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Kate Lingley 龍梅若@klingley.bsky.social |
If all of these things were meant to arrive in the afterlife in their usable forms, the standard of realism that makes them efficacious is much more stringent than in the Zhou. It seems to show signs of experimentation, or at least of interesting variability. (22/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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It’s the terra-cotta armies produced *after* the Qin that really drive home the idea that there was some relationship between representation and efficacy for these later tombs. Take, for example, the terra-cotta soldiers of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty: (23/n)
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