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Excavation|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. 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. The epitaph explains that Princess Zhenxiao is the fourth daughter of King Wen, Da Qinmao. Princess Zhenxiao was also the younger sister of Princess Zhenhui (貞惠). The Princess died in 793, and was buried in the winter. She was given the posthumous name Zhenxiao to qualify her as virtuous and filial. She was likely a horse-rider, as a horse remain was in the chamber. The skeletal remains are skattered all over the chamber when discovered by archaeologists, due to previous lootings. However, the looters missed several golden copper 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. Above the chamber, there is a rectangular pagoda, of which only the base remains. Category:Chinese Mausoleums|Zhenxiao This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao".
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