Posted on 09/04/2008 11:17:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Yesterday the archaeology department of China's Chongqing Municipality announced a remarkable discovery: a Qing Dynasty tomb of an almost unique style, made out of more than 2,000 qing hua ci (blue and white porcelain) bowls.
The Chongqing Economic Times quoted archaeologists as saying that this kind of tomb is very rare and had probably been constructed by migrants to the area...
The tomb was discovered on the morning of August 24... in the Yuzhong district of Chongqing...
The archaeology department sent a team to investigate. They discovered a tomb constructed from porcelain bowls. Lying just 60 centimeters under the road surface, the bowls had been piled together to form a tomb. The coffin and other funerary objects were then placed inside.
The bowls are Qing Dynasty qing hua ci bowls, very common in that period. The images and flower patterns on the porcelain look brand new. Some experts speculate that the reason for using bowls as construction materials was that the occupant of the tomb would have something to eat in the afterlife.
Archeology team leader Li Dadi said that this kind of tomb is very rare in Chongqing and was probably constructed by occupants of a Qing Dynasty migrant settlement. He was unable to say for certain where the migrants had come from, but similar, somewhat smaller, bowl-tombs had been found in Fujian Province.
(Excerpt) Read more at china.org.cn ...
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For the sake of my bowels, I will remember not to cook that recipe.
Sticky rice okay; sticky rice & cement, bad ju-ju.
OTOH, if I ever get caught short of sand & gravel while mixing concrete for a foundation....
and when I'm dead there's nothing I'd like better than a feed of yummy yummy porcelain bowls!
“...the identity of the person buried there will probably remain a mystery”
I love a mystery. Let’s put together the clues we have:
1.porcelin bowls (often used for food)
2.Tomb constructed with sticky rice & cement.
3.very rare construction technique for tombs.
4.Probably made by migrants.
5.Migrants are usually poor and have few possessions to give away, much less for a tomb.
Elementry, my dear Wasson, this is not a tomb at all, but an execution chamber for a lousy cook who gave them dysentery.
Probably was the inventor of Rice Krispies.
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