page_title: Dahuting
section_title: Tombs
hierarchical_section_title: Dahuting / Tombs
caption_attribution_description: English: The Dahuting Tomb (Chinese: 打虎亭汉墓, Pinyin: Dahuting Han mu; Wade-Giles: Tahut'ing Han mu) of the late Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, was excavated in 1960-1961 and contains vault-arched burial chambers decorated with murals showing scenes of daily life. For further information, see the Baidu article (in Chinese): 打虎亭汉墓. Click here for more pictures and a step-by-step walkthrough of the tomb, from the outside, down a stairwell, and through the vaulted burial chambers.
context_page_description: The Dahuting Han tombs are Eastern Han dynasty tombs of Zhang Boya and his wife, in modern Xinmi, Henan Province. They are famous for their well preserved murals and stone carvings.
context_section_description: Tombs M1 (in the west) and M2 (in the east) house matching subterranean burial structures of Zhang Boya and his wife, with mounds rising 10 and 7.5 meters respectively above the ground. The tombs share the same basic building techniques, structure and shape. Both are constructed of rectangular stone slabs and square and V-shaped blue bricks. The vaulted ceilings and paved paths are made of V-shaped stone slabs and  bricks. The walls and floors are made of rectangular stone slabs and bricks joined with lime-white mortar. The three main chambers of the structures are laid out along a south–north axis connected by paved paths and separated by carved stone doors with thresholds. Tomb M1 is significantly larger than tomb M2.  
  Access to the tombs is achieved by descending sloping passages. The outer doors of the tombs are constructed of carved stone slabs and carved with a centrally positioned door ring motif. The differences between the two tombs are most apparent in their scale and decorative programs.  The decorative program of tomb M1 is carved stone reliefs, while M2 is decorated in frescoes rendered in a layer of line. In both tombs, the images of the decorative programs correspond to the function of the chambers.
  The tomb was robbed of its furnishings before modern archaeological excavations.
caption: Mural of chariots and cavalry
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