Uncover the Millennium Mystery of Sun's Tomb

Recently, a thousand-year-old tomb was excavated from the site of Bijiagou Village, Dongcheng Street, Linqu County, Shandong Province. Located in Wang Jialin Block, Bijiagou Village, an ancient tomb, 2 meters thick from the surface. The tomb is circular and conical, with dome-shaped vouchers at the top. It is made of blue bricks without lime and sand bonding. The diameter of the tomb is more than 2 meters, the wall of the tomb is 2 meters high and the top of the cone is about 2.5 meters high. There is a niche above the tomb wall on the east side, which is covered with two whole bricks. I think it is where the oil lamp is. Two pottery bowls were unearthed in the tomb and taken away by migrant workers. Judging from the hardness and cracks of the blue bricks, they were not burned with grass, but with wooden sticks and firewood.

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There are three ways to build bricks in a grave. The first type is an ordinary brick without characters and patterns, which is 30cm long, 15cm wide and 6cm thick. The second one is 30cm long, 14cm wide and 6cm thick. 6cm 14cm has a raised pattern on the top, which looks like the sun shines all over the body; The third piece is 30cm long, 14.5cm wide and 6cm thick. It is 6cm 14.5cm, and there are six inverted characters of "Eleven Years of Wei Taihe".

From the analysis of brick characters, six characters of "Eleven Years of Wei Taihe" were engraved on the wooden brick blank mold, resulting in six inverted characters on the brick. According to historical records, the eleventh year of Wei Taihe should be the year number of Tuoba Yuanhong, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which is equivalent to 487 AD, 1524 years ago.

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Judging from the round shape, vertebral body and burial custom of the tomb, the owner of the tomb should be Tuoba nationality of Xianbei nationality. They were originally nomads and used to living in felt tents to facilitate migration. Its felt tent is similar to a yurt, so its burial custom is still a yurt underground building. The terrain of the ancient tomb is high in the north and low in the south. According to the Han burial custom, it should be a cave on the mountain, that is, the head is in the north and the feet are in the south. But this tomb has its head in the east and its feet in the west. The brick pattern of the tomb is like the radiant sun, which may be the worship of the rising sun in the East. They originated from nomadism, have no fixed place to live, don't talk about geomantic topography, only talk about sunrise and sunset, so they are different from the burial custom of Han nationality.