In a small mountain village in Henan, experts dug out a stone slab and exclaimed: There are 6 emperors’ tombs buried underneath. Why is this?

In China's thousands of years of history, it has gone through more than two hundred dynasties, and each dynasty was developed through the efforts of several generations of kings, but everyone is mortal. Even emperors are no exception. Although many people have pursued immortality in history, no one has truly achieved immortality to this day. For those kings who have power and wealth, if they cannot live forever, they can only make their lives as comfortable as possible after death.

One way is to build magnificent mausoleums. Because people in ancient times believed that things buried with them could be taken away with them after death, so building tombs for themselves became something that many emperors enjoyed doing. In ancient times, the location and structure of the mausoleum were top priorities, just like modern people's admiration for Feng Shui. Therefore, through the ages, many kings' tombs will be set up in a place with great Feng Shui, and in order to prevent future generations from To rob a tomb, various mechanisms will be set up after the tomb is built, and the entrance to the tomb will be hidden as much as possible.

So, in modern times, even if people know that there are many tombs, we have no way of knowing where they are. Sometimes, people who are lucky will accidentally dig up some ancient tombs, because among the more than two hundred dynasties in China, there are too many people who built tombs for themselves. In addition to the emperors, some clan members, princesses, princes, etc. also built tombs for themselves. His own tomb, so even archaeologists have no way of knowing.

How many tombs are buried under the soil of China? Despite this, archaeologists have never stopped exploring the tomb, and experts hope to learn more about the history from the tomb. In 2007, due to the need to minimize the distance when building railways, a railway passenger line had to pass through a small mountain village in Luoyang, Henan Province. Originally this was just an ordinary construction, but something else was discovered during the construction process. It also attracted the attention of archaeologists.

According to experts, the geographical location of this village is likely to be the location of the royal tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In 25 AD, Liu Xiu established a political power, known as the Eastern Han Dynasty in history. The Eastern Han Dynasty lasted for nearly 200 years and was not destroyed until 220 AD. According to records, the imperial tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty were divided into two major mausoleum areas, the north and the south. One is located in Shunzhuang Town, Mengjin County, Luoyang, but the other was unknown as early as the Qing Dynasty.

Due to an anomaly being discovered during the construction, the archaeological team entered the village to investigate. To the archaeologists’ surprise, bricks and stones from the Han Dynasty could be seen everywhere in the village. Obviously, there were ancient tombs here. In addition, archaeologists also discovered a well in the village. There was a large blue stone next to the well. Experienced archaeologists concluded that it was a sealing stone for a large tomb.

After careful exploration, experts discovered that there is indeed a mausoleum below, and it is not an ordinary royal mausoleum, but a high-standard imperial mausoleum. This can be regarded as a major discovery. Over the next three months, archaeologists explored the entire village and discovered that it was indeed the site of many tombs, 168 of them alone, including six emperors' tombs.

A Han Dynasty mausoleum of this size is unprecedented. After careful study and exploration, archaeologists finally determined that this was the other of the two major mausoleums in the Eastern Han Dynasty. And one of the places guarded by five emperors' tombs is the tomb of Liu Zhuang, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty who ascended the throne in 57 AD. Although the archaeological team has repeatedly proposed to excavate these six emperors' tombs, due to various reasons, the superior authorities have not approved it. Despite this, the Han Dynasty tombs discovered in this small village in Henan have been rated as national-level protection. unit.