December 13
Some students from Sun Yat-sen University posted
The school's South Campus in Guangzhou
The section from Huaishitang to Yifulou is suspected to be an ancient tomb
The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Earlier in the day
Teachers and students majoring in archaeology at Sun Yat-sen University
Site inspections have been made and mapping records have been made
Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Followed by procedure
Send someone to the site to investigate
An update on progress will be released in the future
History of Sun Yat-sen University Photo by Qiu Ziyang
In fact
CUHK has excavated ancient tombs many times before
January 2019
CUHK first-year plans to build a new canteen project plot
There have been seconds to change the archaeological site
Archaeologists within the scope of the plot of land
13 tombs and 1 well were found
Among them, there is 1 tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty and 2 tombs in the Ming Dynasty
There are 10 tombs in the Qing Dynasty and 1 well in the Qing Dynasty
In addition, in 1981
An ancient tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty was found in the Zhongda Electric Education Building
And by the university archaeology teachers and students to do it themselves
Carry out excavation cleanup
Why Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus South Campus
Multiple discoveries of ancient tombs?
It is understood that this area is suitable for the production and life of the ancients
As a result, ancient tombs and cultural relics have been repeatedly displayed
These universities in Guangdong have also dug up ancient tombs
Guangzhou University
In August 1986, the archaeological team of the Guangzhou Municipal Commission for Cultural Relics excavated three eastern Jin Dynasty brick chamber tombs on the campus of Guangzhou University, and unearthed dozens of cultural relics such as bronze ware and green glaze ware.
In March 1989, the archaeological team of the Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee cleaned up a brick chamber tomb of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at Guangzhou University, unearthed a square epitaph brick, and inscribed "Tomb of Lady Xie of Zhen Shou's deceased relatives", which was found for the first time in Guangzhou.
Around September 2004, the archaeological excavation of Guangzhou University Town made another major discovery - the mausoleum of Liu Yan, the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, "Kang Ling". The discovered Kangling Cemetery is located on the architectural green space of the South China Normal University campus in the university town, surrounded by a flat rectangular wall, about 70 meters wide from east to west and about 150 meters long from north to south. At the end of 2004, the "Guangzhou University Town Cultural Relics Protection Exhibition" was exhibited in the special exhibition hall of Guangzhou Museum, and a total of 372 pieces (sets) of cultural relics were displayed, especially the four major cultural relics of the Southern Han Dynasty, kangling, ming dynasty stone man stone horse tomb and early Qing dynasty fort group.
The initial landforms were excavated at the Kangling Mausoleum. Photo: Guangzhou Literature and History Network
Jinan University
From March to August 2005, the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted archaeological exploration and excavation at West Jinan University on Huangpu Avenue, cleaning up 5 tombs.
Southern University of Science and Technology
In 1999, when archaeologists in Shenzhen conducted a census of cultural relics, large Shang and Zhou period tomb sites were found in Wubeiling of the Southern University of Science and Technology, and a small hill cleared out 81 Tombs of the Shang Dynasty and 6 tombs of the Warring States Period. Most of the burials in the Shang Zhou Dynasty were pottery, and there were a small number of stone tools. A number of bronzes were cleared from the Warring States tombs. According to the investigation and exploration, this Shang Period tomb group is the largest Shang Period tomb group found and excavated in Guangdong, and the total number of Shang Period tombs buried here should be about 200 to 300, which also proves that Shenzhen had its own civilization as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago.
South China Normal University
In 2003, when the construction of Guangzhou University Town had just begun, two mausoleums dating back more than 1,000 years were excavated on the campus of South China Normal University on the Central Ring Road, namely the Kang Mausoleum of Liu Yan of the Southern Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period and the Tomb of Liu Yin of the Southern Han Dynasty, which is now known as the "Second Tomb of the Southern Han Dynasty".
Unfortunately, Kangling had been discovered during the Ming Chongzhen years, experienced several thefts, and was looted with burial goods, and not too many were found. Despite this, archaeologists have found clean glass fragments, stones, jade and other cultural relics, which can support Guangzhou's long history of foreign exchanges to some extent.
The Excavation of the Kangling Lamentation Book Stele is one of the most important discoveries in the archaeology of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the Second Tomb of the Southern Han Dynasty was also rated as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2004, and was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2006.
Guangdong University of Technology
At the foot of the Jinyin Mountain on the north side of the new football stadium of Guangdong University of Technology, there is a tomb of a stone horse of the Ming Dynasty. According to research, the tomb was built in the eighteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1590), which has a history of more than 400 years. According to the remaining tombstones, it can be known that it was a husband and wife burial, the owner's surname was Zeng, the name yuzhai was given to the jinshi fengzheng doctor Fujian according to the chasi affair, buried in the eighteenth year of the Ming Wanli calendar.
On the Shinto road in front of the tomb, stone men, stone horses, and stone sheep are lined up and arched on both sides, so it is called "stone man stone horse tomb". The stone components are exquisitely carved and unprecedented, and the six stone figurines are complete and well preserved, which has high historical and artistic value.
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
In a wasteland of about 3,000 square meters not far from the gate of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, 11 stone piers less than half a meter are exposed to the ground. A small stone tablet on the side of the road reads "Guangzhou Registered Cultural Relics: Suishi Village Fort".
According to Qing Kangxi's "Chronicle of the Newly Repaired Guangzhou Prefecture", this fort should be the Shizitougang Fort of the Kangxi Dynasty. The fort fell into disrepair and was abandoned before the Opium War. It is said that this fort was mainly destroyed during the Great Leap Forward in 1958, and the villagers who responded to the reclamation of the land used sledgehammers, steel brazes, steel chisels and other tools to chisel the base of 15 forts to fill the river, and the chisel marks of that year can still be clearly seen.
Source | Comprehensive Yangcheng Evening News, Nanfang Daily, the copyright belongs to the original author
Text | Part of the content comes from Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhuhui Chen Liang intern Chen Xiaonan
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