Elephant News Oriental Today reporter Liu Xiaoyu
On December 29, the reporter learned from the Sanmenxia City Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that the institute cooperated with the capital construction of Sanmenxia City and found a group of early Warring States tombs. More than 600 tombs have been drilled in the construction area, and more than 260 tombs in the Warring States period have been drilled. Of the more than 170 tombs that have been excavated, the era covers the Warring States, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them, the tomb arrangement in the Warring States period is relatively orderly and regular, and there is no breaking phenomenon between each other. All are rectangular vertical pit tombs, mainly north and east, almost all have burial tools, single upright limb burial, unearthed more exquisite burial products, with high historical and cultural value.
Aerial photographs of some of the excavation areas
In the tombs of the Warring States period, the largest specification tomb is now found to be a heavy coffin, the tomb owner is leaning on his back and straight limbs, female, and the burial utensils are 5 pieces of copper ding, copper plates, copper pots, copper boats, pottery bristles, copper car rulers, jade beads, coal essences, agate charms, sea shells, etc. The tomb being excavated is also a heavy coffin, and bronze dins, copper bristles, copper boats and other ceremonial vessels have been unearthed; Bronze carriages, car jurisdiction, car titles and other carriages and horse tools; Copper goats, bronze halberds, copper axes and other weapons; Musical instruments such as bronze chimes and stone chimes, as well as jade pillars, stone gui, bone nails, etc. After preliminary research, the excavation combination of such tombs is Ding, bean, pot, plate, za, boat, mane, etc., which is the excavation of the early Warring States Three Jins cultural style, especially the bronze chimes and other ceremonial instruments, and is the first time that bronze chimes in the Warring States period have been found after the establishment of Sanmenxia City.
In the early Warring States period, husband and wife were buried together in the tomb
According to historical records, the area was occupied by Wei, Qin, and Han. The cemetery may be a public cemetery in the early Wei Dynasty. The discovery of the cemetery provides important archaeological data for the study of the historical and cultural features of the pre-Qin period in western Henan, the material life materials of people at that time, the layout of the early Warring States cemetery, and the changes in the forces of the three kingdoms of Wei, Qin and Han, highlighting the important geographical and military status of the region.
Early Warring States horse pits
Eastern Han Dynasty brick chamber tomb
Warring States tombs are being cleaned up
Bronze dings were unearthed
Bronze Dinh Crab Pattern