The Xian Religion's(Zoroastrian)Sacred Fire Altars Discovered in China
Zoroastrianism,'Xian Religion'('Xiān Jiào'in Chinese pinyin)among the oldest religions in the world has the sacred fire altar most-known as the Zoroastrianism symbolism in dissemination.This paper makes an iconological analysis of the fire altars excavated in China,returned from overseas and those of private collectors,holding that numbers of the stone funerary objects with Zoroastrian elements frequently excavated in the Northern Dynasties-Sui Dynasty tombs in China fill in the absence of historical records as the witnesses to the Zoroastrianism reaching Persia and its neighboring Asian countries,and prevailing in some other areas of Asia for a time.These Zoroastrian sacred fire-altars represent the history of the Persian and Sogdian people in migration,evolution and fusion as well as the Sina-Persia cultural exchanges of earlier time.
'Xian religion'(Zoroastrianism)sacred fire altarthe Northern Dynasties-Sui DynastySassanian Persia
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