Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
08.08.2023
Verlag
Ali Shah PublisherSeitenzahl
138
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.8 cm
Gewicht
212 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-604-3-90796-4
During the first and second centuries CE colonists living along the Northern Frontier of the Han Empire built tombs with stone doorways that depicted scenes of the hunt. These reliefs depict a fabulous world inhabited by mounted archers, hybrid xian (immortals) and frolicking/fleeing animals. Within these reliefs there is also a limited tendency to draw on the alternate lifestyles of the Xiongnu, a confederation of northern nomadic tribes who served as both neighbor and foe to the Han Chinese who lived in this area. Previous scholarship has seen hunting imagery in these reliefs as passive reflections of the mixed culture and economy of the region. I instead maintain that it was part of an iconographical program that depicted and facilitated the passage of the deceased to paradise across the dangerous borderlands between Heaven and Earth.
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