Image: Mural Painting of a Banquet Scene from Han Tomb in Tahut'ing
Description: An ancient mural painting of a late Eastern-Han period (Simplified Chinese: 东汉; Traditional Chinese: 東漢; Pinyin: Dōng Hàn) Chinese tomb showing lively scenes of a banquet (yanyin 宴饮), dance and music (wuyue 舞乐), acrobatics (baixi 百戏), and wrestling (xiangbu 相扑). From the tomb of Dahuting (Chinese: 打虎亭汉墓, Pinyin: Dahuting Han mu; Wade-Giles: Ta-hu-t'ing Han-mu), on the southern bank of the Suihe River in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China (six kilometers west of Xi County, Henan). Excavations of the tomb were carried out in 1960-1961. Source: Chinaculture.org. "Dahuting Tomb of Han Dynasty." Accessed 10 October 2016. For further information, see the Baidu article (in Chinese): 打虎亭汉墓. Click here for more pictures and a step-by-step walkthrough of the tomb, from the outside, down a stairwell, and through the vaulted burial chambers.
Title: Mural Painting of a Banquet Scene from the Han Dynasty Tomb of Ta-hu-t'ing
Credit: Han Tomb in Dahuting (Wade-Giles: Ta-hu-t'ing)
Author: Unknown artist of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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