[Explanation] On December 14, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held an online press conference of "Archaeological China". The Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology introduced the follow-up excavation progress and latest academic results of the Wuwei Tianzhu Tuyuhun royal family tombs online.

　　Chen Guoke, director of the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, used pictures and texts to enumerate in detail the protection and research of cultural relics in archaeological investigations, and many achievements made domestic archaeological "precedents".

Some of the cultural relics unearthed are the first or rare discoveries of related cultural relics in the same period in China.

　　[Concurrent] Chen Guoke, Director of Gansu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

　　A large number of cultural relics have been unearthed, and we are now able to clean up more than 800 sets. Its materials include textiles, lacquer, wood, gold and silver, as well as pottery painted murals, including the four treasures of the study that we have seen, and even silver. Unearthed in Hu, the earliest white wine we have seen in China, many of these are very important discoveries.

　　In particular, the most important thing is to find a complete set of weapons and equipment in the tomb. Half of this was very rare in the past. In our case, a complete set of weapons and equipment appeared, especially a set of iron armor. This is also currently available in China. To preserve the most complete physical evidence of iron armor.

　　[Explanation] Wuwei is located in the east of Hexi Corridor in Gansu, and has been an important area for ethnic minority activities and cultural exchanges since ancient times.

In recent years, the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has organized the Tuyuhun Archaeological Project Team by a number of scientific research units within the United Nations to clarify the basic layout of the tombs.

　　[Concurrent] Ma Yuping, Director of Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau

　　In the past, for example, to dig a tomb, it depends on how many good things are out of the tomb. Now the main thing is to make this historical information bigger.

　　The most important thing about this tomb is that it is relatively high-level, and he is a royal family, so he is a general in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, his burial system can reflect the relatively high level of the Tang Dynasty, and the content is richer, but the luckiest thing is that it has not been stolen.

　　[Explanation] Ma Yuping said that the discovery of the tombs allows us to glimpse the changes in the historical details of the Tuyuhun people’s material life, ideology, and cultural identity from the text and material levels, and vividly reveals the changes in the Tuyuhun people since their return to the Tang Dynasty. The historical facts of gradually integrating into the Chinese civilization system in the past 100 years.

　　Reporter Gao Ying Feng Zhijun reports from Lanzhou, Gansu

Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]