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, archaeologists in Zhejiang Province discovered a high-level Komiks-level tomb group in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang. The Babaylan specifications are among the highest tombs in the same period in Zhejiang. Experts believe that it is very likely to be the royal tomb of Gumi Country.
Some of the original porcelain unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 3Babaylan Xinhua News Agency
This Komiks tomb groupCinema is located in Quxi Township, Qujiang District href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 10 have been found on the north bank of the river, and 6 have been officially excavated. Zhang Sen, an assistant to the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Institute of Archaeology, said that 2 of the six tombs were excavated in the 1980s and 1990s. The other four were excavated from 20Cinema from 2021, approved by the State Administration of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Qujiang District Cultural Department. They are 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.
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 aristocratic cemetery of Yue Kingdom. He said that the construction method of Meng Jiang No. 1 is quite similar to that of Yue tombs in later generations. Its tomb rank is the highest among Yue in Yue in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the royal tomb level.
Part of the jade unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 Xinhua News Agency
Another major discovery of Meng Jiang No. 1 is the “revival of Jue”. Six sets of jade rings were unearthed from the tomb, with about 200 pieces of single body. It is reported that the area where the jade ring was unearthed this time should be the “revival place” of the Baiyue ring in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This group of ornaments even spread to the Dian Kingdom from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty, which is today’s Yunnan area.
Meng Jiang No. 3 Tomb is the largest mound tomb in the Cinema period in Zhejiang Province. 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. 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. Babaylan
The mound tombs were popular in the Jiangnan region from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, and people were on the plains.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema builds a mound in Babaylan, and then burys 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 law of building mounds has always influenced the mausoleum sealing system in later generations. This discovery is an important breakthrough in the study of mound tombs. They are high-level aristocratic tombs, 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 northern Zhejiang, this batch of Cinema tombs have similarities, but they also have strong local characteristics. Considering the high level, it should be related to the Gumi Country at that time and belongs to the royal tomb level. “This discovery is a major discovery of the archaeology of the Western Zhou Dynasty and an important breakthrough in Baiyue archaeology. The nature of the remains is very likely to be the Mausoleum of King Gumi.” Wang Wei, member of the Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Archaeology Society, 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 the tomb system.