Measurement: H.78.2 cm, W.72 cm, THK.25.5 cm
Period: Han dynasty
Provenance: Unearthed at the Hewang village, Xingyang, Henan province, 1958.

The building has a gable roof, an openwork balcony supported on the protruding beams in the central part of the architecture. On the frontal side and gables are nine Dougong brackets under the eaves. Five square openings cut represent the windows. The frontal side is decorated with dancing figures in black, red, and white, the rear wall with the game of cockfight.

With a majestic profile, an openwork structure and Dougong brackets, this house model indicates that the Chinese wooden architecture almost matured in the Eastern Han period.
The ornaments of the cloud and dancing paintings make the house artistically beautiful, and reveal the Han belief that people can ascend to heaven to continue their life with songs and dances in afterlife, reflecting the sumptuous burial practice in the Han dynasty “view the afterlife as living”, and providing an important reference to the study on the architecture, painting, ideology, culture of Han dynasty.