Boat coffin burial
The boat coffin burial ( Chinese 船棺 葬 , Pinyin chuánguānzàng , English boat-coffin burial ) was an old burial custom of the Ba-Shu culture . In 1954 , boat coffins were discovered for the first time in Sichuan Province in Guangyuan广 元 and in Ba 巴 县 County (today's Banan巴南 区 District of Chongqing ). They were the graves of the Ba (Bā 巴) people from the Warring States Period to the beginning of the Han Dynasty . They are shaped like a dugout canoe, are approx. 5 m long and have a diameter of over a meter. Each coffin is made from a single trunk of large nanmu ( Phoebe nanmu ; 楠木 , nánmù ). The grave goods consist mainly of bronze and pottery products.
The site of the old boat coffins from the State Shu in Chengdu (Chengdu Shu gu Chuanguan hezangmu成都古蜀船棺合葬墓) in the Shangye Street (Shangye jie) from the time the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is on the list since 2001 Monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-176).
literature
- Sichuan Sheng bowuguan 四川省 博物馆: Sichuan chuanguanzang fajue baogao 四川 船棺 葬 发掘 报告 [Report on the excavation of boat coffins in Sichuan]. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe 1960
- Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
Web links
- 2500 year old coffin exposed
- 2,500-year-old boat coffin to reveal mysterious Chinese kingdom - English
Footnotes
- ↑ The Xin Han-De cidian translates the Chinese word as "boat-coffin-burial".
- ^ Cihai , p. 234.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )