Tomb of immigrants in Qing dynasty

Who is the owner of the Seven-Star Giant Coffin in Guangxi?

1. This is the tomb of husband and wife, which should be the tomb of dignitaries. A rectangular boulder was found at a construction site in Shangsi County, Guangxi, China. This boulder is an ancient coffin wrapped in three layers of clay. Careful observation shows that there is a bigger coffin hidden in the boulder, and the whole three-story coffin is sealed on six sides, which has never been seen in Guangxi, causing various speculations of local people. This three-layer coffin is a form of burial, which was mainly popular in the southeast coast during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 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 the cultural and cultural institutions of relevant provinces and cities jointly tackled the problem. After nearly three years of rescue and excavation, a shocking secret is coming to us step by step: the "three-in-one map" giant coffin is inextricably linked with the "missing" Ming Taizu Wen Jian, which is of great humanistic value.

2. When surveying this "stone", it is found that this similar "stone" is rectangular, with a herringbone top, 2.40m long,1.16m high and 0.96m wide. On the hillside, the head of another similar "stone" is exposed to the ground. After measurement, the row spacing of these two "stones" is 0.5 meters. After this big "stone" was excavated, it was measured to be 2.50m long,1.45m high and1.15m wide. These two stones are shaped like coffins. Through the investigation of these two "stones", it is concluded that these two "stones" are not ordinary "stones", but two tombs compacted with "three-in-one soil".

3. It is supposed to belong to the tombs of the Ming Dynasty. It is also concluded that there must be coffins in the "Three Rivers Soil" of these two tombs. This coffin is rammed with "three mud", which is commonly known as "seven-star giant coffin" by locals. The 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 a kind of coffin rammed with "concrete" around the coffin. Only after the "three-in-one soil" dries up, its hardness is as hard as stone, even harder than ordinary stone.

4. The so-called "three-in-one" of the star giant coffin is just a common term in archaeology. "Three-in-one soil" is composed of many components, but the 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. According to textual research, the "three-in-one soil" rammed coffin appeared from time to time in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which was popular in the coastal areas of Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong in 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 is easy to rot. Therefore, in order to better protect the coffin, the bodies and articles in the coffin, the "three soils" around the wooden coffin can be mixed and compacted to form an outer coffin with "three soils" to protect the wooden coffin for a long time. Since then, coastal immigrants have been migrating inland in this area, and the custom of "three-in-one soil" rammed coffin burial has continued throughout the country.

Experts infer that it is rare to find such a complete "three pictures" of the seven-star giant coffin with six sides sealed for the first time in China. Dr. Liang Honggang from China Institute of Cultural Relics inferred from the traditional funeral customs in China that this should be a husband-and-wife burial tomb. 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 husband and wife being buried in different caves was more common. I don't know when it started. From the perspective of "Feng Shui", when a family is buried, the tomb of the elder must be above the cemetery, and the tomb of the younger generation can only be below the cemetery. Otherwise, it is "riding the ancestors" and it is an inversion of human relations. This is a taboo in funeral customs.

Since the custom of husband and wife being buried in different caves appeared, people have followed this "Feng Shui" law, which has lasted for thousands of years. After comprehensive excavation and excavation, it was found that the coffins of the two giant seven-star coffins "Sanhetu" were large and 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 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 burial arrangement in the 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.

7. Seven-star coffin is a giant coffin found in Guangxi. The Big Dipper was found at the bottom of the black inner coffin. A Swiss watch was found next to the seven-star giant coffin. The outer layer of the seven-star coffin is about 20 cm thick "three-in-one clay" putty. In this archaeological excavation, Guangxi cultural relics department formed an expert group composed of experts in archaeology, cultural relics protection and medicine for the first time. For the archaeological community in Guangxi, multidisciplinary archaeology is an attempt, and it also provides experience for the excavation of another "three-soil" coffin discovered by Shangsi. It is understood that these two coffins should be husband and wife's tombs. The coffins excavated this time are relatively small, weighing only about one ton, while the larger coffins weigh about five tons, about twice as much as the smaller coffins. Experts said that they would hold scientific discussions before deciding whether to open the coffin of the Trinity Earth.