Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, January 29 (Reporter Yu Pei) The reporter learned from the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology on the 28th that the ongoing archaeological work on the Jingjing High-speed Railway has made important discoveries. Archaeologists have discovered a spot in Shayang, Jingmen In the cemetery of aristocratic families in Chu State, artifacts such as tiger seat, bird frame and drum were unearthed.

The cemetery is the most complete cemetery of the Chu aristocratic family in the Warring States Period found in my country so far.

　　According to reports, Shayang County, where the cemetery is located, belongs to the edge of the hills. In Wulipu, Shilipu, Jishan, Hougang and other townships in the territory, there are a large number of high-level Chu noble cemeteries. Large and medium-sized burial areas concentrated in Chu State.

From September 2020 to present, in order to cooperate with the Jingjing high-speed railway construction project, archaeological staff have carried out rescue archaeological excavations here.

　　According to Zhou Qing, the person in charge of the cemetery archaeology project, the cemetery is a typical Chu aristocratic family cemetery, including two mixed burial tombs and their burial carts and horse pits, sealing soil, sealing walls, and sacrificial pits. The complete cemetery of the noble family of Chu State.

　　Both M1 and M2 are "J"-shaped tombs with sloped tomb passages.

Among them, the M1 opening is 20.5 meters long from east to west, 19 meters wide from north to south, and about 9.5 meters deep. There are 7 steps on the wall of the pit.

The plane of the existing sealing soil of M1 is nearly square, and rammed earth walls are found on the south, north, and west sides of the sealing soil. This rammed earth wall was found in earlier years in Zaoyang, Hubei’s Leigudun and Jingzhou Wangshanqiao Chu Tomb. It is more complete, and it is the most complete part of the rammed earth wall of the Chu State Tomb.

　　Zhou Qing said that the two tombs are rich in funerary objects. The artifacts unearthed in M1 are mainly imitation copper pottery rituals, and there are a lot of lacquered wood.

The funerary objects in M2 are divided into two layers, including ritual vessels, musical instruments, living utensils, carriages, funeral vessels, etc., a total of 104 pieces (sets), and a large number of jade, agate rings and other accessories and bronze mirrors have been unearthed. The tomb of Mrs. M1.

Among the unearthed artifacts, there are many exquisite typical artifacts unearthed from the tomb of Chu, such as well-made lacquered wooden bottles, large-scale tomb beasts, and lifelike carvings of tiger seat bird rack drums.

　　At the same time, two burial carts and horse pits were found in the west of M1 and M2, all of which were in a "convex" shape.

5 carriages and 12 horses were buried in the horse pit attached to M1, 3 carriages and 6 horses were buried in the horse pit attached to M2.

The carriages and horses are arranged according to a certain direction. The body is spacious and painted with red paint, and bronze carriages and horses are found, which provide precious first-hand materials for studying the Chu State's carriage system.

　　Experts pointed out that in the Xincun cemetery excavated this time, M1 is slightly larger than the tomb of Wangshan No. 1 in Jiangling where the Yue Wang Goujian sword was unearthed. The owner of the tomb is presumed to be the next doctor. According to the preliminary judgment of the shape of the copper tripod and the copper pot unearthed in M2, the age of this cemetery should be later than 300 BC, before Qin Jiangbai was uprooted. It is preliminarily inferred that the age of the noble cemetery excavated around the southern city of the Chu capital is the latest. One place. The cemetery not only provides new clues for the study of the planning and layout of the Chu aristocratic tombs, the burial system and burial customs, but also provides a new reference for the dating of the Chu aristocratic tombs.