{"id":9189,"date":"2026-07-25T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=9189"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:19:24","slug":"the-approaches-to-showcasing-mural-fragments-from-ancient-tombs-in-the-context-of-contemporary-chinese-archaeological-museums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=9189&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"THE APPROACHES TO SHOWCASING MURAL FRAGMENTS FROM ANCIENT TOMBS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zou Xiangping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ningbo University, Ningbo, China<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:zouxiangping@nbu.edu.cn?subject=\u041f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u043e%20\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e%20\u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 &amp;amp;quot;\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f&amp;amp;quot;\" target=\"_blank\">zouxiangping@nbu.edu.cn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>China, murals, archaeology, archaeological museum, museumification, restoration, exhibition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Murals have been widespread in China for centuries. They were used for decorating walls, cave ceilings, temples, tombs and houses. As time passed, this kind of painting changed both in terms of artistic expression, and in its subject matter and purpose. For a long time, however, a lot of artworks located in remote areas were inaccessible for the general public. In addition, a number of archaeological sites with murals were only discovered in the second half of the 20th century \u2013 early 21st century. Lately, driven by the surge of interest in national culture and the need for its actualization, popularizing cultural heritage relics has become topical, especially in the context of archaeological museums, which are prevalent in China. Yet, the link between the murals and the architectural relics made it difficult to accomplish this purpose. However, a series of exhibition projects in Shaanxi Province and the establishment of a museum in Taiyuan suggest that Chinese experts are currently searching way of exhibiting these relics and developing an approach to their museum presentation and interpretation. It is worth noting that such projects are only possible when museum officials cooperate closely with archaeologists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI: <\/strong>10.7868\/S3034577426010141<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zou Xiangping Ningbo University, Ningbo, China E-mail:\u00a0zouxiangping@nbu.edu.cn Keywords: China, murals, archaeology, archaeological museum, museumification, restoration, exhibition. Murals have been widespread in China for centuries. They were used for decorating walls, cave ceilings, temples, tombs and houses. As time passed, this kind of painting changed both in terms of artistic expression, and in its subject matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8970,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9190,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9189\/revisions\/9190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}