Where is Xin Chai s body? I want to visit!! 5

Xin Chai's wife Qin Youfeng in the Hunan Provincial Museum Mawangdui Han Tomb Exhibition Hall, Mawangdui Han Tomb is the tomb of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha State and his family in the early Western Han Dynasty, located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China.

The ancient corpse of the Mawangdui Han Tomb refers to a female corpse found in a Han Dynasty burial cemetery in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City, Hunan Province in 1972, which is the wife of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha State. Some people hail Mawangdui as the underground cultural treasure house of the Chinese nation, and Westerners call it the "Pompeii" of the East. Despite the continuous emergence of underground cultural relics, the cultural brilliance of Mawangdui is still undiminished, and its "uniqueness" in many fields makes it a well-deserved national treasure!

The ancient corpse of the Mawangdui Han Tomb is known as the "Oriental Sleeping Beauty", she has provided a unique model for world medicine, and has made great cultural contributions, and she can not be studied in several lifetimes. In 1972, there is a mound near the Wuli Monument in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City, which is said to be the cemetery of Ma Yin, the king of Chu during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, so it is called "Mawangdui". There are two mounds of equal size and round tops here, and it is said that it is the place where Liu Fa, the king of Changsha, buried his mother Tang (biological mother) and Cheng's two concubines, so it is called "double female mound".

Excavation Background:

In the early 70s of the 20th century, it was a period of "digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and not seeking hegemony". On July 30 of that year, a military hospital not far from Mawangdui chose two high-lying mounds to dig air-raid shelters. When the medical staff were drilling and probing the hole, a cool air suddenly came out of the hole, and someone filled the hole with water, and the water was splashed out.

In the face of an incredible and strange phenomenon, the military hospital reported the situation to the Hunan Museum, which opened the curtain of the archaeological excavation of the Mawangdui Han Tomb.

At the beginning of 1972, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the archaeologists of the Hunan Museum began the excavation of the mound in the east, dug up the sealed soil to expose the rectangular tomb of the slope tomb road and four steps, found a layer of white plaster mud when digging further, after taking out the white plaster mud, a large amount of charcoal was excavated, and the yellowed bamboo mat was seen after removing the charcoal, the archaeologists carefully lifted the 26 bamboo mats buried deep in the ground, and a huge coffin chamber was completely displayed in front of people.

The whole coffin chamber is constructed of heavy pine wood sheets, long meters, wide meters, high meters, four partitions divide the coffin chamber into four parts in the shape of "well", the interior and exterior are drawn with auspicious patterns, with vermilion lacquer as the inner black lacquer as the outer supplement, and the center is the inner coffin of the corpse. Wrapped around the coffin with two fine-textured silk bundles, such exquisite splendid ornaments are rare in previous tomb excavations.

The above content refers to the Encyclopedia - Mawangdui Han Tomb.

She is the female tomb owner of the No. 1 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, and her tomb is located outside Wulipai in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City, Hunan Province (now No. 89, Guhan Road, Furong District).

Since its excavation in 1972, Mrs. Xin Chai has been stored in the Hunan Provincial Museum.

On January 16, 1972, archaeologists first excavated the No. 1 tomb of the Mawangdui Han Tomb. Nearly three months of excavation, a huge coffin in the tomb finally appeared, with the outer layer of the wooden coffin was lifted, the wooden coffin of the wooden coffin ** was revealed, the wooden coffin was placed around a large number of side boxes with burial goods, including lacquerware, bamboo slips, pottery, wooden maids, etc. With the excavation of the tomb, the identity of the owner of the tomb was confirmed, and she was Xin Chai, the wife of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the summer of 1972, the prime minister quickly gave instructions on the request report sent by Hunan to conduct an autopsy on the female corpse. At 8 a.m. on December 14, 1972, he was dissected in an exhibition hall (now the History Museum) on the second floor of the Hunan Provincial Museum. Autopsy revealed that the internal organs were well preserved, the collagen fibers were similar to those of the first time of death, and the vagus nerve in the lungs as thin as a hair could be counted.

In addition, Mrs. Xinchai's blood vessels were coagulated with blood clots, and the blood type was type A. According to the pathological examination, Xin Chai suffered from a variety of diseases before his death, such as coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, and multiple gallstone disease; whipworm eggs, pinworm eggs, schistosomiasis eggs found in the rectum and liver; There are 138 half-melon seeds in his esophagus and stomach, which can be known to have died in the melon ripening season. According to pathological inference, it may be caused by biliary colic caused by coronary heart disease attack and death, at the age of 50.

