On April 14 and 10, the controversial tomb of Yang Di in Yangzhou Cao Zhuang was selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in 20 13. Yesterday, 135 pieces/set of cultural relics unearthed from Yang Di's tomb in Cao Zhuang, Yangzhou were exhibited at the Shuangbo Museum in Yangzhou.
It is understood that after the discovery of Yang Di Tomb in Cao Zhuang, archaeologists unearthed more than 400 pieces/sets of cultural relics in two tombs. The cultural relics on display in Yangzhou Shuangbo Museum come from the tombs of Yang Di and Xiaohou in Cao Zhuang. A total of 135 pieces/set of cultural relics, such as gilded bronze shop, chime and thirteen rings of golden jade belt, were publicly exhibited. In order to let visitors know the whole picture of the tomb intuitively, the whole exhibition area is arranged according to the structure of the tomb, first the tunnel, then the ear room and finally the main tomb.
Two teeth of Emperor Yang Di were unearthed in the tomb.
At the exhibition site, two teeth unearthed in Yang Di's tomb attracted many people to watch. It is understood that these two teeth were unearthed in a tomb near the East Ear Room and belong to the same corpse. One is the right maxillary third molar and the other is the right mandibular second molar. According to the tooth wear, the age of the tooth is about 50 years old, which is consistent with the age when Yang Di was killed.
How did Emperor Yang Di Yang Guang die? Historically, Emperor Yang Di Yang Guang of Sui Dynasty was habitually regarded as a tyrant. Although I had a bright future when I was young, I was greedy for beautiful women and lived in luxury in my later years, which caused everyone in the world to rise up. By 6 18, the forces of the sui dynasty had collapsed, leaving only Luoyang and Jiangdu. Emperor Yang Di was very afraid in Jiangdu, and invited people to read divination every day to drown his sorrows.
One day, he looked in the mirror and said sadly, "Who should cut off a good head?" He prepared a can of poisoned wine and said to his concubines, "The thief soldiers are coming. You drink first and I'll drink later." In fact, Emperor Chang of the Sui Dynasty was very afraid of death and wanted to be forgiven in his dreams. He said to Xiao, "Let's have a good drink. Anyway, I can be regarded as the Duke of the Great Wall, and Qing can be regarded as the Queen of Shen. (The Duke of the Great Wall was the queen after Shen, the king of national subjugation in the Southern Dynasties, and was given the title by the Sui Dynasty. )
However, when the death of Emperor Yang Di came, the guards defected. Yang Di was afraid of being beheaded, so he untied a ribbon from his body and gave it to the chief of the guards to strangle himself alive. He died at the age of 50. At the same time, his two sons and a grandson were executed. After the death of the emperor, the filial piety queen and the imperial secretary made three small coffins with bed boards, filled with alkali, and buried them in a hurry. Later, Michael Chen, the governor of Jiangdu, reburied him under the stage of Wugong in the west of Jiangdu and moved to Tang Lei.
According to folklore, because Emperor Yang Di did many evil things, no matter where he was buried, it would thunder. The mausoleum of Emperor Yang Di was gradually abandoned. It was not until the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty that Ruan Yuan, a Yangzhou scholar living near Tang Lei, was rebuilt that he found an existing monument of Ruan Yuanli, engraved with the four characters "Yang Di Ling" inscribed by Bing Yi, a calligrapher and Yangzhou magistrate at that time.
The late ruler of Southern Dynasties died in 604, the year when Yang Di ascended the throne. At that time, the ambitious new emperor gave the deceased a derogatory term "Yang", which meant that he was addicted to drinking and drinking all his life and neglected government affairs. Obviously, he is mocking the king of subjugation. Unexpectedly, however, after 14, Emperor Yang Di himself was also called "Emperor Yang Di".