Xabala Tour » Nanyue King http://www.xabala.com China Travel Guide Wed, 26 May 2010 10:54:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Museum of West Han Dynasty and Nanyue King http://www.xabala.com/museum-of-west-han-dynasty-and-nanyue-king http://www.xabala.com/museum-of-west-han-dynasty-and-nanyue-king#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 14:56:38 +0000 admin http://www.xabala.com/?p=124 On the Xianggang Hill beside the Jiefang Road stands the tomb of Nanyue King who was the second generation of the King of Nanyue Kingdom in early West Han Dynasty and also the grandson of General Zhao Tuo of the Qin dynasty who unified areas south to the five mountain ridges. The tomb, enjoying a history of over 2000 years, was discovered in 1983. 20 meters deep down behind the hill, it was made of 750 stone slabs with 7 rooms in 2 parts separated by two stone doors. Each room was of its own function. After a few years of excavation, over 1000 pieces or sets of valuable cultural relic and 15 buried-alive dead bodies had been unearthed.

Up to date, this tomb is the earliest, largest and richest ancient tomb of early Han dynasty found in Guangdong and Guangxi areas. It is also the only all-stone tomb with earliest color murals. Of the unearthed cultural relics, bronze instruments, 36 large cooking vessels, 36 bronze mirrors and 3 gold coins (up to date, there have been only 4 gold coins in total of the time discovered in the area) and 240 jade wares. The King wore clothes with jade pieces threaded together. Besides, people found a blue colored flat grass slab, a set of printing copper moulds and African ivory and other rare treasures of significance.

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