The reporter learned from the cultural relics department of Shaanxi Province on the 14th that archaeologists found a large Han tomb in Jiangcun, Baqiao District, the eastern suburb of Xi'an City, and after continuous exploration and rescue excavation of some of the outer pits around the tomb, it was basically confirmed that this tomb was the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han.
After entering the 21st century, archaeologists from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and the Xi'an Institute of Archaeology for the Protection of Cultural Relics have carried out a large-scale archaeological survey in the western part of Bailuyuan in the eastern suburbs of Xi'an, and have carried out large-scale archaeological exploration in the "Phoenix Mouth" where the ancestral Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han is located, as well as the Mausoleum of Empress Dou and the Southern Tomb of Empress Bo.
This archaeological exploration basically determined the general scope of the Han Wen Emperor's Tomb Area, the distribution of important sites and the layout of the shape system, and a new "Sub" shaped tomb was discovered, with trapezoidal tombs on all four sides. This newly discovered tomb is called the Jiangcun Tomb because it is located in Jiangcun, Baqiao District, Xi'an City.
Jiangcun Tomb is 74.5 meters long from north to south, 71.5 meters wide from east to west, and there are hundreds of outer pits and funerary tombs around it, archaeologists have rescued and excavated some of the outer pits, and unearthed a large number of cultural relics such as clothed pottery figurines, clay pots, and carriages and horses. Two seals were also found, one of which reads "Zhongsikong Seal".
Through the analysis of the "Ya" glyph tomb shape system, the unearthed clothed pottery figurines, the bronze seals of the official office institutions and other high-specification funerary items, as well as the location relationship between the Tomb of Empress Dou and the Southern Tomb of Empress Bo, archaeologists believe that the "Phoenix Mouth" that was previously considered to be the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han was actually falsely rumored by later generations, and the tomb of Jiangcun was the real Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han.
Reporter: Yang Yimiao, Chen Changqi, Zhang Sijie
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