Dome of Heaven:

Luo, Di

doi:10.2307/j.ctv13nb9gn.15

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“…Such wooden lantern ceilings were widely used in both the reception rooms of the royal palaces and the vernacular architecture, for example, the Old Nisa Castle, the Palace of the Parthian Empire dated to the 2nd century CE, and the villager's house in the Pamir Mountains in Pakistan that Aurel Stein visited during his expeditions to Xinjiang in the early 20th century (Figure 4). Wooden lantern ceilings with an opening were usually built above a central fireplace, symbolizing a source of light and the high-ranking status of the reception room in the residence (Luo 2020). Although no early wooden lantern ceiling in Central Asia survived due to the vulnerable nature of wood, the general continuity of the local architectural tradition ensured that the lantern ceiling structure exerted its influence on both ceilings in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Han.…”

Section: The Eastern Han Stone Ceilingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing Heaven: Ceilings of the Stone Tombs in Northeast Asia (1st to 7th Century CE)

Chen

2023

Religions

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This paper discusses the spread of several special techniques for tomb ceiling construction in Northeast Asia from the 2nd to the 5th centuries and the mixed beliefs of Buddhism and the cult of the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu 西王母) that were embedded in the design of these ceilings. In the 2nd century, stone tombs with ceilings formed by stepped layers of stone slabs flourished in Shandong and northern Jiangsu. These tombs are usually believed to be the prototypes of the stone tombs with more complicated stepped ceilings that appeared in the Goguryeo Kingdom on the Korean Peninsula in the 4th century. However, the way in which the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 CE) stone tombs in eastern China influenced the Goguryeo tombs over relatively long distances in the following centuries is open for discussion. This paper argues that Youzhou 幽州, i.e., the Province of You 幽 ruling the areas including Beijing, northern Hebei, Liaoning, and the northwest of the Korean Peninsula, was a crucial area for the dissemination of these special ceilings of stone tombs. The officials of the Province of You were keen to introduce highly developed masonry craftsmanship from Shandong to construct their ideal shelters for an afterlife in an age full of regional wars and unexpected deaths. Newly introduced Buddhism and traditional beliefs in the immortal land of the Queen Mother of the West were potential driving forces for the dissemination and popularity of these stone ceilings as spaces for worship.

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Section: The Eastern Han Stone Ceilingsmentioning

confidence: 99%