Anhui Daily Features Special Full-Column on Huaina
▲《安徽日报》（2026年1月23日 第 8 版）Anhui Daily (January 23, 2026, Page 8)
Recently, Anhui Daily featured full-column on Wuwangdun titled “Meeting with King Kaolie of Chu State: Archaeological Achievements from Tomb No. 1 at Wuwangdun, Huainan, Anhui."
This special exhibition, jointly hosted by the National Museum of China and the People's Government of Anhui Province, kicked off on December 26, 2025, and runs for four months. 215 carefully selected objects were shown. All of these objects were divided into four parts, namely, “Unsealed Hidden Treasures” “Secrets in Coffin” “Exquisite Chu Relics” and “Belonging to China”.
游客在中国国家博物馆参观武王墩一号墓出土的天子九鼎
Visitors are viewing Nine Tripod Ding Vessels of the Son of Heaven, unearthed from Tomb No. 1 of Wuwangdun at the National Museum of China
武王墩一号墓出土的青铜编钟
The bronze bells unearthed from Tomb No.1 of Wuwangdun.
武王墩一号墓出土的精美青铜器
Exquisite bronze wares unearthed from Tomb No.1 of Wuwangdun
Tomb No. 1 of Wuwangdun is the only scientifically excavated tomb of a king of Chu State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and is the tomb of King Kaolie of Chu State in the late Warring States period. The tomb is grand in scale and clear in structure, with tens of thousands of precious cultural relics such as bronze wares, jade wares, lacquerwares, and so on unearthed, including the Nine Tripod Ding Vessels and Eight Gui Vessels,deep circular vessel with two or four handles, used as a container for grain, bells and chimes that demonstrate royal power, systematically revealing the connotation of Chu State’s ritual system, material achievements, and cultural integration.
At present, the main construction of the Wuwangdun Tomb Exhibition and Utilization Facility Project has been capped and is scheduled to be completed by 2027. In the future, Huainan City will speed up the construction of the Chu-Han cultural tourism core area with Wuwangdun Tomb as the core to make cultural relics “come to life” and promote the integrated development of culture and tourism.