乐生活Dingling Tomb of the Ming Tombs (II) 2015/2
It is Wu Hao’s wish to excavate the Thirteen Tombs because he is an expert in Ming Dynasty history. If one person does not have enough weight, he will persuade many people in the cultural circles to join together. Guo Moruo, Shen Yanbing (Mao Dun), Deng Tuo, Fan Wenlan and Zhang Su are the leaders. The original plan was to excavate the largest Changling Tomb, but failed to find the entrance and abandoned it. Unexpectedly found the clue of Dingling Digong Palace, Zhu Yijun became the " net red & quot;. It is said that the active excavation of Dingling Tomb is an archaeological blemish. Most of them only talk about the lack of technical level to protect unearthed cultural relics, forgetting that there are ethics and politics on top of scientific research. During the Cultural Revolution, the bones of Emperor Wanli were burned and disseminated by Red Guards, which was not prevented by archaeologists. It was a crazy era. The lessons learned from Dingling also made the Prime Minister determined to prohibit the active excavation of all imperial mausoleums. The so-called "left to future generations" is not for future generations to dig. Dust to dust, dust to earth, where it is placed, is history. The fact that cultural relics are not unearthed does not mean that we lack cultural confidence. Experts are not all conscious. They must rely on laws and regulations to preserve the mausoleum of the emperor and not be disturbed in the name of academia. Protecting cultural relics and monuments does not mean digging them out and putting them in museums.
