Recently, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology announced the excavation data of the Dongzhou Tomb in Quxi Kiln, Shanxi Province. According to the data, the cemetery is a burial site for aristocrats in the late Spring and Autumn period, and is likely the burial place of the manager of the "Huqiu" town established by the Jin state after the conquest of the Gaoluo clan in history. This excavation provides new physical materials for studying the history, culture, and political evolution of the Gao Luo tribe in Jin and Dongshan. It is understood that the cemetery is located in the southwest of Xiyao Village, Gaoluo Township, Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. In December 2019, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, in conjunction with local cultural relics departments, conducted archaeological excavations on it, clearing a total of 9 rectangular vertical pit tombs, and unearthed a large number of copper, pottery, stone, jade, bone, and shellfish artifacts. According to their distribution and arrangement, tombs can be divided into two groups. The first group consists of 5 tombs, all oriented in a north-south direction and arranged in a concentrated and contiguous manner. The head of the tomb owner is facing north, and the unearthed artifacts have a strong cultural characteristic of the Jin Dynasty. There are four tombs in the second group, all oriented in an east-west direction and arranged in a straight line. The bones inside the tombs are almost non-existent. It is speculated that the tomb owner's head is facing east, which is different from Jin customs and may be a local indigenous person. In the second group of tombs, there are two medium-sized tombs of similar size, close distance, and paired distribution, which are speculated to be tombs of couples buried together in different caves. A burial weapon should be a male; The other accompanying bone comb should be female. According to archaeologists, this pair of co burial tombs has a relatively high level and is currently the highest specification among the late Spring and Autumn period tombs discovered in the Yuanqu area. The tomb owner may have reached the level of a high-ranking official. The person in charge of the archaeological excavation project, Yang Jiyun, introduced that the Gaoluo area where the Xiyao Cemetery is located was a settlement of the Gaoluo tribe in the eastern mountains of Chidi before the mid Spring and Autumn period. By 660 BC, Prince Shen Sheng of the State of Jin led his troops to attack the Gao Luo clan in Dongshan and seized this place. From then on, it belonged to the State of Jin. In the first year of Duke Xiang's reign (572 BC), the Zuo Zhuan recorded this place as "Huqiu". Based on the age, scale, and unearthed artifacts of the tombs, it can be inferred that the owner of the joint burial tomb in Xiyao Cemetery may be a descendant of the local Gao Luo indigenous people who were appointed to manage the "Huqiu" town after the Jin Dynasty acquired the land. (New Society)