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It can be said that one of the most dangerous things done by Chinese archaeology in modern times is the excavation of the thirteenth Ming Dynasty. The mausoleum of Emperor Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun-Mingding Mausoleum.
The archaeological work of Mingding Mausoleum started in 1955 with Guo Moruo as the person in charge. For the archaeological team whose archaeological experience is still in its infancy, this is A dangerous attempt. The construction of the Mingding Mausoleum 300 years ago took 6 years and cost 8 million taels to complete. Although the scale is not very large compared to other imperial mausoleums, because it is a burial of the emperor's specifications, the difficulties can be imagined, which lasted 1 year. Only half a time I found a diamond wall with a height of 8.8 meters and a thickness of 1.6 meters, which is the so-called entrance to the underground palace.
However, when the excavation was at its most critical point, it began to circulate outside: Dingling Underground Palace hides a river. If you want to find the Emperor Wanli’s The coffin must be reached by a small boat through a small river full of iron swords and through the abyss. It must be a person with the same birth date as Emperor Wanli. The archaeological team was panicked for a while, and Guo Moruo and others did not believe in the gods and ghosts and insisted on digging. In the end, the effort paid off and reached the main coffin room.
In the center of the main coffin, there are three vermilion lacquer coffins. The middle one is the Emperor Wanli’s, and the left and right are the queen’s. The archaeological team eagerly opened the main coffin of Emperor Wanli, and saw that it was shining golden and filled with many rare and exotic treasures. Among them, the dragon crown of Emperor Wanli was the most dazzling, with more than 120 gems and more than 5,000 pearls. Stringed for gold wire. For a time the archaeological team was ecstatic.
The archaeology at that time was still relatively backward, and many cultural relics were mostly damaged due to the lack of preservation conditions. After the emperor Wanli’s coffin was discarded in the nearby ravine because the archaeologists felt it was worthless, seven nearby villagers came and divided up the coffin, all of them were treasures. The villagers warned with jealousy: “The emperor’s things are not usable casually. If you don’t have the blessings, you can’t bear it, and you will take your life...” A strange thing followed: an elderly couple specially Use this nanmu to invite someone to make a coffin, but within half a month, the two returned to heaven. A farmer even put this wood in a Buddhist altar. As a result, the cause of death of four children in the family was unknown...seven of them suffered unexpectedly.
What's more evil is that the archaeologists involved in this time also encountered strange things. Mrs. Guo Moruo Yu Liqun hanged and died in Beijing’s former residence. His two sons also committed suicide. Commander-in-chief Zheng Zhenduo suffered a bizarre plane crash. Wu Han committed suicide in prison and couldn’t find any ashes...
Although unearthed There are a lot of rare treasures, but Ming Dingling is like a curse of a Chinese pharaoh. The strange things are really unexplainable. Since then, not actively excavating the imperial tombs has become a clear stipulation in the archaeological community.
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