Chengdu Museum
Han dynasty stone reliefs of feasts, wine cups, and games line galleries spanning the Neolithic era to the twentieth century.
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This guide to Chengdu Museum leads you to a set of Eastern Han stone reliefs on the second floor, carved for the dead as a feast that never ends: dancers, musicians, and diners frozen mid celebration. It lingers on a second banquet scene of seven robed figures raising their cups, and a third where someone loses at the ancient board game liubo. You'll hear how scholars read these carvings as a record of ordinary Sichuan life, cup by cup and dish by dish. Listen for what the museum's own notes call a stage direction carved in stone.
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