Beautiful Lifelike Statues Of Animals Discovered In Zhejiang Tomb

| May 4, 2016 | Archaeology News | No Comments

MessageToEagle.com – Six beautiful lifelike statues of animals have been unearthed from a military commander’s tomb in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. The stone-carved statues include two tigers, two sheep and two horses.

The statues discovered inside former Guangdong naval commander Shen Xuan’s tomb, are Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) relics.

Life like statue of ancient horse
This horse statue was found at an ancient tomb in Yinhzou district, Ningbo city, Zhejiang province. Image credit: China Daily

 

Lifelike ancient statue of a sheep.
Statue of a sheep. Image credit: China Daily

 

A stirrup is shown in detail on a stone statue found at an ancient tomb in Yinhzou district, Ningbo city, Zhejiang province
A stirrup is shown in detail on a stone statue found at an ancient tomb in Yinhzou district, Ningbo city, Zhejiang province. Image credit: China Daily

 

Lifelike statues of ancient animals.
Image credit: China Daily
Lifelike statues of ancient tiger.
Stone statue of a tiger. Image credit: China Daily.

The Qing Empire (1644–1912) also called the Empire of the Great Qing, or the Manchu dynasty, was the last imperial dynasty of China.

Like most Chinese dynasties, the Qing Dynasty had powerful and long-lived rulers at the beginning of the dynastic era, a period of prosperity in the beginning and middle of their dynastic era, and natural disasters, rebellions, invasions and inept ruling courts at the end.

Jin Qijun, office director of Yizhou Cultural Relics Management Committee, said the tomb dates back 200 years, according to the record on a stone tablet.

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