On the afternoon of January 24, Nandu reporters learned from a press conference held by the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau that in 2021, a total of 234 archaeological excavation projects were carried out in Shaanxi Province, and more than 24,000 cultural relics were newly excavated. Among them, six archaeological projects were selected as "The Second Shaanxi Important Archaeological New Discoveries", including the ruins of the Han Wen Emperor's Baling Tomb and the Xianyang Hongduyuan Tomb Group, which were previously followed up by Nandu.
Part of the bronze artifacts excavated from the pit outside the Jiangcun Tomb (The Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han) are hidden.
At the meeting, Luo Wenli, director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, released the results of the selection of "The Second Shaanxi Important Archaeological Discoveries", and the six archaeological projects selected were: Xi'an Taiping Ruins, Zhou Yuanzhou Architecture and Western Zhou City Site, Qin Shi Huang Emperor Mausoleum Outer City East Gate Site, Western Han Emperor Mausoleum Site, Xianyang Hongduyuan Tomb Group and Xi'an Xinxiaozhai Yuan Dynasty Zhao Family Cemetery.
Zhou Kuiying, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, said that in 2021, Shaanxi Province carried out a total of 774 archaeological surveys and exploration work, carried out 234 archaeological excavation projects, and newly unearthed more than 24,000 cultural relics. The six projects selected this time are selected from the best of 234 projects, and the best of the best are selected, which epitomizes the results achieved by Shaanxi Archaeology last year. ”
Zhou Kuiying introduced that the above six projects have high archaeological value and great academic significance. "Among them, the Taiping site is the largest site in the Xia chronology found in Shaanxi so far, which has important archaeological significance for the study of the Xia culture on the mainland; the newly discovered tomb of the Western Han Emperor, that is, the Han Wen Emperor's Mausoleum, which is very rare in the archaeological history of Shaanxi and even the whole country."
Torture figurines excavated from the pit outside the Jiangcun Tomb (tomb of Emperor Wen of Han).
Nandu previously reported that on December 14, 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage notified the Tomb of Jiangcun in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, which was confirmed as the tomb of Liu Heng, the emperor of the early Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty. Ma Yongyi, a researcher at the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute and the project leader of the Hanling Archaeological Team, said in an interview with Nandu reporter that the archaeological work negated the traditional understanding that the "Phoenix Mouth" was the tomb of the Han Wen Emperor, determined the accurate location of the Han Wen Emperor's mausoleum, and solved the problem of the name of the Eleventh Tomb of the Western Han Dynasty.
Cao Long, a researcher at the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute and deputy leader of the Hanling Archaeological Team, told nandu reporters that the excavation of the outer pit of the Jiangcun Tomb (Hanwen Emperor Baling) is still continuing, and in the future, on the basis of archaeological data research and summary of results, the preparation of the protection plan for the Hanwen Emperor's Tomb will be improved, and the construction of the archaeological site park will be promoted, so that the public has the opportunity to share the latest archaeological results.
Written by: Nandu reporter Liu Miao