Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1463 Chu Tomb and Ancient Tomb

In the future plan, Guling Town will move up the hillside as a whole, similar to Yunyang, and a new town will be built. When Zhou Zhi and his party walked through the old street and passed the town primary school, they saw a wall behind the primary school. , the wall is painted with white lime, with several huge red characters written on it - "Guling Town, 156 meters water level."

Below the text, there is a thick red line. That position is the water level that will eventually be reached after the Three Gorges Project impounds water.

Of course, Zhou Zhi and his party did not stay here just for peace and quiet. A big event happened in Guling Town recently, and it was closely related to the foundation.

In the town guest house, Zhou Zhi and his party found "one of their own".

The small guest house was full of people who came from all over the country to support the team.

Because there are so many teams, even the town middle school classrooms have been temporarily requisitioned and turned into simple accommodation rooms.

There are many disputes in the Xiajiang River, and Shu and Chu have been contending for a long time. Who would have thought that the exiled man would become his hometown tomb in his hometown.

According to the records of "Yunyang County Chronicles", Yunyang was the territory of Yongguo during the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, Yongguo was destroyed by Chu and Yunyang belonged to Chu. There was a forest here at that time, called the ancient forest. In the Yangtze River in Gulin, there is a backwater, so it is called Gulintuo. Later, when he was in Danyang, the capital of Chu, six princes were buried beside Beijiang in Gulin. Over time, the name of the ancient forest became a homonym of the ancient mausoleum, which has been used to this day.

According to records in "Three Kingdoms", "Book of Jin", "Huayang Kingdom", and "Shui Jing Zhu", in the first year of Chuping of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang established Guling County here, with jurisdiction from Quren to Yufu. area.

In the 21st year of Jian'an, Liu Bei, who had already entered Yizhou as the shepherd of Liu Zhang in the Shu Dynasty, restored Guling County according to the old system and administered Quren, Yufu, Yangqu, Hanfeng and Wu and Beijingliu, which were originally Yidu counties. county.

In the first year of Zhangwu of the Shu Han Dynasty, Guling County was renamed Badong County, and the county government was moved from here to Yunyang.

"Shui Jing Zhu" mentioned the origin of the place name: "There are six big tombs on the side of the river. Geng Zhongyong said: 'The burial place in Danyang, the capital of Chu, is also the Baling of Zhizhi, so it is named after the ancient tomb.'" .

"Yunyang County Chronicle" writes more clearly: "The Guling Ancient Tombs Group is located in Hatbox Ridge on the west side of Guling Town."

According to measurements, Hatbox Ridge will sink 20 meters underwater after the Three Gorges impounds water, so there is a need for rescue excavation here.

However, the country's main energy is currently focused on the rescue excavation of the remaining proven sites and large tombs. As for the six tombs of King Chu recorded in ancient books, judging from the previous Luoyang shovel detections, there is no found, and therefore not allocated much power.

At this time, the foundation took action. In line with the principle of making the last effort when there are no dates, the Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Fund has listed the exploration of Maohe Ridge in Guling Town as a priority, allocated funds, organized volunteers, and conducted the last rescue exploration here.

As a result, a discovery was made at a place called Flat Camp on Hatbox Ridge.

Archaeologists discovered some huge mounds of sealing earth a hundred meters above the river bank. The mounds were cone-shaped, about 40 meters high and about 500 meters in circumference at the bottom.

During a tentative excavation, it was discovered that although this place had been robbed, but based on the shape of the tombs, burial pits, stepped tomb passages, two-story platforms, and finally the skeletons of the martyrs were discovered!

Sacrifice refers to prisoners of war or slaves who were buried for sacrifice. This is a characteristic of the tombs of ancient nobles. In other words, the level of this tomb is very high. The legendary six major tombs are not unfounded rumors!

This finally attracted the attention of the country and sent capable forces here to carry out large-scale exploration and excavation work. The team leader is Zhou Zhi’s old acquaintance, Jiang Tianxi, dean of the School of History of Shu University.

