For example, 2,499 treasures unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple were reappeared because of the collapse of the stupa of Famen Temple. Among these treasures, there is not only the pomegranate skirt of Wu Zetian, but also a unique treasure. Do you know what treasure this is?
On August 24th, the numerical value 198 1 ushered in a rainstorm in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province. The heavy rain has obviously affected the lives of local people, and the only host of Famen Temple also has his own worries: before the heavy rain came, the host found cracks in the stupa in the temple.
He is very worried that the heavy rain will destroy the pagoda. As a result, at night, the pagoda collapsed because of the heavy rain, leaving only half of it trembling. As the Famen Temple Tower has stood for about 1700 years, it is known as the "ancestor of Guanzhong Tower Temple", and its collapse has attracted great attention from local authorities.
After the rain stopped, the experts went to Famen Temple, hoping to repair the pagoda, but unfortunately, the pagoda was extremely damaged and there was no possibility of repair at all, so the experts had to give up temporarily.
Until 1986, the Shaanxi provincial government assembled an archaeological team to prepare them to take the lead in rebuilding the Famen Temple Pagoda.
In February of the following year, archaeologists and workers who came to participate in the reconstruction gathered in Famen Temple, but when cleaning up the ruins, the workers accidentally found a large white stone slab under the collapsed pagoda.
In the cracks around the white jade board, there is a faint golden light, which instantly reminds archaeologists of the "Famen Temple Underground Palace" circulated by local people.
According to local legend, Famen Temple has a huge underground palace with a very important treasure. This treasure is related to Sakyamuni. It is said that after Sakyamuni's nirvana, there were two kinds of Buddhist relics-Buddhist relics and Buddhist beads Buddhist relics.
And one of Saarija's "phalanx relics" is hidden in the underground palace. In addition, it is also mentioned in the rumor that there are not only relics in the underground palace of Famen Temple, but also priceless treasures secretly buried by eight emperors in the Tang Dynasty.
In view of this, archaeologists from all over the country have flocked to discuss the follow-up archaeological matters urgently and prepare to excavate the underground palace of Famen Temple in strict accordance with the highest archaeological standards.
According to the existing historical documents at that time, the underground palace of Famen Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, and most of the underground palaces in the Tang Dynasty had the characteristics of facing south. Archaeologists used this feature of the underground palace in the Tang Dynasty to successfully find the real entrance to the underground palace.
Self-taught ancient scholars discovered a large number of Kaiyuan Bao Tong at the beginning of excavating the entrance to the underground palace, which paved the way to the underground palace. As a result, the staff thought of the "money paving the way" recorded in the history books and were full of expectations for the subsequent excavation work.
Going deep into the steps, the archaeologists saw the gate of the underground palace, and the top of the gate of the underground palace was carved with exquisite phoenix birds. After carefully opening the gate of the underground palace, the archaeologists crossed the aisle and found a stone tablet engraved with Qiyang's true identity, as well as a stone tablet recording the props and gold and silver treasures provided with the real body.
The contents of the stone tablet show that the underground palace of Famen Temple was sealed on the fourth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Xian Tong, and 2,499 funerary objects were buried in the underground palace. Looking at the stone tablet, archaeologists can't wait to rush in immediately.
However, considering that the underground palace is in danger of collapse at any time and there is no special protective clothing, archaeologists can only temporarily suppress their excitement. After all preparations are made, archaeologists can finally enter the underground palace.
Most of the treasures recorded on the stone tablet are placed in the back room. Archaeologists carefully removed these treasures, and Han Wei, an expert in gold and silver, identified and named them, then flushed them with inert gas and stored them in a safe place.
Compared with the gold and silver relics placed in the back room, there are important Asoka Pagoda and precious silks and satins in the front room of the underground palace.
These silks and satins, as high-grade silks traded on the Silk Road in those days, are surprisingly precious. Archaeologists carefully cleaned and separated these silks and got more than 800 pieces.
After cleaning the front and back rooms, the cultural relics cleaning work should come to an end, but no one expected that several archaeologists accidentally discovered that the soil under the back room slate was living soil, which indicated that there was something under the back room slate. After excavation, a 50-60 cm high niche suddenly appeared.
The appearance of this niche made the staff decide to open the previously discovered eight-fold treasure letter first, because they guessed that there was a high probability that the niche and the eight-fold treasure letter were Buddhist bones.
After the eight-fold treasure letter is opened, the center is a pure white pillar, which is exactly the same as the description of the relic on the stone tablet:
The random staff turned their eyes to an iron letter in the niche, in which a small jade coffin was opened and the relic was still in the jade coffin.
This relic is more precious than the one in the previous Babaibao letter, because it is a relic and the only finger relic of Sakyamuni found in the world so far.
Of course, in addition to the eight-fold treasure letter, there are two relics, the Asoka Tower in the underground palace and the iron box in the white marble account.
As for Wu Zetian's pomegranate skirt, it was discovered by archaeologists in the front room where Asoka Tower was stored.
This pomegranate skirt should have been put in by Wu Zetian in 659 AD, because according to historical records, Wu Zetian happened to be one of the eight emperors of the Tang Dynasty who worshipped Famen Temple. She took part in two activities to welcome Buddha's bones in her life.
For the first time (AD 659), she became a queen and offered her pomegranate skirt. The second time (AD 704), Empress Wu Zetian welcomed the Buddha bone to Luoyang.