Ceremony of Honor at Side Tower [Photo/sxhm.com and shaanxi.gov.cn]

4. Ceremony of Honor at Side Tower, a mural in the tomb of crown prince Yide, from Shaanxi History Museum

In the fourth episode of the show, actor Guo Tao served as a keeper of the famous painting, Ceremony of Honor at Side Tower. It was unearthed from the tomb of Crown Prince Yide, a grandson of Empress Wu Zetian, who died at age 19.

Excavation on the tomb began in 1971, and its east and west walls were found painted with side towers, typical architectural style in front of palace doors. The mural paintings show a spectacular scene consisting of as many as 196 people, with city walls, side towers and hills as the backdrop.

The mural is a high point of architecture artwork in ancient China in the realistic style. The structure of the building, even the conjunctions of each structure, are depicted exactly and in proportion to the real object.

5. The Tang Dynasty copy of calligraphy by Wang Xizhi from Liaoning Provincial Museum

Chinese actress Ning Jing introduces the Tang Dynasty copy of calligraphy by calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi of the East Jin Dynasty (317-420). This collection, also comprising calligraphy works by Wang's 27 offspring, was presented to Empress Wu Zetian in the second year of her reign (697) by a descendant of the great calligrapher. The empress immediately ordered the collection copied and kept in her palace. The scroll was beautifully copied and has been praised as an outstanding likeness to the original.

As it was made during the Wansuitongtian period (696-697), it is also known as the Wansuitongtian script. It shows the relationship between calligraphy styles that were practiced during the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern dynasties (220-581), and is a valuable resource for researching the development of Chinese calligraphy script.