Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng

The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng lies at Leigudun in the Nanjiao Subdistrict of Zengdu District, Suizhou, and was dug out in 1978; the burial is dated to 433 BC or a little later. The tomb covers 220 square metres and is divided into four separate chambers laid out like a palace of the day, and the grave goods number 15,404 pieces, of which 143 pieces or sets are national first-class relics and nine are national treasures of the country. The chime frame stood 748 centimetres long and 265 centimetres high, and the bells themselves were the discovery: they are now the centre of the Marquis Yi exhibition, 3,800 square metres on the first and second floors of the south building of the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, where most of the finds are kept.