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TOMB-GUARDIAN BEAST #275060832
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The tomb-suppressing beast is an object in burials to exorcise ghosts, and is usually placed in the tomb. Tomb-suppressing beasts were popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. They are strange beasts created by people's imagination, ferocious, powerful, angry and violent images. The tomb-suppressing beast looks like a human but not human, and has superhuman power to protect the owner of the tomb. Taken at Shanxi Provincial Museum, China.
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