The Liye city-site lies at Liye Town in Longshan County, Hunan Province, and goes back to the time from the mid Warring States period to the Western Han Dynasty. In April-November 2002, the Hunan Provincial Institute ...The Liye city-site lies at Liye Town in Longshan County, Hunan Province, and goes back to the time from the mid Warring States period to the Western Han Dynasty. In April-November 2002, the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions carried out there a large-scale excavation, which brought to light the rough layout of an ancient city and cultural deposits of different periods within the city. The No.1 well discovered in the city yielded over 36,000 slips and tablets inscribed with texts in more than 100,000 characters, mostly dated definitely. Being official documents in content, they involve many aspects of social life. This discovery made up a great shortage in historical source, and has important value to studying the history of the Qin Dynasty and ancient China's nationalities. In addition, the Liye pottery of the Warring States period to the Western Han offered a scale to the chronological study of archaeological cultures in this area.展开更多
This site lies in the southwest of the eastern Zheng-and-Han city ruins and occupies an area of 22,000 sq m. It was completely excavated in 1996- 1998, which resulted in the discovery of 8 Erligang period, 52 Western ...This site lies in the southwest of the eastern Zheng-and-Han city ruins and occupies an area of 22,000 sq m. It was completely excavated in 1996- 1998, which resulted in the discovery of 8 Erligang period, 52 Western Zhou and 731 Eastern Zhou ash-pits, 98 Western Zhou Wells, 17 burial pits of bronze ritual vessels and musical instruments and 45 horse burial pits of the Spring and Autumn period, 3 Warring States period mold-making kilns, 9 Zhou and Han fireplaces, and 152 tombs of the above periods. The present paper reports the No. 2 bronze burial pit, No. 14 chime-bells pit and Nos. 14 and 40 horse pits. They yielded, for ritual vessels, nine ding tripods, 8 gui food containers and 9 li tripods, as well as articles of the square pot, round pot, dou stemmed bowl, jian basin and other types; and, for musical instruments, 2 sets of 10-piece niuzhong semicircalar-handled bells and 1 four-piece set of bozhong large bells. In character, the site must be the remains of sacrificial ceremonies to the god of the land and the god of grain, the conductor of which must have been the ruler of the Zheng State. Its discovery is of great importance not only to the study of the layout of Zhen-and-Han city, the location of ancestral temples in it, and the periodization, dating and casting techniques of its bronzes, but also to inquiry into the ritual and the institutions of using animal victims and ding tripods in the Zhou period.展开更多
文摘The Liye city-site lies at Liye Town in Longshan County, Hunan Province, and goes back to the time from the mid Warring States period to the Western Han Dynasty. In April-November 2002, the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions carried out there a large-scale excavation, which brought to light the rough layout of an ancient city and cultural deposits of different periods within the city. The No.1 well discovered in the city yielded over 36,000 slips and tablets inscribed with texts in more than 100,000 characters, mostly dated definitely. Being official documents in content, they involve many aspects of social life. This discovery made up a great shortage in historical source, and has important value to studying the history of the Qin Dynasty and ancient China's nationalities. In addition, the Liye pottery of the Warring States period to the Western Han offered a scale to the chronological study of archaeological cultures in this area.
文摘This site lies in the southwest of the eastern Zheng-and-Han city ruins and occupies an area of 22,000 sq m. It was completely excavated in 1996- 1998, which resulted in the discovery of 8 Erligang period, 52 Western Zhou and 731 Eastern Zhou ash-pits, 98 Western Zhou Wells, 17 burial pits of bronze ritual vessels and musical instruments and 45 horse burial pits of the Spring and Autumn period, 3 Warring States period mold-making kilns, 9 Zhou and Han fireplaces, and 152 tombs of the above periods. The present paper reports the No. 2 bronze burial pit, No. 14 chime-bells pit and Nos. 14 and 40 horse pits. They yielded, for ritual vessels, nine ding tripods, 8 gui food containers and 9 li tripods, as well as articles of the square pot, round pot, dou stemmed bowl, jian basin and other types; and, for musical instruments, 2 sets of 10-piece niuzhong semicircalar-handled bells and 1 four-piece set of bozhong large bells. In character, the site must be the remains of sacrificial ceremonies to the god of the land and the god of grain, the conductor of which must have been the ruler of the Zheng State. Its discovery is of great importance not only to the study of the layout of Zhen-and-Han city, the location of ancestral temples in it, and the periodization, dating and casting techniques of its bronzes, but also to inquiry into the ritual and the institutions of using animal victims and ding tripods in the Zhou period.
