A Study On Landlords’ Manors In Northern China From Wall Paintings Of Han Dynasty Tomb In Helinger Town

The South central area of Inner Mongolia has been the leading edge of farming communications between people in the Central Plain and Northern China. It has also served as a major channel of trading and cultural communication for people of all nationalities. Due to the importance of its geographical location, many emperors had set up local governmental offices here from the Warring States Period till Qing Dynasty. Around the offices distributed many towns and villages, where locals and some immigrants inhabited. As a result, some tombs and heritage monuments remained near these places. Among them, the wall paintings of the Han Dynasty Tomb in Helinger town served as an important base for studies on landlords’manors and on the economy and culture in northern China.Pictures and words depicted on the Helin wall painting shows that, there is a highly close relationship between today’s the South central area of Inner Mongolia and the Central Plain of China in terms of politics, economy and culture. In the book entitled " Simin Yue lin" can we find out that there is a consistency between these two areas, in work timing arrangements in agriculture and handicraft, life styles and season changes.The mode of Land Rotation in the Central Plain also applied to and got wide application in the South central area of Inner Mongolia. At that time, the manure used for farming was stored in the farm to improve its fertility and the animal-drawn seed ploughs were used. The "monority bedroom curtain " in the wall painting was proved to be identical to the Central Plain people’s monority goods, which was recorded in the Book of Later Han. That suggests that the Central Plain had kept the customs of the nomadic people in the north.Holy beasts, lucky birds, auspicious clouds and hazes emerged in the wall painting and also loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness embodied shows that feudalism rulers expected his people to be willing to accept his divine power and oppression, to be in poverty but not to resist for fear of going again God’s will, to sacrifice themselves for the ruler by every means and to pursue future life.