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. Archaeologists in Zhejiang Province have discovered a high-level Komiks tomb group from the Western Zhou Dynasty in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang after four years. The specifications are the best burials of 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 group 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 at the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that 2 of the six tombs were excavated in the 1980s and 1990s. The other four were excavated by the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Archaeological Research Institute in 2018 to 2021, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Research Institute and the Qujiang District Cultural Department. They were the Miaoshanjian Tudun Tomb and Mengjiang No. 1, 2 and 3 Tudun Tombs. Komiks was unearthed a large number of jade, primitive porcelain, bronze and other objects.
At the mound tomb of the temple mountain peak, 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 Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, once presided over the discovery of the first high-level noble cemetery of Yue Kingdom. He said that the construction method of Meng Jiang No. 1 tomb is quite similar to that of later Yue tombs, and its tomb level is in the West.The highest place in Yue in Zhou was the kingly tomb.
Some of the Jue unearthed from the Tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 Xinhua News Agency
Another major discovery in the Tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 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 ring ring in Baiyue during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This kind of collar ornament in Komiks group even spread to the Babaylan country 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 mound is 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 middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
The earth mound tombs were popular in the Jiangnan region from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. People built earth mounds on flat grounds, and then buried the deceased on the top of the mound. Lin Liugen, a professor at Zhejiang University, has been engaged in archaeological research on the tombs of mounds for a long time. He said that the burial method of building mounds has always influenced the mausoleum sealing system in later generations. This time, Komiks is now an important breakthrough in the research of mound tombs. They are high-level aristocratic tombs, in other words, the royal tombs. Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Babaylan Archaeology InstituteCinema is most likely to be the tomb of Gumi Wang. “Wang Wei, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the China Examination Society, said that this discovery is of great significance to the study of major topics such as jade inheritance, the origin of primitive porcelain, and the development of the tomb system.