Ancient prose in Wang Wei's tomb

In the north of Henan Province, at the east foot of Taihang Mountain and on the north bank of the ancient Yellow River, there is a place called Weihui City, which is a famous historical and cultural city in Henan Province and the hometown of China God of Wealth. Since the establishment of Jixian County in the second year of the Western Han Dynasty (205 BC), it has been ruled by the state, Taoism, government and Taoism. It has a history of more than 2000 years. There is an ancient tomb 200 meters south of Niangniangmiao Village, one kilometer southwest of Weihui City 10, which is the site of Wei Tomb during the Warring States Period. Don't underestimate this ancient tomb site. It was here, with the help of a grave robber, that another famous ancient culture in China in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the 3rd century was discovered.

There is an ancient saying in China that "serve the dead as the living". Therefore, the ancients, especially those with certain status, often buried the most precious things before they died, so that they could continue to use and possess them in the underworld. Some princes and nobles even began to build tombs when they were young, accumulating wealth for later use. Such "reburial" stimulated the greed of grave robbers for the purpose of obtaining rare treasures in the tomb. Therefore, most of the ancient tomb sites in China have traces of theft. Of course, this site of Wei Guojun's tomb during the Warring States period is no exception.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was an unidentified man in Jixian County. He is a grave robber. When he was robbing the tomb here, he dug up this ancient tomb. Many bamboo slips were found in this tomb, so these grave robbers took local materials and took out bamboo slips as torches for lighting. Seeing that there was nothing valuable in the grave, he retreated. Later, someone found the tomb stolen and reported it to the government. The government collected the bamboo pieces in the tomb and scattered them on the ground. Only when grave robbery was not allowed did it take back a large number of bamboo slips for lighting. Bamboo slips were written in the shape of tadpoles, then loaded with several carts, transported to Luoyang, the capital, and handed over to the court of the Western Jin Dynasty. After these bamboo slips were transported from Jixian to Luoyang, the capital, Emperor Wu of Jin ordered Xun Xu, Zhong Shuling and Shu Jianyi to be responsible for sorting them out. By systematically sorting out and studying the bamboo slips of Gou Jian, proofreader Fu Zan and others, it is found that bamboo slips are a historical book of Wei State, including Mu Zhuan, which is precious. Later, after further sorting out by scholars such as Wei Heng, * * * sorted out 75 ancient books 16 species and chronological 13 species. The book has no name, and later generations take the recorded historical events as the chronological style, which is called "chronology". The original book is also called "bamboo book" and is generally called "bamboo book chronology". Later, according to the land, historians named these bamboo books Ji Zhongshu.

The chronology of bamboo books is concise and orderly, similar to Chunqiu, which truly records the historical events of Wei State and has important historical value. Later, Guo Pu's Biography of Mu, Gambao's Sou Shen Ji, Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics, Sima Zhen's Textual Research on Historical Records, His Notes on Selected Works, Liu Zhiji's Shangshu, His Notes on Taiping and Cun Wang's Yuan Jiu Feng.

It seems that the monarch of Wei is also a master who likes reading. In his grave, there are so many ancient books buried. It's also a coincidence that the grave robber who didn't want to be named stole the ancient tomb and let this ancient work see the light of day again, and then this ancient culture was discovered. Unfortunately, some of them were burned as torches, otherwise this ancient book would be more complete. Nothing seems perfect.