Yinxu Wangling Archaeology Site Review

The development of the writing form of Chinese characters has experienced the development of Jia Jinyu Li grass and grass, and the Oracle of Anyang Yinxu is the earliest source of discovery. The Oracle Point of YX127 discovered in 1936 is the largest discovery of Oracle. Until now, we can see its discovery site.

The site of the King's Mausoleum of Yinxu is located in the north of Wuguan Village on the north bank of the Lihe River in Anyang City, Henan Province. It is the mausoleum and sacrifice place of the Yin Shang Dynasty. It pioneered the system of the mausoleum of Chinese emperors. A large number of beautiful bronze, jade and stone tools have been unearthed. Simu Yuanding was excavated in the tomb of M260 in 1936.

The Yinxu Wangling Site is an important part of the Yinxu World Heritage Site, which forms the Yinxu Site jointly with the Yinxu Palace Zongmiao Site and the Beibei Mall Site. The M260 tomb reveals and protects the house project, the vegetation marking of 12 tombs of Wangling Tombs, and more than 480 sacrificial pits and animal sacrifice pit display projects.

The site of the Yinxu Wangling is the site of the Yin Shang Dynasty's mausoleum and sacrifice. It is known as the world's "second ancient Egypt". The site of the Yinxu Wangling is about 450 meters long and about 250 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of nearly 200 mu. 13 large tombs, more than 2,000 burial tombs and sacrifice pits were discovered here, and a large number of exquisite bronze, jade, stone and pottery were unearthed.

The largest bronze found in the Yinxu site is the "Simu Xuding". The ding is 133 cm high, the mouth is 110 cm long, the mouth is79.2 cm wide, and the weight is832.84 kg. It is the largest bronze found in the world today, representing the highest level of ancient bronze culture in China. This Ding shape is huge and majestic, exquisite craftsmanship, exquisite decoration, the body with thunder pattern as the base, scorpion pattern, scorpion pattern as the main decoration, the device shape is thick, the decoration is cumbersome, giving people stable, majestic and solemn, the inner wall is cast with the three words "step mother", the font pen is strong. The Ding is a perfect combination of ancient technology and art, sculpture and painting, and is a treasure in Chinese bronze culture. The original is now in the National Museum of China.