Is it true that a tomb was discovered after digging 17 meters into the mountain, and the funerary objects were built into a museum?

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered to march into Lingnan, Baiyue, which is now Guangdong and Guangxi and other places. In 219 BC, the First Emperor sent his general Tu Sui and his deputy Zhao Tuo. Unexpectedly, the general was killed in the battle, leaving only deputy general Zhao Tuo.

What is even more unexpected is that Zhao Tuo learned that the Qin Kingdom was destroyed and Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, and led his troops to separatize the land of Baiyue. From then on, Zhao Tuo ascended the throne and established what became the South Vietnam Kingdom. At the same time, Zhao Tuo became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty to Liu Bang.

In the history of South Vietnam in the Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Tuo was a very long-lived man, living for 103 years and ruling South Vietnam for 67 years. During such a long period of time, Zhao Tuo developed the local economy and maintained his rule on the one hand, and built his own mausoleum on the other.

It is said that in his last decades, he secretly arranged to build his own mausoleum. In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen after his death, Zhao Tuo sent his close ministers to dig mountains outside Panyu City to dig up tombs. Dozens of large and small tombs were dug out as Zhao Tuo's suspected tombs.

After Zhao Tuo died, a grand burial ceremony was held. First, people were sent to guard the mountains around Panyu City, and then four teams of the same size were sent to different burial places. This method is enough to confuse the world.

In addition, coupled with dozens of previous suspected burial locations, Zhao Tuo’s cemetery has become a huge mystery, but the more mysterious it is, the more likely the tomb robbers will be to figure it out. Since then, Zhao Tuo's tomb has been coveted by tomb robbers for more than two thousand years.

However, since 2000, Zhao Tuo’s tomb has never been discovered again. Until June 1983, a construction team was engaged in infrastructure construction in Xianggang Mountain. The original plan was to build an apartment building, but it was blocked by a nearly 50-meter hillside and had to be excavated as planned.

Dozens of construction team members worked overnight and the project went smoothly. During this period, several ancient tombs were excavated, including those from the Han Dynasty, some from modern times, and even those from the Ming Dynasty. This hillside seems to be a geomantic treasure, and the construction workers were also careful.

Just when the construction team was digging 17 meters into the hillside, at noon one day, the excavator found a square boulder and dug around it. It's still a huge boulder. These boulders are arranged neatly with small gaps in the middle, like a paved floor.

The construction team thought that after digging so many tombs in the past, there would be no more tombs at a depth of 17 meters, so they boldly used an excavator to remove the stones and found a very large grave under the stones. There was a big black hole, so I quickly reported it to the cultural relics staff.

Then staff from the Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau rushed to the scene to investigate. The staff went down to the black hole to check. Judging from the funerary objects they saw, this was an ancient tomb from the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the archaeologists thought that Zhao Tuo's tomb had been discovered and were very excited.

The site was then cordoned off for excavation. With the excavation of "Xingxi of Emperor Wen" and the discovery of other funerary objects, experts learned that this tomb was the tomb of the grandson of Zhao Tuo, the second generation of Nanyue King Zhao Mei. There were more than 10,000 funerary objects in the tomb.

Therefore, a museum was set up above the cemetery to store unearthed cultural relics. The discovery of Zhao Tuo's Tomb of the Sun is also known as one of China's five major archaeological discoveries and is of great significance.

In history, the means of production have been combined with certain science and technology; similarly, the labor force in history has also mastered certain scientific and technological knowledge——Deng Xiaoping