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English: An ancient mural painting of a late Eastern-Han period (Simplified Chinese: 东汉; Traditional Chinese: 東漢; Pinyin: Dōng Hàn) Chinese tomb showing lively scenes of a banquet (yanyin 宴饮), dance and music (wuyue 舞乐), acrobatics (baixi 百戏), and wrestling (xiangbu 相扑). From the tomb of Dahuting (Chinese: 打虎亭汉墓, Pinyin: Dahuting Han mu; Wade-Giles: Ta-hu-t'ing Han-mu), on the southern bank of the Suihe River in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China (six kilometers west of Xi County, Henan). Excavations of the tomb were carried out in 1960-1961.
Source: Chinaculture.org. "Dahuting Tomb of Han Dynasty." Accessed 10 October 2016.
For further information, see the Baidu article (in Chinese): 打虎亭汉墓.
Click here for more pictures and a step-by-step walkthrough of the tomb, from the outside, down a stairwell, and through the vaulted burial chambers.
中文（繁體）：打虎亭漢墓壁畫《宴飮百戲圖》。
Date 25–220
Source Han Tomb in Dahuting (Wade-Giles: Ta-hu-t'ing)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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Mural painting of a banquet scene from a Han tomb by an unknown artist from the Han Dynasty. These types of paintings give us glimpses of everyday life in ancient China.

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