The later Han Dynasty tomb figures do not appear in such large numbers or on such a grand scale;
and blue and white porcelain tomb figures were added to the pottery figures.
From the Song Dynasty, the custom of burying tomb figures gradually disappeared.
The Qin Dynasty tomb figures are rigid with no big variation in style. The Han Dynasty tomb figures, by contrast, are lively, vivid and display greater diversity.
The Emperor Qin Shihuang had mystically built his bomb with many buried ceramic tomb figures that was today's Qin Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses Figurines we found in Shanxi.
The horse and chariot tomb figures of the mid and late Han Dynasty, such as the wooden horses and chariots unearthed at Weiwu, Gansu Province, appear simple and strong.
Most noticeable of the Tang tomb figures are the very graceful singing and dancing figures.
The tomb figures' appearance reveals the aesthetics of the Tang people.
Confucius set himself against it, even against burying ceramic tomb figures with dead, because ceramic tomb figures still looked like persons, and it was disrespect to humans.
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