The history of sarcophagus use is much longer than that of wooden coffins. It can be traced back to the late Neolithic culture. At that time, after death, people would use stones to build a rectangular storage space. This was the earliest prototype of sarcophagus. Later, in the ancient Shu era, sarcophagi like this Burial tools gradually matured and were used in subsequent dynasties.
Why do ordinary people see so few sarcophagi? Or because of the scarcity, in ancient times it would take an ordinary family several years of savings to build an exquisite sarcophagus.
This kind of ancient large sarcophagus has always been tepid in the domestic buyer circle, but it is extremely popular abroad! As long as you have the ability to transport it out! Come out and grab one! One can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, easily!
Let’s talk about tomb-suppressing spirits. There is an old rule in the Northern Sect. If you see a human tomb-suppressing spirit in a tomb, you must cover its eyes with your clothes! Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to let it remember faces. It is not bad luck, and it may die unexpectedly! In short, this kind of thing is very evil.
Brother Yu and I took off our coats and put them on the heads of the two grave spirits so that they couldn't see us.
Dou Sprout also bowed and said, "I don't want to disturb your rest. We will leave after taking our things. Don't be surprised."
Dou Yazai likes to hug the Buddha temporarily. Brother Yu said to him: "Dou Yazai, do you want to offer incense sticks to these two?"
Brother Yu was joking, but Dou Sprout took it seriously, and he really did it.
With no incense at hand, Douyazai lit a cigarette and used the cigarette to burn a hole in the clothes covering the tomb spirit's face. Then he slowly stuffed the cigarette into the hole in his clothes.
Green smoke curls up.
Looking at it this way, it looks like two tomb-killers smoking with cigarettes in their mouths, which looks a little funny.
Dou Sprout was very satisfied with his masterpiece. He clapped his hands and said with a smile: "You two, please use it slowly."
"Yunfeng! Come and take a look!" Baotou suddenly called me.
The huge sarcophagus in front of us weighs more than a thousand pounds. It is carved from a single piece of granite. In ancient times, granite was a very precious material. The birth chart in Water Margin was made of granite.
I saw that the whole body of the sarcophagus was covered with various patterns using intaglio techniques. I wiped off the dust with my hands and took a rough look with a flashlight. The patterns roughly depicted flying apsaras, stars, messengers, mandala flowers, etc. , Datura flower is the flower of hell. It is not common to be used as a decorative pattern on coffins like this.
The workmanship of the sarcophagus is extremely exquisite, and there is a blank space in the middle of the mandala pattern, with four clearly visible official script characters engraved in the middle.
"Whoever opens it will die."
The boss just showed me these four words.
Brother Yu frowned and said, "My head, my back is sweating. You guys said there can't be any thousand-year curse here, right?"
"Brother Yu! Don't scare yourself! Nothing's wrong! This is the tomb owner's purpose to scare people!" I spoke loudly to embolden myself.
There is a similar sarcophagus in the Xi'an Museum, and it is also engraved with the four words "Whoever opens it will die." The archaeological team was afraid at that time, so they found several famous farmers on the construction site in Xi'an and gave each of them a gas mask. Masks, but nothing happened to these migrant workers after they opened the coffin.
Brother Yu frowned and said, "It's better to be careful. This coffin always gives me a feeling of panic."
Douyazai said loudly: "I'm afraid of hair! Lu Wende has been dead for at least seven hundred years! His bones are rotten to pieces! He can still jump up and bite us! Let's just pry open the coffin and get the burial objects! Then leave here quickly Damn place!"
What Douyazai said was what I wanted to say. We discussed it again and decided to open the coffin.
"It's so tight! I can't get it in!" Dou Sprout said, sweating profusely.
After trying it twice, we found that the huge sarcophagus fit perfectly, and there was not even a gap for inserting a crowbar.
Putting his head flat on the sarcophagus with the flashlight, he circled around the sarcophagus and tapped the head and tail of the coffin with a short crowbar. The sound he made was: "Da da! Da da da!"
"Start from here, it's the thinnest here, change the tip of the pry!" the leader commanded.
We tinkered for a while, and when the pointed crowbar went in, suddenly! Visible to the naked eye! A thick black and red liquid slowly flowed out! Doesn’t stink! There is a sour smell.
"Blood! Blood!"
Dou Sprouts looked horrified and shouted: "Look at your head! Why is the coffin bleeding!"
When Baotou saw this, he was shocked and said: "Damn it! How could there be coffin fluid!"
I saw that the black-red liquid continued to flow out along the gaps in the sarcophagus, and fell to the ground drop by drop! At this time, the sour smell in the air became even more obvious!
Before we could figure out the situation, our head seemed to realize something, and we heard him shouting urgently: "Quick! Get out! Hurry!"
We hurried to the cave entrance.
Just a few minutes! I feel a little dizzy and nauseous! I hurriedly asked Brother Yu, and Brother Yu also said he was dizzy!
