Huo Qubing's tomb
The tomb of Huo Qubing ( Chinese 霍去病 墓 , Pinyin Huò Qùbìng mù , English Tomb of Huo Qubing ) in Xingping in the Chinese province of Shaanxi is the tomb of General Huo Qubing (140–117 BC), who fought against the Xiongnu people . from the time of the Western Han Dynasty . The general died at the age of only twenty-four.
It is a side grave of the Maoling Mausoleum ( Maoling茂陵) of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty and is located about one kilometer east of it.
The burial mound is a pyramid about fifteen meters high. A so-called soul path ( shendao ) leads to the grave, of which sixteen stone sculptures from the Western Han period - stone carvings of animal and human sculptures - have been preserved. These are the oldest stone-carved grave path figures of this kind discovered in China.
Among the motifs of the sculptures are: strange human 怪人, strange animal eats sheep 怪兽 吃羊, sitting ox 卧牛, human wrestling with wild animal 人 抱 兽, sitting pig 卧 猪, jumping horse 跃马, (the 168 cm high and 190 cm long) "Horse stepping on Huns" (Mǎ tà Xiōngnú 马 踏 匈奴), sitting horse 卧 马, sitting tiger 卧虎, various fish (短 口 鱼, 长 口 鱼), otter 獭, bat 蝠.
The tomb is now part of a museum.
The tomb of Huo Qubing ( Huo Qubing mu ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-166) since 1961 .
literature
- Shaanxi sheng bowuguan bian (Shaanxi Provincial Museum, ed.): Huo Qubing mu shike霍去病 墓 石刻 (Stone carvings of the tomb of Huo Qubing). Xi'an: Shaanxi renmin meishu chubanshe 1985
Web links
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Footnotes
- ↑ or Hàn dàjiàng Huò Qùbìng mù 汉 大将 霍去病 墓 Tomb of the Han general Huo Qubing
- ↑ The technical term is shixiangsheng石象生 or shiwengzhong石 翁仲.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archived copy ( Memento from November 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=12021410 u. a. (with partially different information)
Coordinates: 34 ° 20 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 108 ° 34 ′ 47.6 ″ E