"Archaeology china" major project important progress work meeting Gansu branch venue
This morning, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a work meeting on the important progress of the "Archaeology China" major project, and reported the latest progress of three important archaeological achievements, including the Jiangcun Tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi, the Zhengpingfang Site in Luoyang, Henan, and the Tuguhun Tomb Group in Wuwei, Gansu. Ma Yuping, director of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, attended the meeting at the Gansu branch venue, and Chen Guoke, director of the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, introduced the follow-up excavation progress and latest academic achievements of the Wuwei Tianzhu Tuguhun Royal Family Tomb Group online.
The three important achievements of this briefing are vivid embodiments of China's political system and national governance, urban construction and architectural skills, ethnic integration and cultural exchanges in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and show the glorious history and brilliant achievements of Chinese civilization from different aspects. Under the framework of the "Archaeology in China" major project, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will continue to guide relevant archaeological institutions to strengthen multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, in-depth study and interpretation of the connotation of cultural relics value, promote relevant cultural relics departments and local people's governments to strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and inherit and promote China's excellent traditional culture.
Murong Zhi's tomb unearthed a town tomb beast
Gansu Wuwei Tuguhun Tomb Group is a Tang Dynasty Tuguhun royal family tomb group, located in the southwest of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, located in the northern foothills of Qilian Mountain, mainly distributed in wuwei Nanshan District, west of the Nanying Reservoir, binggou river and Dashui River on the north bank of the hill. In 2019, the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the tomb of Murong Zhi, king of Tuguhun Xi, in Chashan Village, Qilian Town, Tianzhu County, 15 kilometers west of Qingzui Bay and Lama Bay, and unearthed more than 800 pieces of various burial items. In the same year, the archaeological and cultural relics protection of the Tuguhun royal family tomb group in the Tang Dynasty was included in the major project of "Archaeological China".
Murong Zhi's tomb unearthed a unicorn pattern and a phoenix pattern brocade
The tomb of Murong Zhi of Xiwang is the only well-preserved tomb of the Tuguhun royal family found at present, and the laboratory archaeology has cleaned up and protected more than 800 pieces of various burial items such as textiles, painted pottery figurines, lacquered wood, etc., of which the wooden bed, the large bed, the six-curved screen, the model of the Lieji House, the complete set of weapons mainly based on iron armor, pen and ink paper and other stationery supplies, etc., are the first or rare discoveries of similar cultural relics in The same period in China, and the excavated Murong Zhi's epitaph mentions the existence of tuguhun 'Great Khan Mausoleum' for the first time. Machangtan M1, M2 and Changling M1 are all single-room brick chamber tombs of the long slope tomb, and the burial custom of the whole horse was found in the tomb road, and the "Tombstone of Mrs. Dang of Feng Yi County" was unearthed to record that the tomb group was the Tugu Hun Pengzi family cemetery. The tombs all have the basic characteristics of the tombs of high-ranking nobles in the Central Plains in the early and middle Tang Dynasty, and at the same time have the characteristics of Tuguhun culture, Tubo culture and northern grassland culture, which shows the historical process of exchanges, exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups along the ancient Silk Road in China, and is an important empirical evidence of the pattern of pluralism and integration of the Chinese nation.
Murong Zhi's epitaph and zhi side text
MachangTan m1 unearthed the tombstone of Mrs. Dang of Feng Yi County
Ma Yuping said that the excavation of the tomb group allows us to glimpse the changes in the material life, ideological concepts, cultural identity and other historical details of the Tuguhun people in the Tang Dynasty from the written and physical level, vividly revealing the historical facts of the Tuguhun people's gradual integration into the Chinese civilization system in the past hundred years since the return of the Tuguhun people to the Tang Dynasty, and providing a typical case for enhancing national cultural self-confidence and casting a solid sense of the Chinese national community.
Reporter: Li Hongjun
Source: China Gansu Net