But the life of this living person can be protected, how should the corpse be protected after death? According to research by archaeologists, there is no Baogong Temple in the that people worship every year, and the so-called Baogong cemetery is also fake, and even Baogong's remains are not found inside. At this time, people imagined that Mr. Bao was afraid that he would offend too many people during his lifetime and be retaliated after his death, so he set up a suspicion for himself ?
In fact, this idea is wrong. First of all, Bao Gong cannot set up a suspicious tomb, and his tomb is buried in the Bao clan cemetery. The Chinese people pay attention to returning to their roots. No matter how old the official is, they will have to return to their hometown after death, so Bao Gong's burial here is also understandable.
However, due to Bao Gong’s special identity, he moved his grave again later, so the descendants of Bao’s family were not sure where he was buried, but only knew that it was in the Bao’s cemetery. In order to find Bao's tomb, archaeological experts believe that the biggest one in this cemetery must be Bao Gong's tomb, but when they were excavated, they were stunned. The remains in the tomb were not Bao Gong at all, but a woman. Although the excavation of
was found in the wrong place, it cannot be said that Bao Gong’s grave was not here. Therefore, the experts conducted an excavation of all the graves in a unified manner. So how can we determine which tomb is Bao Zheng? It is to see which tomb contains Bao Gong's epitaph. But what experts think of is that the epitaph is not a complete piece, but is beaten to pieces. There is no ornate decoration in this tomb, only two epitaphs and a coffin, among which the epitaphs belong to Bao Gong and his wife, and the coffin contains the corpses of Bao Gong and his wife. Although the tomb was found, the experts were not happy because they had a doubt. Why was the tomb of the No. 1 honest official in history so shabby? It would be fine if the tomb was small. Even the epitaph was broken, and even the coffin was one, which needed to be squeezed into the same coffin with the wife. This obviously did not match Bao Gong's identity.
You should know that Bao Gong is not only the prefect of Kaifeng , but also the Sansi envoy, in charge of national finance. He also served as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, equivalent to the current deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense. Why is such a large official so small? There is no burial objects inside, and only a coffin, which arouses the suspicion of experts.
Perhaps people would say that Bao Gong is an honest official and has no money at home, so the tomb is so shabby. However, why is Fan Zhongyan, who is also a clean official, so his tomb is so grand? Not only is he accompanied by stone sheep and stone lions, but also a huge stone carved mountain gate. The entire tomb area covers an area of 35 acres, which can be said to be very grand. Compared with Bao Zheng’s tomb, it is really like a person in the sky and a person in the ground. Could it be that Fan Zhongyan’s family has money? But when he died, he was poor and poor. Not to mention building a grand tomb, it was difficult to make a decent coffin. The reason why he could have a grand tomb was also thanks to the emperor Song Renzong .
Song Renzong likes honest officials, saying that after the death of honest officials, they must be buried with a grand ceremony, and even wrote inscriptions by hand, and clearly stipulates that the death of senior officials will have certain regulations on the tombs and cannot exceed the standard, but they cannot be lower than a certain standard. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan’s tombs will not be so grand, and most of them come from state subsidies. According to this regulation, Bao Gong’s tomb should be the same. Whether in terms of level or reputation, Bao Gong is higher than Fan Zhongyan, but why is the treatment after death so high?
For this reason, people guessed that Bao Gong must have offended too many people during his lifetime and was retaliated after his death. Otherwise, how could the good epitaph be damaged? Indeed, Bao Gong did not give face to the royal relatives at all when dealing with the matter, but because of this, he attacked Bao Cemetery and vented his anger, which obviously a bit of a shame to the face of a noble official. After all, attacking the dead is a bit immoral.
Just when the experts were puzzled, someone said that he knew the secret in Bao Gong's cemetery. Although he said it a little big, after knowing this person, he would not think so. This person's name is Xia. In order to thank Bao Gong for his name, his ancestors made a rule that future generations will guard the tombs for Bao Gong from generation to generation, and even the descendants of the Bao family did not know about this. They just wanted to do one thing for Bao Gong silently.
The appearance of this person unraveled all the secrets in Bao Gong's cemetery. It turned out that the descendants of the Xia family couldn't bear to see Bao Gong's cemetery being stolen again, so they secretly broke the tombstone and moved Bao Gong's remains to a hidden place in order to allow Bao Gong to rest in peace.
