The horse found beneath Leitai
A bronze horse excavated from a Han tomb beneath Leitai in Wuwei now stands in the Gansu Provincial Museum. The terrace above the tomb carries a later temple and a longer local memory.
Wuwei.
Wuwei stands at the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor beneath the northern slopes of the Qilian Mountains. Official references date the establishment of Wuwei Commandery to either 106 BCE or 121 BCE: the city tourism portal uses the former date, while the 1998 Wuwei gazetteer gives the latter. Later Liang regimes made Liangzhou a capital during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Today, the Leitai terrace preserves the excavation context of the bronze horse, now displayed in the Gansu Provincial Museum.
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The Buddha above Huangyang River Reservoir
At Tiantishan near Wuwei, a large seated Buddha looks over the reservoir from the cliffside grottoes. The site is also known as the Liangzhou Grottoes and is associated with the Northern Liang period.
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The Eastern Han bronze galloping horse from the Leitai tomb, in the collection of Gansu Provincial Museum.Author not specified on source page · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
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Tiantishan Grottoes刘宗新 · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.