The tomb of Cao Xiu and its meaning for investigations of the China burial complexes in three kingdoms' epoch

In the article the authors preliminary examine the data about excavations of the Tomb of Cao Xiu (at Salipu, near Loyang) who was one of the prominent generals in the Three Kingdoms’ Epoch and who was buried in 228 AD. It was compared with the data from Mausoleum at Xigaoxue (Anyang) where, for our mind, a famous Cao Cao was buried in 220 AD. The main constructive characteristics and principals of organization of these two burial complexes are similar, and it may confirm once more the connection of Anyang’s Mausoleum with the name of real founder of Wei Dynasty. Some characteristic features (f. e., a building of protective screen against evil ghosts) are treated as peculiarities in transitional period of funeral rites and corresponding (to them) architecture, and they didn’t reproduce complete construction of East Han period’s burials. These characteristics were fixed later in the architectural tradition of China.