Where are there many ancient tombs in Guangxi?

More than 20 ancient tombs of the Qing Dynasty were destroyed in Chongzuo due to man-made reasons. Guangxi also lost a number of precious cultural relics for studying the ancient culture of the Zhuang people. Discovery of Ancient Tombs On October 18, the reporter learned that a group of ancient tombs from the Qing Dynasty had been discovered when the Chongzuo County Bus Terminal was building a new station, and that the tombs had been destroyed, so they followed comrades from the Guangxi District Cultural Relics Task Force who went to deal with the matter. Rush to Chongzuo. According to Xiong Zhaoming, director of the second office of the team, Chongzuo County Bus Terminal built a new station at the end of Huxing Street in the county seat, but the project site selection and engineering design of the new station were not solicited in advance from the cultural administration in accordance with the requirements of the country’s Cultural Relics Law. Management's opinion. Director Xiong said: On September 16, the Chongzuo County Cultural Relics Management Office received reports from the masses that ancient tombs were discovered during construction. Managers from the cultural relics management office rushed to the scene immediately and took photos of the damage to the tomb. At that time, they verbally stopped the incident, but it did not take effect. By mid-October, the matter was reported to the District Department of Culture. On October 13, we were assigned by the District Department of Culture to Chongzuo to investigate the matter. We saw at the scene that on the soil section pushed out to the east, we could clearly see two small roll-top brick chamber tombs, while on the soil section to the west, there were 5 small brick tombs slipping past. Chamber tombs, two of which have tombstones. It can be seen from the tombstones that one is a tomb from the "Jiaqing" period of the Qing Dynasty, and the other is a tomb from the "Qianlong" period. The rest has been bulldozed and destroyed. We can roughly deduce from the density of the distribution of these tombs that there may have been twenty or thirty tombs from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in this area. Seeing that the ancient tomb had been destroyed, Xiong Zhaoming immediately went to Feng Jialiang, the director of the Chongzuo County Bus Terminal, and asked him to stop destroying the ancient tomb immediately. Webmaster Feng reminded that a written suspension notice must be issued when suspending work. This stumped Xiong Zhaoming, because it was not something that the cultural department alone could do to issue a written notice of suspension of work. But in order to preserve this ancient tomb group, Xiong Zhaoming promised to request a written notice from the superior authority as soon as possible. Destroyed at the Chongzuo County Cultural Relics Management Office, we saw some cultural relics rescued by the administrator Wei Shoufu from the bulldozer: a porcelain soul bottle, a blue and white porcelain bowl, six shallow mouth porcelain bowls and some blue and white porcelain bowls. fragments. Wei Shoufu said helplessly: "You guys are late, they have all been bulldozed." He said: On October 13, when Director Xiong negotiated with Station Master Feng, he promised not to bulldoze it for the time being. But the next day, he asked the construction team to bulldoze everything there. In order to destroy the evidence, even the two monuments were disappeared without a trace. At the construction site, we saw machines roaring, trucks constantly coming and going, and the flattened land already filled with rocks. No ordinary person can tell that this is a group of ancient tombs. But Wei Shoufu found some ceramic fragments on the flattened ground. He said with certainty, "These are all from the tomb." This discovery reminded everyone. Xiong Zhaoming and his colleagues Wei Ge, Wei Shoufu and director Lin Hongying started searching together. After a while, tomb bricks, stone slabs and multiple tombs scattered in the soil were found. Several more ancient tombs were discovered on the unfilled slope outside the construction site. Wei Shoufu said angrily: This is not the first time that Chongzuo Bus Terminal has destroyed an ancient tomb. In early 1999, when they built a dormitory for workers, they destroyed three ancient tombs. By the time we discovered it, there was no salvage value. At that time, the cultural relics management office issued a verbal warning and clearly pointed out that the tombs here were ancient tombs from the Ming and Qing dynasties. If they are used as construction land in the future, they must be reported first and cleaned up in accordance with the law before they can be used. But they turned a deaf ear, built the second dormitory building without ventilation, and now they have destroyed so many ancient tombs. On the afternoon of October 18, Xiong Zhaoming, on behalf of the District Department of Culture, held a meeting with the Chongzuo County Government Office, Chongzuo County Cultural Bureau and Chongzuo County Bus Terminal. At the meeting, Feng Jialiang, director of Chongzuo Bus Terminal, said: Our project has gone through all the procedures, and an announcement of relocation of graves was published in Zuojiang Daily on September 18 this year. Graves that have not been moved by the expiration date will be regarded as ownerless. Grave processing. After the announcement was made, two or three families came to go through the procedures for relocating the grave. We don’t know much about ancient tombs and the like, and we haven’t found any in the topsoil. On Saturday (October 13th), Director Xiong told me that there were traces of ancient tombs on the construction site and told us not to dig yet. But our construction schedule is very tight, and we cannot stop all the work, so we won’t dig where the graves originally were. Webmaster Feng also repeatedly emphasized to reporters: We really don’t know. I also notified the construction team and reported the discovery of the tomb to me, but the construction team did not find it.

Besides, with Director Xiong’s business card, we can’t stop work. At least we need a written notice. In response to Stationmaster Feng’s defense, Xiong Zhaoming said: It is unjustifiable to say that there is no ancient tomb and that we have not seen it. There are information and pictures, and the tombstones and seven ancient tombs can be clearly seen. They knowingly committed the crime and it is necessary to solve it through legal means. It is understood that Article 28 of the "Guangxi District Cultural Relics Protection and Management Regulations" stipulates: "If cultural relics are found within the construction scope of a construction project, work should be stopped immediately or partially to protect the site and report to the local cultural administrative department for handling." As early as 1987, The "Interpretations of the Higher People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Cases of Theft, Excavation, Illegal Operation and Smuggling of Cultural Relics" stated: "Any unit that discovers precious cultural relics during capital construction or production shall not listen to the competent cultural relics department. Or the dissuasion of other departments, resulting in the destruction of precious cultural relics, and the circumstances are serious, the person in charge and the person directly responsible should be investigated for criminal liability in accordance with Article 174 of the Criminal Law." Wei Shoufu told reporters: "From the rescued cultural relics, these tombs are The tombs of the Zhuang people during the Ming and Qing Dynasties were bowl tombs. The Zhuang ancestors arranged these porcelain bowls in patterns in their tombs to express certain beliefs. Bowl tombs like this have been unearthed in Guilin, and bowl tombs are more concentrated in the Zuojiang River Basin. place, but not completely unearthed. The texture of the porcelain bowl is relatively rough, which is different from the developed Central Plains area, which is of great significance to the study of the history and culture of the Zhuang people, as well as the living customs at that time. "Cultural relics are destroyed and cannot be regenerated. The Guangxi District Department of Culture is currently handling the matter, and this newspaper will continue to pay attention.