Shoubo: The luxurious life of the granddaughter of Empress Xiao of khitans

A few years ago, the Capital Museum had a "Great Liao Five Capitals - Cultural Relics Unearthed in Inner Mongolia and the 1080Third Exhibition of the Founding of Nanjing in Liaoning". Nanjing, one of the five capitals of the Liao Dynasty, is now Beijing.

A brief chronology of the Liao, Song, and Jin dynasties:

The Liao was founded in 907 by the Liao Taizu and Khitan Yelü Abaoji, and the Time of the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin Chen Qiao Mutiny was 960.

The Liao-Song Dynasty signed the Liaoyuan Alliance in 1005. In exchange for more than a hundred years of peace in the Liao and Song Dynasties.

In 1125, the LiaoTianzuo Emperor Yelü Yanxi was captured by the Jin soldiers, and the Liao perished; after the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao, the Northern Song Dynasty was also destroyed.

This was followed by years of confrontation between Jin and the Southern Song Dynasty across the river.

Finally, the Western Liao built by Yelü Dashi died in 1218, the Jin Dynasty in 1234, and the Southern Song Dynasty in Mongolia in 1279.

The Khitan Liao lasted for more than three hundred years from the founding of the Yelü Abaoji to the fall of the Western Liao. At its strongest, it was before and after the signing of the Alliance of the Yuanyuan that it ruled the vast northern region.

In the "Five Capitals of the Great Liao" exhibition, there are cultural relics excavated from the tomb of Princess Chen Guo. Princess Chen Guo was a royal noblewoman who lived in the strongest period of the Liao Dynasty, her grandmother was the famous Khitan Empress Xiao, Liao Shengzong was her great uncle, and her father was Yelü Longqing, the brother of Liao Shengzong.

Princess Chen Guo, the proper Heavenly NobleMan. Unfortunately, the red face is short-lived, and xiao Shaojue was married at the age of 16, but unfortunately, the marriage lasted only two years, and the horse and the princess who just turned 18 died successively.

The Liao tomb has the saying of "ten tombs and nine empty spaces", which was swept by Jin when jin destroyed liao. Excavated in 1985, the joint tomb of Princess Chen Guo and the donkey horse is a well-preserved royal tomb, with more than 3,000 sets of rare cultural relics unearthed.

Most of the cultural relics excavated from the tomb of Princess Chen Guo are exhibited in the Inner Mongolia Museum. The first bo "Great Liao Five Capitals" only came a few pieces, a glimpse of the royal life of the Liao Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

Jade silver horse head.

The tomb of Princess Chen Guo unearthed two sets of extremely elaborately made harnesses. The Khitans were a horseback people who loved horses and were willing to decorate their horses with all they could.

Jade silver chest strap, gilded bronze stirrups.

Decorate the harness with small jade pieces.

Jade silver whiplash. Tweezers, hanging from the sides of the horse's belly behind the saddle.

The small leather strips are covered with small jade pieces.

If you look closely, there are horses of different shapes.

Jade silver belt and jade silk ribbon.

Gold and silver slabs and slabs.

The long belt and the small belt that is tied are made of thin silver sheets to make buckles, and the belts and belts such as the belt and the belt are made of gold. The square belt has "ancient eyes" on it, and there are 11 small belts hanging down, of which two small belts are also tied with 1 silver sac, and the 2 small belts adjacent to the inside are hanging down an inverted gourd-shaped animal face pattern gold belt ornament, which is the most complete belt seen in the Liao Dynasty. Although it is a burial vessel, it is exactly the same as the practical belt.

Two small bands are hung with gilded hairpin silver sacs engraved with cloud phoenix patterns.

Silver cone with sheathed jade handle. It is very likely that the Liao Dynasty royal family used the thorn goose cone used by Haidongqing to hunt swans in the spring.

Pisces Jade Pendant. The yin carved out the eyes of the fish, the fins, etc., and the small fish bend as if swimming in the water.

Fish-shaped jade box. Jade is very good, and Tian Yu.

Cross the neck of the wild goose jade pendant. A pair of loving geese.

Underneath the jade lotus are scissors, pins, files, knives, cones and spoons.

Below the jade knot are Capricorn, Pisces, Double Phoenix, Double Capricorn and Fish Play Lotus (from right to left).

The animal-shaped jade pendant, placed on the princess's abdomen before excavation, consists of 5 pieces of jade pendants hung from a gilt-shaped jade with gilded gold and silver chains. The outer perimeter of the jade ornament is carved with a ruyi cloud pattern, and the front of it is engraved with a thin line of the zodiac image. The jade pendant contains snakes, monkeys, scorpions, toads and lizards. Hey! If you replace the monkey with a centipede, it will be five poisons!

Gold bracelet. The Liao Dynasty gold craftsmanship is most similar to that of the Tang Dynasty.

Silver saucer.

Silver pot.

The cup tray and this pot are a set of tea drinking tools. The alliance brought peace to the Liao and Song dynasties, and the Liao nobles quickly accepted the cultural relics of the Central Plains, such as the habit of drinking tea.

Golden flower silver.

Liao Dynasty gold and silverware also preserves the style of Tang Dynasty gold and silverware.

Flower mouth celadon bowl. This porcelain must have reached the steppes through trade.

Milk nail pattern high neck glass bottle. This glassware should also have been introduced to the steppes from the western region through trade.

Bring a glass. This glass handle has a wrench at the top of the handle near the rim of the cup to assist in holding the cup steadily. This one is definitely something from the Western Regions.

Milk nailed glass disc.

There are 7 pieces of glassware excavated from the tomb of Princess Chen Guo of Liao, including those from the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Rome and also from the Great Eclipse, which shows that the communication between Liao and the West is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

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