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Chengdu Yongling Museum - Yongling Underground Palace
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706. Chengdu Yongling Museum - Yongling Underground Palace

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游侠半仙游侠半仙Yongling is the mausoleum of Wang Jian, the founding emperor of the Former Shu Kingdom (907-925 AD) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in my country. Wang Jian (847-918 AD), courtesy name Guangtu, was a native of Wuyang, Henan Province. He was born a commoner and joined the army when he was young. He was both wise and brave and served as a general of the imperial guard. In the warlord melee at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he gradually occupied most of Sichuan, Chongqing, southern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu and western Hubei. In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty fell, and Wang Jian became emperor and established Chengdu as the capital. The establishment of the Former Shu Kingdom made the society in Shu relatively stable, and the economy and culture developed greatly on the basis of the Tang Dynasty. In 918 AD, Wang Jian died of illness and was buried in Yongling. Wang Jian was a feudal monarch who made great achievements during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. After his youngest son Wang Yan ascended the throne, he was licentious and extravagant. In 925 AD, the Former Shu Kingdom was destroyed by the Later Tang Dynasty in the north. The Yongling Tomb is hemispherical, with a diameter of about 80 meters and a height of about 15 meters. There are 9 layers of embankments at the bottom of the tomb to consolidate the soil (4 layers underground and 5 layers above ground). The underground palace of Yongling is a vertical arched brick and stone structure (stone inside and brick outside). The plane layout is divided into three cases: front, middle and back. The total length is 23.4 meters, the widest part is 6.1 meters, and the highest part is 6.4 meters. The three rooms are separated by wooden doors. The middle room has a coffin bed with a coffin on it. A stone statue of Wang Jian's true appearance is placed on the stone bed in the back room. Yongling has three major characteristics: Yongling is the only imperial mausoleum known so far with a burial chamber built above the ground. It has remained intact for a thousand years and is a model in the history of ancient Chinese architecture; the "Twenty-four Musical Instruments" carved around the coffin bed in the underground palace vividly reproduce the court music and dance scenes of the Five Dynasties period; the twelve strong men carrying the coffin on the east and west sides of the coffin bed and the twenty-four musicians on the coffin bed form a perfect fusion of rigidity and softness; the stone carvings of Yongling are rich in content and diverse in carving techniques, and their exquisiteness and luxury are second to none among the existing stone carvings of the Five Dynasties; the funerary objects of Yongling, such as the jade belt, jade book, posthumous seal, various silver wares and gold and silver flat lacquerware, are extremely rare royal treasures, among which the stone statue of Wang Jian and the jade belt are rated as national treasures. These exquisite unearthed cultural relics are now on display in the exhibition hall of "Historical and Cultural Exhibition of Former and Later Shu".
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