The Western Zhou Chariot Burial Pit was unearthed at Zhangjiapo, Chang'an County in 1955. In the Bronze Age, the war chariot was the pre-eminent symbol of power. 'Chariot-and-horse pits' contain funerary objects for deceased slave-owners of the Western Zhou dynasty. The slave buried as a sacrificial offering testifies to the slave-owner's reactionary class nature.

This pit is rectangle-shaped with a length of 5.6 meters and depth of 2 meters. Inside the pit there are two chariots, six horses and one slave. One wooden chariot with only one thill and adorned with bronze is hauled by four horses and was used in battle. The other one hauled by two horses is decorated with seashells and was used primarily for transport or recreation.

The unearthed chariots, the remains of horses and their decorations demonstrate that the handicraft industry of three thousand years ago -- such as wood work, leather work, metal work and especially the bronze production of this period -- had reached quite an advanced technical standard.

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