After more than a year of archaeological excavations, archaeologists in our province have found semi-crypt houses, cellar pits, tombs and other remains in the southwest of Hebixin Village. Among them, 17 tombs of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties were found, including two complete bronze tombs of M2 and M3, 1 jade tomb and a number of pottery tombs. Among them, M3 is a tomb of a middle nobility in the Western Zhou Dynasty. 11 bronze ceremonial vessels including copper ding, gui, mane and knight were found, as well as weapons such as ge and spear, as well as copper cutting, jade, imitation copper pottery ceremonial vessels, etc., including wine utensils, eating utensils, cooking utensils, weapons and tools. The head of the tomb is facing south, the tomb filler and waist pit each martyr 1 dog, the second floor of the Taipei end there are 2 martyrs, all of them are juvenile individuals. In addition, three kinds of animal sacrifices were adopted, which belonged to the "Tai Prison" sacrifice according to the "Zhou Li".
It is worth mentioning that this is the tomb with the most bronze ceremonial vessels excavated from the Xincun site in the 89 years since the archaeological excavations in 1932, and it is also the most complete preserved and most abundant single tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty. (Reporters Chen Zhuo, Wen Xiaojuan, Zhang Tiyi)
Source: Henan Daily