Although Pengcheng is not a small place, there are not many mountains there, and it is not easy to hide the Han tombs there.
For example, Liu Li's tomb has been discovered long ago in modern times.
It's a pity that the contents inside have been cleaned out long ago.
Even so, modern archaeologists have also found many cultural relics inside.
By searching for information and comparing it, Chen Wenzhe discovered that some of the scenes he saw through retrospection were really similar to the modern tomb of Liu Li.
It was a very inconspicuous village, and an important Han tomb was discovered inside, which is the famous Beidongshan Han Tomb.
From the appearance, it is far less magnificent than the Guishan Han Tomb and Shizishan Han Tomb.
But its cultural relic value far exceeds the latter.
The Beidongshan Han Tomb is the only emperor's underworld residence built according to the scenes of life in the human world so far in archaeological excavations in my country.
It is also the tomb with the most complex burial structure among the tombs of the Han Dynasty kings in Pengcheng.
With such an obvious layout of the tomb, Chen Wenzhe would not admit his mistake.
What's more, this tomb is said to be the tomb of Liu Li, the fourth king of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty.
The reason why it is a legend cannot be confirmed that it is Liu Li's tomb. It must be because all the important burial objects inside have disappeared.
The batch of treasures that Chen Wenzhe saw earlier were transported away from here.
There is a lot of information that can be found on the Internet. This ancient tomb may look unremarkable on the outside, but there is something special inside, which is eye-opening.
Beidongshan Chu King Tomb is located on the north bank of the Grand Canal, ten kilometers north of Pengcheng City, and in Dongshan Village, Maocun Town, Tongshan District, west of the Jinpu Railway.
Because the village is located in the north of Pengcheng City, it is commonly known as Beidong Mountain.
You know, there is not just one ancient tomb here, but at least three.
Through Xiao Xiong Ding, he was naturally not clear about this situation, but through the Internet, Chen Wenzhe did know that there were three hills in that small village.
In a place like Pengcheng, there should be a Han tomb at the foot of almost every mountain.
The largest and most attractive one is definitely the tomb under a mountain in the southeast.
This hill is called Huan Mountain. There is a stone tomb in the mountain, which was stolen in the early years.
Even now, you can still see many inscriptions from descendants on the two walls of the tomb passage. This must be a Han tomb.
But now that I walked in, the walls were empty, with no ashes or ashes.
It was obvious that the tomb had been stolen or even looted.
On this point, Chen Wenzhe has the best say, because he knows some of the unearthed things.
Not to mention anything else, just seeing the large number of broken dance and music figurines unearthed from the tomb, he knew that these things were not thrown here by the people in that small village back then.
However, those people are not professionals after all, and they are not clean about the ancient tombs.
The main reason is that it cannot be cleaned properly because there is too much mud in the tomb.
If you want to remove the silt bit by bit with a small brush, only modern archaeologists can do it.
Besides, when so many treasures were discovered in the underground palace, who would have thought that there were many small treasures hidden in the mud?
It's just that modern people probably wouldn't have thought that what they found were some leftovers, right?
The main reason is that there are quite a lot of things left behind. After modern people excavated them, they still feel very satisfied.
It has to be said that professionals are professionals.
Although the ancient tomb was stolen, many precious cultural relics were still recovered, including gold belt hooks and small gold ornaments, copper bells, door locks, and crossbow arrows.
Jade wares include open-carved jade pendants and jade sword ornaments;
There are also many lacquerwares, but many of them are decayed objects, but the decorations are still very distinctive, and most of them are in the shape of a plate;
There are also many pottery figurines, but unfortunately there are no complete ones because the complete ones were all shipped away.
The thing left behind, which best illustrates the identity of the owner of the tomb, King Chu, is the jade piece with gold threads and jade clothes.
In the end, fifty or sixty of those jade pieces were found, which were in the shape of scales. This was an early form, and it just served as an annotation for the pearl-containing scales in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals".
Chen Wenzhe felt very sorry for this, because if he found the treasures that were transported away, he would probably not be able to put together a complete set of gold jade clothes.
In addition to these important things, there are also some fragmentary ancient coins.
For example, in the tomb passage, a large number of half taels were unearthed, totaling about 70,000 to 80,000 coins.
This is the result after more than two million coins were transported away. From this, we can also see how luxurious this tomb of King Chu is.
In fact, in the early Western Han Dynasty, all the princes and kings of various countries could mint large amounts of money in their feudal states.
Therefore, the value of these copper coins is not high, even to this day, because too many have been unearthed.
Not to mention other things, more than two million pieces were unearthed from just one tomb.
In fact, what makes Chen Wenzhe feel more regretful is that in addition to the above mentioned fragments, the villagers left behind many important things. In addition to the jade pieces of the jade clothes, there are also copper seals.
Such as "Chu Palace Sicheng", "Hongzhi Zuowei" and other seals.
What is particularly worth mentioning is that during the cleaning of the tomb passage, seven new niches were discovered on the two walls.
Go down the steps, pass the gate, and enter the tomb passage.
This looks like an ordinary passage. No one would have thought that there are niches on the walls on both sides of the tomb passage.
Each of these niches contains about thirty painted pottery figurines, for a total of two hundred and twenty-two bodies.
Each of these painted pottery figurines has a "splendid" and vivid image, which is also a major gain from cleaning up this tomb.
These are the soldiers guarding the tomb owner, guarding the entrance hall for him.
But these pottery figurines are very small and made with freehand techniques.
Almost all Han Dynasty figurines are like this, relatively small and relatively exquisite.
It's a pity that those non-professional farmers never thought about cleaning the passage of that ancient tomb, right?
Also, most people feel unlucky when entering a tomb. Who would seriously clean the tomb passage?
Walking into the ancient tomb, there are also many pottery figurines left inside.
Chen Wenzhe was very familiar with many of these pottery figurines, such as the pottery figurines carrying arrows and carrying pots.
There are still 64 pieces left in the ancient tomb that have not been transported away, including 6 figurines with double-breasted robes and arrows on the back, and 58 figurines with deep skirts and arrows on the back.
They all wear hats, swords and arrows on their backs.
The arrow basket is fixed by three straps under the armpit and left shoulder, and tied to the chest to form a triangle, making it easy to carry and run.
The hands of the pottery figurine are half-clenched on both sides of the waist, with the left hand slightly crossed over the right hand, with the palms facing down, as if holding something.
Judging from the arrow baskets carried on their backs, it is inferred that they may have held bows in both hands. A few of the figurines still have traces of red lacquer in their hands.
Another distinctive feature of the painted Yiwei pottery figurines unearthed from the Chu king's tomb in Beidong Mountain is that except for one pottery figurine, all of them are wearing long swords.
It can be seen from the length, color and decoration of the sword that there are many types of Han swords with different decorations, which also reflect the different identities of the wearers.