Does the Han/Wei Dynasty Anyang Tomb belong to General XIAHOU Dun?

2010 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongdong KANG
Keyword(s):  
Wei Dynasty

On white marble half-lotus meditation statues carved in Wuding Era of the Eastern Wei Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-194
Author(s):  
Hyun-Sook So
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
White Marble ◽  
City Area ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Made In ◽  
Wei Dynasty

Abstract In 2012, large amounts of white marble Buddhist statues of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties were unearthed from the Buddhist sculpture hoard at Bei Wuzhuang in Ye City Site. This paper makes a comparative study on a bodhisattva statue in meditation seated in half-lotus posture (resting right ankle on the knee of pendent left leg and holding right hand upward) among them and another sculpture of the same type and made in the same period unearthed at the Xiude Monastery site in Dingzhou; from the double-tree, stupa and coiling dragon designs shown by them, this paper explores the commonalities and differences of the Buddhist arts in these two areas. Moreover, this paper reveals that this motif emerged earlier in the Ye City area than in the Dingzhou area, and diffused to the latter after it became popular in the Ye City area. By these conclusions, this paper infers that the white marble meditating statue seated in half-lotus position with the date of the second year of Wuding Era (544 CE) in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA was produced in Ye City area.

The mural tomb of the Northern Wei Dynasty at Yunboli in Datong City, Shanxi

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Datong Municipal Institute of Archa
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
The South ◽  
Single Chamber ◽  
Bronze Wares ◽  
Northern Wei ◽  
Northern Wei Dynasty ◽  
Grave Goods ◽  
Wei Dynasty

AbstractIn April 2009, Datong Municipal Institute of Archaeology excavated a mural tomb of the Northern Wei Dynasty at Yunboli Neighborhood in the south of urban Datong City. This tomb was a single-chamber tomb comprising the long ramp passageway, the sealing wall, the entrance, the corridor and the chamber built in the popular style of the Pingcheng period of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The grave goods unearthed from this tomb included glazed potteries, stone implements, silver and bronze wares, iron implements and bone objects; the motifs of the murals were feasting and hunting scenes, honeysuckle patterns and dragon and phoenix designs, the contents and styles of which all have features of Tuoba Xianbei ethnic group.

A Stele of the North Wei Dynasty

Parnassus ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Laurance P. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
The North ◽  
Wei Dynasty

The Edict of 495 Reconsidered

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Chase
Keyword(s):  
Northern Wei ◽  
Northern Wei Dynasty ◽  
Wei Dynasty

AbstractEmperor Hsiao-wen of the Northern Wei dynasty issued an edict in the year 495 which established a procedure for defining, classifying, and ranking T'o-pa lineages. This procedure would be carried out once, and the resulting ranks would be hereditary thereafter. The intention was to create a hereditary aristocracy among the T'o-pa which would be similar to that which already existed among the Chinese, so that both the T'o-pa and the Chinese could be considered for bureaucratic office on a comparable basis. This was one of a number of edicts issued around this time which sought to make T'o-pa customs and practices more similar to Chinese ones.

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