In addition to making a fuss about the address, the ancients also used many methods to prevent grave robbery.
1, "Fu Huo". At the end of Qing Dynasty, the Tufuzi near Changsha, Hunan called this fire-breathing tomb "fire pit tomb" or "fire hole". 1972, during the excavation of Mawangdui 1 Han Tomb in Changsha, workers drilled several holes with steel drills when excavating the white plaster mud layer, and a cold air gushed out from the holes, which would burn in case of fire! Not only the funerary objects of the whole tomb are intact, but even the skin of the female tomb owner is still elastic!
2. "Poisoning" When it comes to poisoning, I'm afraid Ying Zheng, the first Qin Emperor, was the most successful. He used mercury as a river and sea in his tomb, and mercury volatilization has not failed so far! According to archaeological investigation, there is 12000 square meters of "mercury anomaly" in the Shihuang Mausoleum! !
However, the Tao is one foot high and the devil is ten feet high. It is reported that there was also a mercury pool in Qi Huangong's tomb during the Warring States Period. When it was stolen in the late Western Jin Dynasty, it was poisoned for several days, and the method of leading the way with dogs was invented.
3. "Machine crossbow" The machine crossbow of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is also world-class. Poor craftsmen who design mechanical crossbows don't know how many brain cells died when they made these super-cutting mechanical design schemes. Unexpectedly, the crossbow that shoots intruders will rust one day. 1985 Twenty-five pieces of copper tribulus were found in the Han Tomb in Qinglong Township, Chengdu, which should be a unique hidden weapons against grave robbers.
Unfortunately, hidden weapons failed, and the tomb was seriously harassed when it was discovered.
4, "water storage" as the saying goes: dry for a thousand years, wet for ten thousand years. Storing water in the tomb can not only drown the grave robbers, but also preserve the owner's body for a long time. On April 1933, Beijing Morning Post reported: "There are two ancient tombs, one is Yuan Tiangang's tomb ... there is a pool of clear water, which is bottomless ... two people ... fell into the water and died. Then it was fished out, and the bodies were smashed by the tip of the cone ... ".
"Water storage" is also likely to take advantage of the geographical advantage of high groundwater level. In 2000, a large coffin was found in the commercial street of Chengdu. Although the cemetery was excavated on a large scale a long time ago (the culprit may be Qin Jun), due to the high groundwater level, grave robbers worried about collapse, dug a V-shaped pit and stole the middle part of the coffin. These coffins were cleverly hidden under the sides of the V, and they were fortunately preserved.
5, "sand accumulation" According to archaeological data, sand accumulation may be a relatively common means of preventing robbery. Tomb 1, 2/and 3 in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province, excavated at 1950, is considered as the resting place of the royal family of Wei State during the Warring States Period. The tomb was built of huge stones and filled with fine sand. It's a pity that these three tombs were badly dug, and even a few funerary objects were left.
In addition, a kind of tomb in the early Western Han Dynasty was scientifically excavated. The tomb was built in the sand layer of the river bank platform. I dug 5 meters deep and dared not dig any further. Watching the sand keep falling every day, it will always be buried alive! It was not stolen!
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Organizers and executors of grave robbery face accusations of robbing ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs. This crime belongs to behavioral crime rather than consequential crime in criminal form. As long as the perpetrator carries out the act of excavating ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs, whether or not the cultural relics are stolen, it constitutes the accomplishment of this crime.
Generally speaking, thieves have the purpose of illegally possessing cultural relics. Whoever commits theft and steals precious cultural relics is an aggravated punishment for the crime of stealing ancient tombs in ancient cultural sites.
Grave robbers who destroy cultural relics in the process of theft may also be suspected of intentionally or negligently destroying cultural relics, and the crime of excavating ancient tombs in ancient cultural sites is an imaginative crime, which should be severely punished according to the provisions of the criminal law. Whoever sells culture after excavation, or is suspected of selling cultural relics, shall be punished for several crimes.
The Intermediate People's Court of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province made a first-instance judgment on the first batch of cases of "1 1.26" that illegally excavated ancient tombs in ancient cultural sites.
At the end of 20 14, a large number of tomb-robbing traces appeared in Hongshan Culture Site Reserve in Chaoyang City, many ancient tombs and ancient cultural sites were seriously damaged, and a large number of precious cultural relics were stolen. The Ministry of Public Security, Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department and Chaoyang Public Security Bureau set up a task force to carry out investigations and cracked them in one fell swoop. This case is also the case of recovering the most stolen cultural relics and arresting the most suspects in a single case since the founding of New China.
In the first instance, five defendants, including Wang Moumou, were sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of excavating ancient tombs in ancient cultural sites, and 25 defendants, including Li Moumou, were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 15-3 years, and fined.
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