Zhang Xiaoli, an expert from Xi Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology, revealed to 17 that an epitaph was found during the construction of the local Kunming Road overpass and the south section of the West Third Ring Road. After a rescue excavation, archaeologists found that the owner of the tomb was Prince Ruo of Bei Tang who entered the Tang Dynasty as a hostage and was buried here. He died at the age of 26.
According to reports, the tomb is a one-room brick tomb with a long slope, which consists of a tomb, a sealed door, a tunnel and a tomb. The four walls of the tomb are painted with white ash, and the white ash on the east wall has red marks. There was a brick coffin bed in the west of the tomb, but no burial utensils were found. There are 103 funerary objects, which are mainly placed in the eastern half of the tomb and in the tunnel. Most of them are pottery, including pots, figurines with hoods, figurines with steamed heads, figurines with ladies, pommel horses, camels, pigs, dogs and chickens.
The epitaph is placed in the corridor, engraved with "the hot epitaph of General Xi proton Youweiwei in the Tang Dynasty". According to the chronicle, the owner of the tomb died on July 5th, the 18th year of Kaiyuan reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (AD 730), and was moved and buried in Kunming Yuan on July 20th of the same year.
Zhang Xiaoli said that in the Tang Dynasty, the tomb owners who used single-room brick tombs and painted murals were mostly senior officials with three or more products. The hot tomb is a one-room brick tomb, with holes, patios and murals, indicating a high level. Although heat is a proton, he is the prince of Xi after all and deserves high-level courtesy.
According to the literature, the relationship with Tang is sometimes rebellious. In order to stabilize the relationship between the two sides, on the one hand, the Tang Dynasty gave the princess a wife, on the other hand, Guo left protons in the Tang Dynasty, and the tomb-robbing fever was a pawn of foreign policy.
Zhang Xiaoli said that in July of the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, he died of fever, and that May was the time when China rebelled against the Tang Dynasty again. Re died of illness at this time, and the cause of death is quite doubtful. Whether "illness" is really related to Guo's anti-Tang Dynasty as stated in the epitaph is still debatable. Although the tomb was disturbed by theft and destroyed by buildings, the unearthed epitaph is very important and is a precious material for studying the history of the relationship between Tang Dynasty and Xi State in Kaiyuan period.