Research On Ding And Gui Of Tianma-Qucun Site

Tianma-Qucun Site is situated at south of Linfen City, Shanxi Province. Cemeteries concentrated in two locations:one is in the north of Qucun, which was a intensive distribution area of medium and small scale tombs. Another was a large scale tombs’area which was discovered in1992, namely Jin marquis graveyard, located in the center of Tianma-Qucun Site. It is located in the east of the medium and small scale graves1200meters.Tianma-Qucun Site constitutes a complete sequence of Western Zhou Dynasty tombs in Shanxi. The medium and small scale tombs haven’t been resurrected.’Tianma-Qucun (1980-1989)" presented the results of excavations at large. A part of Jin marquis graveyard were resurrected, others were excavated sets of artifacts. The excavation of Tianma-Qucun Site has a great significant on the study of Western Zhou Dynasty tombs in ShanXi, the classification of artifacts, early capital of Jin and the culture of Jin, and so on.This paper analyzes the medium and small scale tombs and Jin marquis graveyard respectively. The medium and small scale tombs began with the burial system. The data statistics includes the burial ground size, gender and age of occupant of tombs, coffin system, the combination and location of artifacts. Then, the paper analyses the system of burial and all of the bronze vessels. It focuses on classifaction of Ding and Gui, as well as the combination of Ding and Gui.The data analysis of Jin marquis graveyard is based on the brief report of the excavation. The bronze vessels are analysed one by one, including the classification and combination of artifacts.Then the medium and small scale tombs and Jin marquis graveyard are analysed together. The classifaction and combination of Ding and Gui are clear.The result indicated the number of Ding and Gui are basically the same as the historical records. The number of Ding mostly are odd number, and Gui mostly are even number. The system of Ding and Gui was formed in early Western Zhou. The number of men tombs buried with Ding and Gui were more than women tombs. The bronze culture in Tianma-Qucun Site was greatly influenced by ZongZhou, most of the bronze vessels were similar to ZongZhou, but also had its own characteristics of artifacts.