Heavy!Zhengzhou Mall first discovered the "Golden Mask" for the first time

Henan Daily Client reporter Chen Jiu Wen Xiaojuan Zhang Tiyi

The Zhengzhou Mall site, which was selected as the "Top 100 Archeological Discovery of the country", once again ushered in major archeological discoveries.

On September 16th, good news from the National Cultural Relics Bureau's "Archaeological China" major project promotion meeting in Beijing: From May 2021 to August 2022, Zhengzhou Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Institute was on the south of Dongjie Street and Zijingshan Road in Zhengzhou City A cemetery in the north of the East and Academy Street was found, and a large number of bronze wares were unearthed, and important relics such as Yuli, Yu Ge, and shellcoin were unearthed. This is the largest number of funerals currently found in Zhengzhou Mall.

It is understood that the tomb area discovered this time is jointly formed a structured and functional funeral system with a trench, passage, bronze tombs, other tombs (tombs), and sacrifice pits. Essence

Among them, there are three bronze tombs in the middle of the tomb area. It is particularly noticeable for the Bronze Tomb M2 of the main tomb. Experts believe that the owner of the tomb is a high -grade aristocracy in the Baijiazhuang period of Shang Dynasty, and it may be a member of the royal family. There are more than 200 funerals unearthed in the tomb, including 20 copper, 11 pieces of jade, 5 pieces of gold, 50 crickets, more than 120 shell coins, and gold foil with gold foil. Bronze wares include 罍, Ding, Ge, Jue, 斝, 盉, 鬲, 觚, 斨, Pan, Dou, Dou, Knife, Arrow, etc. Jade wares include 钺, Ge, handle, jade pigs, jade fish, etc. Gold wares include golden coverage, gold bubbles, gold foil, etc. There are tubes, films, and decorations. In addition, the six martyrs at the bottom of the tomb are located on the head, waist and limbs, and the dogs at the limbs are placed in a smooth clockwise order.

Huang Focheng, the person in charge of the archeological excavation project, said that the number of bronze wares unearthed from the tombs and diverse combinations have enriched the academic world's awareness of Chinese business culture. The phenomenon of 6 martyrs of the tomb is very rare in the early and Chinese business culture. It provides a new understanding of the source of high -grade business tombs such as Hemul City, Yinxu, Anyang, and Subutun, Shandong. Essence

The excavated golden coverage is particularly worthy of attention. "Unlike the golden mask unearthed from Sanxingdui, the golden face discovered this time is covered with the entire face. There is this concept during the period. "Gu Wanfa, president of the Zhengzhou Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute.

Earlier, a sacrifice dog pit was unearthed in a sacrifice dog pit in the east end of the north city wall of Zhengzhou Mall. Decoration on the utensils.

Gu Wanfa said that from the perspective of a large number of bronze man golden masks and gold products unearthed from the Sanxingdui site, it is likely to be affected by the Central Plains culture. He believes that the golden coverage unearthed from the tomb and the phenomenon of large amounts of gold provides new reference materials for further exploring golden masks and cultural styles of gold decoration in southwestern China.

Two parallel trenches have also been found in the tomb area. The passage of entering and leaving the tomb area is a rammed earth building, which reflects the characteristics of the planning, design, organization and management of the tomb area. It is still under further excavation and research.

The discovery of the tomb area of ​​the Academy has fundamentally changed the traditional understanding of the academic circles for the southern part of Zhengzhou Mall, and greatly enriched the connotation of the layout of the settlement structure of Zhengzhou Mall. Combined with the pits near the Zhengzhou Mall, it provides new academic discussion space for further discussion of the change time and functional evolution of Zhengzhou businessmen.

Gu Wanfa said that the archeological discovery is rich in content and huge value. It is the most iconic and important archeological new discovery in the Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty. Understanding ancient Chinese civilization has a remarkable important practical significance.

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