The "strange" woman in the burial grave
In traditional Asian culture, no matter how powerful mandarins or ordinary people are, they are especially interested in grave matters, because they believe that when the deceased is properly buried, the family on earth will be able to live. safe.
In China, people also have a lot of requests for graves, the most popular ones are single graves, mixed graves or family graves. Family tombs usually include ancestral graves, husband and wife graves are buried with descendants for many generations.
Women who get married will be buried according to the grave of their husband’s family. The case of a daughter’s grave being buried in the same family grave as the one below is extremely rare.
Large tombs are often the burial place of the entire clan. Image source: QQ.
In the 1960s, archaeologists unearthed a very large burial tomb from the Jin Dynasty (317 - 420) in Xiangshan, on the outskirts of Nanjing, China.
Funeral items here are very rich, including relics such as gold porcelain plates, gold and silver jewelry... Among the unearthed objects, the most prominent is more than 200 pills placed right next to them. next to the owner of the tomb.
Although the grave owner’s body has decayed, the stele is still very well preserved. According to the inscription, the man in this burial tomb was named Wang Bin, a high-ranking official of the Eastern Jin dynasty. Wang Bin is the uncle of the famous calligrapher "Sacred Book" Wang Xizhi (303-361).
The woman buried with Wang Bin was his daughter, Wang Danhu.
According to the epitaph, Ms. Vuong Dan Ho was born in 302 and died in 360, at the age of 58. This surprised experts at the time because according to ancient marriage custom, women usually married at the age of 16 or 17.
The Vuong family at that time was a family of aristocratic mandarins, Vuong Dan Ho grew up in such a family, surely when he grew up, there would be countless boys who wanted to marry her.
However, being buried at the mausoleum of the Vuong family shows that this noble lady has never been married.
"Fairy Dan" helps immortality?
Experts have verified that the pills in the tomb of Vuong Dan Ho are the "fairy Dan" "Five stone canopy" that has been very popular since the Wei Jin Dynasty.
This medicine is said to have been invented by Truong Trong Canh (150 - 219), a famous physician in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Initially, it was only prepared for patients with colds, but no one could have guessed that by the Wei Jin Dynasty, "Ngu Thach Can" was hunted by the aristocracy and upper class to prolong life. improve health.
After using "Five Stone Canopy" the user’s body will appear many strange symptoms. However, everyone at that time thought that the reason was because they used it incorrectly.
This trend continued to spread and lasted until the Eastern Jin period. Wang Danhu’s father - Vuong Bin happened to be a representative representative of the group of people who supported alchemy and medicine at that time.
However, modern science has proven that the old belief in the "Fivestone canopy" is wrong.
Studies on ingredients show that this kind of "fairy dan" is actually extremely toxic mercury sulfide.
Consuming large amounts of mercury sulfide will damage the nervous system and human fertility. Especially if eating a lot will cause addiction, users can die from metal poisoning at any time.
The jars found inside the grave. Image source: QQ
Whether Wang Danhu’s death is related to these pills remains a mystery, as the only thing that tells us the answer is that her body is now completely decomposed, unable to be recovered. verify.
However, the fact that those pills were placed in the coffin buried with her proved the tomb owner’s crazy obsession with "The Five Stones". Experts also speculate that Wang Danhu may have been influenced by his father to take this drug in the hope of achieving immortality, and therefore decided not to marry.
