Jiuyuangang Northern Dynasties Mural Tomb
cemetery in China
The Jiuyuangang Northern Dynasties Mural Tomb is located northeast of Xiashe Village, Lancun Township, Xinfu District, Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, China. It is one of the tombs in the Jiuyuangang Tomb Group, a Shanxi provincial cultural relics protection unit. The Jiuyuangang Northern Dynasties Mural Tomb is the first Northern Dynasties tomb discovered in Xinzhou. As the tomb had been robbed many times, few artifacts were unearthed, and the epitaph had also been stolen, so the identity of the tomb owner cannot be determined. Based on the scale of the tomb, experts inferred that the owner was a core member of the Gao clan of Northern Qi. The surviving murals in the tomb cover 200 square meters. The hunting scenes discovered on the east and west walls of the tomb passage cover 70 square meters, making them the largest Northern Dynasties tomb hunting murals discovered in China. The mural on the north wall of the tomb passage depicts a building using inclined bracket arms and double-column dougong, which is of great significance for the study of Chinese architectural history. The Jiuyuangang Northern Dynasties Mural Tomb was shortlisted for the final selection of the 2013 Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China,but was not selected.
Excavation
In 2013, Jing Yaozhong, a master's student in archaeology at Shanxi University, discovered a robbed mural tomb in a cornfield northeast of Xiashe Village, Lancun Township, Xinfu District, Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, during a field survey.
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