A hundred years ago, Langdon Warner of the Song Dynasty, an American explorer, who visited monuments from 1913 to 1916 while teaching at Peking University, is said to have stolen many Chinese
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A hundred years ago, the Song Tombs
Langdon Warner, an American explorer who visited monuments from 1913 to 1916 while teaching at Peking University, is said to have stolen many Chinese artifacts.
The Song Tombs, or Imperial Tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty, were the mausoleums of the Emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and their burial chambers. There are more than 300 mausoleums in the Song Tombs, and more than 700 stone carvings are preserved, which have important cultural relics value and artistic value. The mausoleum group covers the remaining seven emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty except Hui Qin Erzong, plus the mausoleum of Zhao Kuangyin's father Zhao Hongyin, collectively known as the "Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs". Around the eight imperial tombs, there are more than 300 tombs of empresses, royal relatives and famous generals. The tombs of ministers such as Kou Zhun and Bao Zheng are also among them. It has created several precedents for setting up mausoleum areas, embodying the royal order of respect and inferiority and strict hierarchy, and forming a royal funeral culture with rigorous theory and unique characteristics.
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