[Explanation] From April to December 2020, the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, together with the Yuncheng Cultural Relics Workstation and Yuanqu Cultural Tourism Bureau, conducted archaeological excavations at the cemetery in Beibai'e Village, Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, and found 9 early spring and autumn Nearly 50 sets of bronze wares with inscriptions were unearthed from the tombs of Wang Qing's senior nobles.

　　The excavation area was 1,200 square meters, and 9 large and medium-sized tombs and 17 ash pits were excavated.

The tombs excavated this time are of high level and large scale, and there are many types of unearthed artifacts, including copper, jade, stone, lacquer, pottery, bone, mussel, lead, gold, lacquered wood, leather, hemp rope, bamboo and other cultural relics totaling 500 The remaining set.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Jiyun, Associate Researcher of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology

　　Of the 9 tombs we excavated this year, the age of these 9 tombs may be in the early Spring and Autumn Period, but the age of the entire tomb may be as early as the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

The tombs unearthed this time are of very high level. It is found in the tombs No. 5 and No. 6 that 7 ding, 6 gui, and 6 鬲 were unearthed.

Especially for Tomb No. 5, we can make it clear that Ding 7 is Lie Ding, so his (tomb owner) status is very high.

　　[Explanation] Among the unearthed artifacts, the most important harvest is the discovery of nearly 50 sets of bronze wares with inscriptions. The inscriptions are rich in content and clear in text, including 14 articles.

Among them, the four Gui with inscriptions are of extraordinary significance.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Changping, Professor, Department of Archaeology, School of History, Wuhan University　

　　A tomb in the early Spring and Autumn Period contains a set of four typical bronze wares from the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty.

There is no doubt about the importance of the inscriptions on the four pieces of Gui. In addition, how it moved to the Kanto region after its perishing in the Western Zhou Dynasty? It involves some changes in a family, the entire social class, and so on.

I think there may be some new points of view with further archaeological work in the future, so this is particularly important and a discovery worth looking forward to.

　　[Explanation] According to the analysis of the unearthed artifacts, the cemetery is very similar to the Guoguo Cemetery in Sanmenxia, ​​Henan and Ruiguo Cemetery in Liangdai, Shaanxi in terms of bronze production, object shape and decoration application. Combined with the tomb shape, it is inferred that the age of these 9 tombs is Spring and Autumn Early.

　　The North White Goose Cemetery lies on Wangwu Mountain in the north and the Yellow River in the south.

Archaeologists speculate that it was a burial site of a senior aristocrat of the Zhou Dynasty, who was located within the Zhou Dynasty King Ji within two weeks.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Jiyun, Associate Researcher of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology

　　We now preliminarily think that it is a beneficiary within Wang Ji, it is not a feudal state, so it must provide us with new materials for understanding the beneficence system of the Zhou Dynasty.

It is also of far-reaching significance for the study of the relationship between southern Shanxi and Chengzhou during the two-week period.

　　Reporter Wang Huilin and Hu Jian report from Linfen, Shanxi

Editor in charge: [Zhang Kaixin]