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Unearthed cultural relics of town tombs and animals
The woodcarving double-headed tomb animal consists of a solid square wood base, and two pairs of adult antlers are inserted into the animal body and head. The backs of the two heads are connected with the curved neck, and the two animal heads are carved into deformed dragon faces with wide eyes and tongues reaching the neck. The antlers spread out to the wings, which is magnificent and adds the mystery of the tomb beast. The animal shape in the tomb of the town may be related to Fang. He wore bearskin, hooded mask and hand-held shield, and used his kudzu to hit four corners in the tomb to drive away ghosts. The installation of antlers or wooden antlers on the head of the tomb beast has certain magic power to protect the life of the deceased in the underworld. The widespread use of tomb animals in Chu tombs in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty should be related to their understanding of the underworld. After Chu appeared, the tomb beast spread outward, and then the tomb ghost appeared everywhere, and gradually disappeared after the Five Dynasties.

The beast in the tomb of the woodcarving double-headed town looks like a man and a beast, giving people a feeling of ferocious terror. The back of the tomb beast is connected by two curved necks, and the two animal heads are carved into deformed dragon faces, huge eyes and a long tongue extending to the neck. Insert a pair of huge antlers at each end. The antlers are forked, the branches are wrong, and they change sideways. The image is extremely strange and vivid. After the whole body is covered with black paint, the painted animal face pattern, cross-linked moire, geometric square and diamond pattern are mysterious and magical. This is the most grotesque and spectacular tomb animal sculpture in Chu Tomb Town. Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Qu Wei, Chang 'an District, Xi 'an. Among them, few tomb animals with faces and bodies are found. The tomb is 7.5 meters above the ground, with a long slope and two patios. The owner of the tomb was Wang Shitong, and his official position in the Tang Dynasty was "Zuo Jianmen Fu joined the army". The epitaph shows off the prominence of the tomb owner's family as an official for generations. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father all held important official positions in the Northern Wei and Sui Dynasties. Wang Shitong died at the age of 66 and was buried with his wife in Gaoping Township, Wannian County near Chang 'an City.

In the tombs, archaeologists unearthed tomb animals, warrior figures, male standing figures, knight figures, copper plates, copper cans, copper cans and Kaiyuan Bao Tong coins. The owner of the tomb is holding a small stone pig in his right hand bone. Experts explained that the funeral custom of "holding a pig" has been circulating in China for a long time. Pigs symbolize wealth, and tombs with high status and rich families often hold jade pigs. Zhang Quanmin, a researcher at the Municipal Archaeological Research Institute in charge of the excavation, said that at the entrance to the tomb, a beast with a human face was found, which was still painted with bright colors. It can be described as the "Sphinx". The tomb beast in this town is only 20 cm high and 10 cm wide, but its head looks like the face of an ancient ordinary person with a kind and gentle face. Whether it coincides with the ancient Egyptian Sphinx is worth studying.