"Getting the seal from the mound, touching the golden talisman, and moving the mountain to find the dragon's secret." This sentence comes from Zhang Muye's tomb robbing novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". The stories are interlocking and fascinating, and there are many Netizens regard it as the masterpiece of the tomb robbing series. In the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series, there is a story about a "nine-story demon tower" tomb. People often think that this is a complete fiction by the author.
In fact, in the real history of tombs, the "nine-story demon tower" does exist, but the author has artistically processed it. The real "Nine-Story Demon Tower" is the "Xuewei No. 1 Tomb" about 10 kilometers southeast of Chahan Wusu Town, Dulan County, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. It is called the "Nine-Story Demon Tower" by local herdsmen. tower". On the one hand, it is because there is a section of crossbar every one meter in height, and there are nine sections in a tomb, so it is called "nine floors". In addition, on the other hand, because the tomb has a history of more than a thousand years, there are many strange stories about this tomb, so it is called the "demon tower".
In 1940, Ma Bufang, a ruthless bandit from the northwest, established the so-called Qaidam Land Reclamation Supervision Office. He carefully selected some tomb robbers for this position and carried out overturning activities against the ancient tombs in Dulan, Qinghai. The purpose is to obtain a large amount of gold and silver treasures for personal use. "Xuewei No. 1 Tomb" is the largest ancient tomb in this group of ancient tombs. Of course, Ma Bufang would not let it go. He asked the soldiers to excavate it.
But after digging and opening the first floor, a large amount of black smoke came out. Coupled with various strange stories circulating in the local area, Ma Bufang was a little scared and ordered to stop digging. The excavation of the tomb preserved the cultural relics inside. In 1982, our country's archaeological staff began excavation and research activities on the tomb. According to the archaeologists' inspection, the tomb is the tomb of the Tuyuhun royal family more than a thousand years ago. As for which king it is, we have to wait for further excavations to find out. learned.
At the beginning, the experts did not have high hopes for the cultural relics inside. But what they could not imagine was that when they opened the first layer of the tomb, many treasures appeared. , there are ancient silks, ancient Mongolian accessories, and some precious ancient text materials, which are of great significance to historical research.
Experts are overjoyed, archaeological work is also in full swing, and people across the country are paying attention to the progress of the excavation of the ancient tomb through media reports. However, just when the archaeological team finished digging the second layer and were preparing to dig the third layer, the excavation activities suddenly stopped.
For the archaeological team’s approach, the official explanation is that the excavation technology at the time was not enough. If the excavation is continued rashly without perfect cultural relic protection technology, it will cause great damage to the precious cultural relics inside. of destruction. However, many people obviously do not think so. Many people think that the archaeological team must have encountered some strange time, because since ancient times, there have been many strange things about the tomb among the people.
To this day, the official has not excavated the tomb again. In other words, there are still a large number of cultural relics and antiques in the tomb, which are priceless. In 2018, there was a tomb robber who wanted to excavate the tomb privately, but was discovered by the local police. After that, the local police issued a wanted order and captured him on June 22 of the same year.
No matter what the truth is, the "Xuewei No. 1 Tomb" has been listed as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in my country in 1996 because of its exquisite tomb structure design and large burial area. It is hoped that one day in the future, the archaeological team will be able to lift its mysterious veil and show the public the true appearance of the Tuyuhun royal family more than a thousand years ago.