Art@Site www.artatsite.com Dynasty Ming Nine-Dragon Wall, Screen
Artist:

Dynasty Ming

Title:

Nine-Dragon Wall, Screen

Year:
1402
Adress:
Five-Dragon Pavilion, Beihai Park
Website:
www.wikipedia.org:
The Nine-Dragon Wall lies north of the Five-Dragon Pavilion of Beihai Park. It was built in 1402 and is one of three walls of its kind in China. It is made of glazed bricks of seven-colors. Nine complete dragons playing in the clouds decorate both sides of the wall.

www.wikipedia.org:
A Nine-Dragon Wall or Nine-Dragon Screen (九龙壁; pinyin: Jiǔ Lóng Bì) is a type of screen wall with reliefs of nine different Chinese dragons. Such walls are typically found in imperial Chinese palaces and gardens. Early reference to the tradition of putting a screen wall at the gate is found in the Analects, 3:22: therein, it is mentioned as a trivial ritual norm ("The princes of States have a screen intercepting the view at their gates". 邦君樹塞門).

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Beihai Park was an imperial garden and now a public park located to the northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to the Shichahai.