Archaeological Discoveries of Princess Yongtai's Tomb
In the history of Datang, the death of the 17-year-old Yongtai Princess is the most regrettable. The Tang Book records that it was "for Zhang Yizhi and was killed by Wu Hou."
Princess Yongtai is the daughter of Wu Zetian, the daughter of Tang Zhongzong and Wei Huang. In the 1960s, the tomb of Princess Yongtai was discovered by accidental archaeology. From the excavation of one of the epitaphs, the cause of death was revealed, and it was analyzed that it was not killed, but that it was not.
Is that true? This article is about this.
After the discovery of the Tomb of Princess Yongtai, with the deepening of archaeological research, an explosive inference emerged: Yongtai Princess Li Xianzhen was not killed by homicide, but died of dystocia.
It turned out that in the first issue of "Relics" in 1963, Mr. Wu Bolun, the then curator of the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, published the exclusive article "Yongtai Princess Epitaph", which was just unearthed from the Princess of Yongtai. Text.
Wu Bolun’s "difficult to say" is a big secret, subverting history and having a great influence. Is this really true? It seems now that Wu Bolun’s inference was expected to earn a profit from the philanthropy, and he misunderstood the lyrics in the epitaph. One of the key arguments of Wu is the account of the cause of death in the epitaph of Princess Yongtai -
Since the mourning, the singularity of the shadows, the bonfire has not moved, the cypresses are empty, the beads are ruined by the moon, and the grievances are ten-scented; the Qiong dynasty withering the spring, the secret medicine of the two children.
Among them, the phrase "鸾愁孤影" makes Wu Bolun mistakenly think that Princess Yongtai was not executed at the same time as her husband and brother, but after becoming a widow, she was lonely and grief-stricken, and then she came up with "like Yongtai Princess." The disease is dying, not the idea of being killed by the martial arts."
In the words "beads ruining the moon", Wu Bolun also came up with the specific cause of death of Princess Yongtai: "It seems that the death of Princess Yongtai is due to pregnancy," which is widely circulated as "death in dystocia" .
"Difficult to say" is nothing but a bold academic conjecture and inference by an archaeological expert. But why do so many people believe that it is true? It turns out that there are stories below. In the archaeological excavation, the ruined bones of Princess Yongtai and her husband were discovered. The anthropological appraisal report on this sacrum has led to a new topic.
In the archaeological excavation, the sarcophagus of the remains was found in the back room of the underground palace. The southernmost piece of stone on the roof of the roof-shaped stone sarcophagus has been removed by 45 centimeters, and it is covered with mud. This shows that the tomb has been stolen by the tomb. Sure enough, in addition to the cheekbones, no burial device was found from the scorpion.
During the archaeological period, an interesting phenomenon was also found: on the tomb of the Princess Yongtai, there was an early stolen cave with a skeleton standing in front of it, an iron axe beside it, surrounded by gold, jade and other burials. Product.
The analysis believes that this skeleton should be the tomb thief of the year. After handing the stolen treasures to the above accomplices, he failed to climb out and was killed by the greedy accomplices in the burglary.
Wu Zetian's granddaughter's tomb was discovered by accidental archaeology, there are stolen caves, and the epitaph analyzes the big secret of the day.
Published in the first issue of "Relics" in 1964, "Tang Yongtai Princess Tomb Excavation Briefing", the testament is introduced as follows: "(The will) is incompletely preserved, the skull and a mandible are in the northeast corner of the scorpion. This is the second The burial of the person is consistent with the record of the essay. From the position of the skull, it is about head to north and foot to the south. Other burial methods are unknown."
Later, some scholars used 11 pieces of unearthed pelvis fragments for anthropological identification and restored the intact pelvis of Princess Yongtai. It was found that the Yongtai Princess pelvis was narrower than the female of the same age, and concluded that “obviously, such a narrow pelvis, even a normal fetus, is difficult to produce.”
Some scholars according to the very strong historical records of the husband of Yongtai Princess Wu Yanji, speculated that he and the Princess Yongtai were born "the fetus can not be small." In the epitaph of the epitaph of "Bearless Destruction of the Moon", in the step-by-step speculation and conjecture, the conclusion that Princess Yongtai died of dystocia was almost rumored to be a fact.