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NW China to open park on second Qin emperor

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-26 11:39

BEIJING - A park is under construction and scheduled to open on September 1 at the site of the ruins of the tomb of the second emperor, Hu Hai of the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C. - 206 B.C.), son of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang.

Located at Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi Province, the archeological park is designed to display cultural artifacts from the Qin Dynasty.

Being the youngest son of Qin Shihuang, who had both the Great Wall and Terra-Cotta Warriors built, Hu Hai ascended the throne following his father in 210 B.C. and committed suicide three years later.

A pair of stone columns, which are believed to be from the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), was unearthed near the tomb of the Jin emperor Wanyan Yan in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The 1.7-meter-high columns were found standing on a square granite base in the backyard of a farmer of Chengzi Village of Harbin's Juyuan Town.

Experts believe the columns might have been used in funeral rites during the Jin Dynasty, which is significant for studying funeral rituals of the period, said Zhao Pingchun, a researcher from Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.