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The shrines contain a vast amount of relief carvings. [1] Three walls of Wu Liang's shrine were still standing as late as the 11th century, which is the reason that the site of all the family shrines are often called after him. [2] The shrine to Wu Liang (78-151 AD) was built in 151 AD in what is now Jiaxiang County of southwestern Shandong ...
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Nüwa and Fuxi on the murals (rubbing depicted) of the Wu Liang shrines, Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) The iconography of Fuxi and Nüwa vary in physical appearance depending on the time period and also shows regional differences. [22] In Chinese tomb murals and iconography, Fuxi and Nüwa generally have snake-like bodies and human face or head.
Wu Liang Shrine, Jiaxiang, Shandong province, China. 2nd century AD. Ink rubbings of stone-carved reliefs as represented in Feng Yunpeng and Feng Yunyuan, Jinshi suo (1824 edition), n.p. By 88 BC, Emperor Wu had become seriously ill. With Prince Ju dead, there was no clear heir. Liu Dan, the Prince of Yan, was Emperor Wu's oldest surviving son ...
Wilma Cannon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Walter Bradford Cannon and Cornelia James Cannon.Both of her parents were notable. Her father was a professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School, who saw medicine as a profession of social service, [6] and her mother a Radcliffe graduate, feminist activist, writer, and novelist who travelled the country to support ...
Fusang is a mythical world tree or place located far east of China.. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas and several contemporary texts, [1] the term refers to a mythological tree of life, alternatively identified as a mulberry or a hibiscus, allegedly growing far to the east of China, and perhaps to various more concrete territories which are located to the east of the mainland.
An ink rubbing of The story of Jin Midi, a 2nd-century AD stone relief at the Wu Liang shrines in Jiaxiang, Shandong. At times, especially when an infant emperor was placed on the throne, a regent, often the empress dowager or one of her male relatives, would assume the duties of the emperor until he reached his majority.
Jin Midi (kneeling) with his mother (seated). Wu Liang shrine, Jiaxiang, Shandong province, China. 2nd century AD.Ink rubbings of stone-carved reliefs as represented in Feng Yunpeng and Feng Yunyuan, Jinshi suo (金石索, 1821 edition).