YANG Miaomiao
A Preliminary Analysis of Bird Remains Unearthed from Muzhuzhuliang, Shaanxi......................................................................................................82

Abstract：The Muzhuzhuliang site is of the late Longshan period. It is located in Shenmu country of Shaanxi province. In addition to a large quantity of unearthed mammal remains, a certain number of birds have also been found. These birds were collected systematically by each excavation unit, which have been carefully classified, measured and identified. Four species were identified, including hawks, eagles, pheasants and eagle owls. According to the living environment and habits of birds, except the common terrestrial pheasant, all the rest are raptors. The site is located in an area featuring hills and grassland, while being surrounded partially by forest and desert. Raptors should have been part of the natural bird group, which were hunted by the ancient people to protect the village.

TIAN Chengfang
On the Liao Artifacts, the Liao Kingdom of the Jin Clan and the Liao County of the Chu State.......................................................................................88

Abstract：There is a difference between Ji 姬, the surname of the Eastern Liao State, and Ji 己, the surname of the Western Liao State, in terms of the character Liao inscribed in the bronze. The character Liao in Western Liao state was composed of 翏 and 茻. In the bronze inscriptions , the Eastern Liao State and later of Liao County in the state of Chu generally is written as the character Liao 鄝. The Eastern Liao State's bronzes include a liaozizhuang dagger of the late phase of the middle term of the Spring and Autumn period, a liaoshuyi dagger of the late Spring and Autumn period, the contexts of which may have been related to the demise of the Eastern Liao State. “Liao Gong,” as recorded in the liaogong tripod, liaogong fou, liaogongzhugongzi dagger, should have been the county magistrate of Liao County in the Chu state of the middle to late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period, respectively. Liao County, as a county level administrative region of the Chu State, should have been established soon after the demise of the Eastern Liao state, which should have been about the late phase of middle Spring and Autumn period to the late Warring States period.

LIU Zunzhi
On the Goods Storage of the Qin-Han Families............................................95

Abstract：During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were quite a lot of goods in a family that needed to be stored reasonably or effectively. Therefore, a variety of storage methods, appliances and facilities were innovated, so as to ensure the food quality, prolong the goods validity, reduce damage and loss, facilitate the classification and use, guarantee the property safety, deal with the waste or secondary waste products, save space, promote household neatness, and improve life quality. They could reflect the usage and guarantee of goods of Qin and Han families, and shed light on household life in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

WANG Jingquan
On the Regional Characteristics of the Stone Statues of the Northern-Wei Dynasty in Northern Henan...................................................................106

Abstract：After the capital relocation to Luoyang of the Northern Wei Dynasty, grotto construction became popular in the Songluo region, centering Luoyang. In the area to the north the Yellow River in today's Henan, a number of grottoes made by the civilian came into place. They were largely of the same form, which consisted of a Buddha statue, with two Bodhisattva statues and a back screen. They were of a unique localized style, which contributed greatly to the research of transformation in Buddhism art.

QI Ziyu
On the Pictorial and Textual Tracing of the Simple-style Buddha Footprints in China.....................................................................................................114

Abstract：The Buddha footprints were important symbols of the Buddha, which later transformed into one of the thirty-two images of Buddha. So far, Buddha footprints of the Tang Dynasty have come to place at four places. Each of them consisted two to three different patterns, which should not be explained by the thirty-two images. The author re-interprets the emergence and transmission of the Buddha foot prints. Their origin could be traced to the classic representations of Buddha footprints of the Kushan empire. As for the correlation between visual images and texts, the author argues that the differences among the four locations should have been due to the discrepancy of craftsmen of different regions.

MAO Yangguang and WANG Linghong
Interpreting a Broken Tang-Dynasty Stela Recording a Pavilion Construction by WEI She................................................................................................121

Abstract：The Luoyang Longmen Museum collected a broken stone tablet of the Tang Dynasty, which had been previously unknown. The tablet recorded the construction of a pavilion by Wei zhi, who was a famous official in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. An analysis shows that the pavilion should have been built in the Mingyi block at Luoyang. The content of the tablet reflects the prosperity of private gardens of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty. The scripts are very exquisite, which should have been done by Han Zejiao, possibly a brother of the famous calligrapher Han Zemu in the middle Tang Dynasty.

WANG Jingxue
A Comparative Study of Techniques between the Southern-Song-Dynasty Guan Kiln and the Ru kiln........................................................................129

Abstract：The author compares the Ru kiln in the Northern-Song Dynasty, the Laohudong locality of the Southern-Song Guan kiln, and the Wuguishan locality of the Southern-Song Guan kiln. The comparison includes kiln structure, loading technique and raw materials of the body and glaze. This research aims at identifying their similarities and differences, and revealing their successions, in order to interpret how the individual styles were achieved both out of imitations of the Ru kiln and local traditions.

SUN Yabing
On the Place Meng in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions................................137

Abstract：The region Meng in oracle-bone inscriptions, according to QIU Xigui and JIANG Yubin, should be at the location of ancient Mengjing, which is near today’s Mengzhou city. The author enriches the related evidence and deciphers the location of Xi in the oracle-bone inscriptions.