In 655 BC, Guo State was wiped out by the Jin vassal state.
The cemetery of the Guo State was in today's Shang Cunling town. It is a large public cemetery from the period of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period. Its discovery and excavation provided a window into the mystery of the ancient Guo State.
Tracing royalty - the tomb sites of King Guoji
This 400 meters exhibition hall displays King Guoji's tomb, three retainers' tombs, and two buried horse pits. Guoji's tomb is 5.3 meters long, 5.5 meters wide, and 12 meters deep. The coffin is wooden and Guoji wears a jade-decorated veil, jade ware on his chest, jade stones on his hands and toes, and jade in his mouth. He lies on his back, with his head facing north and his hands on his chest. This is the only tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty or the Spring and Autumn Period found yet.
This tomb was made in the late years of XuanWang of the Zhou Dynasty, which was about 2800 years ago. The buried articles are rather rich, adding up to 5,293 pieces of bronze, gold, jade, stone, carnelian, bone, pottery horn, tooth, clam, leather, wood, bamboo, linen, silk and more. The quantity is huge; the style is unique; the handicraft is delicate. Most of them are peculiar and rare and filled in the blanks of the archaeological research of Western Zhou Dynasty, such as "the first sword of china", "the jade-decorated veil (Zhuiyumingmu)" and "Jade wear with seven semi-circulars" and "golden belt with 12 golden pieces." Thus, it was rated as "one of the ten archaeological discoveries of the country" of 1990.
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