South China Morning Post·4 min read·medium
Ancient Chinese lord buried with bells meant to silence ancestral war rituals
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Kevin McSpadden
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Archaeologists have discovered that the tomb of the ancient Chinese Lord Qiu was intentionally tampered with to 'deactivate' his connection to ancestral war rituals. The study suggests that political shifts in the Zhou dynasty necessitated the silencing of these ceremonial instruments.
Imagine, for a moment, that you lived in ancient China, with a rival state threatening your people’s very existence. In the quest for any advantage, one strategy might involve performing a ceremony to invoke assistance from the ancestors.
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