Chapter 1463 Chu Tombs and Ancient Tombs
In the future plan, the entire Guling Town will be moved up the hillside. Similar to Yunyang, a new city will be built to wait for Zhou Zhi and his party to cross the old street. Walking past the town primary school, I saw a wall behind the primary school with painted It is covered with white lime, and there are several huge red characters written on it - "Guling Town, 156 meters water level."
Below the words, there is also a thick red line, that position is The water level that will eventually be reached after the Three Gorges Project impounds water.
Of course Zhou Zhi and his party did not stay here just for the sake of peace and quiet. A big event happened in Guling Town recently, and it was closely related to the foundation.
In the town guest house, Zhou Zhi and his party found "one of their own".
The small guest house was full of people who came from all over the country to support the team.
Because there are so many teams, even the classrooms of the town middle school have been temporarily requisitioned and turned into simple accommodation rooms.
There are many disputes in the Xiajiang River, and Shu and Chu have been contending for a long time. Unexpectedly, the exiled man has become his hometown in his hometown.
According to the records of "Yunyang County Chronicles", Yunyang was the territory of Yongguo during the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, Yongguo was destroyed by Chu and Yunyang belonged to Chu. There was a forest here at that time, called the ancient forest. In the Yangtze River in Gulin, there is a backwater tuo, so it is called Gulintuo. Later, when he was in Danyang, the capital of Chu, six princes were buried beside Beijiang in Gulin. Over time, the name of the ancient forest became a homonym of the ancient mausoleum, which has been used to this day.
According to records in "Three Kingdoms", "Book of Jin", "Huayang Kingdom", and "Shui Jing Zhu", in the first year of Chuping of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Yizhou Shepherd Liu Zhang established Guling County here, under its jurisdiction Quren went to the area around Yufu.
In the 21st year of Jian'an, Liu Bei, who had already entered Yizhou as the shepherd of Liu Zhang in the Shu Dynasty, restored Guling County according to the old system and administered Quren, Yufu, Yangqu, Hanfeng and Wu and Beijingliu, which were originally Yidu counties. county.
In the first year of Zhangwu of the Shu Han Dynasty, Guling County was renamed Badong County, and the county government was moved from here to Yunyang.
The "Shui Jing Zhu" mentioned the origin of this place name: "There are six big tombs on the side of the river. Geng Zhongyong said: 'The burial place in Danyang, the capital of Chu, is also the Baling of Zhizhi, so it is named after it. The mausoleum is also named after it.”
"Yunyang County Chronicles" writes more clearly: "The Guling Ancient Tombs Group is located in Hatbox Ridge on the west side of Guling Town."
According to measurements, Hatbox Ridge is located in the Three Gorges. After water, it will sink 20 meters underwater, so it is necessary to carry out rescue excavation here.
However, the country's main energy is currently focused on the rescue excavation of the remaining proven sites and large tombs. As for the six tombs of King Chu recorded in ancient books, judging from the previous Luoyang shovel detections, there is no found, and therefore not allocated much power.
At this time, the foundation took action. In line with the principle of making the last effort when there are no dates, the Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Fund has listed the exploration of Maohe Ridge in Guling Town as a priority, allocated funds, organized volunteers, and conducted the last rescue exploration here.
As expected, a discovery was made at a place called Pingzhao Camp on Hatbox Ridge.
Archaeologists discovered some huge mounds of sealed earth a hundred meters above the river bank. The mounds were cone-shaped, about 40 meters high and about 500 meters in circumference at the bottom.
During a tentative excavation, it was discovered that although this place had been robbed, the shape of the tombs led to the discovery of burial pits, stepped tomb passages, two-story platforms, and finally the skeletons of the martyrs!
Sacrifice refers to prisoners of war or slaves who were buried for sacrifice. This is a characteristic of the tombs of ancient nobles. In other words, the level of this tomb is very high. The legendary six major tombs are not unfounded rumors!
