On the morning of September 22, 2005, thick smoke suddenly emanated from a construction site in the mountainous area of S05, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, and local villagers were talking.
It turned out that an ancient corpse was burning there.
Not rotten ancient corpse? Shouldn't it be transported back to the museum for research?
For example, Mrs. Xin Zhui unearthed from Mawangdui in my country, the "Loulan Beauty" unearthed from Xinjiang, the " Little River Princess " excavated from the Lop Nur River in Xinjiang, etc. These uncorrupted ancient corpses are now peacefully placed in museums in my country.
So why do experts burn the uncorrupted ancient corpses with great archaeological value?
1. Discovery of uncorrupted ancient corpses
On the afternoon of September 20, 2005, on a construction site in the mountainous area of S05, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, several workers were preparing to finish work and found a cave that was dug up not far away.
At the beginning, they thought it was a cave for some animals, so driven by curiosity, they slowly approached the cave, wanting to see if there were any animals in this cave.
Suddenly, a worker staggered with a "ah" sound.
It turned out that it was a tomb. There were two sarcophagus in the tomb, and the lids were pried open. One of the sarcophagus was lying in the sarcophagus, with a corpse tied with a cloth strip and a Taoist talisman on its forehead, while the other sarcophagus was missing.
After reading it, several workers were very scared. For safety reasons, they quickly picked up their mobile phones and called 110 to call the police, but they could not get through after dialing several times, and strange sounds kept coming from the phone.
The sound made them feel very scared, and even their hands dialed the phone began to tremble. They didn't bother to get the tools for work and rolled and crawled to the local public security bureau to explain the situation to the police.
After receiving the alarm, Captain Liao from the Criminal Police Brigade of the Public Security Bureau quickly led the team members to the scene of the incident.
When the criminal police team arrived at the scene, it was already evening. Taking advantage of the afterglow of the sun, everyone began to investigate the scene. However, they found that the burial objects in the tomb were not lost, and there were no traces of being dug in other parts of the tomb. They concluded that this was not a tomb robbery incident.
But what is puzzling is that the lids of the two sarcophagus were pried open. Why didn’t the tomb robbers steal the burial objects inside, but only took away one of the bodies and expose the other body to the sun? Does the tomb robber have a grudge against the tomb owner and want to dig out his body from the wilderness?
After identification, the corpse has been exposed to the sun for a while, but there has been no decay. Captain Liao felt that this tomb may be an ancient tomb and must be notified to the Cultural Relics Bureau. After the investigation of the criminal police team was completed, the cordon was set up and certain protective measures were taken at the scene of the incident.
The criminal police team is only responsible for protecting the site, and the research on ancient cultural relics must also be handed over to the Cultural Relics Bureau for handling.
So, Captain Liao quickly picked up his mobile phone to report to the leaders of the relevant departments, and the relevant departments then reported the matter to the Cultural Relics Bureau.
However, Officer Liao dialed the phone number several times in a row, but it was unreachable. A strange sound kept coming from his phone.
Is there something wrong with the phone's signal?
Police Officer Liao quickly checked the phone, but the phone's signal did not show any abnormality, they were all in full shape.
The villagers watching at the scene saw Captain Liao's anxious expression and enthusiastically ran over to him to reflect on what had happened in the past few days.
One of the villagers said: "In the past few days, our mobile phones are just like yours, and they can't get through. The phone and radio at home are also available. In the middle of the night, some strange sounds will occasionally be made, and we don't know what's going on."
A villager named Liu Futian recorded the strange sound and provided it to Captain Liao.
Later, after forensic identification and analysis, this strange sound was like the asthma or muffled vomiting caused by humans when they were breathing and when their chest and lung air pressure was insufficient.
The next morning, Captain Liao brought archaeological experts and medical experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau to the scene again.
After research and analysis by archaeological experts, this uncorrupted ancient corpse was buried in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and was a man of about 1.55 meters.
The man's corpse wore a black hat on his head, a yellow Taoist talisman on his forehead, and a pair of black cloth shoes on his feet. The body was wrapped in thick cloth strips from his ankle to his neck, and was covered with glutinous rice.
Experts found that the ancient corpse had a thin layer of skin on the face, which was slightly elastic, and the facial features were preserved very completely.
When the expert uncovered the hat of the ancient corpse, a black head developed in front of him, the length of the hair was about ten centimeters.
This ancient corpse, although it has been for hundreds of years, is still preserved intact and has not rotted into a pile of dead bones.
After inspecting the corpse, the expert said to everyone: "Create the corpse immediately!"
Soon, this behavior of the expert caused dissatisfaction among many netizens and the public. Some people even think that burning an ancient corpse for a hundred years is a kind of damage to ancient relics.
2. Everyone has doubts about burning the uncorrupted ancient corpse
As the incident continues to spread and ferment, many people feel that there must be ulterior motives in the matter of burning the uncorrupted ancient corpse, and some people have doubts about it.
