Among the fourteen pieces of jewelry found in the dark cave of Guanyin Mountain, there are seventeen-flower gold hairpins and two bird-head gold hairpins, which are national second-level protected cultural relics;
There are eight pieces including leaf flower gold hairpin, plain gold hairpin, crested silver hairpin, crested silver hairpin, lotus silver hairpin, etc., which are classified as national third-level protected cultural relics.
The rest are general jewelry. Taken together, this batch of cultural relics is worth about 70 million yuan.
It is obvious that most of these things are not precious things, but are like accessories for ordinary homes.
If you think about it from Chen Wenzhe's perspective, don't think about it, just grabbing something from a wealthy family!
The precious ones must come from the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles, while the ordinary ones come from the homes of landlords and wealthy people. There is no doubt about it.
However, when they were first discovered, no one knew the origin of these gold jewelry.
At that time, because of the need to protect the cultural relics in the main cave, the relevant departments decided to postpone the excavation. There is no answer for the time being as to what else is in the main cave.
Judging from the age of the cultural relics discovered, experts can only speculate, and they cannot rule out that they belong to the treasures hidden by King Chuang.
But because there is no definite evidence, it is not completely confirmed.
So what is the hidden treasure in Yefu mentioned by local villagers?
In fact, in addition to the local legend about this year, there is another legend in the surrounding area.
That is, there has always been a legend about a treasure hidden in the wild near Guanyin Mountain.
Tianmen Mountain, opposite Guanyin Mountain, has an altitude of 1,517.9 meters and is known as the first sacred mountain in western Hunan.
Tianmen Mountain was called "Songliang Mountain" during the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, a major earthquake caused the mountain wall to crack, opening up holes in the north and south, as bright as a door.
Sun Xiu, Emperor Wu Jing, thought it was a good omen and ordered Wuling County to be changed to Tianmen County, hence the name of Tianmen Mountain.
In the mysterious Tianmen Mountain, there is a little-known mountain temple.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, people said that a monk named Yefu came here.
After Ye Fu arrived, the originally small Tianmen Mountain Temple suddenly expanded its halls and the number of monks increased greatly.
However, this pure place of Buddhism has been experiencing constant disputes due to the arrival of Monk Yefu.
It is said that since Yefu arrived, people have always come here looking for trouble every once in a while.
No one knows what the people who came to Yefu actually talked about with Yefu.
But there is only one result, that is, there will be an earth-shattering fight.
The strange thing is that no one can defeat this Yefu monk.
Why do people always come to trouble a Qingxiu monk?
There are only two possibilities for the answer. One is that this monk has a special identity, and the other is that this monk holds an amazing secret.
Who is Yefu? Is it true that the Yefu treasure is located to the west of Tianmen Mountain?
These questions have always troubled archaeological experts from the Zhangjiajie Cultural Relics Bureau.
In order to find out, they began an exploration that lasted for more than nine years.
In order to clarify the identity of Monk Yefu, archaeological experts have carefully inspected the ancient Tianmen Mountain Temple.
The ancient Tianmenshan Temple is not the Tianmenshan Temple that people see now. Its address is in a remote corner of the Tianmen Mountain, and almost no tourists can find it.
Unfortunately, over the past few hundred years, the ancient Tianmenshan Temple has been reduced to ruins, with only a seven-story pagoda still standing in it.
Although the history of some ancient temples is still engraved on the stones of the ancient pagoda, no information about Yefu was found here.
Later, when reading the "Yongding County Chronicles" written by Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, someone unexpectedly discovered a record: "In the Ming Dynasty, Yefu flew to Xishan from Jiashan Temple. Yefu was a remnant of the bandits. After his defeat, he became a monk and escaped from heaven.
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This record proves one thing: Yefu came from Jiashan and was a remnant of King Chuang.
As we all know, King Chuang defeated Hubei and the rest of his troops reached Cili and Zhangjiajie.
The only people with high status who can master certain secrets are generals Li Guo and Gao Yigong.
Li Guo was the nephew of Chuang King Li Zicheng. According to some documents, one of the two men died of illness and the other died in battle.
However, according to legends and several works such as "Zhuan Leng Zalu" written by Li Guo, Li Guo may not have died during the encirclement and suppression, but lived in seclusion in Huanglong Mountain at the junction of Pingjiang and Tongcheng in Nanhu and became a Taoist priest.
He should have changed his name to Li Xiu at that time and took the nickname Huanglong Zhenren.
So, did Huang Long come to Tianmen Mountain and stop being a Taoist and become a monk?
This kind of speculation cannot be said to be based on imagination.
Because there are many such things, for example, even Li Zicheng, some people speculated that he did not die at that time, but secluded himself in the mountains and became a monk.
There is also the famous Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty, who is also said to have become a monk.
In fact, in 1972, a seven-star sword with a dragon head and an inscription bearing the words "Ancestor of Emperor Xuan of Tianmen Mountain" was unearthed from the ancient Tianmenshan Temple where Yefu lived.
The ancestor of Xuan Emperor is the Zhenwu Emperor revered by Taoism. How come there are Taoist objects buried in a monk's temple? Is this just a historical coincidence?
For a long time, archaeological experts did not figure out who the legendary treasure holder was.
Later, at an annual meeting of the provincial cultural relics department, I had another harvest in Cili.
The director of a county cultural administration office believed that Monk Yefu was probably Li Guo, the general of King Chuang.
It turns out that in the early 1980s, the director was still working in the professional literary creation group of the Cili County Cultural Bureau.
Due to overexerting his brain, he suffered from a strange dizziness and tried many medical treatments to no avail.
Later, I heard someone say that there was an old doctor named Wang Jiongliang on Cili West Street who could rejuvenate people.
He left in admiration, but he did not expect that at the doctor named Wang, he would get an amazing clue: there was a Yefu tomb in the mountain behind Kangjiaping Mao'an.
The next day, he couldn't contain his excitement and took a car up Shuoli River alone.
After passing the peak, enter Kangjiaping and arrive at Cili Mao'an Township, where Yefu's tomb is located.
Mao'an is located at the end of Kangjiaping, surrounded by Lishui River on three sides. It is surrounded by rocky mountains like a city. Within the "city" there is a flat river and two thousand acres of land.
The blue waves of Mao'an Reservoir are rippling, the sun is shining, the waves are sparkling, and a golden dragon can be seen emerging.
Behind the library is a mountain of green bamboos, each as thick as a bowl.
On both sides of the green bamboo, there are ancient pines, strange branches and green leaves, and they are verdant.
In the green bamboo and pine forest, he indeed found the tomb of Ye Fu, with a token monument erected in front of the tomb.
The inscription is clearly engraved: "Old Zen Master, a martial artist. He was born in the Ming Dynasty and ended in the Qing Dynasty. He has great ambitions and majestic appearance. He has talents from all over the world and has long hated the power of eunuchs. He dared to chase away the bandits by taking advantage of the overwhelming power. He waited for the day to come.
Restore the Central Plains; draw your sword and stand on the altar, determined to wipe out the world. Fight against the king of Wu in Guizhou, chase Li Chuang in Lishui... In the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, he made it in Longgang."
The inscription is written in parallel prose, commonly known as four or six sentences, with elegant words and contrasting text.
After reading this inscription, the director was extremely pleasantly surprised.
Judging from the surface of the inscription, it is so majestic that an ordinary person cannot express it.
On the day he found Yefu's tombstone, he hurried home to look for relevant historical materials.