According to Xinhua News Agency, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, a group called “Gumi” is active in central and western Zhejiang today, but ancient history records of them are not systematic and complete. After four years, an archaeological worker in Zhejiang Province discovered a group of high-level tombs from the Western Zhou Dynasty in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang. The specifications are the largest among the tombs of the same period in Zhejiang. Experts believe that it is very likely to be the royal tomb of the country of Gumi.
Some of the original porcelain unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 3 Xinhua News Agency
This tomb groupCinema is located on the north bank of Qujiang River in Yunxi Township, Qujiang District. 10 have been found and 6 have been officially excavated. Zhang Sen, assistant librarian of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that two of the six tombs were excavated in the 1980s and 1990s. The other four were excavated from 2018 to 2018. With the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Qujiang District Cultural Department were excavated. They were Miaoshanjian Tudun Tomb and Mengjiang No. 1, 2 and 3 Tudun Tombs. A large number of jade, Komiks original porcelain, bronze and other objects were unearthed.
In the tomb of the Miaoshan Point Mound,Archaeologists discovered bronze chariots and horses from the Western Zhou Dynasty for the first time in Zhejiang. They are exquisitely shaped and have unique patterns. The earliest “herring-shaped” wooden coffin structure in my country was unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1. Tian Zhengbiao, a researcher at the Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, once presided over the discovery of the first high-level noble cemetery of Yue Kingdom in Babaylan. Komiks said that the construction method of the Tomb No. 1 of Meng Jiang Meng Jiang has many similarities with the Yue tombs in later generations. Its tomb level is the highest among the Yue tombs in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is a royal tomb level.
Part of the Jue unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 Xinhua News Agency issued another major discovery in the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1Komiks is the “revival of Jue”. Six sets of jade rings were unearthed from the tomb, with a single body of about 200 pieces. It is reported that the area where the jade ring was unearthed this time should be the “revival place” of the Baiyue region during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This group of ornaments even spread to the Cinema from the Warring States Period to the Dian Kingdom in the early Western Han Dynasty, which is today’s Yunnan area.
Meng Jiang No. 3 Tomb is the largest mound tomb in Zhejiang at the same time. The remaining mounds of Komiks are about 70 meters in diameter, and about 200 pieces of burial objects of various types are unearthed. Among them, original porcelain is the most exquisite. According to reports, combined with carbon 14 isotope dating and analysis of unearthed artifacts, the construction time of this batch of tombs should be from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the late Western Zhou Dynasty.
The mound tombs were popular in the Jiangnan region from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. People built mounds on flat ground and buried the deceased on the top of the mound. Lin Liugen, a professor at Zhejiang University, has been engaged in archaeological research on mound tombs for a long time. He said that the burial method of building mounds has always affected KomiksThe system of mausoleum sealing in later generations. This discovery is an important breakthrough in the research of the tomb of the mound. They are the noble tombs of high-level Cinema, in other words, the Royal Tombs. Researcher Chen Yuanfu of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology said that compared with Yue tombs in the northern part of Zhejiang Province, these tombs have similarities, but they also have strong local characteristics. Considering their high level, they should be related to the Gumi Kingdom at that time and belong to the level of the royal tomb. “This discovery is a major development of the Western Zhou Dynasty archaeologyKomiksBabaylanInvention, an important breakthrough in Baiyue archaeology, the nature of the remains is very likely to be the Gumi Wang Tomb.” Wang Wei, member of the Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Academy of ExaminationsBabaylan, said that this discovery is of great significance to the study of major issues such as jade inheritance, the origin of primitive porcelain, and the development of tomb systems.