Tang Dynasty Mausoleum Pei Zangmu Study

The Accompanied Burial System of Chinese ancient emperor's mausoleum originates in Qin Dynasty, develops and prevails in Han Dynasty, and matures in Tang Dynasty. Particularly after the gradual reform and evolution over 360 years through Wei Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Accompanied Burial System develops some new features in Tang Dynasty as the result of the integration of the Northern Ethnic Group's and the Southern Han Nation's Funeral traditions. In the thesis, the author has launched an integrated, systematic and comprehensive research based on the excavated tomb's evidence and the relevant historical record. And the research includes the formation and the burial system, traditions and hierarchy of Tang Dynasty's accompanied tombs, the reasons for rising and falling of the accompanied burial system, the distribution and layout of the accompanied tombs. And the author tries to analyze in depth the burial culture, traditions and the burial systems through the research of the accompanied tombs of the emperor's mausoleum in Tang Dynasty.The creative achievements of the thesis are as follows:Firstly, it lists four features of the accompanied tombs of the emperor's mausoleum in Tang Dynasty.1. The location of the accompanied tombs has been fixed to the southeast direction of the emperor's mausoleum since Emperor Taizong; 2.The cave tomb with long slope path and yard has been the main form of the accompanied tombs; 3.The niches along the path has been the main place to set the mortuary objects; 4. The fresco has been found in most of the accompanied tombs. The thesis carries out a thorough and detailed analysis on the formation of these features, and probes the developing rules of the accompanied tombs from Qin and Han Dynasties to the period of Wei and Jin Dynasties.Secondly, it launches a comprehensive analysis based on the excavated tomb's evidence and the relevant historical document to the ground construction (the mound, the wall and the gate tower), the underground tomb structure (the single or double chamber, the path, the corridor, the yard, the niches), the coffins, the frescoes and the burial accessories by the statistical and comparative ways, and puts forward some creative opinions after thorough study of all the factors relevant to the tomb and the hierarchy. Thirdly, it chooses the typical accompanied tombs as the samples, researches many popular burial traditions in Tang Dynasty such as "the husband and wife co-burial", "the family multi-burial", "the move burial", "the reinter", "the ghost marriage" and "the evocation burial", summarizes the central contents and the basic rules, and analyzes their complementary and integrated relationship of the burial traditions in Tang Dynasty.Fourthly, it compares the documented tomb owner's identification with the archaeological evidence, combined the latest relevant findings in the chorography and referenced the existing research fully, then raises new opinion for the two long-standing disputed questions "the rising and falling reasons of the accompanied burial system" and "the distribution and layout of the accompanied tombs".