Scenes of Feasting, Music, and Dancing

Eastern Han Dynasty, 25 AD - 220 AD
Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu

The good afterlife was a never-ending party, with inexhaustible supplies of food (previous page), liquor (a vat of alcohol, center of both photos above), and entertainment: music (zheng, right photo, upper left corner), acrobatics (left photo, upper right corner), and dance (both photos).