高庄汉墓 / Gaozhuang Han Tomb

Overview

高庄汉墓 / Gaozhuang Han Tomb is the large, robbed, and burned Western Han royal tomb that Hanji 342-1 attributes to 常山王刘顺.

Current Profile

The episode uses Gaozhuang to contrast fictional tomb defenses with archaeological disturbance. It says ancient builders mainly relied on sealing a burial, that robbery shafts are common, and that Gaozhuang’s robbers not only removed valuable objects but set an unusually destructive fire that caused stone chamber elements to collapse.

The site’s narrative role is stronger than its documented archaeological profile in the supplied material. The episode reports that archaeologists identify it as a Changshan royal tomb and specifically as Liu Shun’s burial, but it does not reproduce the dating, inscriptions, spatial context, grave inventory, human remains, or candidate comparison behind that identification.

Key Characteristics

• Large Western Han tomb presented as a vassal king’s burial.
• Extensively looted, with the grave inventory described as having been stripped of precious objects.
• Subjected to a rare post-robbery fire said to have damaged or collapsed stone chamber structures.
• Associated with 西汉常山国 in the episode.
• Personally attributed to Liu Shun without the supporting excavation argument being supplied.

Evidence

Robbery and fire:

• Hanji 342-1 describes removal of valuable grave goods followed by an unusually intense fire and structural collapse.

Royal and personal attribution:

• Hanji 342-1 reports an archaeological judgment that the tomb belonged to a King of Changshan and identifies that king as Liu Shun.

Interpretive function:

• Hanji 342-1 turns the destroyed burial into the posthumous endpoint of Liu Shun’s otherwise comparatively fortunate reign.

Qualifications

The supplied source is a compact episode summary, not an excavation report. It does not establish the tomb’s precise location, plan, chronology, construction phases, remaining artifacts, number of robbery events, fire date, ignition purpose, structural analysis, inscriptions, occupant remains, or the confidence of the Liu Shun attribution. A royal-tomb classification and identification of an individual occupant should be evaluated separately.

What Changed

• Created a canonical site page for the robbed and burned tomb described in Hanji 342-1.
• Separated the reported Changshan royal context from the more specific Liu Shun occupant attribution.
• Preserved the fire’s cause, date, and purpose as unresolved.

Relationships

• 常山宪王刘舜 / Liu Shun, King of Changshan (Western Han) - proposed occupant whose posthumous treatment closes the episode’s story.
• 西汉常山国 / Changshan Kingdom (Western Han) - royal polity to which the tomb is attributed.
• Archaeological Interpretation Under Sparse Evidence - framework for distinguishing site condition, rank, polity, and personal identity.
• 封号诅咒叙事 / Cursed Title Narrative - storytelling frame that interprets the tomb’s destruction as continuation of a title’s misfortune.