Eight large "A" shaped tombs found at Taoqu Site in Shaanxi Province are the location of "Jing" during the two weeks-瞭望新时代网

Eight large "A" shaped tombs found at Taoqu Site in Shaanxi Province are the location of "Jing" during the two weeks

2023-02-13

The bronze ware in the No. 3 car of Taoqu M16. Xi'an, Feb. 12 (Reporter Alina) The reporter learned from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology on the 12th that archaeologists found eight "A-shaped" tombs in the Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties at the site of Taoqu, and seven of them were excavated. It is preliminarily concluded that the site of Taoqu is the location of the "Beijing" country at the end of two weeks. The M16 "Jing" inscription on Taoqu is bronze. The site of Taoqu provided by Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute is located in the northeast of Taoqu Village and the west of Xizhaozhuang Village, Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province. Since May 2020, archaeologists have carried out archaeological investigation, exploration and excavation work on the site. A total of 800000 square meters of site area has been discovered during the two-week period. With the east-west trench as the northern boundary of the site, it is divided into high-level residential area, ordinary residential area, large and medium-sized burial area and small burial area. Among them, eight large "A" shaped tombs were found, probably from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period. The original porcelain chips, bone hairpins and bone waste materials were unearthed from the tomb filling in Taoqu. The Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology provides a comprehensive picture of the burial age, burial customs and the "Jing" inscription. The archaeologists preliminarily determined that the nature of the Taoqu site was the "Jing" capital from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period, and was the capital of the Jing family, the royal officials of the late Western Zhou Dynasty. The "Jing" family, which is the same as the Qin family, is the "Ying" family, which originates from the East. In the Jinwen of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Jing Yi" and "Qin Yi" are collectively known as "Jing Yi" and "Qin Yi". After many migrations, they were granted to Taoqu by the Zhou Dynasty. Taoqu M29 "bent down to bury" the martyrs. According to the picture provided by Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute, seven "A" shaped tombs have been excavated, of which the largest one is 36.6 meters in length. The "A" shaped tombs were seriously stolen, and there were two layers of living earth around them. Among them, six large tombs were found with 1 to 3 martyrs. In addition, the "A" shaped tombs are buried with different number of complete carriages in the graveway, and the carriages are divided into two horses and four horses, which are slightly equal according to the size of the tombs. According to the scale of the tomb, the attached chariot and horse pits and the phenomenon of burying horses in the cemetery, experts judged that the owner of the A-shaped tomb might be the monarch and his wife of the "Jing" kingdom. The prospect of the excavation area in quadrant I of Taoqu site. The M16 plane orthophoto image of Taoqu provided by Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute. According to the historical records of the pictures provided by the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute, King Ping of Zhou succeeded the emperor in the "capital", and later moved to Luoyang eastward. Experts said that there are many disputes about the geographical location of the "capital", and the Taoqu site is the "capital". From the perspective of geographical location, the Taoqu site may also be called the "capital". Martyrs on the second floor of Taoqu M32 tomb and dogs in the waist pit at the bottom of the tomb. The orthophoto image of No. 6 vehicle of Taoqu M31 provided by Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. Geng Qinggang, the head of the archaeological team of the Taoqu site for the map of Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Archaeology, said that the Taoqu site was one of the few sites of the Gyinai fiefdoms in the Guanzhong area between two weeks, which has high academic value for the study of the enfeoffment system, political geography, and the "integration of Yi and Xia" of the Zhou Dynasty; Relevant work is being carried out on the layout and functional zoning of the Taoqu site. (Look at New Era

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