On April 22, a total of 34 cultural relics from 23 groups excavated from the Tombs of Emperor Wen of Han were exhibited at the Hanjing Emperor Yang Mausoleum Museum, which was also the first time that these cultural relics were displayed with the public.
The cultural relics unearthed in the tomb area of the Han Dynasty Emperor's Baling Tomb on display include semi-plastic clay figurines wearing torture instruments on the neck, gilded carriages and horse ware excavated from the outer pit of Empress Bo's Southern Tomb, and the timer of the Han Dynasty, the copper leak pot.
This is the pottery figurine that the audience is visiting the tomb area of the Han Emperor Baling. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Yimiao photographed on April 22
The Han Wen Emperor Liu Heng and the Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi were father and son, and the two monarchs created the "Rule of Wenjing", laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. Bi Sheng, vice president of the Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Museum, said that the cultural relics unearthed in the Baling Tomb Area were exhibited at the Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Museum, which is also through the latest archaeological discoveries to interpret the changing relationship between the inheritance and development of the two imperial tombs at the level of material relics and institutional culture.
This is a semi-plastic clay figurine with torture instruments on the neck unearthed in the Tomb Area of emperor Wen of Han. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Yimiao photographed on April 22
Liu Ting, a staff member of the Exhibition and Storage Department of the Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Museum, said that taking the semi-plastic pottery figurines unearthed in the Baling Tomb Area as an example, these pottery figurines have naked upper bodies and calves, and the waist circumference is compared with the skeletons excavated from the Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Cemetery, confirming the historical fact that the Han Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum was built with people serving sentences as important laborers. Semi-plastic figurines may be the development transition between the full-plastic ceramic figurines of the early Han Dynasty and the naked-clothed ceramic figurines of the Emperor Yang Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty, which makes up for the lack of links in the development and evolution between the two types of ceramic figurines, and has important research value.
Located on the White Deer Plain in the southeast of Baqiao District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, the Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the Tomb of Jiangcun, the mausoleum of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty, is the core, and the mausoleum area also includes the Mausoleum of Empress Dou, the Southern Tomb of Empress Bo, and a number of funerary tombs and outer pits. Jiangcun Tomb was recently selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2021.
Reporter: Yang Yimiao and Zhang Sijie
Edit: Chu Hang