After months of drought, the water level dropped, and the secret was hidden under Hongze Lake for 300 years. What did you find?

An ancient tomb was discovered. The owner of this ancient tomb was not ordinary people, but Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandfather, great-grandfather and grandfather. This tomb is also called Ming Zuling. This Hongze Lake is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China. It is located in Jiangsu Province, in the lower reaches of Huaihe River. But when the weather is dry and there is no rain, the water level of Hongze Lake will still drop, which is inevitable. Just like 1966, there is drought all the year round and little rainfall, so the water level of Hongze Lake has dropped again and again, and finally some places even dried up.

Residents living nearby, when they went for a walk by the lake, suddenly found that there were four pillars where the lake was full. This discovery surprised him. Why are there stone pillars in the lake? So he reported to the relevant departments, and the relevant departments sent people to investigate and found that it was a cultural relic. So I began to explore this ancient tomb that was originally submerged under water. The tomb was built with great care. You can tell at a glance that the owner of the tomb should be noble, at least not ordinary civilians.

With the gradual excavation of the tomb, it was found that it was the tomb of the great-grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, in the nineteenth year of Hongwu, he surveyed such a place on Hongze Lake to build ancestral graves. After it was built, his great-grandfather, great-grandfather and grandfather's graves were removed and reburied. But later Liu Daxia managed the Yellow River and changed its course. Since then, the Ming Zuling has been flooded. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, dams were built to block water, but during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Zuling was completely flooded.

It was not until 1966 that the Ming Zuling was rediscovered by the world because of the decrease of the water level in Hongze Lake. Sadly, all the wooden structures of the mausoleum were soaked and rotted, and only the stone carvings were not destroyed. It's a pity that if there were paper products such as paintings and calligraphy buried with him, they would have been washed away by the water.