Key Cultural Relics Unearthed from Chu Tomb in Xichuan

Dingding by Huang Keding Sheng and Zeng Taishi, Dingding painted by Juan Yun, Dingding painted by a bird's beak beast, bronze pots with portraits, Zhongjidun, and tomb animals. All unearthed from the Chu tomb in Heshangling are exquisite cultural relics. Bronze animal heads unearthed from Chu Tomb in Xu Jialing are particularly precious.

Huang Ding, with no cover, big mouth, square lips folded out, long ears rolled out, neck adducted, waist girdle, slightly bulging abdomen, flat bottom, hooves and feet. The tripod earrings have triangular patterns, the neck ornaments have plain patterns, and there are two animal-shaped ornaments. The waist is decorated with cords and the abdomen is decorated with scales. There is an inscription at the bottom. This tripod is the earliest Chu tripod found in China.

Master Zeng cast a tripod, 46 cm high, with a slightly closed mouth, a protruding hoop under the mouth, a cover on the hoop, a rectangular ear slightly turned outwards, an arc belly, a round bottom, and high hoofs and feet turned outwards. Cover the micro drum. There is a circle of pottery grain in the center of the cover, and there are two pottery grains in it, which are divided into four equal parts. Each part is decorated with dragons, two pottery patterns are decorated with circular vortex patterns at both ends, and there is a band pattern composed of one pottery pattern and three flat patterns in the middle. The cover buckle is a bridge buckle with animal heads at both ends.

Rarely use cirrus to fill lacquer tripod, fill black paint in intaglio fine lines and cirrus, and polish.

The bronze pot is decorated with seven layers of bronze statues, and each layer is divided into groups. There are phoenix birds flying with wings, immortals with horns on their heads and hands like wings, fierce tigers, running goats and so on. The whole portrait layout is reasonable, symmetrical and lifelike.

Zhong Jidun, the device is missing a ring button. The whole is spherical. Consists of a cover and a main body. Both the cover and the main body are hemispherical. There are two symmetrical ring buttons on the cover and the main body near the mouth.

The animal seat of the town tomb is square, and the four corners of the square seat are arcuately indented from bottom to top. The square seat has the same patterns on all sides, with two deformed phoenixes on the top and two tigers on the bottom, with a circular vortex pattern in the middle and a triangular pattern on the top between the frame and the phoenixes and tigers. At present, experts still have different views on the use of "town tombs".

The clock is a push-button clock, which consists of nine bells of the same shape and size. The bell body is tile-shaped and very long. The "dance department" is decorated with buttons composed of double dragons, and the "dance department" is decorated with plane patterns. There are eighteen "chess pieces" (scenes) on each side of the button clock. The front of the "drum part" is decorated with dragon patterns, and the faucet is opposite. The body is large and sideways, and the inner wall of the "drum" is long. The seal part is decorated with triangular patterns or dragon patterns, and the "pheasant part" and the left and right "drum parts" have inscriptions. At the same time, the copper hook for hanging the bell was unearthed. This button clock is a musical instrument of Chu State. It is a complete and exquisite set of bronze chimes unearthed in recent years, which is of great value to the study of ancient music.

Two bronze animal heads, unearthed in * * *, are 48 cm high, with mouths open and tongues sticking out, and six dragons sticking out their heads in different directions. The neck, body and tail are tiger-shaped, with turtle feet. A square seat was cast in the middle of the beast's back, and there was another monster on the seat, with Yi Long in its mouth. There are three horns on the faucet. Stick out your tongue and bend down. The whole object is decorated with dragon and phoenix patterns and moire patterns, and covered with turquoise. Its use is still controversial in academic circles. Some people think it may be a drum rack for hanging drums, while others think it is a drum rack.