섬서 동관세촌묘를 통해 본 수대 벽화묘의 특징

Abstract

This paper discus the Sui dynasty tomb at Shuicun, Tonguan Shanxin China as the case study of the Sui dynasty funerary art. The Shuicun tomb has a long entrance-way painted with a procesion scene consisting of 6 groups of imperial guards, which can be compared with those of the Northern Qi tombs and of the Tang tombs. As most paintings inside a tomb chamber were destroyed, it is dificult to discern the subject of a painting of the chamber. Only remains of a woden architecture and a female are recognizable. The ceilng of the chamber shows the runing galaxy and the constelations. Instead of wal painting, the tomb chamber yielded a elaborately decorated stone cofin, wide in the front and narow in the back, a typical shape of a Xianbei style cofin. The front and the back sides of the cofin have a painting of the Black Wariors, and the Red Birds. The left and the right sides have a painting of ascending to heaven of a male ocupant and a female ocupant riding on a cariage and led and folowed by a heavenly beings. The most impresive carving is found on the cover of the cofin where the continuous lozenge paterns containing an auspicious animal, a lotus flower and a mani jewel. This tomb inherited structural features both from the Northern Zhou and the Northern Qi as wel as painting subject maters and the type of a stone cofin from the Northern Wei and the Northern Zhou. Especialy, the stone cofin which is decorated with various motifs from the Daoism, the Budhism, and even from Central Asia show the embodiment of the afterlife view and ideology that were incorporated al into one stone cofin by the Sui dynasty.