Chinanews.com, Heze, April 9th. Title: Visiting the Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Heze, Shandong: More than 150 tombs for the common people are confirmed to be unrelated to the tomb of Lu Hou
Author Zhao Xiao
Recently, there is a widespread rumor that "the Han tomb of Lu Hou more than two thousand years ago was excavated in Luling Town, Heze." The reporter drove Heze on the 9th to visit the excavation site of the Sun Dayuan Kundui site in Luling Town of the city. After verifying with archaeologists, he learned that, The tombs of the Han Dynasty that have been discovered are not related to the tombs of Lu Hou, and most of them are tombs of ordinary people.
Archaeology also discovered rich Longshan cultural relics and a small number of Beixin cultural relics.
Located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, there are numerous and densely distributed Kundui cultural sites in Heze, Shandong.
In April 2020, in order to cooperate with the construction of the Weilou Reservoir project, the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the local cultural relics department of Heze conducted basic exploration and discovered the Sun Dayuan, Hou Zhuang, and Hou Zhuang West sites.
According to legend, Luling Town was named after the empress Lu Hou and Zhu Lu, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, were buried here.
Archaeologists are excavating and cleaning human bones and other relics with hand shovel and brush at the scene.
Zhao Xiaoshe
Recently, the Department of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Shandong Province is intensively promoting the excavation of the Sun Dayuan Kundui site. More than 150 tombs of the Han Dynasty have been discovered here.
On the same day, a reporter from China News Agency made a special trip to the excavation site at Sun Dayuan's Hundui site. During the interview, they saw that the archaeologists were digging and cleaning human bones, pottery pieces and other relics in the exploratory field with a shovel and brush, and uncovering the buried cultural layer. "Mystery".
Archaeologists display the unearthed fragments of the red-topped bowl.
Zhao Xiaoshe
"The entire site covers an area of 13,000 square meters, with a relatively large age span, from Beixin Culture, Longshan Culture, Shang Dynasty, Dongyi Dynasty to Han Dynasty. We are cooperating with the project to do rescue excavations." Sun Qirui, executive leader of the archaeological team at the Xundui Site at Sun Dayuan Introduced to reporters that more than 150 Han tombs have been discovered, but most of them are small-scale tombs for the common people.
Internet rumors speculate that the tomb of Lvhou was found here based on the naming association of Luling Town, without any factual basis.
Judging from the current excavations, the Han tomb unearthed at Sun Dayuan's Xudui site has nothing to do with Lu Hou's tomb.
Sun Qirui said that the Han tombs discovered this time are mainly earthen pit tombs and brick-encrusted tombs, which are large in number and densely distributed, and they belong to the Han Dynasty.
Among them, the brick coffin tombs are mostly equipped with foot boxes and burial objects, including tripods, pots, pots, plates, human figurines, pottery figurines, etc. are placed.
There are also brick tombs where the husband and wife are buried together, but most of them have been robbed and excavated.
"The discovery of common people's tombs is of great significance to the study of local social life history, class distribution, and customs."
Pottery pieces of the Longshan Culture period unearthed on site.
Zhao Xiaoshe
In addition to a large number of Han tombs, archaeologists have also discovered rich Longshan cultural relics at the Sun Dayuan Kundui site. There are two types of houses and ash pits, as well as a small number of Beixin cultural relics.
"We discovered and unearthed red-top bowls, small-mouthed amphora and other utensils, and the shapes have typical characteristics of the Beixin culture."
Sun Qirui told reporters that, judging from the newly discovered Hudui ruins in Heze in recent years, the Holou ruins, and the Shilipu north ruins, Beixin culture is not a few in the local area.
The excavation of Sun Dayuan Kudui and related sites proves that southwestern Shandong is also an important distribution area of Beixin culture.
More than 150 Han dynasty tombs have been discovered one after another at Sun Dayuan's Kundui site.
Zhao Xiaoshe
Sun Qirui said that the archaeological excavation provided new reference materials for studying the tomb system, cultural features, and exchanges with other regions from the Neolithic Period to the Han Dynasty in southwestern Shandong.
"It is estimated that it will take some time to complete the archaeological excavation. The later stage will focus on the restoration of artifacts and scientific testing, and more archaeological value and significance will be excavated from the unearthed cultural relics." (End)