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409:. Only the pagoda's foundations remain, which show that it was originally square, measuring 5.50x5.65 m. Below the funerary pagoda and tumulus, the princess' burial comprised an entry passage, tomb entrance, internal passage, and burial chamber. The burial chamber is underground, and was excavated in October 1980. The burial chamber measured 2.10x3.10 m and was built from bricks, with stone slabs forming the roof. The mounds of earth lined with stones demonstrate the continuance of Goguryeo-style tomb but the formal clothing shows Tang style, which implies that Balhae actively accepted the Tang culture. There were originally 12 373: 49: 42: 1105: 1117: 312:). They excavated the Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo in the Dragon Sea section. At the same time, members of the museum, in addition to other organisations, conducted a survey of a 7.5 km area. Local archaeologists were also invited to conduct test excavations on some of the other tombs, which produced various precious artefacts. 503:
demonstrating how Balhae was inherited of Goguryeo's crowns. Reconstruction showed that the bones belong to a woman, presumably the princess; but there is also a male, possibly an attendant or child. But family ancestry records do state that the princess married and had a daughter who was born in 782 but died in 787.
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In 1982, the Yanbian Museum excavated seven tombs in the Dragon Sea area. All seven were clustered quite close together, but the tomb roofs had already collapsed. Some tombs cut through older tombs. Two of these tombs contained two people, who had been interred at the same time; four tombs contained
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depicting people on the rear walls of the internal passage and north, east, and west walls of the burial chamber. The chamber is surrounded by four murals on each wall, depicting thirteen people in action, such as warriors (3), chamber attendants, musicians, and maids, wearing red, blue, yellow,
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style, are inscribed in 18 horizontal lines. The epitaph is of a typical combined written form, which contained both the chronological writings of the Princess' whole life and the remembrance writings which displayed the praise and remembrance for the Princess. The Balhae scholar author of this
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The skeletal remains were scattered all over the chamber when discovered by archaeologists, due to previous looting. However, the looters missed several golden and copper items, jewelry, pottery, and figurines. The gold ornament depicting a three stranded bird's wing is a piece of evidence
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two people, who had been interred one after the other; one tomb contained four people, one of whom was first interred, followed by the other three on a separate occasion. In the cases of a secondary burial, the second person was placed on top of the first body's head or feet.
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epitaph was highly learned in the traditional Chinese literature, as reflected in the use of poetic lines modeled upon poets of the early Tang dynasty.
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One robbed-out tumulus to the south-east. The inner north, east, and west walls were plastered, but the tomb had collapsed by 2012.
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The first excavations at Longtou Mountain were conducted in 1980 by the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture Museum of Jilin (
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purple, and brown robes. The murals displayed the image of the Balhae people in its completeness for the first time.
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Lee Injae, Owen Miller, Park Jinhoon, Yi Hyun-hae, 《Korean History in Maps》, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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The epitaph also recorded that the Princess died on Monday, 6 July 792, during the fifty-sixth year of the
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Northeast History Foundation, "Journal of Northeast Asian History" Vol. 4, 1–2, p. 92
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since January 13, 1988. The walls and the murals of the tomb have been covered with
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Construction on the first tombs at Longtou Mountain began sometime after 745, when
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Province, China, a region possibly called the "Western Field of the Ran Valley" (
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The burial chamber contains a 1.05-metre tall, 0.58-metre width × 0.26-m depth
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resolved speculation amongst scholars that the area was the former location of
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10 burials distributed over terraces to the east of Princess Jeonghyo's burial
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The epitaph explains that Princess Jeonghyo (貞孝公主) is the fourth daughter of
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done by Balhae artists, and hence provides valuable insights to historians.
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contains, among other things, the first complete discovered and detailed
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The Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo (Chinese: Zhēnxiào Gōngzhǔ mù 贞孝公主墓,
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Keong-il Kim, "Pioneers of Korean Studies", Joeun Munhwasa, 2004.
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Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
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Korea Art History Academy, "美術史學硏究", 233–236, 2002. p. 59
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era. She was accompanied in the burial at Ran Valley (
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are the burial sites of twelve royal figures from the
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Buildings and structures completed in the 8th century
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The Chosun Ilbo, 2009-08-27, Retrieved in 2015-06-28
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Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo
Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain is located in China
Helong
42°44′01″N 129°14′39″E / 42.73353°N 129.24413°E / 42.73353; 129.24413
King Mun
CE
745–926
Balhae
Stone cist tumuli
Balhae
Helong
Jilin
King Mun
Junggyeong
tombstone
Hyundeok Province
Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
anti-corrosive chemicals
Chinese

Korean
mausoleum
murals
pagoda
tumulus
murals
epitaph
Chinese characters
Regular Script
King Mun

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