Leitai Han Tomb.

The last stop before leaving Wuwei is the Leitai Han Tomb, where the famous "Horse Treading on Flying Swallows" was unearthed. In October 1983, the bronze galloping horse "Horse Treading on Flying Swallows" was designated as China's tourism symbol by the National Tourism Administration. Leitai Han Tomb is by far the largest tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Hexi. A total of 231 precious cultural relics including gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, bone, lacquer, stone, pottery and 30,000 ancient coins were unearthed. It is known as A rich "underground museum". The most outstanding among the unearthed cultural relics are 99 exquisitely cast bronze chariot and horse ceremonial figurines, and the most valuable of them all is a bronze galloping horse. The originals of these two cultural relics are collected in the Gansu Provincial Museum. The ones in the scenic area are replicas, but you can experience the Han tombs in the scenic area for yourself. There are two Han tombs, and the two cultural relics unearthed are from Tomb No. 1. Tomb No. 2 was robbed and no valuable cultural relics were unearthed. The two tombs are much smaller in scale than the Han tombs in Xuzhou. After all, the Han tombs in Xuzhou are the tombs of princes. The owner of the Leitai Han Tomb is still a mystery. What's even more amazing is that the bricks on the walls of the tomb are not bonded with materials, and are supported entirely by the pressure between the bricks. The Leitai Han Tomb is a large brick chamber tomb from the late Eastern Han Dynasty (186-219 AD, more than 1,800 years ago) discovered in 1969. The tomb door faces east, with a total length of about 40 meters and an area of ​​about 60 square meters. The walls on both sides of the slope tomb passage are decorated with arrays of floral patterns painted in vermilion, with simple and rough brushwork. The brick part includes the tomb door, corridor, front chamber with left and right ear chambers, middle chamber with right ear chamber and back chamber. The tomb door and the walls of the tomb chamber are made of blue bricks and black-painted bricks to form various diamond patterns, with red and black lines as wall decorations. The front and rear chambers and the middle chamber have an overturned roof with ink lines and red and yellow lines. Lotus caisson patterns are painted in , gray, white and other colors. There are 99 chariot and horse ceremonial figurines in total. It consists of 39 bronze horses, 1 bronze ox, 1 ax cart, 4 chariots, 3 chariots, 2 small carts, 3 large carts, 1 ox cart, 17 warrior figurines holding spears and halberds and 28 It consists of 19.5 to 24 cm tall slave figurines. This is the largest number of chariot and horse ceremonial bronze figurines discovered so far in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is magnificent and exquisitely cast, showing the outstanding achievements of group bronze sculptures in the Han Dynasty.