ash, and the air in the coffin was humid, there was a mushy black straw ash at the bottom of the coffin, and some costumes were mixed with black straw ash and became mushy. Nevertheless, a relatively well-preserved gold pattern dress in the coffin has become the focus of attention. An expert at the scene told the reporter that this dress is pure silk. Although it is also covered with black grass plaster, it looks like a pile of mud, but if you look closely, the golden pattern on the skirt is still bright. Although the burial form of Shangsi's "Santu" coffin is strange and seemingly unusual, experts have not found any funerary objects such as gold and jade in the coffin. In addition, no epitaph was found in the coffin that recorded the identity and life period of the tomb owner, which made it difficult for experts to draw conclusions about the identity of the tomb owner.
An episode before the opening of the seven-star giant coffin in Guangxi
At 8 o'clock on the evening of February 20, 65438, a pair of black inner coffins appeared after the experts opened the cover plate of the outer coffins. Several experts took flashlights to check the gap between the inner coffin and the outer coffin. "There is a cockroach in it!" An eagle-eyed expert exclaimed. Under the irradiation of flashlight, we really found a cockroach the size of a finger in the gap between the inner coffin and the outer coffin. When the archaeological excavation was basically completed, the expert group specially checked the tightness of the "Three Concrete", hoisted the whole coffin again with lifting equipment and checked the bottom. The mystery has been solved: there is a finger-sized crack at the bottom of the mud, and the cockroach should have got into the coffin from this crack, which inadvertently attracted many people's guesses.
According to Wang Shanchu, director of Shangsi County Cultural Management Institute, about 10 years ago, a man planted many fruit trees on the hillside where the giant coffin was located to protect the orchard. Therefore, this pocket-sized "watch" may have been accidentally abandoned by the owner of the orchard in the past, and was pushed to the grave of the giant coffin in later farming.
According to experts, in the "three mud" sealed coffin, one coffin was found for the first time. This archaeological excavation is also of great significance to the study of local ancient funeral customs and costumes.
At present, the bottom of the seven-star giant coffin in Guangxi is the Big Dipper.
When the bottom plate of the inner coffin and the bones were carried out and put on the workbench, the experts sorted the bones and sorted out the bottom plate. To the experts' surprise, there is a pattern of "Big Dipper" on the floor. The reporter saw at the scene that there are seven small holes with a diameter of about 2 cm on the bottom plate, which are arranged in a spoon shape according to the "Big Dipper" and connected by lines. When cleaning the inner coffin, the experts found three ancient copper coins and a bamboo paper folding fan scattered in the coffin. An expert speculated that there should be seven ancient coins in the inner coffin, possibly placed in seven small holes arranged in the Big Dipper. Because the coffin tumbled during transportation, the original storage state was destroyed, and some items were mixed with gypsum. They cleaned the gypsum carefully, hoping to find the answer.
These three ancient coins have the words "Kaiyuan Bao Tong" on the front. Can this infer that the tomb belongs to the Tang Dynasty? The expert immediately denied the question. He said that folding fans appeared in the Song Dynasty. From the perspective of tomb shape and coffin system, they are more like tombs in the Ming Dynasty or the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. But for the presumption of the owner's identity and age, they will make a final judgment after studying the cultural relics collected this time.
The inner coffin has just been carried out? Seven-star giant coffin? Giant coffin? The insole? Big Dipper Pier? Bring you new surprises. ? Big Dipper Pier? Are the arrangements and shapes the same as those excavated last time? Giant coffin? Appear in? The big dipper board? The arrangement and shape are basically the same. Experts believe that these seven small piers are made of concrete. Why? The Big Dipper? Repeatedly in your mind? What's the significance of the seven-star giant coffin? Some netizens who know local folk customs say, The Big Dipper? There are two meanings, one is? The Big Dipper? Can guide the dead to heaven, and the second is composition. The Big Dipper? Seven holes and six branches symbolize worldly desires. After death, worldly desires also ascend to heaven.
The identity of the tomb in the Seven-Star Giant Coffin in Guangxi has not yet been determined, but it looks more like a tomb in the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the shape and coffin of the tomb, but it needs further study and discussion by archaeologists, experts and scholars!