A Study On The Cemetery Burial System In The State Of Rui

The state of Rui was a state which was ruled by Ji family clan near the capital area in the Zhou Dynasty, but the record about Rui in the ancient literature is very simple. The discovery of the Rui's cemetery provided important data for Rui's history and the vassal state funeral system during the Western and Eastern Dynasties, and fills the gaps in on the occasion of the vassal state. This article takes the cemetery of Rui state as the starting point, combined with literature, and compared with the cemetery of Jin,the cemetety of Wei, the cemetery of Ying and so on, study the funeral system of Rui state, at last draws conclusions are sa follows:First, this article studied the cemetery system of the Rui state. Rui state cemetery is based on blood relationship and has a strong color of primitive clan, it included much tombs, they were belong to the king and his wife, a member of the clan. In the early Spring and Autumn period, monarch tombs and low grade tombs partition trend and emergence of the couple and burial tomb, it is because Rui country comprehensive national strength promotion. Rui cemetery only had a tomb which had two ramps.The reason is it ' s national strength promotion as well as the owner of the tomb made outstanding achievements.Second, in the coffin decorations, the third grade tombs of Rui state cemetery found much brone fish,this indicades that the saying ‘the thired noble has no fish' is not accutate. The shape of ‘pool' has four kinds, they are double hipped roof top, double hipped roof top without two eaves, for tops and two tops.The thired, sceoned, first grades have right to use brone fan, and the number of the fan is based on the occupant of a tomb, that higher status much more fans.Third, the third part of this article analysis the coffin system of the Rui state cemetery. Rui state cemetery did not form a documented rigorous system of coffin and burial of the highest specifications with a coffin coffin, this is because in the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the early to mid spring and autumn is the coffin multiple system period originated from.Forth, in the bronze ritual vessels, in the cemetery of the Rui state, the Ding system is still in the initial stage in the late of Western Zhou. The Ding system informed in the early of the Spring and Autumn period.In the Rui cemetery, the tomb of the third grade had no bronze ritual vessels. This is because they had no bronze ritual vessels for themselves. Odd number of Ding match with even number of Gui was informed in the mid western Zhou Dynasty.Fifth,The tombs in the Rui state has much jade included etiquet jade, burial jade and the practical jade. Rui state ritual jade has the characteristics of men's superiority to women. The number of burial ritual jade quantity and the owner of the tomb's status was positively related. The phenomenon of the mouth of occupant of a tomb had jade is very universal, and there is no different between men and women. The phenomenon of the hands of occupant of a tomb had jades is not common, and had the character of women's superiority to men. Earrings made of jade in the tombs was common decorative jade, had no rank characteristic. But the jade group which had semi-annular jade, if the occupant of a tomb was in the higher state in society, there would be more semi-annular jades.