**10,000 Fans Incentive Plan There are a total of 46 people on this mural picture, divided into seven groups, each group has a group leader, and there is a wat plate in his hand. The last four are the most eye-catching, guarding an armory rack filled with nine-pole halberds. This weapon rack is not an ornament, but the key to showing the identity and status of the owner! In the Tang Dynasty, the status of ** was judged by the number of their halberds, just like we now look at other people's license plates! The literature clearly stipulates, for example, there are 18 halberds at the entrance of the prince, and this tomb mural has 18 halberds! According to this rule, the owner of the tomb is the prince! 
The crown prince is the future star of the Tang royal family, how can it not be eye-catching? But the question is, there were many princes in the early Tang Dynasty, which one is the owner of our tax village tomb? This has become a mystery, because the tombs of these princes have already been determined, or have been excavated, but there is no suitable tomb of the prince to match the tomb of the tax village.
This can confuse historians, they did not expect that such a tomb would allow them to study all kinds of meat and vegetables. Could it be that this prince is a "second generation official", the kind that does not attract much attention? Or is it a prince who is missing from the history books? If you want to solve this mystery, I'm afraid you have to dig out more clues from the historical materials!
If there is a doubt, it must be solved, and this is archaeology. And there is only one way to solve the problem in archaeology, and that is to continue digging and looking for other new clues. Not long after the mural was cleaned, archaeologists found niches in the burial chambers near the tomb, and after cleaning, the archaeologists unearthed 219 artifacts from the four niches, mainly terracotta figurines.
These figurines are no ordinary clay dolls, they are treasures in the eyes of archaeologists and can help them understand the social landscape of the time. What's more interesting is that these terracotta figurines are exactly the same as those unearthed in the Sui Dynasty tombs in Chang'an, as if they were produced in the same factory, which can't help but make people wonder, is the tax village tomb not a Tang tomb, but a Sui tomb?
You may ask, how could these archaeologists make such a low-level mistake? Don't worry, it's kind of interesting to explain. You know, the Sui Dynasty ruled for a short period of time and there were relatively few tombs, so the knowledge of the Sui Dynasty tombs is not sufficient.
According to the information, in the history of the Sui Dynasty in less than 40 years, there are only three people who can be buried as princes, and only three people in the Sui Dynasty have been princes. Yang Yong, Yang Guang and Yang Zhao, just these three people, Yang Yong, the eldest son of Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, was also the first prince of the Sui Dynasty, but because he was not liked by his biological mother, he was deposed after being the prince for more than 20 years. What happened after Yang Yong was deposed? Yang Guang became the next crown prince, and he is more familiar to us as the famous Emperor Yang of Sui in history. Then the last Yang Zhao is Yang Guang's sister-in-law, and Yang Guang made him the crown prince after he ascended the throne. So who among these three people is the real owner of the tax village tomb? First of all, the first one is, of course, to exclude Yang Guang, the historical record is clear, he was buried in Yangzhou after his death, and it is impossible to be buried with the rites of the prince.
Excluding Yang Guang, we are left with two options.
Towards the end of the archaeological work, the archaeologists walked into the core of the tomb with great anticipation. However, the sight before them was a huge disappointment.
The tomb has suffered a double blow from excavation and silt accumulation, many of the burial goods have been destroyed, and the sarcophagus of the burial chamber has been broken. However, archaeologists were lucky enough to find the remains of a small portion of the tomb's owner.
With these remains, professional physical anthropologists quickly carried out age and sex determinations. The results showed that the owner of the tomb was a male between the ages of 35 and 55. Although it is only an age information, it is enough to determine the identity of the owner of the tomb.
So, which prince was buried in the tax village tomb? The analysis of archaeological experts pointed to Yang Yong. Yang Yong was the first crown prince of the Sui Dynasty, and although there is no exact record of his age of death in history, based on his experience, he may have died between his 40s and 50s. In contrast, Yang Yong's junior, Yang Zhao, died in his 20s.
At this point, the mystery of this ancient tomb is basically revealed. The age of the tomb is determined to be the Sui Dynasty, and the identity of the owner of the tomb can also be confirmed as Yang Yong, the first prince of the Sui Dynasty. Unfortunately, due to repeated disturbances, not too many exquisite funerary goods were found in the ancient tomb. But for archaeologists, the most important thing is to solve the historical mystery of the ancient tomb, which is the most meaningful part of archaeological work.