Chinese Guided Tour on “A Window to Eastern Chou: Eastern Chou Relics Excavated from Honan” Exhibition

“A Window to Eastern Chou: Eastern Chou Relics Excavated from Honan” is divided into three sections: First, the collection of National Museum of History from excavations conducted by Honan local organizations in 1923 and 1936, respectively from Li-chia-lou Tomb in Hsin-cheng County, Liu-li-ko Tomb Chia and I in Hui County. The second and third parts are relics come from archaeological excavations made by the Institute of History and Philology at Shan-piao-chen Tomb in Chi County and Liu-li-ko Tomb M60 in Hui County from 1935 to 1937. We provide overall information on tombs as much as possible including photos in fieldwork and whole sets of artifacts. Through the findings from aristocratic tombs of the mid Spring and Autumn to the early Warring States period (ca. 600-400 BCE), the exhibition intends open a window to the upper class material culture in the Central Plain during the Eastern Chou period.