Tag: Northern Dynasties
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The Gender of the Image: Female Tendencies in the Unmanned Stretcher Image on Stone Funerary Beds of the Eastern Wei Dynasty
The stone funerary bed of the Xie family’s tomb for Feng Senghui in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Anyang features a carving of two persons transporting an empty stretcher. A nearly identical scene appears on another funerary bed of the same period, currently housed at the Shenzhen Goldstone Museum of Art. Scholarly analysis has identified this…