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Fig. l. Diagram of tomb No. 7, Niiqiapo, Changzi,
Shanxi Province. Eastern Zhou period.

Fig. 2. Unfired day tomb figurines. Warring States period.

Niilangslian Zhangqiu, Shandong Province.
,

—and Zhou dynasties gradually declined, and the known collectively as "spirit articles" (mingqi).
Among these forms were grave figurines (muyong),
center of ancestral worship shifted from the lineage which increasingly became a regular component of
tomb furnishings during the middle and late
temple to the family graveyard, generating new Eastern Zhou period, from the sixth to third

rites and ritual paraphernalia. Increasingly, tombs century bce. 1
were furnished not only with sacrificed humans
and animals and articles taken direcdy from the This was a change with profound implications for
world of the living, but also with replicas and
representations made specifically for burial. The art: the human bodies staffing the tomb were no
variety of forms manufactured for the afterlife were

REALITIES OF LIFE AFTER DEATH