When Zunyi City built a new reservoir, an ancient tomb was dug up.

20 13 an ancient tomb was dug up when a new reservoir was built in Zunyi city. This is an ordinary pit tomb, but when the archaeologists approached the coffin, they suddenly saw a flash of golden light. Experts exclaimed: Come on! There are good things here!

It turns out that those shiny things are nails embedded in coffins.

Archaeologists immediately leaned in, wiped off the soil on the nail, and observed it carefully, and found that the nail was pure gold!

They are very excited. This tomb is not an ordinary civilian tomb, but a precious noble tomb and has not been stolen.

Around this land, there are many noble tombs, but each tomb has many stolen holes, and almost all the funerary objects in the graves have been stolen.

Originally, this ordinary pit tomb did not attract the attention of archaeologists, who thought it might be the tomb of a noble servant. However, the appearance of these nails seems to indicate that the identity of the tomb owner is unusual.

Soon, archaeologists began to dig the grave. The tomb is very narrow, just an ordinary pit. The coffin is made of wood, not the sarcophagus seen in the tombs of ordinary nobles.

However, the funerary objects in this tomb are very rich, and they have never been stolen, and the number of funerary objects in the tomb is amazing.

Archaeologists have unearthed more than 80 exquisite gold and silver vessels from this tomb. All the cups, bowls and chopsticks in the tomb are made of pure gold.

Among them, the most precious one is the golden crown inlaid with precious stones, which has two * * *, among which the golden crown with a slightly larger crown is 29. 1 cm high, 38 cm wide and weighs1388.8g.

In the center of the front is a big peony flower with five Zhai. There are three dragons in the crown, with stripes on the left and right sides and hibiscus on the back. Two gold crowns, the big one belongs to the main room and the small one belongs to the side room.

There is a silver sword beside the male in the tomb, which can prove that the male tomb owner once went into battle to kill the enemy.

At the waist of the tomb owner, there is a small but deep "waist pit". In the waist pit, archaeologists found an extremely special object: the town tomb voucher.

Tomb coupons were mainly popular in Sichuan during the Northern Song Dynasty, and originated from Taoism. It has the functions of exorcising evil spirits and protecting the tomb owner and his descendants. Generally, I will write some information about the owner of the tomb, as well as names such as heavenly stems and earthly branches and Twenty-eight Stars.

From the certificate of the town tomb, archaeologists learned the identity of the tomb owner: this is the tomb of the Yang family, the toast of Bozhou in the Song Dynasty.

Zunyi City in Song Dynasty belongs to the boundary of broadcasting state, which is a remote place with Suzhou and Hangzhou as the development center in Southern Song Dynasty. In order to facilitate management, the rulers of the Song Dynasty set up "Tusi" in these areas.

In fact, in order to give local indigenous leaders the title of government officials, they were forced to obey the central government. These chieftains are generally hereditary, and the owner of this tomb is the 30th chieftain of Yang of Bozhou chieftain family.

According to historical records, at that time, Yangjiadao said, "Biography of Thirteen begins." By Yang's generation, the Mongolians had gradually invaded from the west, and Yang's family was rewarded by the Southern Song Dynasty court and worked for the court.

He led the local army and made great achievements in fighting against the Mongols. He also wrote to the court of the Southern Song Dynasty to open the imperial examination in Bozhou, which is on the edge, so that people here also have the opportunity to pass the imperial examination and become officials in the DPRK.

It can be said that he is not only a hero who resists foreign invasion, but also a good official who cares about the people. Then, why is the tomb of such a famous nobleman like a civilian?

Through the combination of archaeology and literature review, experts have come to the following two reasons: First, Yang Jia died in 1243, which coincided with the invasion of Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. He worked hard for the war day after day and finally fell ill.

At this time, the war is tight, and there is no time and energy to dig large tombs, and there is no manpower to transport huge sarcophagus, so we can only change into wooden coffins hastily.

But even so, as the master of one party, there is still something basic, and this is the golden nail embedded in the wooden coffin.

Secondly, Yang Jia has read a lot of poetry books since he was a child, deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains and deeply convinced of Taoism.

Han people in Song Dynasty were indifferent to fame and wealth, and his simple style may have influenced him, making him unwilling to have spacious and luxurious tombs and huge sarcophagus like the rest of his family.

Because of this, Yang's tomb has not experienced the excavation of grave robbers like other toast cemeteries found here, and has always maintained its original appearance.

The significance of the excavation of this toast cemetery is not only as simple as finding the precious gold and silver vessels in the tomb, but also filling the historical gap of the toast family in southwest China.

At present, the application for the heritage of Zunyi Tusi Tomb is already in progress. Let's look forward to seeing his name on the World Heritage List.

Source: People's Daily Online, Song and Ming cultural relics unearthed in Zunzhong, suspected to be Bozhou Tusi family.

Author: Lu Ning

Editor: Hong Sheng