Why did ancient Luoyang people invent Luoyang shovel?

Luoyang shovel was named after its earliest discovery and use in Luoyang.

Why is Luoyang shovel called instead of Zhengzhou shovel and Xi 'an shovel? Was it invented in ancient times or in the Republic of China? What's so amazing about it? This question has three connotations. Let's talk about it in detail:

First of all, it is clear that shovels similar to Luoyang shovels actually existed in the Ming Dynasty. It was only carried forward in the Republic of China.

1. Who invented Luoyang shovel?

The most popular saying is that Li Yazi, a native of Luoyang, invented Luoyang shovel. This man lived near Mangshan Mountain, was born in 1873 and died in 1950. 1932, when he went to the market in Mengjin County, Henan Province, he saw a tool similar to a spade, which was used to borrow soil from the ground. In an instant, he went home and installed a wooden pole. It's really amazing to try it. He can easily take out a few meters of soil from the ground. China's first Luoyang shovel came out.

2. Why do you want to use Luoyang shovel to rob a tomb? "A Luoyang shovel pierces the boundary of yin and yang", is it really so magical?

Because of its small diameter, this shovel is mostly used to detect underground. It was originally called "exploration shovel". There are many ancient tombs in Luoyang area. After a large number of use, it became famous in the grave robbery industry, and it was an expert.

The Guanzhong Plain in northern China has always been deep in water and thick in soil, so it is impossible for grave robbers to dig on a large scale casually. It is a technical job to explore the underground soil layer in advance and find a hole. A shovel down, more than ten meters underground soil layer, soil structure, soil color, density, and even the green paste mud layer and arch brick layer of the underground palace can be found out. The tomb wall is thick and the interior is hollow, and the tremor and sound of shovel back are different. Experienced grave robbers know that the so-called "a Luoyang shovel pierces the boundary of yin and yang" is not a joke.

The structure of ancient tombs is different, and every dynasty has a conclusion, and the width and depth are fixed; The place where the tomb door is opened also follows the tomb. Outsiders think it is wonderful, and insiders can understand it after careful study. First, use Luoyang shovel to "draw pictures" on the ground, and then set the direction and depth of the stolen hole.

3. This is a grave robbing tool. How did it become a national archaeological tool?

After the invention of Luoyang shovel, most of the ancient tombs in the Central Plains were stolen under the encouragement of troubled times and the dream of making money. It was not until 20 years later that it attracted the attention of the archaeological community.

1952 and 1954, National Cultural Heritage Administration, together with Peking University and Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, held the first batch of national archaeological drilling training courses (training courses) in Luoyang, inviting folk grave robbers to interpret and introduce Luoyang shovel. This new detection tool was discovered and quickly spread to archaeological teams all over the country, and was incorporated into the formal archaeological textbooks of colleges and universities, officially named "Luoyang shovel".

To put it bluntly, although experts in archaeology are rich in knowledge, they are better than experts in the field of grave robbery in practice.

Luoyang shovel was improved by Li Yazi, a native of Luoyang, on an oval shovel used by the people to dig holes and plant piles in order to meet the needs of quick tomb-searching when tomb-robbing was prevalent in Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang in the 1920s and 1930s. Recently, when I was digging in Xiangyang, I saw people using this shovel. As other answers said, the probe, an underground detector used for grave robbing, was used as early as the Ming Dynasty, but the appearance of Luoyang shovel greatly improved the efficiency of grave robbing, because the probe can only find out whether there are bricks, stones and other hard objects underground, and Li Yazi's improved Luoyang shovel can bring out the soil deep underground, so that experienced people can judge whether there are tombs underground and when there are tombs according to the color, texture and contents of the soil. The Luoyang shovels are arranged according to a certain density and order, and the scope and opening position of tombs can be judged according to the changes of underground accumulation in different positions. It can be said that since the invention of Luoyang shovel, the tombs of North Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang have been devastated.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, in order to cooperate with the national large-scale economic construction, archaeological work in various places was arduous. Luoyang shovel can quickly, conveniently and relatively accurately judge the underground remains and remains in a certain area, so it is widely used in the exploration work before archaeological excavation. The first generation of explorers in many archaeological research institutions used to be grave robbers. Since then, Luoyang shovel has officially become the main tool of archaeological exploration, officially named "exploration shovel", and has formed a series of operation methods.

