Nanmu photographer

When the name Guo Moruo is mentioned, many people first think that he is a great poet in modern history. As one of the founders of new poetry, many of his poems have been included in Chinese textbooks, such as Market in the Sky and Ode to Radio and Television, which are immortal masterpieces. In addition to poetry creation, Guo Moruo is also an archaeologist.

1955, Guo Moruo took the lead in submitting a written request for instructions on the excavation of the Ming Changling mausoleum to his superiors, and Shen Yanbing, Deng Tuo and other famous writers and journalists signed the following signatures. Due to the lack of archaeological experience, this application was opposed by many people, but after repeated consideration, the superior agreed to carry out archaeological activities.

The Ming Dynasty existed for more than 270 years, with 16 emperors, whose tombs were divided into four places. The Ming Tombs in Beijing are the largest imperial tombs. In June of the same year, preparations for the excavation of Ming Changling began. After the archaeological team arrived at the scene, they groped for many days and did not find the Ming Chengzu Judy Changling Tunnel. After discussion, they can only give up the excavation of Changling and turn to Dingling in Ming Shenzong.

On the eve of Dingling expedition, the weather changed suddenly and the rain poured down, which lasted for more than two months. There is a crack in the city brick around Dingling, which the archaeological team thinks may be the entrance to the underground palace. Sure enough, shortly after the excavation, the words "Tunnel Gate" were engraved on the Shi Zhuan.

In the tunnel, they also saw a stone tablet, and the words on it showed that it was about 16 feet away from the King Kong Wall. However, after discovering the trapezoidal opening on the wall of King Kong, no one dared to tear down the bricks on the wall first, for fear that there were organs or poisonous gas in the mausoleum. When the archaeological work reached a deadlock, the local village was not calm.

People in the village have been sick from time to time since the archaeological team came here. Since the last rainstorm, the weather has been bad, with lightning and thunder. I haven't seen the sun for a long time, and the crops have been greatly reduced. People think that the emperor was angry because he knew that someone was going to dig his grave underground.

Faced with the villagers' speculation, archaeologists insisted on their belief in science and decided to dig the King Kong Wall next. After the lottery, someone finally climbed the ladder and carefully removed the wall tiles. When the first brick was taken out, a black smoke slowly oozed along the gap, accompanied by a strange rancid smell.

After the underground palace was opened, before the experts went in, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, followed by a loud noise, and a stone lion outside the mausoleum was split in half. After a pause, they continued to walk in. There were a lot of gold, silver, jewels and silk paintings and calligraphy buried in the underground palace, but before long, these exquisite cultural relics were oxidized, and some things directly turned into powder.

The tomb of Emperor Wanli was also found in the underground palace. After the coffin was opened, they took out the treasure, and the coffin made of nanmu was discarded at will. When the archaeological team evacuated from the underground palace, they found that two staff members who had been outside the underground palace were unconscious.

Later, the coffin board discarded by the archaeological team was picked up by a local old farmer. He thought it was good wood and wanted to use it to make a coffin for himself and his wife. Unexpectedly, the coffin was just finished and both of them died. Another family made a lying cabinet out of the boards mined in the emperor's tomb, and it didn't take long for all four children in the family to suffocate in the cabinet. For a time, Beijingers were in a panic.

In order to appease the people, all archaeological work in the Ming Tombs was terminated, but strange things still happened one after another. It is said that the person in charge who participated in the excavation of Dingling committed suicide and the photographer hanged himself. Many experts get strange diseases, and few people live to old age healthily and die naturally.

We still can't explain these strange supernatural phenomena, but what is certain is that due to the backwardness of archaeological technology, the hasty mining of the imperial tomb has caused large-scale cultural relics destruction, which is distressing in the whole archaeological history. So now we advocate that we should not actively excavate the mausoleum, but only carry out rescue excavation, so as to better protect cultural relics.