The excavation of the tomb of King Muryeong provides very important information for the study of the cultural exchange
among the Southern Dynasties, Baekje and Japan. Discussion about the tomb style, burial objects are carried out among scholars at
home and abroad. However, the unearthed tomb guardian beasts did not draw any attentions, let alone discussion. By comparison with
the underground and aboveground tomb guardian beasts in the Southern Dynasties under the background of the entire history of ancient
Chinese tomb guardian beasts, we found that the tomb guardian beasts of King Muryeong were directly originated from the underground
tomb guardian beasts of the Southern Dynasties, which belongs to "quadruped" tomb guardian beasts. This type of tomb guardian beasts
were originated from the the Western Han Dynasty period in Northwest China. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the
Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasties, it spread and developed from Northwest to Southeast with
profound influence to the Korean Peninsula.