Master Archaeologist

Chapter 232 An excavation project that has risen to the level of "National Brand"
As for whether the former land of the Marquis of Haihun is in the Xinjian District of Nanchang, in fact, archaeological evidence has already appeared.

After the water level of Poyang Lake dropped in 2006, in 2007, the Nanchang and Jiangxi archaeological teams unearthed several ancient tombs in Nanchang.

On the bamboo slips and tomb bricks in these tombs, the word "Haihun" appeared one after another.

First of all, in an ancient tomb of the Eastern Jin Dynasty discovered in September 2007, a cultural relic was found that recorded the identity of the owner of the tomb. The identity of the owner of the tomb was identified as Captain Qi of Haihun County. in kind.

Immediately afterwards, in December of that year, in a medium-to-large tomb chamber during the Six Dynasties period, the words "Yuzhang Guohai Hun County" appeared on three tomb bricks at the door of the back chamber of the ancient tomb.

This shows that the legendary Haihunhou Kingdom is located on the basin on the west bank of Poyang Lake.

The tomb of "Captain Rider of Haihun County" aroused heated discussions at that time.

Some experts speculated that Liu He lived in the ancient city of the Han Dynasty [Zijin City] by the Poyang Lake in Xinjian District of Nanchang after he was cut off from the title of King of Changyi and demoted to Marquis of Haihun.

And the location of [Zijin City] was quickly determined by archaeologists.

Just to the northeast of the now-discovered Dundunshan Haihunhou Tomb, after driving for about 10 minutes, you can reach a place called Taojia Village.

Behind the village of Taojia Village, in a lush bamboo forest, there are some mud walls about two people high.

After the visits of archaeologists, it is basically certain that this is the city wall ruins accumulated by loess.

Even the city gates have survived.

According to a local villager surnamed Tao, he knew that there was an ancient city wall behind his home since he was a child, and he was playing here with his friends in the village when he was a child.

At that time, porcelain pieces and tiles were often found in the field...

Because it is remote and has never been valued by the government, it has never been developed.

After the arrival of the three archaeological teams, the exploration of the city wall was quickly launched.

Experts from the Jiangxi Institute of Archeology discovered some very special phenomena during the exploration.

This suspected ancient site of Zijin City should have two walls, namely the outer city wall and the inner city wall.

This kind of city structure will not appear in ordinary county towns.

This structure of two city walls can only exist when the feudal lords enshrine the state and the princes and kings enshrine the state.

Because the inner city is the mansion of the princes, or the mansion of the princes and kings!
At that time, ordinary civilians could only move outside the first city wall, and could not enter the core area of ​​the inner city.

Moreover, the location of the inner city and the remains of the foundation of the palace area indicate that the inner city here used to be a large palace area.

The steps to enter the palace area and the high-rise buildings in the palace area all have traces of relics!

After discovering the palace area of ​​the inner city, it is basically certain that the ruins of this ancient city should be Zijin City, the capital of Haihunhou Kingdom.

In the Nanchang area, to the west of Poyang Lake, there is only one Marquis of Haihun, which can match this site.

It was determined that the Zijin City ruins were the old capital of Haihunhou State.

The large-scale tomb with a complete cemetery structure on the crouching hill at the southwest end of Zijin City is undoubtedly the tomb of Marquis Haihun!

Once this discovery was reported, it caused a sensation in the domestic archaeological circles.

Even the newly identified archaeological excavation of the tomb of Haihunhou in the Western Han Dynasty in Nanchang was immediately promoted to the national level, and was listed as the most important archaeological project in China this year.

Experts and scholars from all over the country were quickly transferred to Nanchang to provide various technical and academic support around this important tomb of Liehou!

After being listed in the "National Brand", the treatment of Chen Han and his group of archaeologists who were actually responsible for excavating this tomb immediately changed.

A large area of ​​prefabricated houses began to be built near Mt. Dundun.

The cemetery covers an area of ​​almost [-] square meters, and a protective shed should be built for it according to each exploration.

It can be said that the whole project is aimed at building a long-term archaeological base.

In fact, it has to be done.

Because the cemetery of Haihunhou's tomb is really well preserved.

Experts agree that the capital city of Haihunhou represented by Zijin City and the burial area represented by the tomb of Haihunhou in Nanchang Western Han Dynasty are the most complete cemetery areas discovered in our country so far!

Moreover, it is also the settlement site of the Hou Kingdom in the Han Dynasty with the clearest layout of the capital city of the Hou Kingdom!

This is an important national historical and cultural heritage and the most unique large site for studying the history of the Western Han Dynasty!

Although such a site is not as important as the Yin Ruins, it is not inferior to some large-scale tribal sites from the Neolithic Age.

This means that this piece of Haihunhou Kingdom ruins centered on Zijin City will be an important site base in Jiangxi that needs long-term archaeology.

Just like the Lajia ruins in Qinghai, tens of thousands of square meters have been dug up to now, but excavations are still going on, and an archaeological base has been established.

The ruins of the Marquis of Haihun, the city site plus the burial area, as well as the burial area of ​​civilians and nobles explored around it, have a radius of more than ten square kilometers.

To fully excavate it is obviously a long archeology that needs ten years as a unit.

Therefore, some supporting facilities needed for long-term archaeology must be stepped up.

From all over the country, as many as hundreds of experts and scholars studying Han Dynasty archaeology went to Nanchang to start exploration and preliminary archaeological work on this large settlement site.

The excavation of the Zijin City ruins, the cemetery area, noble and general burial areas started simultaneously.

Throughout the construction site, as many as thousands of people participated and participated in this large-scale archaeological project.

Of course, the most important tomb No. M1, that is, the tomb of Marquis Haihun on Dundun Mountain, is still a joint archaeological team composed of Jiangxi Archaeological Institute, Nanchang Archaeological Institute, and Academy of Social Sciences Archaeological Institute. archaeological excavation.

but!

In view of the significance of this archaeological discovery, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage soon proposed that the excavation, protection and display work in Jiangxi should "represent the first-class archaeological level in China today, represent the first-class level of cultural relics protection in China today, and represent the first-class level in China today." A first-class level of presentation".

After several meetings, the archaeological team decided to put the protection of cultural relics first, the safety of the site first, and maximize the use of high-tech means to extract and record cultural relics information, so as to provide scientific and accurate information for the protection, display and utilization of large sites. General idea of ​​work.

Therefore, the main tomb of Marquis Haihun cannot be opened hastily.

It is necessary to wait for a series of high-tech archaeological equipment in place, wait for the protection shed on the site, and even the indoor research room for cultural relics to be set up before excavation can begin.

As a result, the main tomb chamber, which was originally dug out, only had to lift the top cover, and temporarily stopped the excavation work, waiting for the construction site to do safety protection and on-site cultural relics protection.

However, the archaeological team cannot be idle.

The main tomb cannot be dug for the time being, which does not mean that the auxiliary tombs other than tomb No. M1, as well as the chariot and horse pits next to it, cannot be dug!
Correct!
As everyone has increased the intensity of archaeological exploration, a chariot and horse burial pit was discovered next to the tomb of Tomb M1!

Chen Han's guess that Haihunhou would be buried with real chariots and horses is true!

This is the first high-level tomb with real chariots and horses to be found in the south of the Yangtze River!

One word.

Arrogant!

(End of this chapter)