The image is a photograph of a plaque on a stone wall. The plaque is titled "The Northern Dynasty" and is written in Chinese characters. The text on the plaque is in black ink and is in a larger font size than the rest of the text. Below the text, there is a subtitle in Chinese that translates to "The chaos caused by war continued to prevail and the society was in great confusion. People felt helpless and disappointed at the cruel reality, so they longed for a relieved afterlife. This served as a catalyst for the unprecedented growth of the Northern Dynasty. Cutting caves and carving Buddha statues became common practice. The surviving Buddha statue became more than 200 grotto temples and cliff carvings as well as countless figures and portraits. The Buddha statues carved in the early Northern Dynasty are mostly highly carved and feature an exotic appearance. By the middle and late period of the dynasty, the statues presented a domesticated version of the literary celebrations of the time with less contrastative features and in more gorgeous attires."