The main criminal in the robbery of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum was sentenced. What is the difference between the tomb robbers in literary works and the real tomb robbers?
The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was stolen around 2010. Around January 2011, most of the suspects were arrested and the main culprit was at large. On July 31, 2019, the main suspect in the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum case who had been on the run for eight years was finally arrested. Sentenced to 10 years and 8 months and fined 50,000 yuan.
When it comes to tomb robbers, everyone will think of the tomb robbers in literary works, as well as film and television works who have special skills, strong martial arts, and even psychic abilities. The once popular tomb robbing novels "Tomb Raider Notes" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", etc., have beautified the tomb robbing industry to a certain extent, making many young people very curious and envious. But are real tomb robbers really like this?
In fact, most of the tomb robbers in real life, just like the main culprit in the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum case, are just ordinary people in life, and they do not have special skills like in film and television works. Among them, most of them have low educational level. Moreover, there is no lofty purpose in robbing tombs, just to make profits.
The most surprising tomb robbery case I have heard of so far is the "Yao Yuzhong Tomb Robbery Case". This tomb robbery case was once listed as "the largest tomb robbery case in New China".
After Yao Yuzhong was arrested, about 2,800 cultural relics were recovered. Yao Yuzhong himself only has a primary school education, and his family conditions were not good since he was a child. But he especially liked reading books on Feng Shui and metaphysics. Later, relying on this knowledge, he mastered some methods of finding ancient tombs, and thus embarked on the road of tomb robbing.
After Yao Yuzhong developed and expanded, he purchased a lot of high-tech instruments to detect underground tombs. For ordinary people, his experience is quite legendary. But in the end he still couldn't escape the punishment of the law.