Cultural treasure for the world
By Alexis Hooi | China Daily | Updated: 2019-11-12 07:50
Historic Silk Road hub set to continue playing a leading role in global learning and exchange, Alexis Hooi reports.
The mural depicts a robe-clad figure flanked by envoy-like emblems, seemingly prostrate before an august figure on horseback with a royal retinue.
Scholars have since attributed the scene to that of Zhang Qian bidding farewell to the Western Han Dynasty's (206 BC-AD 24) Emperor Wu, who had sent his imperial emissary on a trailblazing diplomatic mission to the western regions.
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