Mawangdui Han Tomb is the family cemetery of Changsha Prime Minister and Hou Licang in the early Western Han Dynasty. Mawangdui Han Tomb was excavated three times in 1972 ~ 1974. The structure of the mausoleum is magnificent and complex. The three tombs are rectangular vertical tombs with mounds on the north side. The tomb is built at the bottom of the tomb pit, and the bottom and surrounding rooms are filled with charcoal and white paste, and then filled, compacted and sealed layer by layer. The second tomb is Hou Licang, the prime minister of Changsha in the early Han Dynasty, the first tomb is the wife of Li Cang, and the third tomb is the son of Li Cang.
More than 3,000 well-preserved relics such as female corpse/kloc-0 furniture, coffin, silk, silk book, silk painting, lacquerware and Chinese herbal medicine were unearthed in the tombs. The discovery of Mawangdui Han Tomb provides important data for studying the tomb system, the development of handicraft industry and technology, and the historical, cultural and social life of Changsha.
20 13 On May 3rd, National Cultural Heritage Administration listed Mawangdui Han Tomb in the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. June 20 16, Mawangdui Han Tomb was rated as one of the top ten ancient tombs in the world. On 20211kloc-0/8, Mawangdui Han Tomb was selected as one of the "Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries in a Hundred Years" in China.
Site characteristics of mawangdui Han tomb;
On the ground of Mawangdui Han Tomb, there are two mounds of similar size, east and west side by side, each with a base diameter of about 40 meters and a flat top and a height of about 16 meters. The local area used to be a mound four or five meters high. When building a tomb, first dig out the lower part of the tomb pit on the mound, and then tamp the upper part of the tomb pit and the pyramid-shaped mound with the method of slab construction. After burial, the soil is filled and compacted to build a tall mound.
The pit types of the three tombs are basically the same, all of which are rectangular vertical-cave tombs with a mound on the north side. At the bottom of the tomb and around the tombs of the three tombs, charcoal and white paste were filled, and then filled layer by layer, compacted and sealed. Tomb No.1 is composed of four parts, namely, earth sealing, tomb passage, tomb pit and tomb chamber (i.e., the lower part of the tomb pit), and is shaped as a vertical hole tomb with rectangular soil pit. Due north.
Before the excavation, the earth seal of the mound where Tomb No.1 was located was more than 20 meters high and the bottom diameter was 50-60 meters. Most of them are rammed earth, and the top is a circular platform with a diameter of about 20 meters. Most of them are piled manually, and the lower side of the earth seal is a small mound, about 4-5 meters high.
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