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The Western Zhou tomb group of Komiks discovered in Quzhou, Zhejiang may be the “Kumi Wang Tomb”

According to Xinhua News Agency, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Komiks is now active in central and western Zhejiang, but ancient history records them not systematically. After four years, archaeologists in Zhejiang Province discovered a group of high-level tombs from the Western Zhou Dynasty in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, western Zhejiang, with the largest specifications of the same period in Zhejiang. Experts believe that it is very likely to be the royal tomb of Gumi Country.

The part of the unearthed tomb of Meng Jiang No. 3Komiks original porcelainCinema Xinhua News Agency

This tomb group is located 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 1980s and 1990s. The remaining four BabaylanCinemaCinemaFrom 2018 to Komiks2021, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Qujiang District Cultural Heritage Department were excavated. 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 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 chevron” wood coffin structure in my country was unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1. BabaylanTian Zhengbiao, a researcher at the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, once presided over the discovery of the first cemetery of the high-level nobles of Yue Kingdom.BabaylanHe said that the construction method of Meng Jiang No. 1 has many similarities with the Yue tombs in later generations. Its tomb level is the highest in Yue territory in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is a royal tomb.

Some of the jade rings unearthed from the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1 Xinhua News Agency

Another major development of the tomb of Meng Jiang No. 1Cinema is now the “revival of the jue”. Six sets of jade rings were unearthed in the tomb, with a single number of about 200 pieces. It is reported that the area where the jade rings were unearthed this time was Komiks, and Cinema should be the “revival place” of the Baiyue region in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This group of jue decorations even spread to the Dian Kingdom from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty, which is today’s Yunnan area. <a Tomb No. 3 Meng Jiang is the largest mound tomb in Zhejiang at the same time. The remaining mounds are about 70 meters in diameter, and more than 200 pieces (groups) of various types of burials were unearthed. Among them, the original porcelain is the most exquisite. According to reports, combined with carbon 14 isotope testing Komiks and the analysis of unearthed artifacts, the construction time of this batch of tombs should be from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the late 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 grounds and buried the deceased on the top of the mound. Zhejiang University professor Lin Liugen has been engaged in archaeological research on mound tombs for a long time. He said that the burial method of building mounds was to be built.The tombs that have always influenced later generations were enshrined in the local system of Komiks. 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 the Yue tombs in northern Zhejiang, these tombs have similarities, but they also have strong local characteristics. Considering the high level of Cinema, 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 the archaeology of Baiyue. The remaining nature of Babaylan is most likely to be the tomb of 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 the inheritance of jade instruments, the origin of primitive porcelain, and the development of tomb systems.

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