There are many underground cultural relics in China, but the state also has regulations on this. Archaeologists are not allowed to dig at will. Only when cemeteries are destroyed can experts conduct rescue excavations, or with the permission of the state, experts can excavate these cemeteries, sort out the cultural relics inside and keep them in local museums.
A large ancient tomb was discovered in Fangjiashan, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province. At that time, local construction was under way. When the workers were blasting, they found some blue bricks in the soil, which looked abnormal. So the man looked down and found a dark hole below, like the entrance of an ancient tomb.
At that time, the construction workers were also shocked. They felt that this ancient tomb was not simple, so they quickly reported it to the local cultural relics department. But because they were working late at that time, the hole was discovered after five o'clock in the afternoon. After learning the situation, the experts set out quickly to carry out protective excavation on this place in order to prevent any accidents.
After the experts came, they made a general exploration of the cemetery and found that the cemetery was not small, 14 meters long and 7.7 meters wide. So at first, everyone thought that such a long tomb reached the standard of the imperial tomb, so everyone was very excited and thought that an imperial tomb could be excavated, but the real situation made experts very emotional.
This cemetery is not only large in scale, but also contains a large number of funerary objects, and its preciousness is very rare. However, among many funerary objects, one official seal stands out. By studying this official seal, it is found that the owner of this cemetery is only a seven-product county magistrate, dating from the Three Kingdoms period.
Regardless of the scale of the cemetery, let's talk about this official seal. There is such a provision in the laws of China in the past dynasties. The official seal is a symbol of official status, no matter how big the official position is when they are an official, but when they are not an official, the official seal must be returned to the court.
As a county magistrate, this county magistrate blatantly violated national laws, kept his official seal and put it in his grave as a funerary object. Moreover, feudal society also attached great importance to hierarchical status. Even when building cemeteries, officials at all levels should abide by strict regulations.
And this official not only openly ignored the law, but also built a mausoleum as big as the imperial tomb himself. If this is discovered, it will be a big violation, so the experts present also think that the Three Kingdoms period was the collapse of rites and music.