Walk along the brick and stone path between the two burial pits. (Book ^ House * Small} Say + Net)

In front of it was a stone gate, a stone gate that had been sealed, and it was covered with dust.

I tried to reach out and push hard, but the stone door did not move at all, it was very firm, and I felt like I was pushing on a big rock.

"If you can't push it away like this, there's a rolling stone behind it." Duan Yufeng shook his head.

"What then?" I patted the ash on my hands.

Liu Sheng's tomb sits in the west and faces east, excavates the mountain rock to make the tomb chamber, is divided into six parts: the tomb road, the Yongdao, the south ear room, the north ear room, the middle room and the back room, and the whole tomb is completely simulated The palace building where the tomb owner lived before his death.

At the end of the tomb road, there is an ear chamber in the north and south, enter the back room through the spacious middle room, the south ear chamber is the carriage and horse room, and there are 6 carriages and 12 horses that are richly decorated inside.

The North Ear Room contains grain, fish, a tank full of fine wine, and a variety of eating utensils. The middle room is the most spacious, with two wooden curtains for banquets, which serve as a hall for the souls of the deceased to drink and have fun.

There is a back door at the west end of the middle hall, there is a pair of copper gilded beast face rings on the door, open the stone door to enter the back room, the main and secondary rooms are divided into two rooms, the main room is made of stone slabs, the four walls are painted red, there is a white marble coffin bed in the north of the room, and Liu Sheng's coffin is placed on it.

There is a drainage system throughout the tomb, and the ditches are connected, and finally flow into the seepage well, avoiding flooding damage. Duan Yufeng shook his head and said a paragraph.

"What are you talking about?" I looked at Duan Yufeng weirdly, could it be that this thing is crazy?

"The structure of the tomb in the Han Dynasty is almost like this, don't you realize that it is too big here."

"Big?"

"The main burial chamber is generally no more than thirty square meters, and it is too big here, and the atrium is so big." Duan Yufeng shook his head and said.

"Are you saying that the structure here is the structure of the main burial chamber?" I gave him a blank look under the mask, how unreliable this thing looked.

I also have some understanding of ancient tombs, Zeng Zi once said, "Be cautious and chase the distance, and the people's morality will be rich", which is not only his personal expectation, but also reflects the important position of funeral rites in the society at that time.

The importance of funerals in Chinese history can be glimpsed at least from the existence of the tombs of those Shang kings. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the emergence of the Great Tomb and the funeral system can be used as a symbol of the importance that people in that society attached to funerals.

In the Warring States period, although there were also some remarks about thin burials, these propositions just showed that thick burials were the general trend of the whole society.

This is not to say that all archaeological excavations have yielded thick burials.

Rather, even if ordinary people are not able to carry out thick burials, they still have a desire to ask for thick burials, which explains the important reason why ordinary tombs have used pottery ritual utensils and burial goods in high-ranking positions since the Warring States period.

The basic structure and identification methods of pit tombs and brick chamber tombs were in the entire Han Empire or Han cultural circle, and the tomb shapes can be roughly divided into two categories: mainstream and side branches.

The mainstream tomb form is the vertical pit wooden coffin tomb, the earthen cave tomb, and the horizontal cave brick chamber tomb developed from the pre-Qin period, which is the common form of the Han Dynasty tomb.

In terms of tributaries, such as the cliff tombs in Sichuan, the stone slab tombs in Shandong, and the shell tombs in the northeast, they belong to the tomb form with local characteristics, so their particularity is high and they are not popular.

The basic structure of the Han Dynasty wooden coffin tomb is the same as that of the pre-Qin wooden coffin tomb, that is, a rectangular earthen mound is excavated vertically from the ground downwards as a burial chamber for placing the coffin.

The structure of the coffin chamber is generally rectangular box-shaped, and the combination of the coffin plate is mainly grooved and tenon. The coffin can be divided into spaces of different sizes to place the coffin and burial goods.

