Selective Annotations To Qiance Unearthed In Han Tombs

This article is divided into two parts:The first part outlines the unearthing and reorganization of Qiance of the tomb of Han Dynasty.This part mainly carries on the elaboration from two aspects: One is the general introduction to the Han Qiance unearthed since 1960s and 70s in our country, which are listed in forms for a clearer view, for convenient contrast. We divide the Qiance approximately into the following types by its contents: the record of funerary objects, the record of funerary object as well as goods used at the funeral ceremony, the record of buried clothing, and those with self-inscribed names, and so on. Two, a few important Qiance of Han Dynasty is briefly examined from their unearthing, reorganization and research situation, mainly including eight kinds: Tombs 1 and 3 at Mawangdui, Changsha,Hunan, Tombs 8 and 167 and 168 at Fenghuang Mountain, iangling, Hubei, Tomb Yinwan at Donghai, Jiangsu, Tomb Luobo Bay at Gui County, Guangxi and Tomb Dafentou at Yunmeng County, Hubei.The second part is the main body of this article, which classifies and selectively annotates the Qiance of Han tombs. The discussion revolves around one expert's research and explication primarily, also the view of my own is presented in the form of comment. Thus we classified Qiance into following six categories in the way performed by Mr. Danglan with reference to other scholars' research on classifications:1 Clothing and silk-weaving category,2 food and fruit grain, 3 carriages and horses Ming Tong and burial puppet class, 4 lacquer ware earthenware earthenware bamboo utensil and wooden figurine, 5 musical instrument and weapon, 6 dowry and utensils for gambling. In classifies like this, the things on each Qiance have to be divided and reorganized into several categories. We adopt the following rules: One, each Chinese the homogeneous utensils unearthed in each grace are put into one classification and labeled with the tomb name for typesetting and reading. Two, when Qiance in one tomb are examined, the explication for the first utensil is applicable to the same in the category so those appearing later will only be referred to...