Figure 1: Tomb of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Have you ever seen a museum dedicated to ancient tombs? There is such a museum in Luoyang. Its large size, unique style, age, type and number of ancient tombs collected are among the first in the world and are a great sight in China.
Figure 2: Carving on the door of a Han tomb. This place of Luoyang, since ancient times, has had "little idle soil at the head of the Northern Mountains, and it is full of old tombs of Luoyang people." "So the number of ancient tombs on this northern mountain is innumerable. It was on this basis that the Tomb Museum was established.
Figure 3: Carving on the door of a Han tomb. The whole museum is divided into three parts, the first part is the exhibition hall of the underground burial chamber, which exhibits many tombs, from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. The second part is the mural exhibition hall, which shows the art of mural painting in ancient tombs. The third part is the Jing Mausoleum of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which, although it is said to be an imperial mausoleum, is extremely shabby.
Figure 4: Carving on the stone door of a Han tomb. In fact, the main body of the entire museum should be the exhibition of the catacombs. I have to say that most of the burial chambers here are extremely narrow, even if the owner of the tomb was once a royal lord and a high-ranking official.
Figure 5: The upper structure of the tomb door in the Tang Dynasty. Here, no matter what era the tomb, the tomb is narrow and dark, fortunately there are lights in the tomb to help tourists visit, otherwise I would not dare to go in.
Figure 6: The superstructure of the tomb door of the Song Dynasty. Ancient people pay attention to death as if they were alive, the structure of the upper part of the tomb door here is also modeled on the structure of the house where the deceased lived before his death, and there are few buildings left in today's Tang and Song dynasties, and these underground buildings provide us with information for studying the architecture of the Tang and Song dynasties.
Figure 7: Structure of the main burial chamber. This is the resting place of the owner of the tomb, equivalent to the bedroom of a living person, and it is obvious that there is still a structure similar to the beams on the top.
Figure 8: Structure of the main burial chamber. The tenon structure is very obvious.
Figure 9: The top structure of the main burial chamber. The top of the tomb is square, I don't know what it symbolizes?
Figure 10, the whole picture of the ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty, it looks narrow and gloomy, but in that year, such a tomb can be repaired, and the family of the owner of the tomb must be relatively rich.
Figure 11: The back room of an ancient tomb in the Tang Dynasty. I really don't know if I'm too tall, or if it's too small here, and I always feel a little stuffy here.
Figure 12: Funerary products of ancient tombs in the Tang Dynasty. According to archaeological excavations, most of the funerary products of the Sui and Tang dynasties were mainly pottery figurines, and their number was determined according to the rank of the tomb owner before his death. I think at the beginning, someone used human figurines instead of living people to be buried, Confucius was not happy, of course, this is because Confucius opposed the burial of people, and even the pottery figurines with the image of people were not happy, but this idea does not know how many innocent lives have been saved, from this point of view, Old Master Kong is inevitably a bit extreme and pedantic.
Figure 13: A pottery coffin from the Song Dynasty. The carvings are still very exquisite.