Research On The Combination Of Warrior Figurines To Repress Tomb From The Northern Dynasties To Early Tang

The warrior figurines to repress tomb are one of the important burial objects in the tombs from the Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty.Most of them are tall and powerful in shape.They are located near the tomb door or at the front of the tomb.This article believes that they have many types in this period,and different types also show the development and evolution of them.However,as a type of burial tomb figurines,They were not unearthed in the tomb in isolation,they were unearthed in the tomb together with other burial tomb figurines,like the beast figurines to repress tomb,the god and monster figurines.The different combination of them reflect different combination relationships.And the different combination relationships reflect the evolution of cultural in different periods.This article takes the warrior figurines to repress tomb in the tomb from the Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty as the research object.First,according to the shape of the arms of them,they can divided four types.They are the warrior figurines with long shield town,the warrior figurines with arms raised and take weapons,the warrior figurines with the arms spread out and the warrior figurines with arms gather up.According to the research,it can be found that the four types have their own development history.In the Northern Wei Dynasty,the burial custom of warrior figurines of repress tombs has not yet been fully established.Types of them are not stable and do not have a clear mainstream type.The later Eastern Wei and Northern Qi are mainly warrior figurines with the long shield.,and warrior figurines with arms raised and take weapons is the mainly type in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty.It can be said that each inherited a type in the Northern Wei period.As for Sui Dynasty,It was mainly inherited from the Northern Qi Dynasty.So,The warrior figurines with long shield was mainly type in Sui dynasty,but there were also have the warrior figurines with raised hands,That is the important type in Northern Zhou Dynasty,So,The cultural fusion has begun in Sui dynasty.Later,in the Tang Dynasty,the warrior figurines of repress tomb inherited the previous generation,and also developed new types.In addition,The figurines of the Tian Wang figurines appeared in the tomb.Therefore,this article divides them into four development periods.the Northern Wei Dynasty,the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi,the Western Wei and the Northern Zhou,the Sui Dynasty,and the early Tang Dynasty.The Northern Wei Dynasty is an important period in which the warrior figurines of repress tomb are established in the tombs.The Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties and the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty mainly inherited the Northern Wei Dynasty,but they have their own characteristics.As for the Sui Dynasty,although the Northern Qi Dynasty was mainly inherited,it also integrated the Northern Zhou culture to a certain extent.Therefore,the Sui Dynasty showed a certain degree of integration.In the early Tang Dynasty,the culture inherited the Sui Dynasty and the degree of integration was deeper.In addition,there were preliminary innovations and breakthroughs in the early Tang Dynasty.The Tian Wang figurines began to appear and replaced the warrior figurines to repress tomb,It is marks a new stage of development.After understanding the types and development stages of them,this article puts them into the general category of the burial tomb figurines.the warrior figurines to repress tomb and the other two main types of burial tomb figurines in the town tomb.Since the Northern Wei Dynasty,the warrior figurines to repress tomb have been unearthed in the tomb together with the beast figurines to repress tomb.This combination was stable and lasting during this period.They have a stable and long-lasting combination relationship.Behind the long-term relationship is the establishment of the national funeral ritual system,which highlights the ritual and official of this combination.On the other hand,the combination of the warrior figurines to repress tomb and the gods and monster figurines was fashionable in the early Tang Dynasty,but they declined rapidly after the early Tang Dynasty and were rarely seen in the tombs.This combination relationship is reflects the counter between local culture and central culture.The god and monster figurines representing the local culture of the northern region.It can still fight against central culture when the central power is not concentrated in the early Tang Dynasty.However,with the stability of the central power,the central culture finally overwhelmed Local culture,therefore,behind the compatibility of the warrior figurines to repress tomb and the god and monster figurines is actually a manifestation of the confrontation between the two cultures.Because they have the ability to compete,they appear to be compatible.When they cannot compete,it is difficult to reflect many characteristics of the region.The warrior figurines to repress tomb were important funerary objects from the Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty,but not only the important funerary objects of this period,so after early Tang Dynasty,the question of evolution of them still deserves a brief discussion.Since the period of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian.They had continued to develop.and there have been two important changes.These two changes appeared in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.In the prosperous Tang Dynasty.although the warrior figurines to repress tomb were superficially replaced by Tian Wang figurines.they actually marked their entry into a new stage of development.The entry of Buddhist factors is particularly obvious.The connotation of the god and humanity deepens the samurai who had more obvious human connotations.In the Song Dynasty,the warrior figurines to repress tomb were reappeared.but the combination of this time is different from the past.The beast figurines to repress tomb had been replaced by the god and monster figurines.However,the most important significance of the change in the content of this combination is that it demonstrates the transformation of funeral customs to popularization,civilization,and secularization in the Song Dynasty.