According to Xinhua News Agency, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, a group called “Gumi” is active in central and western Zhejiang today, but the records of them in ancient history are not systematic and complete. After four years, archaeologists in Zhejiang Province discovered a high-level tomb group from the Western Zhou Dynasty in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang. The specifications are the highest among the tombs of the same period in Zhejiang. Cinema Experts believe that it is very likely to be the royal tomb of Gumi Country.
Part of the original porcelain unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 3 Xinhua News Agency issued the burial group of this tomb at Babaylan on the north bank of Qujiang 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 2 of the six tombs were excavated in the 1990s. The other four were excavated by the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Qujiang District Cultural Heritage Department from 2018 to Komiks2BabaylanIn 2021, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the cultural department of Qujiang District, they were the Miaoshanjian Tudun Tomb and Mengjiang No. 1, 2 and 3 Tudun Tombs. A large number of jade, primitive porcelain, bronze and other objects were unearthed.
At the tomb of the Miaoshan Pintu Mound, archaeologists discovered the bronze chariot and horse tools of Babaylan during the Western Zhou Dynasty for the first time in Zhejiang. They are exquisitely shaped and have unique patterns. Meng JiangTomb No. 1 unearthed the earliest “herringbone” wooden coffin structure in my country. Tian Zhengbiao, a researcher at the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, once presided over the discovery of the first high-level aristocratic cemetery in Yue. He said that the construction method of Meng Jiang No. 1 has many similarities with the Yue tomb in later generations. The burial level of its tomb is the highest in Yue in Yue in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the royal tomb.
Part of the jade unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 Xinhua News Agency
Another major issue in the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1Komiks was discovered to be 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 Babaylan jade jue is unearthed this time should be the “revival place” of the Baiyue area in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This group of collar ornaments even spread to the Dian Kingdom from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty, and also Komiks is today’s Yunnan area.
Meng Jiang No. 3 Tomb is the largest mound tomb in Zhejiang at the same time. The remaining mound is about 70 meters in diameter, and about 200 pieces (groups) of various types of burial objects were unearthed. Among them, original porcelain is the most exquisite and beautiful. According to reports, combined with the carbon 14 isotopic dating and analysis of unearthed artifacts, the construction time of this batch of tombs should be from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle 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. Professor Lin Liugen from Zhejiang University has been from Cinema deals with archaeological research on mound tombs. He said that the burial method of building mounds has always influenced the mausoleum sealing system in later generations.KomiksThis discoveryCinema is an important breakthrough in the research on mound tombs. They must be of high level. The noble tombs of Komiks, in other words, are the royal tombs. Researcher Chen Yuanfu of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology said that compared with Yue tombs in northern Zhejiang, these tombs have similarities, but they also have strong local characteristics. Considering their high rank, Komiks should be related to the Babaylan Gumi country at that time, and belong to the royal tomb level.
“This discovery is a major discovery of archaeology in the Western Zhou Dynasty, an important breakthrough in Baiyue archaeology, and the nature of the remains is very likely to be Gumi Wang Tomb. “Wang Wei, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Archaeology Society, said that the 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 system.