Time goes back to 1894. Because the Jiangnan area was a region where the Qing Dynasty dynasty was levied heavily, the local city walls were built high and were often maintained. Hangzhou is also a hometown of fish and rice. The summer is humid and hot, and the city walls are severely damaged by rain. So the local relevant departments organized the people to build the city wall.
According to the Hangzhou County Chronicles, an interesting thing happened in 月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月月During the renovation project of Yongkin Gate, workers dug up a coffin.
If you want to build the tall city walls firmly and durable, you need to lay the foundation. Just as the workers and masters laid the foundation, a certain part of the ground suddenly collapsed, affecting the construction progress. So, the officials in charge of the site sent someone to check and found that it was a tomb. The tomb is not large in size. Judging from the degree of decay of coffins and other items during the burial, it should have been buried underground for a long time.
The ancient tomb appeared, and the construction workers did not dare to fill it rashly, so they simply tried their best to transport the coffin to the ground. When the workers swept away the floating soil on the top of the coffin, four big words appeared on the coffin board - Wu Song coffin . It is six inches square and presented in a convex and gold-plated manner. It is extremely simple and timeless.
Among the workers, people who know the words recognize these big words at a glance. When he read these big words out loud in public, the crowd around him exclaimed in surprise. However, many people have great doubts about the authenticity of Wu Song’s tomb.
In order to confirm whether this is really Wu Song's tomb, the workers made a simple inference through the built-in corpse. records in the book that Wu Song is a martial arts practitioner and must be tall and burly. This is indeed the case with the remains in the coffin in front of me.
Workers have always respected heroes like Wu Song. They didn't care about continuing to explore the truth, so they hurriedly buried the coffin in accordance with the customs at that time and restored it to its original state.
Logically speaking, the story should have come to an end, but 30 years later, Du Yuesheng , Huang Jinrong , and Zhang Xiaolin came in again.
It turns out that in 1924, Du Yuesheng, the "famous person" of Qinggang happened to come to West Lake for fun. He heard that Wu Song Tomb is here, so he naturally wanted to visit. As a result, when he saw Wu Song's tomb, he sighed at the destruction of the tomb, and joined forces with two other tycoons, Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, to join forces to join forces to move Wu Song's tomb to the bank of Xileng Bridge, and also erected a tombstone for Wu Song, which read: "The Tomb of Wu Song, the Song Yishi".
The Tomb of Wu Song - Another excavation of
After the founding of New China, with the continuous improvement of archaeological technology and knowledge system. Those ancient tombs that were not confirmed have become the primary target of archaeologists.
In 1964, relevant departments organized an archaeological team to excavate and explore the second time in the tomb of Wusong in Xileng Bridge, Hangzhou. 's purpose is to confirm the true identity of the owner of the tomb.
The first time archaeologists did not go to the tomb to investigate, but just had a certain degree of exploration of the coffin itself. This time archaeologists did not give up any clues.
After careful investigation and exploration of the interior after archaeologists got out of the tomb, a broken tombstone was found in the deepest part of the tomb. And it is the appearance of this thing that reveals the truth behind the matter. The tombstone records Wu Song's life.
According to the "Hangzhou Prefecture Chronicle", in the late Northern Song Dynasty, there were often many artists gathered in Yongkin Gate in Hangzhou, and Wu Song was the most powerful and most extraordinary martial artist among them.
At that time, the prefect of Hangzhou Gao Quan accidentally heard from his servants that Wu Song was very skilled in martial arts and had a strong personality, so he took the initiative to go to the downtown city to invite Wu Song to the prefecture of Hangzhou (a kind of official position).
However, with the new prefect Cai Jing taking office, the lives of the people in Hangzhou immediately fell into dire straits. Cai Jing relies on the power of his father Cai Jing to do everything evil and to eat the people.
These actions completely hit Wu Song's reverse scale in his heart. Wu Song did not hesitate at all for this, and made a decision in his mind.
Cai Jing's father—Cai Jing
March night of black and wind. That night, Wu Song lies in ambush at the door of Cai Mansion, and he saw the sedan chair Cai Jing rides slowly coming from afar. Wu Song was waiting silently, waiting for Cai Jing to order the person carrying the sedan chair to leave.
Wu Song flashed out from the side and stabbed Cai Jing in the back. Before his death, Cai Jing also called for help from the mansion. Before Wu Song left the scene, he was surrounded by several guards.
Two fists cannot beat four feet, and Wu Song was eventually captured by the opponent and sent to the yamen. After Cai Jing learned that his son was attacked and died, he issued an order to Hangzhou Prefecture.
Since then, Wu Song has been tortured by the yamen, and a generation of heroes can't bear the torture day and night. In such a miserable way, he died in the prison of Hangzhou Prefecture.
The people of Hangzhou are grateful to Wu Song for his goodness and have successively invested in the repair of the tomb for Wu Song. An unknown hero even took back Wu Song's body and buried it in the tomb to express the gratitude of the people in Hangzhou.
By the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Wu Song's deeds were spreading more and more widely. Many Yuan Dynasty zajus also used Wu Song as the prototype to create zajus such as "Zhe Daner Wu Song Fighting the Tiger". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Shi Nai'an created "Water Margin", one of the four great masterpieces in later generations. The story of " Wu Song Fighting Tiger " has also become a very well-known folk legend.
Now, Wu Song’s tomb on the banks of Xileng Bridge has become a tourist landscape in Hangzhou, and people also remember this hero who dares to eliminate harm for the people. As for whether Wu Song is actually buried in Wu Song’s tomb, it is actually not important, because Wu Song has already existed in our culture in another form.