Of course, Jiang Tianxi was not directly involved in the archaeological excavation and exploration. His task was to set up the organizational structure. The person doing the work was Huo Wei from the Department of Archeology of Shu University.

Huo Wei has not yet grown up to become a big boss in later generations, a doctoral supervisor, a dean, a curator, and a director. He has led the Sichuan University archaeological team to participate in the excavation of major new archaeological discoveries across the country many times. He was born in 1957 and is only three years old this year. Seventeen years old, strong and sharp-eyed. When he saw Zhou Zhi, he grabbed his hand and bumped into her. Then he gave Zhou Zhi a fierce hug and slapped Zhou Zhi on the back: "Elbow." Elbow, we made a golden doll this time!”

The two got acquainted during the preparations for the new Sichuan University Museum. They were both working hard under the boss. Huo Wei was the organizer of Tibetan cultural relics and snow area cultural relics under Master Tenzin, and Zhou Zhi was the ancient books under Yuan Dongjue. Calligraphy and painting organizer.

The "Corpse Illustrated Book" donated by Zhou Zhi to Sichuan University, as well as the box wrapped in the "Corpse Illustrated Book", are now the highest-level Tibetan cultural relics in Sichuan University and have been named "The Corpse Illustrated Book of the Three Causes of Blessing the King's Longevity Sutra" and "Two Buddhas and Three Seven-Treasure Thangka Spiritual Objects Offering Letter" have become the treasures of Sichuan Tibetan cultural relics, especially the "Corpse Illustrated Book" which records ancient Tibetan medical anatomy knowledge. Among them, it can also be ranked in the top ten.

These two things are very mysterious to Zhou Zhi who lacks professional knowledge in this area, but of course you have to figure out what happened to the things you donated, right?

Therefore, Zhou Zhi often went to pester Master Denzin to teach him knowledge. However, the knowledge involved in these two cultural relics was quite a big system. Master Denzin felt a headache when he saw Zhou Zhi, the Little Tan Master, so he recommended Huo Wei. Come out as a shield.

In this way, the two became good friends. They were both lovers of cultural relics. They often worked overtime until late, so they often made appointments to go to the cold cup for drinks and exchange experiences.

"What golden doll?" Zhou Zhi was confused: "Where is Dean Jiang?"

"I'm here." Jiang Tianxi looked at the two people hugging each other in front of him: "What are you doing in such a hot day? Elbow, we found four large Chu tombs in the Pingzhaying tombs, one of which is well preserved. It’s been stolen!”

"Really?!" Zhou Zhi couldn't help being surprised: "Is it bigger this time?! Wait a minute, doesn't the "Shui Jing Zhu" say there are a total of six large tombs?"

"Let's go to the conference room to talk first."

Guling Town is very small, and the town guest house is next to the town government. This group of people took over an office of the town government without any courtesy and became a "temporary headquarters", where they placed a large hand-drawn survey map. There are also various drawings on the wall, which seem to be the work area of ​​the excavation site.

Everyone sat down in the conference room, and after polite introductions to each other, Huo Wei and Jiang Tianxi began to introduce the "golden doll" found here.

"There is a puzzle in current archaeological history, and that is the boundary of the ancient Chu State's sphere of influence."

"Historical classics and archaeological discoveries show that the Three Gorges area originally belonged to the Ba people. After they came to the Three Gorges area of ​​the Yangtze River, they joined the rule of the Wuzhang Kingdom, which was founded on salt, and became an affiliated tribe of the Wuzhang Kingdom. They were placed in the ancient mausoleum. The town is mainly engaged in water transportation and salt industry.”

"Due to the Ba people's meritorious service in the salt industry, their power expanded, they had their own cities and armed forces, and they were promoted to vassals. This is the origin of the Ba country."

"Therefore, the Kingdom of Ba developed and grew from Guling, and Guling is the hometown of the Kingdom of Ba."

(End of this chapter)