In 2001,archaeological excavation revealed four tombs of the Song period in Ze- fengyuan Neighborhood of Xingtai City,Hebei Province.These graves are all earth caves each with a shaft-shaped passage.Of them three have a coffin each,containing a male skeleton lying in an extended supine position;and the other is unknown in this respect as it was disturbed owing to robbing.The un- earthed grave goods include pottery,porcelain and coins,with the tower-shaped pottery jar as the most common type,each tomb yielding a set.This type of vessel is a miniature of the genuine tower and a product of influence from Indian Buddhism,which indicates that the tomb-owners are religious believers. In particular,the tower-shaped jar from Tomb M4 combined Buddhist and Taoist images in a body, providing data for studying the amalgamation of Buddhism and Taoism in the Xingtai area.
