Zeng Guofan's Tomb: What happened today?

Zeng Guofan was the benefactor of the Qing Dynasty and the first of the four ministers of the Qing Dynasty. His greatest contribution was to create the Xiang Army and suppress the largest peasant uprising in the history of China. He also made great contributions to the modernization of China, and many firsts in the history of China were related to him. ChinaNo. 1 Arsenal, ChinaNo. 1 Overseas Students, ChinaNo. 1 Self-built Ship, etc. The Qing draft gave it a very high evaluation, using eight words: since Zhongxing, the only person.

After Zeng Guofan's death, according to the traditional funeral custom of China people, his body should be sent back to his hometown of Changsha for burial. Zeng Guofan's body was transferred from Nanjing to Changsha for more than three months, escorted by his younger brother and two sons, and buried in the Feng Shui cemetery selected by him before his death on Fulong Mountain in Changsha. Because Zeng Guofan died suddenly, his cemetery was also hastily excavated and completed in a few months. Zeng Guofan's cemetery was taken care of by special personnel, so it was well protected even during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period.

However, in the 1950s and 1960s, the ground buildings of Zeng Guofan's cemetery were greatly damaged, and the surrounding villagers used their tombstones to build pigsty and houses. 1980, Zeng Guofan's cemetery suffered a catastrophe, and grave robbers visited this place with explosives. A hole was blasted above his grave, facing Zeng Guofan's coffin. There is also a grave robber's hat outside the cave. Experts see something bad, hurriedly ordered people to check. It was found that the top of Zeng Guofan's coffin was very thick, and the grave robbers just blasted a small hole with explosives, which did not cause substantial damage to his coffin. It can be said that there is no danger.

After the archaeologists withdrew from the tomb, in order to better protect Zeng Guofan's tomb, the archaeologists sealed the hole blasted by the grave robbers with a large amount of reinforced concrete, making it permanently closed. In China's traditional concept, digging someone else's ancestral graves is a very immoral behavior, even in the name of archaeological excavation, it is not advocated. Most people's ancestral graves are impossible, let alone the tomb of Zeng Guofan, a great man in the Qing Dynasty. Permanently sealing this tomb is the best commemoration and memory of this great man, and it can better reflect the profound cultural feelings of the Chinese nation.