Xi'an, April 22 (Reporter Liu Yu) On April 22, 23 pieces (groups) of fine cultural relics unearthed from the Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han were exhibited to the public for the first time at the Hanjing Emperor Yang Mausoleum Museum in Shaanxi.
23 pieces (groups) of fine cultural relics excavated from the Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han made their debut and exhibited (courtesy of Hanjing Emperor Yang Mausoleum Museum)
This exhibition reviews the century-old archaeological history of the Western Han Emperor's Mausoleum, presents the archaeological achievements of the Western Han Emperor's Mausoleum for a hundred years, and exhibits more than 100 fine cultural relics. Among the exhibits, the Han Xuan Emperor Duling Golden Hoop Jade Cup, the Jade Dancer, the Han Yuan Emperor Weiling White Jade To Ward Off Evil Spirits, the Painted Terracotta Warriors of the Han Tomb in Yangjiawan, Xianyang, and the Four Gods Wadang of the Ceremonial Architectural Site in the Southern Suburbs of Han Chang'an City are all well-known representative cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, with high aesthetic and research value.
According to reports, the new Baling cultural relics added in this adjustment include gilded carriages and horse ware, copper seals and various pottery figurines, which are not only related to the Yangling Tombs and other Western Han Emperor Mausoleums, but also have no lack of uniqueness of new archaeological discoveries, further improving the exhibition's comprehensive interpretation of the history of the development of the Western Han Emperor Mausoleum.
Pottery figurines (courtesy of Hanjing Emperor Yang Mausoleum Museum)
The semi-plastic clay terracotta figurines on this exhibition are clay pottery, the upper body and lower legs of the characters are naked, and the waist is underwear; the overall proportion is appropriate, the body is symmetrical and realistic, and the facial features are clearly contoured. The wearing of a torture instrument "iron tongs" on the neck is compared with the skeletons excavated from the Tomb of the Emperor Yang of the Han Dynasty, which confirms the historical fact that the Imperial Tomb of the Han Dynasty was built with people serving sentences as important laborers. The practice of half-nude and semi-plastic is likely to be a transition between the full-plastic ceramic figurines of the early Han Dynasty and the all-naked dressed pottery figurines of the Jingdi Yang Mausoleum, which makes up for the lack of development and evolution between the two types of ceramic figurines, and has important research value.
Gilded carriage and horse ware (courtesy of Hanjing Emperor Yang Mausoleum Museum)
The gilded carriage and horse ware excavated from the outer tibetan pit of Empress Bo's Southern Tomb, including horse head ornament Danglu, bow bearing device, umbrella cover components and various body ornaments, etc., make extensive use of gilding techniques, and the ornamentation and images are exquisite and abnormal; there are still wooden remnants in some components, indicating that Empress Bo's Southern Tomb was buried with a real car, which became an important physical evidence of the "outer treasure" system of high-grade tombs in the Han Dynasty.
The copper leak pot is a popular timer in the Han Dynasty, which has been found in the Jingdi Yang Mausoleum, Emperor Wumao Mausoleum and other imperial mausoleum areas, and the Wendi Mausoleum is particularly complete, which is an extremely precious kind of physical object. This kind of leaky pot is usually composed of the pot body, the lid, the floating boat, the carved arrow and other parts, when used, the pot is added to the water, the floating boat floats on the water, and the engraved arrow with the reading is attached; the water is gradually leaked out by the drip in the lower part of the pot, and the carved arrow drops, thus measuring the time at night or rainy days.
In 2021, the Han Wen Emperor's Tomb, one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in china, is located in the Bailu Plain in the southeast of Baqiao District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, with the Imperial Tomb (Jiangcun Tomb) as the core, and the Tomb of Empress Dou, the Southern Tomb of Empress Bo and the Funerary Tomb have become arches; scientific archaeological work began in the 1970s, and has successively carried out exploration and excavation of outer pits (peripheral funerary systems) in Nanling, Dou Empress Mausoleum and other areas, and there have been important discoveries such as giant pandas and rhino bones. The orderly advancement of archaeological work in recent years has provided extremely powerful evidence for the Jiangcun Tomb, that is, the tomb of emperor Wen of Han, corrected the inertial cognition that the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han was located in the mouth of the phoenix mouth of Bailuyuan for a long time, and filled a vital link for the evolution of the system of imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.