Companion animals:
A pottery home featured a ramp with four-legged creatures.
Companion animals:
A pottery home featured a ramp with four-legged creatures.
Architectural detail:
The varied shapes and styles of model homes reveals much about the way people lived 2,000 years ago.
Architectural detail:
The varied shapes and styles of model homes reveals much about the way people lived 2,000 years ago.
Funerary pottery of Guangxi on display
July 30, 2014
An exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History - “Assimilation into Han Culture: The Ancient Funerary Pottery of Guangxi”, reveals much about the dwellings and how people lived more than 2,000 years ago.
It features 76 rare burial pottery items dating from the Western Han to the Southern Dynasties, mostly relating to daily life. They include granaries, wells, stoves, boats and animal figurines, as well as model houses.
These houses’ varied shapes and forms reflect the development patterns of ancient architecture.
Beliefs and customs such as “honouring the dead as if they were alive” were advocated in the early Han period. Items that would enable the deceased to live a comfortable, even affluent, life were buried with them, including food and drink, clothing, boats for travelling, and even pets to keep them company.
Two pottery models unearthed from the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb in Sham Shui Po – a granary and a well – are also on display. They are similar to those unearthed in Guangxi, demonstrating the common Lingnan cultural roots Hong Kong shares with Guangxi.
The exhibition runs until September 15.
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