Wuhan and Jingzhou

China 2015
P000-028 Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province and the only sub-provincial city in Central China, with an area of approx 3290 sq.miles in the eastern Jianghan Plain 江漢平原...
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P000a-027 ... a city with both an ancient history and a thriving present, historic relics excavated from ancient tombs tell the city's long history dating back 3500...
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P000b-030 ... Wuchang Uprising, served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution ending the Qing Dynasty and two millennia of imperial rule and ushering in the Republic of...
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P001a-031 Hubei Provincial Museum, located in the Wuchang district of Wuhan not far from the westshore of East Lake, a comprehensive museum collecting, protecting and...
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P002 ... our local tour guide leading the way to the Main Exhibition Hall - building with the exhibition of the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng state and the chime...
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P003-009 Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng - a remarkably rich and undisturbed tomb discovered in 1977 at Suizhou city 随州市 in Hubei; excavated in 1978, inscriptions on some of...
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P003a ... Warring States era 戰國時代 of 250 years from 475 to 221 BC (a period in ancient China following the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋时代 770-476 BC), ended with the...
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P003b-010 ... the existence of the State of Zeng was unknown until 1977, and it still remains somewhat enigmatic; it's said that Zeng might be a minor state subordinate...
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P003c-007 ... classified as
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P004-008 ... with a total length of 19 inches, the pendant carved out of five pieces of raw jade, 16 parts connected by three jade rings and one jade pin... adorned with...
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P005-021 ... the exquisite bronze statue of an
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P006 ... it's said that the tomb of marquis Yi illustrated a transition from tomb traditions that replicated the ritual environment of ancestral temples to a new...
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P009a-015 ... dug and sunken to a depth of 43 feet of a small red sandstone hill, the tomb was packed with charcoal, and the shaft filled with clay, stone slabs, and...
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P010a-004 ... found in the east chamber, body of Marquis Yi (man around mid-forties) placed in a double-layered wooden lacquered coffin (coffin nested inside a larger...
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P010a-012 ... the date
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P011 ... inner coffin with a profusion of multi-colored motifs - snakes, dragons, birds, and anthropomorphic forms that metamorphose into each other and thought to...
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P014 ... the east chamber also contained weapons, a chariot, and many personal items, including furniture, a zither, silk, and vessels not made of bronze...
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P017a-020 ... the west chamber believed to be the servants quarters of the palace, thirteen young female were sacrificed and buried as accompanying maids... accompanying...
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P019 ... another one of the accompanying coffins... other than the East and West chambers, the third and a small North room served as an armory and storeroom filled...
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P022 ... Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng 曾侯乙編鐘 - the most famous treasure and the largest bronze musical instrument ever discovered, found together with other bronze...
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