From June 65438 to June 0984, the excavation of an ancient tomb in Maanshan shocked the archaeological community in China with its unprecedented discovery. When Maanshan Textile Factory expanded its factory in Anmin Forest Farm, about 1000 meters south of Yushan, it found an ancient brick tomb in a long and narrow underground about 2 meters higher than the surrounding area. After being rescued and excavated by provincial and municipal cultural relics experts, it is known from the unearthed wooden thorn (that is, business card) that this is the tomb of General Zhu Ran, a famous Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms who has been sleeping for more than 1700 years. Zhu Ran's tomb is a large-scale Wu Dong tomb consisting of two rooms. The outside of the tomb is 8.7 meters long, 3.54 meters wide and 2.94 meters high. From south to north, there are door walls, tunnels, front rooms, aisles, retaining walls and back rooms in turn. The front room of the tomb adopts a four-corner coupon dome structure, which has strong compressive performance.
Four brick tombs with similar ages were found around 1996, which were family cemeteries buried by experts for gathering people. Among them, a large tomb more than 30 meters southwest of Zhu Ran's tomb, like Zhu Ran's tomb, belonged to the large tomb at that time. Zhu Ran's family cemetery is backed by a rainy mountain, and the south is open and flat, which is in line with the geomantic concept of backing the mountain and facing the plain at that time. This is an ideal burial place. According to historical records, during the period of Sun Wu, geomantic omen was very important in the burial system, and gathering burial was popular. Noble families often lived together, annexed land, and were buried together after death. A large area of feng shui treasure land is designated as a tomb area, and other families are not allowed to occupy it. This burial custom, with the continuous expansion of clan power in the south of the Yangtze River, evolved into a popular burial custom in the south of the Yangtze River throughout the Six Dynasties.
More than 40 pieces of lacquer wood, bronze ware, celadon, pottery and other cultural relics/kloc-0 have been unearthed in Zhu Ran's tomb, among which the words and inscriptions on the wooden thorns are an important basis for inferring the identity of the tomb owner. Lacquer wood is the most important part of the cultural relics unearthed from Zhu Ran's tomb, with more than 80 pieces. There are many exquisite painted patterns on the lacquerware, such as the palace banquet, Ji Zha hanging a sword, boys playing with sticks, aristocratic life and so on. This is an important discovery in the art history of the Three Kingdoms period, adding a glorious page to the art history of China.