The Fenyang City Museum located in Fenyang, a county - level city in Shanxi Province situated in the wide valley of the Fen River, a bustling industrial and agricultural centre rich in coal and minerals, boasting historic sites like the Wenfeng Pagoda and the ancient Xinghua Village define its cultural heritage, completed on 11 July, 2026 the identification of a Buddha head sculpture in stone, approximately 1,400 years old that fits a previously discovered statue.
Donated by a local villager after discovering it near a farm, according to the experts the piece corresponds to the Northern Qi period, linked to the Northern Qi Dynasty ruled northeastern China from 550 to 577 CE with Gao Yang recognised as its founder, and could be the missing part of a headless statue that was already on display in the museum.
The formal donation ceremony is scheduled for July 18, when the find will be publicly acknowledged, according to the daily newspaper Global Times.
After comparing the material, erosion patterns and fracture surfaces, the experts concluded that the head matches the headless statue that the museum already had in its collection, which was unearthed in the same village of Dongzhao and is currently on display in a special exhibition.
A local
official said that torso on display at the museum also came from the village,
which once housed seven or sight temples, and many of the Buddhist sculptures
unearthed would have come from those sites.
The Buddga’s head has already been incorporated into the museum’s collection
and is undergoing scanning, registration and documentation processes.
Shanxi province, the heart of the Northern Qi kingdom during the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 – 589) was a relevant centre of Buddhist stone carving, with various pieces hosted in the Fenyang Museum, established in 1984 and free to enter houses more than 9.000 cultural relics, including 416 pieces considered national treasures.
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