| Servants Carrying in Food (mural, Zhang Shiqing tomb, 1116), in Su Bai, ed., Zhongguo meishu quanji, huihua pian 12: Mushi bihua (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1989), pl. 171, p. 169. Mural to left of doorway, south wall, Tomb of Zhang Shiqing, Xiaba hamlet, Xuanhua County, Hebei province. approx. 180 cm h. x 310 cm w.  |
Zhang Shiqing's Tomb, East Wall in East Chamber (Liao Dynasty) 1093 - 1117, Xuanhua Xian, Chin
Burial
practices of the Liao metal wire suits and involved puncturing the chest and removing the viscera and
replacing with vegetal matter. Guo Daibeng
links this to earlier Northern Asian. Also No Chinese in the Liao dynasty were
buried in metal wire suits.
Chinese
Architecture by Fu Xinian and Guo Daiheng, Yale University Press (December 1,
2002)
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