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100
Cultural Relics Unearthed in Sichuan Province
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????Archaeologists
have discovered more than 100 cultural relics dating back to the
Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) in the ancient tombs in Mutan township,
Gongxian county of Yibin city, southwest China' Sichuan Province.
????To date, 16 ancient tombs of the Eastern Han
Dynasty have been unearthed in the county.
????The relics include pottery, bronze wares and
iron wares, etc., some of which were found for the first time in
China. Among them are broken pieces of a "money tree"
and coins in strange shapes used in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
????The shapes and types of the cultural relics
indicate that people living in the present-day Gongxian county then
grasped a relatively high skill in planting farm crops and breeding
domestic animals 1,700 years ago, as a result of the influence of
the Silk Road in southern China.
????The relics are believed to shed light on the
study of history of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
(Xinhua 11/13/2000)
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