In archaeology, the principle of Luoyang shovel is very simple. Just like core sampling in geology, shovel actually samples the underground soil layer at a fixed point and depth, from which we can observe the level, soil quality and soil color of the underground cultural accumulation of a site, and judge the age of each layer of cultural accumulation according to the inclusions in each layer of soil. If the boreholes are distributed in a certain direction (mostly in the north-south direction) and a certain density (generally 5 meters and 10 meters), we can infer the distribution of underground cultural accumulation in a certain area according to the changes of boreholes in different positions, so as to prepare for the next work, such as finding a burial hole in a cemetery for the next cleaning and finding a suitable location for excavation. In traditional archaeological exploration, except for looking for the tomb entrance, most of them only have a rough judgment on the accumulation status and the distribution of the ruins in various parts of the site. Some recent shovels are equipped with RTK satellite positioning system, which can accurately locate the position of each probe hole and greatly improve the accuracy. Since Zhang Changping, a teacher of Wuhan University, took over the Panlongcheng site in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a large-scale national exploration has been carried out throughout the site. Using RTK to locate each probe hole accurately, record the soil sample information of each probe hole in detail, and establish the exploration database and retrieval system, so as to better observe the distribution of underground deposits in various areas of the site, which is a remarkable archaeological exploration work in recent years.

Attach photos of archaeological exploration:

Conduct a general survey at a site in Shandong Province. This kind of exploration is generally a few people standing in a row, distributed at a certain distance, pulling the net forward or backward.

During the exploration in Xiangyang last year, the soil samples from the exploration holes were arranged in the order from shallow to deep, and the color change of underground soil could be clearly seen.

The carbide mixed in the soil sample of the probe hole may be ash pit soil.

The soil sample in the probe hole is mixed with braised soil, which is related to the abandonment of buildings.

Friends who often read tomb-robbing novels must be no strangers. In all kinds of grave robbing works, grave robbers have an indispensable artifact, that is Luoyang shovel. With this shovel, the location of the grave was decided in minutes. What artifact is this Luoyang shovel? How can a shovel locate an ancient tomb?

The magic of Luoyang shovel, in a word, can easily take out the underground soil samples completely! Neither a steel shovel nor a short-handled hoe can do this. Grave robbers will make a simple analysis of the site through the dirt they bring up. In the jargon of the circle, it is called "looking at the soil". If you find cooked soil that has been manually moved, there may be ancient tombs or ancient buildings underground. If you have a good eye, you can even judge what age the tomb belongs to, what funerary objects are in it, and what direction the coffin faces, which is more accurate than the analysis and measurement with modern exploration instruments.

Then the question is, why can Luoyang shovel carry soil completely, but other shovels can't? Looking closely at Luoyang shovel, we can see that the shovel head of Luoyang shovel is U-shaped, and the soil particles are fixed in the U-shaped pipe and cannot move by using the tension of mutual extrusion after being pressed into the U-shaped pipe, so that the soil layer is completely lifted. However, it is very important to establish radian during molding. If you are not careful, the shovel will take no soil. Usually, to build a small shovel needs to go through 20 processes, such as embryo making, calcination, heat treatment, molding and polishing. Due to this complexity, it can only be built by hand at present. Now only a few workshops in Luoyang make Luoyang shovel.

Today, the practical value of Luoyang shovel has been fully recognized by the archaeological community. In the early 1970s, when an archaeological delegation from China visited Albania, it also presented a refined Luoyang shovel as a gift. From grave robbery to archaeology, Luoyang shovel achieved a gorgeous turn by its own strength.

Hello, everyone. Hello again. I'm Uncle Tong, from Luoyang.

Is Luoyang Shovel the "Fifth Great Invention" in ancient China? What is it mainly used for?

Uncle Tong told you that the main function of this ferroalloy shovel now is to do soil drilling, cultural relics archaeology and foundation drilling.

In the early years, Luoyang people invented an iron detector. Because of its origin, everyone calls it Luoyang shovel. It should be like this. If foreigners invented this thing, according to our custom, it is called "foreign shovel".

