The Basic Situation of the Tomb of the King of Qi in the Western Han Dynasty

In the late 1970s, the archaeologists of Zibo Museum cooperated with the dongfeng station expansion project of Ji Jiao Railway and excavated five tombs around the tomb of the King of Qi. 1in the autumn of 983, the sealed soil above the tomb was excavated and explored. Therefore, the research on the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty and the King of Qi in Linzi area and related historical issues began.

The tomb of the King of Qi in the Western Han Dynasty obviously inherited the layout style of the tombs in the late Warring States period, which is basically the same as the tomb of the King of Zhongshan in Pingshan, Hebei Province in the late Warring States period, but obviously different from the tomb of Shishi Cave, which became popular in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty. As for the owner of the tomb, because the main tomb has not been excavated, there is no direct evidence, but the locals call it "Ma Xu's Tomb" and "Xiang Cemetery", and Ming Jiajing's "Qingzhou Fuzhi" identifies it as the tomb of Chunyu Kun, the son-in-law of the Warring States State, which is obviously fallacious. According to historical records and other materials, experts preliminarily infer that the owner of the tomb may be Liu Xiang, the second generation mourner of the Western Han Dynasty, but the evidence is not sufficient and needs to be confirmed by future archaeological achievements.