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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1988

LEI CHENG UK HAN TOMB DECLARED A MONUMENT

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ADVISORY

AND BOARD MUNICIPAL SERVICES BRANCH, WHICH RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST IN HONG

WAS KONG,

TODAY (FRIDAY)

THE

THE ANTIQUITIES THROUGH EFFORTS OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS OFFICE OF THE

LEI CHENG UK, THE HAN TOMB IN

STRUCTURES SIGNIFICANT ANCIENT

GAZETTED AS A MONUMENT.

THIS ANCIENT TOMB WAS DISCOVERED

IN 1955 WHEN WORKMEN WERK FOR THE PRESENT

LEVELLING A HILL SLOPE IN SHAM SHUI PO TO MAKE WAY LEI CHENG UK ESTATE.

CHAMBERS. FOUR

THE DOMED ROOF OVER THE

OF AND CONSISTS BRICKS IT IS BUILT OF ENTRANCE HALL WAS ARRANGED IN CRUCIFORM WITH A CENTRE.

ADORNED WITH STAMPED GEOMETRIC WHILE MOST OF THE BRICKS ARE

LIKE DA-JI PAN-YU INSCRIPTIONS ΤΟ FOUND

BEAR DESIGNS, A FEW ARE (GREAT FORTUNE TO PAN-YU) AND PAN-YU DA-ZHI-LI (PEACE TO PAN-YU),

PAN-YU IS THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY TO WHICH

DURING THE HAN DYNASTY.

THE

MONUMENTS

THE AREA BELONGED

A TOTAL

OF 58

OFFICE SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR POTTERY AND BRONZE OBJECTS WERE FOUND INSIDE THE TOMB.

FOOD VESSELS, COOKING VESSELS, "THE POTTERY OBJECTS INCLUDE STORAGE JARS AND MODELS OF HOUSES, WELLS AND GRANARIES.

"THE BRONZES ARE MOSTLY

BOWLS, A MIRROR AND A SMALL BELL.

AND FRAGMENTARY

CONSIST OF SEVERAL

OF THE TOMB AND DATE OF EASTERN HAN

"ALI. AVAILABLE EVIDENCES SUCH AS THE DESIGN THE FORMS OF BURIAL OBJECTS STRONGLY SUGGEST A (25 - 220 A.D.), HE POINTED OUT.

"AFTER THE

EXCAVATION

IN

1955, THE

GOVERNMENT

DECIDED

то BUILT

PRESERVE THE TOMB IN SITU AND A GALLERY AND A SMALL GARDEN WERE AROUND IT.

OPENED TO THE PUBLIC IN "THE TOMB AND MUSEUM WERE FORMALLY

BRANCH OF THE URBAN COUNCIL'S JUNE 1957 AND SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME A HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY UNTIL TODAY," HE SAID.

CONTENTS OF THIS AREA,

DURING

THE SPOKESMAN NOTRD THAT TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, THE

INHABITANTS OF THE TOMB REFLECTED THE DAILY LIFE OF THE

HONG KONG WHICH ALSO REPRESENTED THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE OF THE HAN PERIOD.

ALTHOUGH HUNDREDS

F