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Frescoes of clouds of the four gods

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Name of object: Frescoes of clouds of the four gods

Date: Early Western Han Dynasty

Objects specifications: 5.14 meters long, 3.27 meters wide

Unearthed time: 1987

Unearthed place: Henan Shangqiu Yongcheng Mangdangshan Shi Yuan Han tomb

The mural depicts a bizarre, illusory and fantastic painting. Dragons, tigers, Suzaku, monsters and Mount Kinabalu, Ganoderma Lucidum, exotic flowers, clouds and other forms of the Han people's imagination of the afterlife. It is rare in Han dynasty murals for its large size, rich cultural connotation and superb painting art. It is also the earliest, the highest standard and the best preserved tomb murals in China It is also a magnificent epic of Chinese immortal thought in the early Western Han Dynasty.