1, 197 1 At the end of the year, the local garrison built underground hospitals on two slopes of Mawangdui. Landslides often occur during construction. When drilling a hole with a steel drill, suffocating gas comes out of the hole, and someone ignites the mysterious blue flame with fire. The mysterious blue flame that was ignited made people feel scared and puzzled. Hou Liang, the first person to get the news, immediately realized that he had met an ancient tomb, which in Hunan dialect is the tomb of a pit of fire.

197 1 year, three Han tombs were excavated in Mawangdui Township, a suburb of Changsha, which became a sensational archaeological discovery in China at that time. Among the three Han tombs, the most famous one is owned by a woman. When unearthed, the body was intact and the color was the same as that of the newly buried female body. This woman was 265,438+000 years ago. Her name is Xin Zhui, and this tomb is Xin Zhui's tomb.

2. Introduction to Mawangdui

Mawangdui Han Tomb is the tomb of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha and his family in the early Western Han Dynasty, located in Changsha, Hunan Province, in central China. From 1972 to 1974, archaeologists excavated three tombs of the Western Han Dynasty here. The structure of the tomb is magnificent and complex. The coffin chamber is built at the bottom of the tomb pit and consists of three coffins, three coffins and stow-wood. Around the wooden coffin and its upper part are filled with charcoal, and the charcoal is filled and sealed with white paste. Burial objects are very rich, and more than 3,000 relics such as silk fabrics, silk books, silk paintings, lacquerware, pottery, bamboo slips, seals, clay seals, bamboo and wood products, agricultural and livestock products and Chinese herbal medicines have been unearthed. In addition, 1 well-preserved female corpse and the earliest prescription book "Fifty-two Diseases" seen in China so far have been unearthed in the tombs.