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Jiayuguan >> Wei and Jin Mural Brick Tomb

Attraction Typ: Galleries, Palast and Museums
Location: about 10 km from city
Recommend: 5 Star

Wei and Jin Mural Brick Tomb

It is renowned as the largest subterranean art gallery in the world.
Wei-Jin Mural Brick Tomb (Chinese: 魏晋墓；pinyin: wèijìnmù) is a big tomb group with over 1,400 tombs built from the Wei and Jin eras (220-420 AD), whose bricks are painted with celebratory scenes. It is located about 15 kilometers northeast of Jiayuguan and has attracted many tourists home and aboard since 1972 when it was excavated. Each Wei and Jin tomb generally has two or three chambers which are connected by corridors paved with tiles in various flower patterns. The gate was decorated with delicate patterns and easy lines symbolizing clouds, water, fire, gods and weird animals. The exquisite murals on the inner chamber walls tell the master and mistress's contemporary carefree life, and servant's hard working one. Wei-Jin Art Gallery provides an example of unmixed Chinese realism art - filling in gaps in the fields of painting between the Wei and Jin periods, and so considered highly valuable for historic research.
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