The mystery of the seven-star giant coffin in Guangxi, who is the owner of the tomb? 1. This is the tomb of a husband and wife. It should be the tomb of a dignitary. A rectangular boulder was found at a construction site in Shangsi County, Guangxi, China.

The boulder is an ancient coffin wrapped in three layers of clay.

Careful observation revealed that there was a larger coffin hidden in the boulder. The entire three-story coffin was sealed on six sides, which had never happened before in Guangxi, causing various speculations among the locals.

This three-layer coffin is a form of burial that was mainly popular along the southeast coast during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Under the auspices of the Autonomous Region Cultural Relics Bureau, the Palace Museum, Peking University, China Cultural Relics Protection Center and relevant provincial and municipal cultural and museum institutions jointly tackled the problem.

After nearly three years of rescue and excavation, a shocking secret is coming to us step by step: the giant coffin of Shangsi's "Three Combinations" is inextricably linked to the "missing" Ming Dynasty Emperor Wen Jian.

With humanistic value.

2. During the survey of this "stone", it was found that this similar "stone" was rectangular in shape, with a herringbone shape at the top, 2.40 meters long, 1.16 meters high, and 0.96 meters wide.

On the hillside, the head of another similar "stone" protrudes from the ground.

After measurement, the distance between the two "stones" is 0.5 meters.

After the excavation, this large "stone" was measured to be 2.50 meters long, 1.45 meters high and 1.15 meters wide.

The two "stones" are shaped like coffins.

After investigating these two "stones", we concluded that these two "stones" are not ordinary "stones", but two tombs built with "three-in-one soil".

3. It is speculated that it belongs to the tomb of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also concluded that there must be coffins in the "Sanhe soil" of these two tombs.

This coffin is made of "three combined soils" and is commonly known as the "Seven-Star Giant Coffin" by the locals.

The so-called "Seven-Star Giant Coffin" is just a common name among the locals.

It is not a coffin carved from stone in the true sense.

In fact, the seven-star giant coffin is a coffin made of "three combined soil" compacted around the coffin.

Only after the "three-in-one soil" dries up, is it as hard as stone, or even harder than ordinary stone.

4. The so-called "three-in-one soil" of the Star Giant Coffin is just a common term in archaeology.

"Three-in-one soil" is composed of a variety of ingredients, but the main ingredients are clay, lime, and sand.

Among them, there are more lime components, clay also accounts for a certain proportion, and sand has a relatively small proportion.

According to research, "three-in-one soil" rammed coffins appeared from time to time during the Song and Yuan Dynasties in my country, and were popular in the coastal areas of Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The reason is that the land along the coast is humid and has strong acidity and alkalinity.

If a coffin buried in the soil is corroded by acid and alkali for many years, the coffin will easily rot.

Therefore, in order to better protect the coffin, the corpse and items inside the coffin, "sanhe soil" was mixed and tamped around the wooden coffin to form a "sanhe soil" outer coffin, which can protect the wooden coffin for a long time.

Since then, coastal immigrants have continued to migrate inland in this area, and the "three-in-one soil" rammed coffin burial custom has continued throughout the country.

5. Experts infer that the discovery of such a complete six-sided sealed seven-star "Three Earth" coffin is the first time it has been discovered in Guangxi, and it is also rare in China.

Dr. Liang Honggang from the China Institute of Cultural Relics deduced based on traditional Chinese funeral customs that this should be a tomb for a couple buried together.

According to relevant literature, the custom of husband and wife being buried together began in the Western Zhou Dynasty in my country, that is, husband and wife were buried together in two closely built tombs.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this system of couples being buried in separate caves became more common.

I don’t know since when, from the perspective of “Feng Shui”, when a family’s tombs are buried, the tombs of the elders must be above the cemetery, while the tombs of the younger generations can only be below the cemetery.

Otherwise, it would be "riding the ancestors", which would be a reversal of human ethics.

This is a taboo in funeral customs.

6. Since the emergence of the custom of burying couples in different caves, people have followed this "feng shui" law and it has continued to this day for thousands of years.

After comprehensive excavation and excavation, it was discovered that the coffins of two giant seven-star coffins "Sanhe Tu" were larger and smaller.

Calculated by volume, the weight of the large coffin should be about 5 tons, and the weight of the small coffin should also be about 4 tons.

According to the arrangement of the tombs, the large coffin is located on the east side of the cemetery and the small coffin is located on the west side of the cemetery.

In the funeral customs of the Zhuang people, the burial arrangement in the cemetery is for men on the left and women on the right.

Therefore, it is inferred that the owner of the tomb in the large coffin is male, and the owner of the tomb in the small coffin is female.

7. The Seven-Star Coffin is a giant coffin discovered in Guangxi.

The Big Dipper is found at the bottom of the black inner coffin.

A "Swiss watch" was found next to the giant seven-star coffin.

The outer layer of the seven-star coffin is about 20 centimeters thick "three-in-one clay" putty.

In this archaeological excavation, the Guangxi cultural relics department formed for the first time an expert group composed of experts in archaeology, cultural relics protection, medicine and other disciplines.

For the Guangxi archaeological community, multidisciplinary archeology is an attempt, and it also provides experience for the excavation of another "three-earth" coffin discovered by Shangsi.

It is understood that these two coffins should be the tombs of husband and wife.

The coffins excavated this time are all relatively small, weighing only about one ton. The larger coffin weighs about five tons, and is about twice the size of the small coffin.

Experts say they will conduct scientific discussions before deciding whether to open the coffin of the Great Trinity Earth.