This finally attracted the attention of the country and sent capable forces here to carry out large-scale exploration and excavation work. The team leader is Zhou Zhi’s old acquaintance, Jiang Tianxi, dean of the School of History of Shu University.
Of course Jiang Tianxi was not directly involved in the archaeological excavation and exploration. His task was to set up the organizational structure. The person doing the work was Huo Wei from the Department of Archeology of Sichuan University.
Huo Wei has not yet grown into a big boss, doctoral supervisor, dean, curator, and director for future generations. He has led the Sichuan University archaeological team to participate in the excavation of major new archaeological discoveries across the country many times. In 57 years, He was only thirty-seven years old when he was born, and he was in good health. Zhuang's eyes were sharp. When he saw Zhou Zhi, he grabbed his hand and pushed him towards him. Then he gave Zhou Zhi a fierce hug and slapped Zhou Zhi on the back with a big slap: "Elbow, elbow, let's do this this time." A golden doll was made!”
The two got acquainted during the preparations for the new Sichuan University Museum. They were both working hard under the boss. Huo Wei was the organizer of Tibetan cultural relics and snow area cultural relics under Master Tenzin, and Zhou Zhi was the ancient books under Yuan Dongjue. Calligraphy and painting organizer.
The "Corpse Illustrated Book" donated by Zhou Zhi to Shu University, as well as the box wrapped in the "Corpse Illustrated Book", are now the highest-level Tibetan cultural relics of Shu University and have been named "Three Yin You" Wang Changshou Sutra Corpse Illustrated Book " and "Two Buddhas and Three Seven-Treasure Thangka Spiritual Objects Offering Letter" have become the treasures of Sichuan Tibetan cultural relics, especially the "Corpse Illustrated Book" which records ancient Tibetan medical anatomy knowledge. Among cultural relics, it can also be ranked in the top ten.
Those two things are very mysterious to Zhou Zhi who lacks professional knowledge in this area, but of course you have to figure out what happened to the things you donated, right?
Therefore, Zhou Zhi often went to pester Master Tenzin to teach him knowledge, but the knowledge involved in these two cultural relics was a large system. Master Tenzin felt a headache when he saw Zhou Zhi, the Little Tan Master. So Huo Wei was pushed out as a shield.
The two became good friends in this way. They were both lovers of cultural relics and often worked overtime until late, so they often made appointments to have a drink at the Cold Cup and exchange their experiences.
"What golden doll?" Zhou Zhi was confused: "Where is Dean Jiang?"
"I'm here." Jiang Tianxi looked at the two people hugging each other in front of him: "It's such a hot day. What are you doing? We found four large Chu tombs in Pingzhaying Tombs, one of which has been well preserved and has not been excavated before!"
"Really?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help being surprised: "Is it bigger this time? ? Wait! Next, doesn't it say in "Shui Jing Zhu" that there are six large tombs in total?"
"Let's go to the conference room to talk first."
Guling Town is a small town guest house. Right next to the town government, this group of people took over an office of the town government without any courtesy and turned it into a "temporary headquarters". Here they put a large hand-drawn survey map and various drawings on the wall. It looks like it should be the excavation work area.
Everyone sat down in the conference room, and after polite introductions to each other, Huo Wei and Jiang Tianxi began to introduce the "golden doll" found here.
“There is a puzzle in the current archaeological history, that is, the boundaries of the sphere of influence of the ancient Chu State.”
“Historical classics and archaeological discoveries show that the Three Gorges area first belonged to the Ba people. After arriving in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River, they joined the rule of the Wuzhi Kingdom, which was founded on salt, and became a subordinate tribe of the Wuzhi Kingdom. He was resettled in Guling Town, where he mainly engaged in water transportation and the salt industry. "
"Due to the Ba people's merits in the salt industry, their power expanded, they had their own cities and armed forces, and they were promoted to vassals. This is the origin of Ba State. "
"So Ba State developed and grew from Guling, and Guling is the hometown of Ba State."
(End of this chapter)