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Museum of Cliff Graves of Leshan City

Updated: 2008-01-18 18:00:39

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The Museum of Cliff Graves of Leshan City, located at the Mahao Cliff Graves on the northern bank of the Mahao River on the outskirts of Leshan City of Sichuan Province, is a museum of the former site of Chinese ancient graves. The museum has collected more than 2,200 unearthed artifacts, including 33 Class One and 72 Class Two archeological finds, of which the pottery dancing figurine (86.5 cm high), the pottery horse (111 cm high) and the pottery storeyed houses are the most representative.

The museum consists of two exhibition rooms, one stone-plate pavilion with painting. Five cliff graves have been restored. On display are the General Introduction to Leshan Cliff Graves, the Daily Life of the Han Dynasty Seen from the Cliff Graves, the Exhibition of Original Site of the Cliff Graves Left from Han Dynasty and the Rubbings of Leshan Cliff Graves. The No.1 Cliff Grave inside the museum is composed of the memorial ceremony hall, the passageway, the side chambers and the coffin chamber. The coffin chamber is 29.6 meters deep, 11 meters wide and 7.8 meters high. Both on the door of the coffin chamber and the four walls of the memorial ceremony hall are many exquisite relief paintings, giving a three-dimensional effect with their curved relief sculptures in bold and vigorous lines. The paintings on the slabstone such asChanging Horses,Jingke Assassinating Qin Emperor,Anglingandthe Queen Mother of the West Granting Medicineshave a strong flavor of the Han Dynasty art style.

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