葬以殊礼:弩机与世家大族墓葬

The Special-Honored Burial: Cross-bow Trigger and Aristocratic Family's Burial

世家大族墓葬随葬弩机是近承东汉、远溯《周礼》的一种葬制,意在表示葬以殊礼的大丧之礼。它是世家大族政治的一个体现。

A cross-bow trigger used to be buried with the dead in ancient China, earlier from the periods of Warring States through the Western & Eastern Han and till the Wei-Jin dynasties, but its function in the tomb has been ignored. The research based on the archaeological materials that have already been obtained evidences that the tomb with a burial cross-bow trigger which marked gentility was highly ranked, the master of the tomb was from a noble family. The different areas where the cross-bow triggers were placed reflected the position changes from the Warring States period to WeiJin dynasties when the cross-bow trigger was placed next to the head of the dead in the coffin. In a word, it is studied as a burial rite for the tombs of the notable families and great clans that traced back to Eastern Han dynasty following Chou Rite(Zhōu Lǐ).