Who's Xiao Taihou? Many people have a question. Why are there precious things in Xiao Taihou's grave? After listening to Bian Xiao's introduction, you will understand that Xiao Taihou really deserves it. Xiao Taihou is a very powerful means, so it can control the whole Liao country for decades, relying on its own iron fist rule to make Liao country stronger and stronger. Ye, the fifth emperor of Liao, died at the age of 35. At that time, his son 12 became emperor. Obviously, he could not manage a country well, so he began to obey the government, and the actual power of Liao was in her hands.
Xiao Taihou has been listening to politics for 27 years, and I have to admire her ability. During this period, she managed a country in good order, and her son basically had nothing to do, so his mother solved it. By A.D. 1009, Xiao Taihou, 56, was unable to keep working all the year round and his health was getting worse, so he returned the actual power to his son Yelulongxu, the emperor of Liao Dynasty. In the same year, Xiao Taihou died from overwork, and the whole country mourned. The grief-stricken Yelu Longxu buried him next to his father and prepared a wealth of funerary objects, including this shroud worth 3.4 billion yuan.
Why are the gold and jade clothes worth 3.4 billion yuan in the royal tombs of the Han Dynasty also precious, but the valuation is 2.4 billion yuan. Why is this shroud more expensive than gold and jade clothes? It is precisely because of its ingenious manufacturing process. First of all, the whole shroud is made of gold thread and weighs 3240 grams. It is made of nearly ten thousand gold threads with a length of about one meter and a diameter of about 0.1mm. The whole dress is like silk. The gap between the gold threads is so small that it is no exaggeration to describe it as wonderful workmanship.
This shroud is woven with ancient embroidery skills that have long been lost, which fills a gap in the weaving history of our country and gives us an intuitive understanding of the weaving skills thousands of years ago, so it is precious. And 3.4 billion is only an estimate given by experts, a figure obtained after considering its historical value and cultural relics value, and such precious cultural relics are not allowed to be traded, and this figure is just to show its value.
So it's not that grave robbers dare not touch it, and grave robbers are certainly not stupid, but this precious cultural relic has finally returned to the world after suffering, which also makes us feel gratified.