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초록

Tombs at Northern Wei capital Pingcheng have been known earlier from the lacquer painting of the Sima Jinlong Tomb and from the lacquer coffin of the Northern Wei Tomb at Guyuan, Ningxia. The study on Northern Wei funerary art has been intensified since 2005 when they discovered the Shaling mural Tomb at Datong, Shanxi. After then, almost each year, Datong region yielded an important Northern Wei painting tomb which give a vibrant insight into the funerary art and afterlife view of the 5th century Northern China. This paper first looked at the major Northern Wei tombs in the Datong region in terms of a tomb structure and painting subjects including paintings on a chamber wall, a stone sarcophagus, a wooden coffin, and a stone house shaped structure found inside a tomb. Then the evolution of the Northern Wei tombs is divided into three phases and the paper examined the representative cases showing the movement of a pictorial scheme to a surface of a funerary furniture or burial object. Finally as of the appearance of a house shaped stone or wooden structure of a Northern Wei tomb, the paper suggests that the closest precedents can be found in the Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia region tombs from the Wei-Jin, and the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

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