A Preliminary Study Of Han Dynasty Mound Tomb In The Hu Zhou Area

Mound tomb is a kind of widespread burial form in the south of the Yangtze River, and the tombs are mostly in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, along with the field work thoroughly, we recognize the late mound tomb can be extended to the Six Dynasties period. Usually the special burial type is called "Han Dynasty Mound Tomb ", which built the tombs in artificial mounds, put the body and the funerary objects in it.Along with the field archaeology refinement and archaeological standards continue to improve, more and more Han Dynasty mound tombs are identified from the ordinary tombs of Han Dynasty, its distribution range may not be limited to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.At present, the Hangzhou Jiaxing Huzhou plain is the place that first discover the Han Dynasty mound tombs,and it is also the most densely concentrated palce, Including Huzhou Yangjiabu, Fangjiashan, Anji Shangmashan, Changxin Xiajiamiao,Qinvdun, in addition,Hangzhou,Haiyan, Anhui Guangde, Hunan Changde, Shandong, Linyi, Qingdao, Haiqu and Jiangsu and other places are also found this tomb types. This paper mainly take Han Dynasty mound tomb in Huzhou as an example, a preliminary study of its analysis, basic characteristics, age stage, the character of the graveyard and the possibility of presence of nationality, so we can have a better understanding of the other area in the Han Dynasty mound tomb, and deep the understanding of the funeral culture of Han Dynasty.Pre Qin and Han Dynasty mound tomb not only have the difference in the way of mound construction, but also have some difference in the mound,the quantity of tombs in the mound, distribution, age, burial mode, burial and funerary objects to choose, and the difference is more than the same. The Han Dynasty tomb Mound Tombs can be divided into:earthen pit tomb of wooden coffin coffin, earthen pit brick coffin and rectangular brick tomb, the evolution of its shape is same to the non mound tombs, and also have the same age of evolution of Zhejiang and the entire Southeast consistent of Han Dynasty, shows the strong common types of non mound tombs.Huzhou Yangjiabu Mound Tomb in Northern Zhejiang is a large mound Tomb of Han Dynasty,it is also the only excavation report published of the Han Dynasty Mound Tomb, it can provide a reference for other research of Han Dynasty mound tomb in other areas, so, I firstly resort the Yangjiabu D1～D15 relationship in formation and segmentation,funerary objects and the stages of the tombs, fixed type anew, at last reference to staging of Han Dynasty tombs of Zhejiang and Southeast China,adjust the original segmentation and stage, divided into four periods and five sections, of which second period includes two sooner and later segmentation. Each period corresponds respectively:mid Western Han Dynasty, late Western Han Dynasty, Xinmang period and the early Eastern Han Dynasty.The nature of the Han Dynasty mound tomb is closely related with the land system. The Han Dynasty peasant determines the cemetery is their ownership privately, the found of Huzhou Yangjiabu mound tombs are also deny the possibility of the public cemetery. The composition of the family in the literature is also accord with the shape and layout of Han Dynasty mound tombs of Huzhou, Yang Jiabu Fang Jiashan, Shanmashan and Changxin areas. According to the different mound in the position, burial direction, laminated to break relations and the time, can make some assumptions about the nature of the identity of the tombs which are lack of effective information circumstances. In the Huzhou area,the mounds include the family cemetery of a big number of tombs of, small familt cemetery of a small number of tombs, and may be the mixed cemetery which includes many families in some reasons, showing the complexity of nature of Han Dynasty mound tomb.The relationship between the ethnic belongingness and the Han Dynasty mound tombs is mainly through cultural factor analysis. Tombs of the same period in different areas have more similary with the tombs of the same period of Han Dynasty mound tomb in all aspects of the graves, funerary objects, showed strong similarities, two types of burial tomb identity do not have much difference; and the tombs of the same area in different period, provides good clues to the origin and cultural factors for the Han Dynasty mound tomb, its origin can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties mound tomb, but also combines Chu and Han cultural factors; Han Dynasty mound tomb of same period in different areas, have both common and differences, it means there are some difference in identity, and also show obvious regional differences in cultural properties. All in all, the Han Dynasty mound tomb is a local archaeological cultural relics which unified Chu and Yue culture factors under the background of Han Dynasty.The Han Dynasty mound tomb is an important part of tombs of Han, and with the increasing of archaeological discovery, Han Dynasty mound tomb is likely not only a kind of special type in some areas, its distribution range may be more extensive than anticipated, so,with the study of Huzhou Han Dynasty mound tomb, it can help the study of Han Dynasty mound tomb, in order to further enrich the connotation of Han culture.