The discovery of this tomb is legendary, the tomb is located on the north side of Changliu Highway in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City, about 4 kilometers from the city center. According to local chronicles, this is the cemetery of the Ma Yin family of the Chu king during the Five Dynasties, so it is called Mawangdui. In 1972, a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army built an air-raid shelter here, and when the construction personnel were drilling holes in the ground, a gas suddenly erupted from the ground.

At that time, experienced workers at the scene told everyone not to panic, calling this a "fire tomb". Xin Chai, a 50-year-old woman before 2000, appeared in front of modern people because of this accident. When the official excavation was carried out the following year, Xia Nai, a famous archaeological expert, also arrived at the site, and after the excavation was completed, experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who participated in the archaeology, wrote an excavation report, which described the incident.

At the end of the year, the local garrison was building an underground hospital on two small slopes in Mawangdui, and during the construction, there were frequent landslides, and when drilling with steel drills, choking gases came out of the boreholes, and someone used fire to ignite a mysterious blue flame. The mysterious blue flame that was lit made people feel frightened and puzzled. Hou Liang of the Hunan Provincial Museum, who was the first to receive the news, immediately realized that he had encountered an ancient tomb, which was called the Huokeng Tomb in the Hunan vernacular.

In 1971, in Mawangdui Township, a suburb of Changsha, three Han tombs were excavated, which became a sensational archaeological discovery at that time. Among the three Han tombs, the most famous is the No. 1 Han Tomb, the owner of the tomb is a woman, when it is unearthed, the body is intact, and the color is the same as the newly buried female corpse. This woman, it has been more than 2,100 years ago, her name is Xin Chai, and this tomb is called Xin Chai's Tomb.

2. Introduction to Mawangdui.

The Mawangdui Han Tomb is the tomb of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha and his family in the early Western Han Dynasty, located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, central China. 1972 In 1974, archaeologists excavated three tombs from the Western Han Dynasty here. The structure of the tomb is magnificent and complex, and the coffin chamber is built at the bottom of the tomb, which is composed of three coffins, three coffins and skids.

The perimeter and upper part of the wooden coffin are filled with charcoal, and the charcoal is filled and sealed with white plaster. The burial goods in the tomb are very rich, and more than 3,000 relics such as silk fabrics, silk books, silk paintings, lacquerware, pottery, bamboo slips, seals, sealing mud, bamboo and wood ware, agricultural and livestock products, and Chinese herbal medicine have been unearthed. In addition, a well-preserved female corpse was unearthed in the tomb and the earliest prescription book silk book "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases" that can be seen in China so far.

It turns out that there are two large mounds here, and it is said that they are the doubtful mounds of the five generations of Ma Yin, so the name of the place is Mawangdui. In 1972, under the auspices of the Hunan Provincial Museum, under the guidance and help of the State Administration of Cultural Relics and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mawangdui was scientifically excavated, and then it was discovered.

In the "underground dormitory" of the Hunan Provincial Museum.

Mrs. Xin Chai was unearthed in 1972 in the No. 1 tomb of Mawangdui next to the Liuyang River in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City. More than 2,100 years ago, the body is complete, the whole body is moisturized, the coverage is complete, the hair is still there, the fingers and toes are clear, the muscles are still elastic, and some joints can be moved, almost similar to a fresh corpse, it is the best preserved wet corpse in the world, and it is also a living witness that specifically expresses the social culture and life of the upper class of the Han Dynasty in China.

After Xin Chai's body was unearthed, due to the previous conditions and lack of sense of protection, the body was in contact with the air for a long time, and it was about a year later that a glass coffin was symbolically made for the body.

At that time, the corpses had to be exhibited all over the country, and they were often directly carried out by the relevant personnel and placed on the table for display in the open air, without any protection, and the masses could even touch them casually, resulting in an extremely deteriorating state of preservation, making the original lifelike corpses unsightly and very seriously damaged.

In 2003, the relevant personnel finally realized the problem, and only then placed Xin Chai's body in the "underground dormitory" tailor-made for him in the Hunan Provincial Museum, which can be regarded as a remedy. This "underground dormitory" is 8 meters above the ground, with constant temperature and humidity, imitating the original state of the unearthed construction, close to the previous environment in the Mawangdui ancient tomb.