An Introduction About Tombs On "The Qinghai Road" During The Han And The Tang Dynasties

Since the Han dynasty, the Hexi Corridor played a role to connected central China, northwest border area of China and the other countries of the Western Regions. According to the historical documents, it was not the only way to far-away of the China's border area, there was one more route such as the Hexi Corridor existed, it was the Qinghai Road. The most booming contribution had been made by the Qinghai Road was at the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many eminent monks went to the Western Regions for deep studying and preach by through the Qinghai Road, such as Faxian, Songyun and Tan Wujie and so on, till the time of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Suiyang Emperor had been out to battle the emperor himself, therefore he was the first one and the only emperor who ever been there for battle, the other vistor was the Wen Cheng princess who was also been there when she went to Tibet. Those documents showed the Qinghai Road's historical value as well. In addition, there were a lot of tombs had been discovered in Qinghai Province, it could be speculated as the tombs on the Qinghai Road had been related to the Central China by observing the type of grave mound, the structure of tombs and the stuff buried with the dead, it also could be understood that the tight connection between Qinghai Province and the Central China Dynasty since antiquity.This paper has fore section, the first chapter introducing the Qinghai Road, the time horizon and special scale of this subject; the second part talked about the north route and middle path of the tombs on the Qinghai Road during the Han and the Jin Dynasties, it's talked by taking the tombs of Pinan ancient city, the tombs of Shang sunjia zhai stockade village, the tombs of Huzhu Gaozhai stockade village for examples, which also discussed those tomb's belonging time, culture contents and it's value by basing on the data offered from the brief report on the excavation and the other article;the third part showed the ancient Tibetan tombs which had been discovered at the Tang Dynasty in the region of the Doulan in Qinghai Province, it expounded the tombs'structure, burial stuff, cultural incorporation of the number one of ancient Tibetan tomb in the Dulan's Reshui tombs, this tomb showed three kinds of culture from the Han, the Xianbei and the ancient Tibet, as well as the western regional culture. Mostly, it took the Han and the ancient Tibetan culture as the main tombs'culture. The forth part made a summary for this studying which was based on the understanding of the tombs on the Qinghai Road, and explaining the value and meaning of the Qinghai Road's exist during the Han and Tang dynasty.