Behind Julong Town Foreign Language School in Hui 'an, workers found an ancient tomb during construction. Yesterday, the staff of Quanzhou City Team conducted a rescue excavation. After preliminary identification, the age of the tomb is about the middle and late period, and a rare brick with human face pattern was found when cleaning the passage of the tomb. Today, the staff will continue to clean the tunnel for further excavation. The top of the binaural tomb is arched, with a span of about 170 cm, and the internal outline has been presented.
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Different from the usual Shuihui tombs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are bricks on both sides of the tomb, which are roughly in three colors: red, blue and black. The most striking thing is the small arched ear room in the tomb. The reporter visually observed that the two ear chambers are the same size and located in the first half of the two sides of the tomb. According to archaeologists, funerary objects such as cans, bottles and articles are generally placed in the ear room.
Single tombs in the Tang Dynasty are usually this big. Chen Jianzhong, director of Quanzhou Museum, analyzed that the tombs in Shang and Zhou Dynasties were very small. After the Central Plains immigrants moved south to Fujian, they also brought their tombs to Fujian. Since then, the tombs of the ancients have become bigger.
In the middle and late Tang dynasty, the decorative patterns of tomb bricks were diverse, and almost every tomb brick had patterns. According to incomplete statistics, the decorative patterns of these printed bricks include money patterns, cockscomb patterns, dragon patterns, bamboo patterns, fish patterns, pulse patterns and treasure patterns, and the tomb bricks are rich in cultural connotations. Yesterday afternoon, after a preliminary cleaning of the tunnel, archaeologists also found tomb bricks with faces. This kind of tomb brick with face pattern is the first time I have seen it, and it is rare in Quanzhou area. Fan, director of the Archaeological Department of Quanzhou Museum, said that from the discovery of the ancient tomb to the cleaning of the ancient tomb yesterday, more than ten funerary objects have been found, most of which are pottery pots and pottery.
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Judging from the characteristics of these unearthed objects, the age of the ancient tomb should be in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Director Fan analyzed that from yesterday's excavation, the whole tomb area was earthy.
The identity of the owner of the tomb remains a mystery.
Chen Jianzhong said that the location of the mausoleum is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. At present, the identity of the tomb owner is still a mystery. Judging from the current situation, it should be an ancient tomb in the Tang Dynasty, but the physical object with the year number has not been found yet, so the specific age is still uncertain. It would be better if we could find copper coins. According to the ancient custom, the ancients usually put copper coins in the tombs to settle the coffins, but according to research, the copper coins in the Tang Dynasty had a high iron content, and after a long period of erosion, the copper coins were easy to rot. According to the villagers in Longshi Village, Zishan Town, the location of the ancient tomb is the legendary ancestral grave, which has been rumored in the village for decades.