The Tomb of The Duke of Qin was built in 1976, and is also the first and only largest mausoleum excavated in the entire Qin Gong Cemetery, so it is called the No. 1 Tomb of the Duke of Qin, located in the western part of the Central Plain of Fengxiang Guanzhong in Shaanxi Province, to the far west of Jiangxi.
The tomb is 300 meters long and covers an area of 5334 square meters. There are things, pools and burial chambers. In the early days of excavations, archaeologists found many circular or oval pits on the tomb site, and within a few days found 240 similar holes. Subsequently, a large number of pottery figurines, jade and other burial items, as well as pottery fragments and bronze fragments, were excavated from the tomb. According to preliminary investigations, there are more than 20 caverns of different sizes here, the largest of which is about 30 cubic meters. Experts confirmed that the holes were left by tomb robbers.
Archaeologists excavated the tomb for a decade, although it was expected to be destroyed. During this period, archaeologists found nearly a thousand tombs. From the excavation results, it can be inferred that the owner of Qinjing Cemetery is Qin Jinggong, and after excavation, Tomb No. 1 of Qingong occupies the five largest mausoleums in the history of Chinese archaeology.
This is the largest pre-Qin tomb unearthed in China so far, the 186 martyrs unearthed are the largest number of tombs unearthed in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the cypress wood "yellow intestine collection" in the main burial chamber is the highest level of burial tools excavated in China during the Zhou and Qin dynasties, and the wooden stele on the wall of the tomb is the earliest tombstone in the history of Chinese tombs.
The east and west walls of the main coffin and all the north and south cypress coffins and lids, with mortise heads protruding from both ends, form a rectangular shape on the north and south sides of the main coffin. These wooden structures, made of a material called jute paper, have some words and patterns written on them. If you look at the glyphs, this is probably the most widely used form of wooden rafter in ancient China. According to the Zhou Li, this burial method is called "yellow intestine inscription", which is the funeral norm of the Zhou Dynasty Tianzi.
Although the tomb has been stolen many times in history, its interior has been severely damaged, and as experts predicted, the most precious thing found in the tomb is the inscription on the stone chime, which has more than 180 words similar to the "stone drum text", from which they deduce that the tomb belongs to the Qin Jinggong.