Nanyang Stone Carvings, a History of the Han Dynasty! .

Nanyang Han Painting Museum was built in the 24th year of the Republic of China. It is the earliest, most extensive and largest Han Dynasty stone carving art museum in China. The new museum was officially opened to the public in 2009. The Han Painting Museum is located to the north of the famous Wuhou Temple and to the south of the Baihe Scenic Area, with an elegant environment! The basic display of Nanyang Han Dynasty stone reliefs on the first floor is divided into nine exhibition halls. Classified by the content of the stone reliefs, the halls display more than 200 fine stone reliefs, which are divided into eight major parts: production labor, architectural art, historical stories, social life, astronomy and mythology, wrestling, dance and music, and auspicious signs and ascension to heaven. The prosperous scenes of the past have disappeared in the long river of history, and only the stone reliefs unearthed from the ground silently tell the story of the splendid culture of the Han Dynasty. The funeral custom of treating the dead as if they were alive gave birth to the unique art form of Han Dynasty stone reliefs, which mainly use shallow relief techniques to depict their life portraits on the thick and rough stone, showing the prosperous scene of singing and dancing in the Han Dynasty. The life, art, science, customs and beliefs of Han Dynasty society are concretely and vividly reflected in Han paintings. The treasure of the Han Painting Museum is the "Stone Portrait of Xu Aqu Watching Dance and Enjoying Music" (Painted 10). The stone portrait was unearthed in 1973 from a small and simple Three Kingdoms tomb in Lixianggongzhuang, east suburb of Nanyang City. The stone portrait is divided into two sections, the upper and lower sections. In the upper section, on the left, a child is sitting on a couch, with the three characters "Xu Aqu" engraved in the blank space in front of him. On the right, three children are playing games for Xu Aqu to watch and entertain. The lower level features five people performing dance, music and acrobatics. On the left side of the portrait is an inscription in Lishu script of 136 characters, which tells that the tomb owner Xu Aqu died at the age of five in the third year of Jianning in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his family was very sad. The stone relief is rich in content and vivid in images, especially the scenes of children playing with dove carts and flying swords and jumping balls, which are extremely rare in Nanyang Han paintings. This stone relief was exhibited in Japan in March 2008 at the "Three Kingdoms" exhibition. [House]Address: No. 398 Hanhua Street, Wolong District, Nanyang City [Metro] Transportation: Take bus No. 9/18/26/33 and get off at Hanhua Museum Station [Compass] Time: 8:30-17:00 in winter, 8:30-17:30 in spring, summer and autumn, closed on Mondays [Purse] Per capita: Free