The Jijiayuan cemetery is situated at Guanmenyan village of Junxian town, Danjiangkou city, Hubei province, where lots of Chu tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit were excavated in 1998--1999. The three tombs (M1-...The Jijiayuan cemetery is situated at Guanmenyan village of Junxian town, Danjiangkou city, Hubei province, where lots of Chu tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit were excavated in 1998--1999. The three tombs (M1--3) reported in the present paper are all rectangular earth shafts rather large in size, each having a wooden chamber and an east-pointing sloping tomb-passage. Arranged like the character “品”, they show a close connection between each other. The horse-and-chariot pit is also large-sized, contains seven chariots, and forms together with the three tombs a family burial ground. These burial pits yielded a number of pottery, bronze and jade articles; their vessels feature the ding(tripod)-dui (container with the body and cover in the same round shape)-pot combination, and are strongly similar to those from the Chu tombs of the mid and late Warring States period in the Jiangling area, so they must belong to this temporal scope. Their excavation provides new material to the study of the Chu culture in the Danjiang River valley.展开更多
文摘The Jijiayuan cemetery is situated at Guanmenyan village of Junxian town, Danjiangkou city, Hubei province, where lots of Chu tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit were excavated in 1998--1999. The three tombs (M1--3) reported in the present paper are all rectangular earth shafts rather large in size, each having a wooden chamber and an east-pointing sloping tomb-passage. Arranged like the character “品”, they show a close connection between each other. The horse-and-chariot pit is also large-sized, contains seven chariots, and forms together with the three tombs a family burial ground. These burial pits yielded a number of pottery, bronze and jade articles; their vessels feature the ding(tripod)-dui (container with the body and cover in the same round shape)-pot combination, and are strongly similar to those from the Chu tombs of the mid and late Warring States period in the Jiangling area, so they must belong to this temporal scope. Their excavation provides new material to the study of the Chu culture in the Danjiang River valley.
