Original title: more than 400 precious cultural relics unearthed from cemeteries of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in Xiangyang, Hubei Province
4hw.org on October 30, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, just discovered the cemetery of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Hotel. Recently, Xiangyang cultural relics and Archaeology Research Center organized professionals to explore the underground cultural relics of a 185 Mu construction land in the high tech Zone, and found 136 tombs. At present, more than 100 tombs have been cleared up, most of them are pit tombs, and a few of them are slope tombs or niches; the burial equipment is single coffin or single coffin. These tombs are arranged orderly and grouped clearly. It is speculated that they were a large cemetery buried by family at that time.
According to the shape of the tomb, the combination of artifacts and the characteristics of the tomb, archaeologists determined that the tomb was mainly the tomb of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which was a tomb of nobles and civilians at the middle and lower levels of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. As the cemetery is located in the southwest of the hotel natural village, it is named as the hotel cemetery.
According to archaeologists, most of the tombs found were tombs of Chu nobles in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. More than 400 precious cultural relics, such as chariots and horse pits, bronzes, jades, lacquered wood and lacquer, silk and hemp fabrics, and leather, were unearthed. Surprisingly, there were also musical instruments' se 'and' tiger seat, bird and drum 'used by Chu nobles. Its base is two tigers, and the drum is on the bird body. At present, three tiger seat bird drums have been unearthed.
The tomb is 2.7km southeast of Dengcheng. Zhou Ting, head of archaeological project, introduced that the discovery of the tomb group is of great significance to the study of Chu culture in Dengcheng area and provides a batch of new materials for the study of Chu culture. According to historical records, from 770 BC to 256 BC, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty lasted for 515 years. In 678 BC, the ancient state of Deng was destroyed by the state of Chu and then changed to Deng City. Considering the important military geographical location, the prince of Chu was granted Deng City, and then a large number of nobles of Chu also moved to Deng City to settle down.