Wu Family Shrines, Jiaxiang, Shandong 山东嘉祥武氏祠
The Wu Family Shrines lie at Wuzhaishan in Jiaxiang County. They are the stone offering halls and twin gate towers of the Wu family cemetery of the late Eastern Han, begun under Emperor Huan, and are renowned for their pictorial stone reliefs. The walls are carved with historical stories, myths and processions of carriages, and they are the best-known examples of Han pictorial stones. The reliefs were once the walls of several stone chambers, and the American scholar Wilma Fairbank reconstructed their original form from rubbings.
