Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The excavation of the Shang-dynasty Sacrifice Site at the Henan
Provincial Stadium.....................................................................................04

Abstract：In 2015, the Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted a salvage excavation at the tennis playground of the Henan Provincial Stadium. A number of remains of the Shang dynasty have been unearthed, which include trenches, rammed-earth walls, construction foundations, sacrificial pits, and burials. The excavation has revealed one of the most important discoveries related to the Zhengzhou Shang city. The sacrificial remains have contributed greatly to a more complete picture of the Zhengzhou Shang city.

Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The Excavation of the Lieshan Kiln at Huaibei, Anhui.................20

Abstract：The Lieshan kiln is located at the Lieshan village, Huaibei City, Anhui, the excavation of which started in 2018. The excavation zone is seven hundred square meters in size, which is divided into three zones. Kilns of the Jin and Yuan dynasties locate in Zone I; kilns from the late Tang dynasty to the Western Song period are in Zone II; the Han-dynasty kilns are in Zone III. Archaeological remains up to more than seventy have been unearthed, which include six kilns, fifty-two pits, a road, and fourteen trenches. Archaeological discoveries feature celadon and white porcelain, as well as triple-color glazed ceramics. The ceramic products are mainly architectural elements, stamped-pattern bricks, bowls, plates, jars and so on. The Lieshan kiln might be the Suzhou kiln in historical documents. Its technique was largely influenced by the Ding, Cizhou and Gongxian kilns. It was in use from the late Tang dynasty to the late Yuan dynasty.

He Yuling
On the Exogenous Features at Yinxu...............................................33

Abstract：Interactions and exchanges among archaeological cultures are mutual. The Yinxu culture, while impacting surrounding cultures greatly, also adopted new elements from other cultures. This article summarizes exogenous elements from the north/northwest, west/southwest, south/southeast and east in the Yinxu culture. The author argues that the influences of different cultures on Yinxu varied by time and measures. Exogenous cultural elements were modified and acculturated into the Yinxu culture. The Yinxu culture had its epic time in the process of interacting with other cultures.

Liu Zunzhi
On the Han-Period Mausoleum at Luzhuangzi, Nanpi, Hubei
Province.....................................................................................................50

Abstract：The Luzhuangzi Han-dynasty mausoleum has a comparatively large inverted-funnel-shaped grave mound, which is a shaft-pit burial with a passage. Pottery in piles was unearthed in the chamber. A brick chamber was discovered, in which there might be a wooden chamber. Bronze artifacts, jade discs and mortuary jade objects were found. Four gilded pillow-related artifacts indicate the tomb occupants should be a couple. The burial dates to the early phase of the late Western Han or so, and is of the marquis rank. The tomb occupants should be a marquis and his wife of the Linyue State of the Western Han dynasty, who were probably Marquise Jie, Wannian Liu, and his wife of the late Western Han. This mausoleum and its discoveries contribute greatly to the study of the marquise-level burials during the Han period.

Liang Yun Wang Tian feng
On the Formation of Northern and Southern Domains in the
Imperial Mausoleum of the Eastern Han Dynasty....................59

Abstract：The Eastern-Han-dynasty imperial mausoleum can be divided into the southern mega-domain and the northern mega-domain, the distribution pattern of which is "six in the south and five in the north." The establishment of two mega-domains rooted mainly in the emperor' s personal preference or choices. Ever since then, the locations of the imperial mausoleum basically followed the principles that the son should be buried next to his father or grandfather, and that peers should not be buried in the same domain.

Fu Longteng
On the Mausoleum Institution in the Three Kingdoms and
Western Jin period..............................................................................67

Abstract：The mausoleum system changed apparently from the Three Kingdoms Period to the Western Jin dynasty. The changes during this period should not be simply taken as“decline.”In the Cao Wei Kingdom, the custom of sacrificial activities at tomb were not supported on the official level. As a result, the fashion of visiting mausoleum declined, and the mausoleum system also became simplified. At the same time, many new hierarchical symbols appeared in the mortuary context. In the Western Jin dynasty, the mausoleum system continually developed on the foundation of the previous tradition. Some new principles, which impacted the northern mausoleum system afterwards, were established in this period as well. The mausoleum system of Sun Wu Kingdom inherited some features from the Han dynasty. The government attempted to reform the hierarchical system. However, the reforms were interrupted and had little impact on mausoleums in the Sun Wu period and afterwards.