Lecture Announcement | The Tomb of Yan Shiwei and his Wife, Tai Shou of Tang Dynasty

Release time:

2023-04-21

Lecture Location: Museum 3D Cinema

Lecture Time:2023Year4Month28Day (Friday) Afternoon2:00

Main Speaker Speaker: Yang Junkui

 

Speaker Introduction:

Yang Junkui, a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, is a research librarian at the Xi'an Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. He graduated from the Department of History, Northwest University, majoring in archaeology. He has long been engaged in fieldwork excavation and research on Han and Tang Dynasty relics. His main achievements include "The Tomb of Shi Jun of the Northern Zhou Dynasty," "Research on the Images on the East Side of the Stone Coffin of the Tomb of Shi Jun of the Northern Zhou Dynasty," "The Newly Discovered Epitaph of the Couple Jiang Shaoqing and Its Relation to the Jiang Family of Physicians in the Early Tang Dynasty," "A Study of the Huai Zhenfang Street Name in the Sui and Tang Chang'an City," "A Study of the Epitaph of Guo Zhongwen of the Tang Dynasty and His Family Burial Place," "Excavation Report of the Tomb of Yan Shiwei, Tai Zhou Sima, and His Wife Pei in Majiagou, Xi'an," "A Study of the Epitaphs of Yan Shiwei and His Wife Pei of the Tang Dynasty," etc. He has published numerous papers, archaeological reports and briefings.60More.

 

Lecture Content Overview:

2002Year4To5month, the Xi'an Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the tomb of Yan Shiwei, Tai Zhou Sima, and his wife in Majiagou Village, east of the Textile City, Baqiao District, Xi'an City. The tomb is a long sloping tomb passage with multiple courtyards and a single-chamber earth pit tomb, with two niches. More than unearthed cultural relics including tri-color pottery figurines, single-color objects, pottery, bronzeware, gold and silver wares, crowns and epitaphs etc.130pieces (sets).

Yan Shiwei and his wife were born into prominent families. The tomb owner, Yan Shiwei, was the grandson of Yan Lide, the Minister of Works of the Tang Dynasty, and his wife, Pei, was the granddaughter of Li Yuangui, the Prince of Qi. The tri-color pottery figurines, gold-backed mirrors, gold and silver wares, and ceremonial crowns unearthed from this tomb are all masterpieces of the period. This exhibition, jointly held by the Xi'an Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Wuxi Wudu Helu City Ruins Museum, provides a platform to showcase the relics unearthed from the tomb of Yan Shiwei and his wife. These rich cultural relics serve as a time-space link connecting the present with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, allowing the audience to directly experience the grand burial customs of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, as well as the luxurious funerary goods and aesthetic interests of the nobility.

 

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