Sasakawa jade collection in the Sasakawa Museum

The Chu State tomb of the Chuanxia Xiachu Spring Festival is a tomb of the Chu State aristocrats in the middle and late spring and autumn. It is located in Donggou Village, Xia Temple, Cangfang Town, Danjiangkou Reservoir, Luanchuan County, Henan Province. In 1977, the drought in the southwestern part of Henan Province, the water level of the Danjiangkou Reservoir in the province of Luanchuan County in the province declined. One day, a local shepherd boy put sheep on the side of the reservoir and was tripped by the ground-exposed artifacts. Later, it was found to be a bronze, and there were several similar bronzes beside it. The Chu tomb was discovered here. In this tomb, the cultural relics archaeological team has excavated 25 tombs and 5 car-horse pits. Among them, there are 9 aristocratic tombs, and there are a set of bronze rituals and ornaments of jade and other materials. According to the inscription on the flat bottom of the tomb excavated in the No. 2 tomb, "The Prince chooses Ji Ji in the afternoon" and "Make the Yin Zi Gengmin respect" The word, the expert judged that the tomb was the tomb of Yin Zigeng, the king of Chu and the king of Chukang.

Sasakawa jade collection in the Sasakawa Museum

The Chushan Tomb of Xichuan and the Xujialing Chu Tombs were located on Changling, 1 km southeast of Chenzhuang Village. In 1989, the water level of the Danjiangkou Reservoir was reduced, and the Tomb of the Shangshan Chu was stolen. Some of the cultural relics were collected by the Luanchuan County Public Security Bureau. Xujialing Chu Tombs is located in Yanjiang Village. These two tombs were named one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 1992 and 2007 respectively. The entire Chu Tombs have important reference value for studying the development of Chudu Danyang, the history and culture of Chu State, the relationship between Chu State and neighboring vassal states, the ritual music system at that time, and ancient calligraphy. The moiré copper unearthed from the Xiachuan Xia Temple is banned, with a height of 28.8 cm, a length of 103 cm and a width of 46 cm. The moiré is forbidden to weigh more than 90 kg and is rectangular. It is the treasure of the town hospital of Henan Museum. It is one of the national cultural relics of the People's Republic of China and one of the cultural relics forbidden to go abroad.

A large number of cultural relics in the Chu State of Chuanchuan suddenly made the Henan Provincial Museum, which once lost a lot of Luoyang jade, wide and fascinating. The exquisite Xichuan jade articles were collected by the hospital. Among them, there was a piece of animal face jade jewelry, neat, delicate and almost suffocating. , known as "China's first spring and autumn jade relief." The rest of the Suichuan jade articles are collected in the Luanchuan County Museum, which became the first county-level museum in China.

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