Chinese Tang tomb figures

 

12 Figures were found in the tomb of a Tang general, Liu Tingxun. He died in 782 AD at the ripe old age of 72. These figures are the tallest found from this era in chinese history. The chinese believed that you needed your tomb filled with all the positions that represented your status in life. The fact that these figures were of human and animal design were intended so that once Liu was entombed and crossed over they servants could help him in the afterlife. the chinese people still believed that how your lived your life and your status in it affected your position in the afterlife. They believed that having servants and animals accompany you would ease your transition into the afterlife and would make the gods favor you.