Henan Museum

Mural painting of four animals in clouds

Edit: acf

Time: 2011-07-06 15:30:32

Period: around 136 BC

Provenance: From the tomb of the King Lianggongwang of the Western Han Dynasty in 1987.

Measurements: 5.14mx3.27m, 16.8㎡

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Type: Painting

Materials: vermilion, and other pigments.

Measurements: 5.14mx3.27m, 16.8㎡

Time period: around 136 BC

Acquisition: From the tomb of the King Lianggongwang of the Western Han Dynasty in 1987.

Copyright: Henan Museum

Reputed as "the Dunhuang before Dunhuang" -- the earliest,largest, highest-ranking, best preserved mural painting in China upto now. It is a full representation of the Chinese fairy world, andeven more an epic of the ideology of the immortality.