Type: Painting
Materials: vermilion, and other pigments.
Measurements: 5.14mx3.27m, 16.8㎡
Time period: around 136 BC
Acquisition: From the tomb of the King Lianggongwang of theWestern Han Dynasty in 1987.
Copyright: Henan Museum
Reputed as "the Dunhuang before Dunhuang" -- the earliest,largest, highest-ranking, best preserved mural painting in China upto now. It is a full representation of the Chinese fairy world, andeven more an epic of the ideology of the immortality.