山西大同市辽代军节度使许从赟夫妇壁画墓

Mural Tomb of Xu Congyun,Regional Commander of the Liao Dynasty,and His Wife in Datong City,Shanxi.

许从赟夫妇墓发掘于1984年。该墓为砖砌单室墓,由墓道、门楼、甬道和墓室组成。墓室顶部与四壁设影作砖雕与彩色壁画。建筑图案中柱头铺作的栌斗直接放在柱头上而不用普柏枋,为认识唐、宋时期木构建筑的结构提供了实例。辽代早期大型纪年壁画墓极为罕见,该墓对了解辽代燕云地区壁画墓的演变至为重要。

The tomb of Xu Congyun lies at Xintianbu Village in the southwestern suburb of Datong City. It was discovered, excavated and brought into protection in 1984. This is a brick grave consisting of a passage, a massive gate-tower, a corridor and a chamber. The last structure has a circular plan and a dome. Its ceiling and walls are decorated with brick carvings in imitation of word works, as well as colored murals depicting constellations, buildings, servants and other human figures. The buildings are represented to have bracket sets with the ludou fulcrum resting directly on the capital rather than with the pubaifang supporting plate resting on the lintel, which provides an important example of structural change in the timber architecture of Tang and Song China. As a rare large-sized dated mural tomb coming from the early Liao period, this discovery is of very great significance to the all-round understanding of the evolution of mural tombs in the Yan-Yun region during Liao times.