A large number of exquisite and precious cultural relics have been unearthed. More than 9000 pieces of cultural relics/kloc-0 were unearthed from the No.1 and No.6 tombs in Zhongshan, which shocked China and foreign countries with a large number of orphans and treasures. Among them, the bronze tripod with iron feet, copper square pot, copper round pot, Zhongshan Houyue and herringbone ware provide extremely precious historical materials for studying the politics, military affairs and calligraphy of the Wang family and Zhongshan Kingdom. Bronze staggered patterns of gold, silver, dragons and phoenixes, fifteen lamps, silver-headed statue lamps, tiger deer feeder, ox feeder, rhinoceros feeder, bronze beast with wings, polished black pottery tripod with embossed patterns, stone six chess board, eagle column basin, a large number of jade dragons, jade tigers and jade people, etc. With exquisite craftsmanship and unique modeling, it reflects the superb technology of Zhongshan handicraft industry in casting, smelting and processing.
A large number of exquisite artifacts have been unearthed from the tomb of King Zhongshan, many of which have the characteristics of our ancestors. A large number of gold and silver objects were unearthed in the tomb, which was very different from the early Warring States period. Unique treasures include bronze statues of dragons and phoenixes inlaid with gold and silver, deer-eating screens of gold and silver tigers, fifteen lamps, silverwing beasts and bronze lamps with silver heads. Among them, the scheme of gold and silver inlaid with dragon and phoenix-shaped copper is very exquisite, and the whole body is decorated with staggered gold and silver patterns. There are four sika deer lying horizontally below, their limbs bent on a ring base. There are four dragons with one head and two tails standing on the cambered surface in the middle. Each dragon is wrapped around a phoenix, and the top of the dragon arch has a square case decorated with moire patterns. Fifteen bronze lamps, with strange shapes, are all 82.9 cm high and 26 cm in diameter, weighing 13.8 kg. They are composed of lamp holders and seven lamp holders, as if seven brackets extend around the branches of a big tree to support 65,438+05 lamp trays, and each bracket is detachable, and the brackets are decorated with small animals such as birds and monkeys.
More than 50 bronzes were unearthed from Tomb No.1, including "bronze tripod with iron foot", "bronze dragon square pot" and "copper round pot". The square pot cauldron was written by Wang Zhongshan. These bronzes all mentioned that the prince of Yan gave way to Xiangbangzi, which led to civil strife in Yan State. According to the situation, Zhongshan sent Sima Luo, the prime minister of Yan State, to lead the army slightly north.
A very important discovery about the mausoleum architecture in the Warring States period was also found in the tomb, the bronze version of Mega-Domain Map (Mega-Domain Map of Zhongshan). The bronze medal is the general plan of the cemetery with the mausoleum as the main body, which indicates the dimensions of all parts of the cemetery building. The whole plate is about 94 cm long, 48 cm wide and 1 cm thick, and a plan of the cemetery inlaid with gold and silver. This copper plate is the earliest scale drawing in China, the earliest architectural graphic design object in China and the earliest copper architectural graphic design in the world.
Two pots of wine preserved for more than 2200 years were also found in the unearthed cultural relics, which is the oldest wine in the world.
Some archaeologists believe that Zhongshan was first established by the ancestors of the northern ethnic group, because there are artifacts of the ancestors in the tomb. However, some people think that the cultural differences between Xianyu and Zhongshan gradually disappear because of their long-term exchanges and living together and mutual integration.