What is the zodiac sign of February 28? Why is the Dasongshan Tombs in Gui'an selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country?

On March 28, the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2022 were announced, and the Dasongshan tombs in Gui'an, Guizhou were selected.

This is the second time in two years that another archaeological discovery in Guizhou has been selected as the "Oscar" of the archaeological community.

The announcement of the annual "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country" is not only a "highlight moment" for the archaeological community, but also the "annual archaeological easter egg" that museum enthusiasts are most looking forward to.

To be selected as a major archaeological discovery of the year, in addition to having historical, artistic, and scientific value, it must also provide new content information and new understandings for the Chinese archaeological discipline.

The final evaluation report site of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the country. For Guizhou archeology and even Chinese archeology, the Dasongshan tombs in Gui'an New District were selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country. What is "new" about it?

The annual "archaeological easter egg", where is the "color"?

As a novice in archeology, what kind of historical information can we read from this tomb group?

Come!

Listen to Zhou Bisu, the project leader and director of the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, reveal the secrets to you!

The cemetery is large.

This is the first key word to interpret the Dasongshan tombs.

At the expert acceptance meeting for the archaeological excavation of the Dasongshan tombs, Song Jianzhong, a researcher at the Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, once described it as "the miracle of excavating the tombs".

This description is not an exaggeration.

In just 6 months, the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, together with the School of Archeology and Museology of Peking University, the School of Archeology and Museology of Sichuan University, and the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University, invested nearly a hundred archaeologists in scientific and systematic excavations**

*2192 tombs were excavated.

At the final review meeting of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country", Zhou Bisu raced against time to "show off his strength". "This is the largest cemetery excavated so far in Guizhou and even the southwest region." Zhou Bisu told reporters that the excavation of the tomb group,

With the support of a professional team from multiple disciplines and institutions, a working model that deeply integrates traditional archeology, laboratory archeology, scientific and technological archeology, and cultural relic protection is formed. “This is the largest archaeological event in a cemetery in Southwest China, and it is also an open and cooperative archaeological event.

"From the Jin and Southern Dynasties to the Song and Ming dynasties, there are 2,192 tombs that lasted for nearly 1,400 years. What do these excavation results mean?

As an archeology novice, it can be simply understood as - "This is a general history of central Guizhou buried underground." Among the 2,192 tombs excavated, there are 182 tombs from the Jin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and 2,010 tombs from the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Tombs in different periods have not only continued, but also changed and developed.

The excavation of this tomb group has established the archaeological chronological scale of the historical period of the Yunnan-Guizhou region. "Especially in the Song Dynasty, public cemeteries began to appear, which are closely related to the social changes in China. It fully proves that the Yunnan-Guizhou region while retaining regional and ethnic characteristics,

Chinese civilization factors have always been the mainstream," Zhou Bisu told reporters, which fully proves that the Chinese nation's unity is formed in the process of development and change.

The cemetery has been in continuous use for thousands of years, with not only continuity, but also changes and development. What is interesting is that the tombs also reflect the eastward movement of the Han-Yi border between the Jin and Southern Dynasties.

"From the two Jin Dynasties to the Southern Dynasties, the governance center of the Yunnan-Guizhou region moved from Yunnan to Guizhou. The two Jin Dynasties effectively governed Yunnan, the Han-Yi border in the Southern Dynasties moved eastward, and the status of __ County was improved, and the county government is likely to be in the area near our Dasongshan Tombs.

" Zhou Bisu said.

The 94-page PPT report is full of useful information, and the cultural relics unearthed from different periods are so dazzling!

How many cultural relics were unearthed?

More than 4,000 pieces (sets)!

In the limited 15 minutes of the final evaluation report meeting, taking time, talking about practical information, highlighting highlights, and answering key points are the keys to getting more votes.

The family property continues to "light up"!

While the on-site expert judges were still immersed in the "beehive-like scale of the cemetery", Zhou Bisu continued to demonstrate another strength of the Dasongshan Tombs - the rich variety of unearthed cultural relics.

The large number of unearthed objects dazzled the expert judges present. "This tomb group in Guizhou has so much interesting information that it is dazzling to see." "It is huge in scale. Thousands of tombs were excavated in half a year. It is worthy of the Chinese style of archeology!" "Guizhou!

Archeology is awesome!" The final review was broadcast live on the entire network, which not only opened a window for the public to "enter archeology", but also became a phenomenal communication case for telling the story of Guizhou.

The final review site was broadcast live on the entire network, opening a window for the public to "enter Guizhou archeology." Among the more than 4,000 sets of cultural relics unearthed, the variety can be described as "all-encompassing".

Among them, there are many treasures with unique shapes and exquisite craftsmanship, such as gold hanging ornaments, silver comb backs, copper strips, gilded copper pans, copper seals, tin fish, copper bells, beads, necklaces, silver Sanskrit seed characters, etc.; there are also reflections

Gemstones and glass beads for cultural exchange between China and foreign countries, as well as Chen Taihu and organic matter from the Southern Dynasties.