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ON the Chariot Pits at a Tomb of the Kingdom Guo

Article Summary by: TsingHua    

Original Author: Journal of Baoji College of Arts and Science(Social Science)
This abstract was translated from 虢国车马坑葬初探
The Chariot and horse pit, wioih was unearthed in Guo Kingdom's tomb, Slang cunning, san MenXiacity. Is the pit of a noble's
tomb with funerary objects that has been discovered so far that orderly arranged one in full grades and with extensive scope during the west Zhou as well as the spring and Autumn Period. The Guo kingdom Chariot and horse pit zhherited and adopted the funeral system with Chariot and horse in Slang and Zhou dynasty, it adapted and catered to the social development and change, thus charged and renovated thefuneral contents and forms of chariot and horse pit. It discarded the pit with burying chariotand the form of burying in the same pit. while the form of burying chariot and horse and theform of burying in different pit prospered, burying the whole chariot became the mainstream. In this chariot and horse pit, the chariot and the horse are orderly arranged, the funeral features and its symbolization are more explicit, the burying of funerary objects started, choate that of man perished, this shoes some sign of the collapse of the traditional funeral system of buying chariot and horse, the discovery of a large number of chariot and horse in Guo kingdom toms reflects the level of produefivitg and the public morals of worshiping martial spirit in the then Guo kingdom. Moreover, the pit also reflects its métier's status and grade, when we coordinated it pot system, the two formed an integrated part.
Published: June 30, 2003
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