Погребения девочек-принцесс в раннесредневековом Китае
Burials of Young Princesses in Early Medieval China

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses materials found in two burials of representatives of the ruling clans of the early medieval states in China. The first one is the tomb of the Rouran princess Yujiului Chidilian (550) — the granddaughter of the Rouran Khagan Anagui and the wife of Gao Dan (a member of the aristocratic family of the Northern and Eastern Wei period, whose representatives founded their own Northern Qi dynasty). The second is the tomb of Li Jingxun (608) — the granddaughter of the penultimate emperor of Northern Zhou and the great-granddaughter of the first emperor of Sui. The authors provide characteristics of the design features and accompanying grave goods of the burial complexes. Despite the cultural and chronological proximity of two complexes, the commonality of age and gender characteristics and the social status of the buried, there are more differences than similarities in the burial rite of the complexes under consideration: during the 2nd half of 6th — early 7th centuries the material and spiritual culture of the northern regions of China underwent significant transformation, which is reflected in the materials of these tombs.

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