Question 1:
This ancient tomb was dug out five days ago. Two sarcophagus in the tomb were pried open. Among them, the corpse of the sarcophagus on the left disappeared, while the corpse of the other coffin was placed in the sun.
But what is puzzling is why the tomb robbers in this tomb robbery incident stole the antiques in the tomb, but instead stole one of the bodies?
Question 2:
Since the ancient corpse was excavated, all the communication equipment and radio equipment nearby have abnormalities, and occasionally strange sounds are made? Is there really "ghosts and monsters" in the world?
Question 3:
Why is burial with a sarcophagus instead of a wooden coffin?
In Nanchong, Sichuan, looking around, the woods are inexhaustible in the woods all over the mountains.
After understanding, the local history has lasted for thousands of years, and everyone is accustomed to burying with wooden coffins. It is unheard of for everyone to bury it with sarcophagus. This is the first time that the sarcophagus was discovered.
Is the cost of a sarcophagus cheaper than a wooden coffin? Perhaps there are other reasons?
Question 4:
No anticorrosion measures were taken in the sarcophagus, but this corpse could not be decayed for a hundred years.
In the world, many ancient corpses can not be decayed for a hundred or even thousands of years because people will put some anticorrosion materials on the tombs of the deceased or the corpses of the deceased themselves.
For example, the production of mummies: In order to prevent the corpse from corruption, people will hollow out all the internal organs of the corpse, then stuff some medicine and spices into the abdominal cavity and chest cavity of the corpse, and finally wrap the corpse from head to toe with a cloth towel soaked with medicine, so as to be airtight and isolate it from the air.
and Nanchong found the internal organs of the uncorrupted ancient corpse are preserved very well, and no traces of being scratched by sharp tools were found on the body. It can be said that people did not take any anticorrosion measures on the corpse before burying it.
Although the whole body of the ancient corpse was wrapped in cloth strips, the head was completely exposed, not isolated from the air from head to toe like a mummy, which generally cannot achieve the anticorrosion effect.
And the binding method of the corpse is not for the purpose of anticorrosion, it is more like someone deliberately binding it so that it cannot move.
Is it because Nanchong’s geographical location and climatic conditions are suitable for corpses to be preserved?
Nanchong City belongs to a subtropical humid monsoon climate. This climate type is more likely to breed bacteria and is not conducive to the preservation of corpses.
Question 5:
Legend has it that more than a dozen parties involved in this excavation were mysteriously missing within a few days and their whereabouts are still unknown. I don’t know whether this is true or rumored. Only the parties involved know the answer.
However, the messages were passed around, which made people panic for a while. Many people even dared not go out at night, fearing that they would encounter some unclean things.
3. Burning the corpse is the correct choice
However, it is no wonder that the body of the uncorrupted ancient corpse was tied with cloth strips, covered with glutinous rice, and a Taoist talisman was attached to the head. This inevitably reminds people of the "zombies" in movies and TV dramas.
Moreover, there are two sarcophagus in this ancient tomb, but the corpse in the other sarcophagus disappeared. Everyone guessed whether the corpse had a "corpse transformation" and turned into a "zombie" and ran away?
And why did the experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau burn this uncorrupted ancient corpse? Is it because it is worried that it will cause "corpse transformation" to bring harm to humans?
However, from ancient times to the present, many people have believed in the saying "ghosts and monsters", which was even more so in ancient times when science was not developed.
For example, some abnormal phenomena occur in some people's bodies, and many people will call it "evil-being", so they will invite some Taoist priests and monks to come to their homes to practice, and they will use glutinous rice, Taoist talismans, black dog blood and other things to "exorcism".
is very likely. Before his death, the tomb owner had some abnormal phenomena, and his family thought it was possessed by a "ghost". Therefore, after his death, this burial method was adopted in order to suppress the so-called "evil energy" in the tomb owner.
But the question is, where did the other corpse run? It is possible that
was not buried here at all.
In ancient times, there was a custom of couples burying together in many places.
The owner of the tomb in this ancient tomb may have died first, but the woman was not buried together because of some changes later.
We must believe in science. We cannot suspect that the corpse in the sarcophagus has become a "corpse transformation" just because there is no corpse in the other sarcophagus.
As for why experts burn the body?
Uncorrupted ancient corpses were buried in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Experts may think that the age of ancient corpses was not long enough, and the ancient corpses were born in ordinary people during their lifetime, and were not a noble person and had no research value.
Let’s talk about leaving ancient corpses, which may cause diseases and other hazards. Moreover, the fact that ancient corpses are not rotten has caused panic in the local area. In order to stabilize the people’s emotions, it is better to burn them down.
So there is nothing special about this matter. During archaeology, many archaeological experts did not handle mummies in time, which led to diseases and even outbreaks, causing many people to die because of this. Therefore, burning the corpse as soon as possible is the right choice.
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