The shape of the coffin is still mainly rectangular box-shaped, and there are also examples of wider heads, while the curved coffin lid commonly used in modern times is extremely rare.

The combination of the coffin plate is made of mortise and tenon or coffin nails. In addition to the coffins, there are various types of filling, most of which are set up to prevent moisture, such as white plaster and charcoal, and a few tombs have drainage facilities at the bottom.

In order to facilitate the excavation of the burial chamber, the mouth of the tomb is usually in the shape of a bucket. In addition, in the Chu cultural influence area, the tomb road is one of the most common tomb settings, which may be set up for the convenience of construction, and has no absolute relationship with the identity of the tomb owner.

The Shape and Origin of Brick Chamber Tombs The construction of typical brick chamber tombs is basically to dig a vertical pit from the ground downward, open a hole horizontally at the bottom of the vertical pit, and then build a tomb chamber with blocks in this horizontal pit and place a coffin in it.

Some brick chamber tombs are built with sloped tomb passages, and some brick chambers are built at the bottom of the vertical pit, and no longer open horizontal holes.

It is worth noting that the burial form of brick chamber tombs did not suddenly appear in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and its source may be traced back to the custom of earthen cave tombs used in Shanxi and Shaanxi during the Warring States Period.

The cave shape of the earthen cave tomb is actually similar to the horizontal pit concept of the brick chamber tomb, that is, a vertical pit tomb is dug from the ground downward, and after reaching the bottom, a cave is dug horizontally to the side, which was originally used as a niche for placing burial goods, and then gradually expanded to become a burial chamber for placing coffins.

However, the cave in the Warring States period was a wide and shallow cave, and it was not until later that it was transformed into a deep and long cave.

In addition, in the late Warring States period, there was also a kind of vertical pit hollow brick coffin tomb in Henan. The structure of this kind of tomb is basically the same as that of the vertical pit wooden coffin tomb, except that the part of the wooden coffin is replaced by a large rectangular hollow brick coffin, and the wooden coffin is still placed in the brick coffin.

Judging from the size of such tombs and the burial goods, the identity of the tomb owner could not have been too high, and it may have been a low-ranking official or scholar.

Here is the prince, of course, the status is not low.

The brick chamber tomb of the Han Dynasty is likely to have been transferred to the cave tomb by the brick coffin of the vertical pit brick coffin tomb.

For example, in a group of tombs unearthed in Zhengzhou from the early Warring States period to the early years, they are arranged in order of early and late chronology, the earliest is a vertical pit soil pit, and the second is a vertical pit hollow brick coffin tomb? The second is the soil cave tomb, and then the soil cave hollow brick coffin tomb, that is, the horizontal hole brick chamber tomb.

The basic structure of the Han Dynasty pit wooden coffin tomb is the same as that of the pre-Qin wooden coffin tomb, that is, a rectangular earthen mound is excavated vertically from the ground downwards as a burial chamber for placing the coffin.

The structure of the coffin chamber is generally rectangular box-shaped, and the combination of the coffin plate is mainly grooved and tenon. The coffin can be divided into spaces of different sizes to place the coffin and burial goods.

The shape of the coffin is still mainly rectangular box-shaped, and there are also examples of wider heads, and the curved coffin lid commonly used in modern times is extremely rare. The combination of the coffin plate is made of mortise and tenon or coffin nails.

In addition to the coffins, there are various types of filling, most of which are set up to prevent moisture, such as white plaster and charcoal, and a few tombs have drainage facilities at the bottom. In order to facilitate the excavation of the burial chamber, the mouth of the tomb is usually in the shape of a bucket.

The construction of a typical brick chamber tomb is basically to dig a pit from the ground downward, make a hole at the bottom of the pit, and then build a tomb chamber with blocks in this pit and place the coffin in it. Some brick chambers have sloped burial paths, while others are built at the bottom of vertical pits.