Baiji Han Tombs

The Baiji Han Dynasty stone relief tomb is a very well-preserved Eastern Han Dynasty ancestral templ[...]

The Baiji Han Dynasty stone relief tomb is a very well-preserved Eastern Han Dynasty ancestral temple stone relief tomb in Xuzhou area. It is composed of a Han tomb, a cultural relic exhibition hall and a stone corridor of Han Dynasty stone reliefs. There is a large mound on the tomb. The overall structure of the tomb is composed of an ancestral temple and a tomb chamber. The tomb chamber is divided into front, middle and rear chambers.


The middle chamber is attached with left and right ear chambers. The entire tomb chamber is capped with corbelling. The tomb reliefs are carved in the ancestral temple and the front, middle and rear chambers respectively. The content of the pictures is very rich, and its themes involve many aspects such as social life, myths and legends, fairyland auspicious signs, historical stories and so on. For example, reflecting real life are carriage and horse outings, paying respects and feasting, playing board games, dancing, music and various forms of entertainment; reflecting mythological legends are the jade rabbit pounding medicine, the Eastern Duke, the Western Queen Mother, Fuxi, Nuwa, etc.


; reflecting auspicious themes are rare birds and beasts, auspicious trees and fine grains, etc., which reproduce the real social life of the Han Dynasty and people’s religious, philosophical and aesthetic consciousness at that time.


Opening hours: Open from 7:30 to 18:00 all year round.
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