The Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao (or Princess Jeong-Hyo) was made in 793 by the people of early Balhae Kingdom, and is a part of the Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain in Jilin. The Mausoleum contains, among other things, the first complete discovered and detailed murals done by Balhae artists, and hence provides valuable insights to historians. Jamo redirects here. ... Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... St. ... Events Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria. ... Alternate meaning: Bohai Sea Balhae (698 - 926) (Bohai in Chinese) was an ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. ... The Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain (龙头山古墓群) are a collection of 12 burials for royalty of the Bohai Kingdom. ...   (Chinese: ; Pinyin: Jílín; Wade-Giles: Chi-lin; Postal System Pinyin: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. ... Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. ...

Burial chamber

Excavated in October 1980, the burial chamber is underground. The 105-metre-high chamber is rectangular: 50 × 26-m, and is covered with blue-green bricks. It contains a 1.05-metre tall, 0.58 × 0.26-m mugui-shaped (土圭) granite epitaph, on which 728 Chinese characters, in the Regular Script style, are inscribed in 18 horizontal lines. The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... In geometry, a rectangle is a defined as a quadrilateral polygon in which all four angles are right angles. ... 漢字 / 汉字 Chinese character in Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja, Hán Tá»±. Red in Simplified Chinese. ... Sheng Jiao Xu by Chu Suiliang: calligraphy of the Kaishu style The Regular Script, or in Chinese Kaishu (楷書 Pinyin: kÇŽishÅ«) and Japanese Kaisho, also commonly known as Standard Regular (正楷), is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles (peaked at the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and...

Mural

The chamber is surrounded by four murals on each wall, depicting thirteen person in action, such as warriors (3), chamber attendants, musicians, and maids, wearing red, blue, yellow, purple, and brown robes. The drawing and painting styles are slightly influenced by those of the Tang Empire. Tang Dynasty (唐朝 618-907) followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. ...

The princess and companions

The epitaph explains that Princess Zhenxiao is the fourth daughter of King Mun. Princess Zhenxiao was also the younger sister of Princess Jeong-Hye (貞惠). The Princess died in 793, and was buried in the winter. She was given the posthumous name Jeong-Hyo to qualify her as virtuous and filial. She was likely a horse-rider, as a horse remain was in the chamber. An epitaph ( literally: on the gravestone in ancient Greek) is text honoring the deceased, most commonly inscribed on a tombstone or plaque. ... Dae Heummu (r. ... Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... A posthumous name (Traditional Chinese: 諡號/謚號 Simplified Chinese: 谥号; Pinyin: shì hào; Romaji: shigō/tsuigō; Revised Romanization of Korean: siho) is a honorary name given to royalty in some cultures posthumously, that is, after the persons death. ...

The skeletal remains are scattered all over the chamber when discovered by archaeologists, due to previous lootings. However, the looters missed several golden and copper items, jewelry, pottery, and figurines. Reconstruction showed that the bones belong to a woman, presumably the princess; but there is also a male, possibly an attendant or child. In addition, there is the horse skeleton.

Other structures

Above the chamber, there is a rectangular pagoda, of which only the base remains.

External links

• 貞孝公主墓碑 (Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao), People's Daily, 27-06-2002. Retrieved on 04-02-2007. (Traditional Chinese)