The princess of King Liang Zhuang (the original match) Ji "died young." In the eighth year of Xuande, when King Liang Zhuang was twenty-two, Wei, who was twenty, was made Princess Liang. They only lived together for eight years, and King Liang Zhuang "died of illness." Wei was heartbroken. "I want to die with you." The orthodox emperor issued a decree to appease her and asked her to stay and raise the two young girls of King Liang Zhuang. It has been 10 years since Wei died at the age of 38, but she is still buried with her husband, and it is the most intimate form of burial-the same room and the same cave. When I was buried, I had to smash the west gate because the stone pushed the tomb door tightly.
Wei's burial added many precious funerary objects to the mausoleum. Among them, 24 of the 25 gold hairpin unearthed belong to the princess, and this gold-plated bronze imperial seal book has become the only imperial seal book of the Ming Dynasty princess seen so far.
Liang Zhu said that it was probably because they had no children and a lot of treasures were not inherited, so they were buried in the tomb, making the seemingly humble tomb of King Liangzhuang a treasure house of gold and silver.
The biggest discovery after Ming Dingling: archaeological surprise of Hubei Zhuang tomb.
Hubei Provincial People's Government officially announced the archaeological excavation results of the tomb of King Liangzhuang in Ming Dynasty. Experts pointed out that this is the biggest archaeological discovery in Ming Dynasty after Dingling's excavation. In Changping, a suburb of Beijing, the tombs of thirteen Ming emperors and their empresses are buried, commonly known as the Ming Tombs. The Ming Tombs are the only tombs in the Ming Tombs for archaeological excavation, and a large number of precious cultural relics were unearthed in 1956. From mid-April to early May of 2000/KLOC-0, with the approval of National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the Jingmen Municipal Government and the Zhongxiang Municipal Government jointly organized the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other archaeologists to excavate the tomb of Liangzhuang King in Ming Dynasty outside Changtan Town of Zhongxiang City until the end of that year.
Zhongxiang City is more than 200 kilometers away from Wuhan City, located in Jianghan Plain between the Yangtze River and its largest tributary, the Han River. During the Warring States period, it was called Jiaoying, which was the capital of Chu State and enjoyed the reputation of "granary in the world". During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhong Xiang became the three directly subordinate governors of the country, just like Beijing and Nanjing at that time. 1994, Zhongxiang was listed as a famous historical and cultural city in China. In 2000, the Ming Tombs of Zhongxiang were listed in the World Cultural Heritage List. According to the director of the Provincial Department of Culture, the tomb of King Liangzhuang excavated this time is the burial tomb of King Liangzhuang and Princess Wei. King Liang Zhuang was Zhu Zhan, the ninth son of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty, and was buried after 144 1 year. When buried, only the tomb door was blocked, and no wall was sealed for backfilling. 10 years later, Wang Wei, the princess, died, and then the tomb door that had been blocked was opened, and Wang Hao was buried with King Liang Zhuang.
The Prince's Tomb in Ming Dynasty is a high-level tomb, which generally has a drainage system, but the tomb has no drainage system. Instead, it was built in a place where you can see the groundwater, which should be related to some superstition at that time, meaning "don't stop until you reach the grave." The funerary objects in the tomb are very rich, including gold, silver, jade, precious stones and porcelain, etc. More than 5 100 pieces, including gold and silver, jade 1400 pieces, the weight of gold ware alone is more than 10 kg, and there are as many as 3,400 pieces of beaded gems. This is the first time that such a large amount of gold, silver and jewels have been buried with the prince's tomb of the Ming Dynasty, second only to Dingling, the imperial tomb of the Ming Dynasty. There are many kinds of gold, silver, jade and pearl jewelry buried with him, which are beautifully made and well preserved, and are still dazzling, elegant and breathtaking.
Important unearthed objects buried with the tomb are one after another. There are five gold crowns with embedded treasure unearthed, the largest of which is 4.8 cm high, 5.2 cm in diameter and weighs 4 1. 1 g. The top is inlaid with a pale yellow transparent gem, and the crown is eight-petal-shaped, with eight red, blue and emerald embedded, which is very bright and dazzling. The unearthed princess seal, bronze enamel (sound "Hugh") gold, was the appointment document of Princess Wei in 1433 (the eighth year of Xuande). Xi Shu is rarely buried in the tomb, and the princess Xi Shu is the first case found in the excavated tomb of the Prince of Ming Dynasty. Two pieces of "arm-wrapped gold" are made of gold bars with a width of 0.7 cm and a thickness of 0. 1 cm and wound 12 times. Each piece is 12.5 cm long and weighs 295.5g and 292.5g respectively. They were used as decorations for women and buried in the tomb of a prince in the Ming Dynasty, which is the first case. On the original ground of King Liangzhuang's tomb, there are buildings on the ground. Now only a part of Yingyuan's foundation site has been preserved, and all historical buildings have been destroyed. Now only traces of bricks are found. The tomb (underground palace) is built on the hillside, north-south, with a "middle" shape inside. It is a brick tomb with a cliff hole. There is an inclined pyramid-shaped mound at the southern end of the tomb, which is10.6m long. The tomb is divided into a front room and a back room, and the inside is covered with a layer of lime to prevent moisture. Tin ware, bronze ware and iron ware come from the front room, while the coffins of kings and princesses and the main gold, silver, jade and jewels come from the back room.
Wang Shaojie, deputy director in charge of cultural work in Hubei Province, pointed out that the excavation of the tomb of King Liangzhuang in the Ming Dynasty was the largest archaeological discovery in Hubei Province in the Ming Dynasty, with the highest value of cultural relics. It is also an unprecedented discovery with the highest level and the largest number of cultural relics unearthed in Ming tombs, which provides new materials and new topics for the study of Ming history and archaeology. At present, this project has been declared as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 200 1 year.