Chinese heritage workers declared that they have discovered well-preserved frescoes about 2,000 years old in East China’s Shandong province.
Painted with blue, green, black and red hues, the frescoes were found on the walls of a tomb at an old residential yard in Dongping county, southwestern Shandong, when a real estate company was excavating the foundation for a planned shopping mall.
Yang Hao, deputy director of Dongping Cultural Heritage Administration Bureau, told that the paintings included images of drinking, dancing, cock fighting, women servants and historical stories.
Yang also said that the frescoes were the best preserved ones discovered in the region so far and would be valuable in the study of funeral, folk customs and painting arts during the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-25 A.D.).
One of the valuable paintings depicted a meeting between the two famous Chinese philosophers Laozi (about 600 B.C.-500 B.C.) and Confucius(551 B.C.-479 B.C.). Wang explained that the painting was of great importance to scholars because they had long argued about the real appearance of Confucius.
The discovery of the frescoes comes as an exciting bit of news for those who have a penchant for historical artefacts and the rich Chinese culture .
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