Lintong Museum
Nested gold and silver reliquary coffins once sealed in a Tang-dynasty temple crypt, alongside bronzes and stone steles.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Lintong Museum in Xi'an centers on the reliquary coffins uncovered in May 1985, when farmers digging clay for a brickyard broke into a sealed Tang-dynasty tomb chamber and word of the find spread as fast as looting hands did. It follows Zhao Kangmin, then the museum's director, going door to door through the village to recover what had already been carried off, piece by piece, and the stele that pins down when the chamber was sealed. Around the reliquary case, the wider collection runs from Zhou and Qin bronzes to Han and Tang pottery, worn soft by centuries of hands.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Famen Temple
Rebuilt brick pagoda over a Tang-dynasty crypt that hid a finger bone relic for over a thousand years.
Shaanxi Qianling Museum
Sixty-one headless stone envoys and a deliberately blank imperial stele mark a Tang burial ground.
Shaanxi History Museum
Neo-Tang palace of brick and plaster, built for a small fraction of the ancient relics it now holds.
Caotang Temple
Ancient monastery garden holding a marble stupa said to enshrine the unburned tongue of a legendary sutra translator.
兴教寺
Solid brick tomb tower disguised as timber pagoda architecture, holding a Tang-era monk's remains for over thirteen centuries.
Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum
Underground necropolis of China's first emperor, guarded by thousands of life-sized clay soldiers.