Shaped like a saddle, also known as a saddle pile, it has obvious traces of Chu culture. 1972 Tomb unearthed the female corpse of the Western Han Dynasty, plain gauze cicada clothes, a large number of lacquerware, pottery, weapons, musical instruments, wooden servants, silk paintings, silk books, etc. It is the largest, most intact and highest artistic value painted silk paintings of the Han Dynasty in China.
Grave shape
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 holes, and the tombs are 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.
More than 3,000 precious cultural relics have been unearthed from the three Han tombs in Mawangdui, most of which are well preserved. Among them, more than 500 pieces of various lacquerware are beautifully made, luxuriantly decorated and as bright as new. What is precious is a large number of silk fabrics in Tomb No.1, which are well protected.
There are many varieties, such as silk, silk, silk, yarn, brocade and so on. There is a plain gauze dress, which is 1.28 meters long and has long sleeves, weighing only 49 grams, and its weaving skills are superb. The unearthed silk paintings are the earliest existing large-scale works in China that describe the real life at that time. There are also colorful figurines, musical instruments, weapons, seals, silk books and other treasures.