Registan Ensemble

The Northern Wall

The compositions on the northern wall, beginning from the right are calling(attracting, feel drawn to smth) to the other world. On the left, women in the two tour boats are described. The first is preserved excellently. Musicians with different musical instruments are depicted in the back of the boat. The woman, depicted bigger, the other is the princess. On the front we can see another stage, where a servant woman holding another woman by her hand is trying to reconcile and indicates to the princess. She, in her turn is soothing them both and reconciling them.

As we cannot imagine China without amazing animals at the period of Marko Polo, so here we also can see different unusual creatures belonging to the 7^th century such as with the goat head and dragon tail. On the right a man with fake hair is standing holding a horse which is swimming. A waving line which divides the image into two looks like two mountains. Here we can see Chinese wearing clothes of Tan empire, who are hunting a leopard. On the right there is a rider, who is depicted bigger than the others, but it is not preserved well. According to the Sogdian culture at the picture describes gods and kings. There are some opinions about the emperor of China and his wife is described at the top. So, here we can see the king Varkhuman’s request to the Chinese for accepting him as their citizen. Because Sogdians appreciated the Chinese as a great nation knowing happiness of life. The bravery at the hunting looks like the bravery at the war. But the history of the last decades shows that the negative results of Chinese forces against Arabs made the king to lose his hopes of Chinese.