ARTH 2340 Lecture 2: Lecture 1- Asian Art
21 Sep 2020
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During the qin and han periods, ancestral temples were still built, but they no longer had political significance- their importance was reduced. The funerary structures then became the centre of societies. The graveyard was no longer a silent site , but instead a focal site for social activities. It became common for people to prep their own tombs. The indigenous belief of the afterlife in ancient china, was that the afterlife was place where death was not an ending- there was a continuous existence in the otherworld. They had holes drilled into them presumably for the soul to move in and out of the coffin, however there is no formal understanding of its purpose. The great lishan mausoleum represented afterlife as a mirror image of life. Similar to the ancient egyptian belief of afterlife, and the necessities of the afterlife.
