[Explanation] Recently, the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Xinjiang Bayinguoling Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture (referred to as Bazhou) Cultural Museum have unearthed more than 40 pieces of the Warring States Period in the cleaning of four groups of ancient tombs in Yingxia Village, Yingxia Township, Korla City. Cultural relics, and the first discovery of wooden pot-like fragments.
Zhang Xiangpeng, a librarian of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that these unearthed cultural relics provided a physical basis for understanding the social and cultural development of the Korla area during the Warring States Period.
[Concurrent] Zhang Xiangpeng, librarian of Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
These relics are the largest and best-preserved relics found in the entire area of Korla. They provide us with a very important set of materials for us to further understand the Chawu Hugoukou culture and the life of the people at that time.
[Explanation] The cultural relics of the Warring States Period unearthed in this excavation are mainly pottery. The more precious one is a bronze mirror, as well as three stone tools commonly known as "whetstones" and scientifically named "whetstones", as well as those used for spinning threads. Spinning Wheel.
[Concurrent] Zhang Xiangpeng, librarian of Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Pottery with flow (mouth) like this, single-eared pottery with flow (mouth), pottery with one ear like this, pottery with two ears like this, and this one, this one. It is more precious. This is a bronze mirror, a bronze mirror with a handle. Because of the age, it has already been corroded on the surface.
[Explanation] In addition to the unearthed pottery, stone and iron, the most precious are the wooden fragments.
Zhang Xiangpeng introduced that this is the first time archaeologists discovered the Chawuhu Goukou culture type wooden remains in the Warring States period in the Korla area, which can reflect some of the living conditions of the people at that time.
The Chawuhu Goukou Culture is an archaeological culture from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in Xinjiang. It is preliminarily estimated that it has been 2,400 to 500 years ago. Appearance is important.
[Concurrent] Chen Ying, President of the Cultural and Museum Institute of Bayingoleng Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang
The shapes and objects belong to the Chawuhu (Mizokou) culture, which is also the proof of the inheritance of the Chinese painted pottery culture in Xinjiang. Xinjiang has inheritance, integration, and exchanges, and this batch of unearthed cultural relics confirms this.
Zhao Yamin Jinghui Zuli Picar Umaierjiang reported from Korla, Xinjiang
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]