Biography of consorts in Han Dynasty: It is recorded that the tomb of Queen Ding was destroyed on a large scale: "The fire started four or five feet, and the officers and men were killed by water, but they got in, and everything that burned the coffin was burned", so the things in the tomb were gone; After Queen Ding was replaced by a wooden coffin, the jade clothes were removed. The tomb can only be a common wooden coffin, and there will be no jade clothes common in the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty. In the stolen tomb of princes, because of the small number of individuals, jade clothes are the most easily preserved relics reflecting the identity of the tomb owner. That is to say, after being destroyed by Wang Mang, there were only wooden coffins, no jade clothes, no funerary objects, etc. in the tomb of Queen Ding, which was highly consistent with what was discovered during the excavation of Dingtao Han Tomb.
The Book of Water records that "Dingtao County is in the south of Dongdu" and that "Jishui is in the northeast of Lingnan, Wang Gong, Dingtao, the father of Emperor Ai of Han Dynasty". ..... Now, its tall and beautiful grave has been lined up in the corner of this country for several weeks, and the heavy door is open on its face. There are two collapsed monuments in the south gate, which are still called Ding Tomb, also known as Chang Tunling Mausoleum. Gaihe was destroyed, so please reply. Contrary to the book, Ding's tomb did not suffer much damage, not necessarily as stated in history. "Therefore, according to the records in Hanshu, Wang Mang's destruction of Queen Ding's tomb should mainly be to remove the funerary objects in the tomb, take off the jade clothes and replace them with wooden coffins, while the destruction of the cemetery facilities outside the tomb should be incomplete. Therefore, by the time of the Northern Dynasties, the cemetery and tomb were still well preserved, which was" magnificent and beautiful, and the country of the past dynasties was heavy. "
From the discovery of Dingtao Han Tomb, its enclosure was seven or eight meters above the modern ground, and it was still 10.5 meters below the ground in the Han Dynasty, with a total height of about 18.5 meters. Its tall walls are consistent with the fact that the tomb of Dinghou in the Northern Dynasties was still "magnificent and beautiful".
Therefore, if the age of Dingtao Han Tomb is really as the late Western Han Dynasty determined by the digger, it seems to me that the possibility that the owner of the tomb is Ding Hou is much greater than that of Liu Kang. Moreover, it should be noted that when Ding Hou died, he was buried as the empress dowager, and after her husband, King * * *, died, he was buried as an ordinary c, so it is not surprising that Ding Hou's tomb is larger in specifications than that of his own.
According to documents, Wang not only had a cemetery named "Jingdi Garden", but also preserved it until the Northern Dynasty. Therefore, Zhu said that "all corners of the country come from all sources, and the country is listed for several weeks, and the door is open." Therefore, when there is nothing in the tomb, it is generally feasible to determine the age and owner of the tomb, further search and determine the structure of the cemetery, try to dig and obtain the building materials of the cemetery, judge the age of the tomb with the building materials with clear dating knowledge now, and infer the owner according to the specifications and layout of the tombs and buildings related to the cemetery.