Summary: To prepare for the exhibition of the relics, workers are busy arranging exhibits in the Jinsha Site Museum. Excavated in the city of Zaoyang in Hubei in 2002, the Jiuliandun Tombs consist of a tomb of a general and his wife, according to Wang Fang, an arc

A bronze object serving as a refrigerator more than 2,000 years ago will be displayed to visitors in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province from August 20 to October 31.[Photo by Huang Zhiling/chinadaily.com.cn]

Visitors to the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, were amused by a bronze object that served as a refrigerator more than 2,000 years ago.

Containing ice to cool wine in an inner container by a general in the Chu Kingdom whose center is in today’s Hubei province, it is one of 142 cultural relics from the Jiuliandun Tombs in Hubei which will be display in the Jinsha Site Museum from August 20 to October 30.

To prepare for the exhibition of the relics, workers are busy arranging exhibits in the Jinsha Site Museum.

Excavated in the city of Zaoyang in Hubei in 2002, the Jiuliandun Tombs consist of a tomb of a general and his wife, according to Wang Fang, an archaeologist and researcher with the Jinsha Site Museum.

Workers fasten bronze swords made more than 2,000 years ago on a panel. They will be displayed to visitors in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province from August 20 to October 31. [Photo by Huang Zhiling/chinadaily.com.cn]

More than 5,000 cultural relics including the bronze, lacquer and jade ware, armors and two chariot pits have been excavated. The pits are the largest and best preserved chariot pits which have been excavated in China.

"Such a large number of relics excavated in the tombs of a general and his wife rather than of a king and his wife show the prosperity of the Chu Kingdom,” she said.

Regarded as one of the seven most powerful states at its time, the Chu Kingdom consisted of today’s Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Armor more than 2,000 years old will be displayed to visitors in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province from August 20 to October 31.

Archaeologists examine a musical instrument made of lacquer more than 2,000 years ago in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province. It will open to visitors in the museum from August 20 to October 31.

A worker arranges a lacquer bowl which will be displayed to visitors in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province from August 20 to October 31.The bowl was used in the sacrificial ceremony more than 2,000 years ago 

A bronze vessel used in the sacrificial ceremony more than 2,000 years ago will be displayed to visitors in the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province from August 20 to October 31.[Photo by Huang Zhiling/chinadaily.com.cn]