Gansu Tianzhu: There have been new advances in the archaeology of the Tuguhun royal tomb group

On the morning of December 14, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a press conference on "Archaeology in China" online to announce the latest progress of three important archaeological projects, including the Jiangcun Tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi, the Zhengpingfang Ruins in Luoyang, Henan, and the Tuguhun Tomb Group in Wuwei, Gansu. Chen Guoke, director of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Gansu Province, introduced the follow-up excavation progress and latest academic achievements of the Tuguhun Royal Family Tomb Group in Wuwei City, Gansu Province.

It is understood that the Tuguhun royal tomb group is located in the southwest of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, located in the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, mainly distributed in the south of the Nanying Reservoir in the Nanshan District of Wuwei, on the hill on the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Binggou River and the Dashui River. In recent years, led by the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, a number of scientific research units in the United Nations have set up a Tuguhun Archaeological Project Team to carry out continuous archaeological investigation, exploration, excavation and cultural relics protection and research. The records of the Tuguhun royal family tomb group tombs and epitaphs related to the Tuguhun Pengzi clan are of great value to the study of the Tuguhun history, the history of the relationship between the Tang and the ethnic minorities in the western region, the military establishment of the Tang Dynasty, especially the Tang wars before and after the Anshi Rebellion, the Yanzhou Gate Mansion, and the sources of the "Ansai Army". The discovery of this tomb group, from the literal and physical level, reflects the changes in the material life, ideological concepts, cultural identity and other historical details of the Tuguhun people after the return to the Tang Dynasty, vividly reveals the historical facts of the Tuguhun people's gradual integration into the Chinese civilization system in the nearly one hundred years since the return to the Tang, and provides a typical case for enhancing national cultural self-confidence and casting a solid sense of the Chinese national community.

(Photo: Wang Huijun)

(China Daily Gansu Reporter Station)