0 1 In the past, ordinary people's coffins could only be painted black, and cinnabar paint was the privilege of royal funerals.
Since ancient times, China people have been very particular about the burial of the dead. The victim is the biggest? . Are people in China particular about it? The fallen leaves return to their roots, and the grave is safe? . Therefore, among many funeral forms (burial, cremation, celestial burial and hanging coffin burial), burial is the most common one in China.
(hanging coffin burial)
According to archaeological findings, there were tombs in China as early as the late Paleolithic period. In the Neolithic Age, this form of funeral became more popular.
As for burial, obviously more things need to be considered, instead of burning casually like cremation and celestial burial, or putting the deceased in a designated place for vultures (or other birds, mammals, etc.). ) swallow it.
China people pay attention to burial, but there are no conditions. Otherwise, it should be basically built according to the standard requirements of Qin Shihuang's underground palace. What location, east, west, north, south and so on are the most basic.
In addition, the choice of funerary objects and coffins is also the most important. Of course, things like this also depend on economic strength, social status and identity.
After the death of ordinary people, the funeral expenses will certainly not be too high. And those rich people who are rich and noble are relatively particular, just like choosing a coffin wood, they are also carefully selected.
For example, not everyone can use the Red Pavilion in this news event mentioned by the landlord.
In ancient times, after the death of ordinary people, the coffins that could be used were generally painted with black paint, and the bright red paint was mostly used by nobles.
The old farmer in the 02 incident was obviously ignorant? Commodities? , burned wrong? A bloody red coffin?
What the landlord said happened in an ordinary village in Henan Province in 2005. It is said that there is an old farmer in the village who plans to renovate his house because his son is going to marry a daughter-in-law.
As a result, in the process of digging the foundation, I accidentally dug a coffin. Because the coffin is excellent, it is said that the old farmer also asked many villagers to help him dig. Finally, after a while of digging and prying, the coffin was finally dug up. The scene you met at that time was very surprising:
The coffin is blood-red, the color is very bright, and there is a bronze mirror directly above the coffin.
Such a scene made many people exclaim: See you later!
Because it was so strange, people watching it felt strange, and people listening to it felt strange, and soon the news spread around the village.
Driven by curiosity, the old farmer wanted to open the coffin and have a look, but he smashed it with all kinds of tools, but he couldn't open it. In addition, the old farmer's cultural level is not high, and he can't understand what texture is carved on the coffin.
He thought it was unlucky to dig out the coffin in his own ground, let alone build a house and marry a wife, which made people feel too taboo, so he burned the coffin with a big fire.
After the local authorities learned about it, experts believed that the coffin was worth at least 500 million yuan.
Digging a coffin underground must be a hot news in the countryside. Moreover, the people in the village are talkative, and the news spread like wildfire, which attracted the attention of relevant local departments.
Soon, the above sent someone to find out. After the experts arrived at the scene, the area was blocked and the scene was excavated. Later, after archaeological evidence collection, the ancient tomb was finally found and some funerary objects were found.
Experts believe that this coffin should have been used by a prominent official in the Qing Dynasty. However, because the coffin has been burned, it is obviously impossible to explore the historical details in depth.
Later, the experts took back the materials for evidence collection, including some burnt coffin ashes, and found that coffin wood was a precious golden nanmu. Because of the high hardness of nanmu, it is difficult to split it with ordinary axe instruments.
This further proves that the coffin owner is either rich or expensive. Because in ancient times, only rich people such as dignitaries, royalty and relatives could afford the golden nanmu.
Experts say that the burned coffin alone is valuable, and it should be no less than 500 million. It's just a pity that because of the low level of education of the old peasants, they failed to report it to the local authorities at the first time, handled it wrongly without permission, and burned such historical relics with research value.
summary
In ancient China, there was a tradition of being buried with the dead. For example, bring the things that the deceased loved before his death into the coffin and bury the deceased with gold and silver jewelry. For example, Emperor Taizong liked Wang Xizhi's words very much, and after his death, he took Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection into the coffin.
It can be said that the historical research value of coffin tombs is relatively high, especially for nanmu.
China is an ancient country with an ancient culture. Over the years, many cultural relics have been frequently excavated. Most of these cultural relics are in an incomplete state because of their vicissitudes. In addition, many cultural relics have been unearthed among the people, and many precious cultural relics have been destroyed again because of people's weak awareness of cultural relics protection.
I hope that when people encounter this kind of thing again in the future, they can examine it with scientific thinking and report it to the country in time after discovering cultural relics to avoid causing many irreparable losses.
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