Luoyang shovel has been officially used as a special tool for field archaeologists. Figures are drawn in textbooks, and its use method is introduced, which has been popularized throughout the country, thus forming a unique archaeological drilling technology in China and becoming a symbol of archaeological drilling tools in China.

A few years ago, in the Chanhe area of Luoyang, when the urban construction was developing rapidly, you could often see the Luoyang shovel built by the blacksmith shop on the roadside.

It can be said that Luoyang shovel is also one of the best archaeological tools in the world. Luoyang shovel is widely used in national infrastructure, scientific research and industry.

A Luoyang shovel has gone through thousands of years.

In recent years, Luoyang Shovel has been endowed with more cultural symbols. Thus, in Luoyang, Luoyang Shovel Museum came into being.

At present, Luoyang shovel museum has been approved by the municipal cultural relics department and declared to the provincial cultural relics bureau.

I will tell you the most reliable answers to all questions about Luoyang, as long as you want, as long as I have them.

It was not invented in Luoyang, Henan Province, but the production tool of the people in the yellow land along the Huaihe River and the wisdom of the working people. Luoyang shovel is mainly used to dig wells in Huanghuai area. The wellhead is small and the well is deep, which is not convenient for people to enter. Only shovels have to be turned into tools to borrow soil. Later, the well was useless, and it was always used to dig tombs and found Luoyang shovel.

Luoyang shovel was first used as a medical tool for quacks in ancient times, not in modern times. It is said that ancient grave robbers invented it to rob tombs in order to trace the source and prevent future generations from misinformation and leaving future troubles. This truth is revealed to everyone. When Emperor Wendi of Shang Tang went to the West and the army attacked Turkmenistan, the local people in the western regions were defeated and reconciled, and a beautiful woman was presented in the palace. Beautiful women are used to eating in the western regions and are new to the Central Plains. The painted face was withered and pale, and Emperor Wen showed that the doctor died. He invited the world to offer a reward for treatment. A doctor outside the east gate of Luoyang showed a secret gadget for processing leg bones of lamb, and cured the leg bones of lamb by this method. Emperor Wendi was overjoyed and rewarded the doctor with Luoyang shovel! In the later period, the grave robbers copied it to rob the tomb and dig a pit, so that future generations would miss the country!

Suggestion: Luoyang people should stop posting such posts. This is a question of right and wrong. It is not worthwhile for a bunch of sprayers to ferment Heihe and Nanhei Luoyang.

Luoyang shovel was not invented in ancient times, but in the early years of the Republic of China. Luoyang people used to call it a shovel. The name was changed only after the reform and opening up.

The renamed leader also considered that its archaeological effect was greater than grave robbery. After all, after liberation, archaeology and infrastructure were used more.

There are several producers in Xiaoli village. How can you sell grave robbery tools in public? They also have registered trademarks.

We traveled to Sanmenxia, and the little girl wanted to tell us about Luoyang shovel. We all smiled and refused, because we were too clear that the village where Luoyang shovel was made was only one kilometer away from us.

The comments and comments on Luoyang shovel on the Internet are a bit extreme. Grave robbers not only exist now, but also in the dynasties when Luoyang shovel was not invented.

It is not necessary to use Luoyang shovel to explore the tomb, but its effect is recognized by the industry, very powerful and very scientific. In addition, people's experts have basically judged the expectation, smell and theoretical experience of the location of the feng shui treasure ... where there is a big tomb.

There are also horses poking and squeezing during the day and wandering around at night. ...

Luoyang shovel is a tool invented by Li Yazi, a grave robber in Luoyang. Luoyang has been the capital of emperors since ancient times, so there are many tombs of emperors and generals around Luoyang, but Luoyang is also often attacked by wars and dynasties change. Once the war broke out, people fled, and the tombs of emperors and generals were left unattended. At this time, grave robbers will show their talents. For the convenience and accuracy of grave robbery, they invented the shovel. When this shovel digs into the ground, it will shovel up the soil in the ground. Experienced grave robbers can judge whether there are tombs underground according to the soil quality of the soil layer they bring up. Later, in the early 20th century, a man named Li Yazi near Luoyang invented the "Luoyang shovel" on the basis of the ancients.