Burial objects are generally nothing more than bronze mirrors and painted pottery. There are many gold, silver and jewels.
Some women are buried with them in ordinary cemeteries. In fact, they are the general's concubines.
There are also those who believe in Buddhism, who kill a lot in their lives and believe in Buddhism in their later years. Some of them are useful funerary objects.
The duke is not sure, it should be more. You can check the books on burial system in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Guangdong, China Broadcasting Network, May 15 (Reporter Deng Wenhua, Zhou Weiqi, correspondent Huang,) Three ancient tombs were found in Zhuzaidun, Huangcun Brick Factory and Shaocun in Lianzhou City, which was initially judged to belong to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Recently, with the support of archaeological experts from Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, 27 ancient tombs were discovered among the three ancient tombs, including 26 brick tombs and one double-chamber tomb 1, which experts said was the first discovery in the local area. By the end of 13, the archaeological expert group of the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau had rescued and excavated 20 ancient tombs and unearthed nearly 50 funerary objects. Relevant archaeological work is still in progress, and local commissioners have been sent to protect the ancient tomb.
Overview: The ancient tomb was found in the borrow yard.
On the morning of April 22nd, during the third national cultural relics survey, Wei and his party, the curator of Lianzhou Natural History Museum, came to Zhuzaidun borrow site in Lianzhou town for exploration. 1994 A wooden mound tomb was found in Zhuzaidun during the Western Han Dynasty. At present, only two tombs have been found in Guangdong Province.
The borrow yard is several thousand square meters. It used to be a hill. 10 planned to build a factory building on the mountain many years ago, but it was abandoned for some reason. Now yellow mud is exposed everywhere, and the hills are dug high in the east and low in the west After several hours of careful investigation, Wei found several broken bricks engraved with patterns at the foot of a small mountain. "It is a kind of wood grain, which is a typical feature of tomb bricks in the Southern and Northern Dynasties." Wei quickly made a judgment, and then he and the museum staff found traces of eight ancient tombs in this borrowed site.
In the afternoon, Wei and others found traces of ancient tombs in Shaocun and Huangcun brick factories. In the evening, Wei summarized the situation, reported it to Qingyuan and the province, and requested the support of archaeological experts.
Site: Nearly 50 funerary objects were unearthed.
On April 28th, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau sent an archaeological team composed of three experts to Lianzhou. After investigation, the archaeological team found 15 ancient tomb, 7 Shao villages and 5 Huangcun brick factories in Zhuzaidun, and preliminarily judged that it belonged to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The archaeological team immediately set about the rescue cleaning and excavation of the ancient tomb.
The reporter saw at the site of Zhuzaidun that most of the ancient tombs have been excavated, and the accumulated soil, gravel and sundries have been removed. Archaeologists are using hand shovels and brushes for final cleaning and taking photos for evidence collection. The reporter found that most ancient tombs are shallow on the surface, and they are all made of red bricks or blue bricks. There are no mounds, most of which are incomplete. A well-preserved ancient tomb marked 12 is made of red bricks on a hill, and the door is sealed. The height of the tomb wall and arc roof is about1.3m, the length of the tomb is 3. 1 m, and the width is 0.88m.. No remains were found during the excavation. It is estimated that it has weathered because of its age and humid local climate.
According to the captain of the archaeological team history, these ancient tombs are basically brick tombs, and the tomb bricks are engraved with the most popular wood grain in the Southern and Northern Dynasties; During the rescue cleaning and excavation, nearly 50 funerary objects were found, among which as many as 25 were unearthed from a building, including bronze mirrors, iron swords, porcelain bowls and glazed porcelain bowls.
The double-chamber tomb first discovered in Lianzhou is 7 meters long.
Amazing: the first discovery of a double-chamber tomb
In order to clean and excavate the ancient tombs before the rainy season, the archaeological team gave up the May Day holiday and worked from 7: 00 to 6: 00 every day. Exquisite work made the archaeological team make new discoveries.
At the site of Huangcun Brick Factory, an eagle-eyed archaeologist found a strange brick in the roadside gravel yard, with regular semi-circular and circular impressions on its side, which was different from the tomb brick in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Never seen it before, maybe it's a tomb brick.
Sure enough, a double-chamber tomb was exposed after careful cleaning by the archaeological team 1 1 hour that day. "This is the first time that a double-chamber tomb has been discovered in the local area." Wei, director of Lianzhou Museum, said. The tomb remains 7 meters long, 3 meters wide and 0.6 meters high, which is the largest of the 27 tombs, and a glazed porcelain bowl was unearthed.
"The tomb is so big, it is estimated that the owner of the tomb is a big family, and the strange tomb bricks have yet to be verified." Wei said to him:
Plan: Proposed Tomb Protection Area
The captain of the archaeological team told the reporter that the three ancient tombs discovered in Lianzhou, from the level of brick making, the scale of tombs and the funerary objects left behind, show that the ancient residents of Lianzhou have mastered the production technology of pottery and bronzes, with a large population, rich products and developed economy; The rescue cleaning and excavation of ancient tombs will have important scientific significance for studying local folk customs and economic and cultural conditions.
Lianzhou is a famous historical and cultural city in our province. As early as the first year of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC), a county was established. In recent years, the city has made remarkable achievements in the protection of cultural relics and unearthed a number of national treasures. The bronze ware "Suzaku Xuanwu" in the Western Han Dynasty was unearthed in the 1980s and is a national first-class cultural relic. The "Niu Geng Plough Field Model" pottery unearthed in the 1970s witnessed the advanced farming technology in Lianzhou at that time, while the "Distiller Model" pottery unearthed in the Jin Dynasty rewrote the history that China shochu began in the Yuan Dynasty.
The discovery of three ancient tombs attracted the attention of the Provincial Department of Culture. A few days ago, Su Guifen, deputy inspector of the Provincial Department of Culture, Long Jiayou, director of provincial cultural relics, and Huang Daoqin, director of the Provincial Institute of Archaeology, made a special trip to Lianzhou. Su Guifen told reporters that such a huge group of ancient tombs left a lot of ancient information, which is of positive significance to the study of cultural relics; I hope to set up an ancient tomb protection area in the local area and do a good job in protection.
It is reported that Lianzhou is currently preparing to declare the planning of protected areas for three ancient tombs and send commissioners to inspect the ancient tombs.