No. 001 Yellow Emperor Mausoleum, Shaanxi
The Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum is the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and is the place where emperors and celebrities of all generations worship the Yellow Emperor. The earliest sacrifice of the Yellow Emperor in history began in the third year of qin linggong (422 BC), and qin linggong "made Wuyang Shangqi and dedicated to the Yellow Emperor". Since emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally led 180,000 troops to sacrifice the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in the first year of the Yuan Feng (110 BC), Qiaoshan has always been the place where successive dynasties held national sacrifices, preserving various cultural relics from the Han Dynasty to the present. Qiaoshan Mountain, where the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum is located, is located about 1,000 meters north of the city of Huangling County in Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, and is the eastward extension of meridian ridge.
On March 4, 1961, the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
No. 002 Kong Lin Shandong
Kong Lin, originally known as the Sacred Forest, is located 1.5 kilometers north of Qufu City, Shandong Province, and is the family cemetery of Confucius and his descendants, and the longest lasting family cemetery in the world. Qufu has a long history and rich resources of inscriptions and cultural relics, with more than 6,000 inscriptions preserved in previous dynasties, and is one of the three major stele forests in China.
On March 4, 1961, Kong Lin was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
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No. 003 Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Shaanxi
The entire cemetery can be divided into four levels, namely the underground palace (underground palace) as the core part, and the others are the inner city, the outer city and the outer city, each with a clear primary and secondary point. The core of the cemetery is the underground palace. The Qinling Underground Palace is located under the fiefdom of the southern half of the inner city, which is equivalent to the "Palace City" during the life of Qin Shi Huang.
In March 1961, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council, and the ancient tomb number Was No. 3.
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No. 004 Maoling Shaanxi
Maoling is the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the underground palace is filled with a large number of rare treasures. Maoling is located in the northeast of Xingping City, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, east and west of the "Five Tombs Plain". It is 12 kilometers away from Xingping City in the west and 15 kilometers away from Xianyang City in the east. Its north is far away from the Jiugao Mountain, and the south side is Yaoping Zhongnan Mountain. Maoling is the mausoleum of Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and is the largest, longest-built and most abundant funerary tomb of the Han Dynasty emperors, known as the "Pyramid of China".
Maoling was built between the second year of Jianyuan (139 BC) and the second year of the later Yuan Dynasty (087 BC) and lasted 53 years. The funerary tombs include the tombs of Lady Li, Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi, Huo Guang, Kim Il-ri and others. "For Tsukasa Elephant Qilian Mountain".
On March 4, 1961, Maoling was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
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No. 005 Huo went to the sick tomb in Shaanxi
Huo went to the sick tomb "for the tomb of Qilian Mountain". In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (117 BC), the 24-year-old general Huo Fu of the Great Sima Hu died of illness and was given the title of Marquis of Jinghuan. Emperor Wu of Han was very saddened by Huo's death, and he sent in the Xuanjia army and lined up along Chang'an all the way to Maoling Huo to go to the sick cemetery. His tomb resembles "Qilian Mountain" in recognition of his immortal merits. The bottom of the tomb is 101.50 meters long from north to south and 73 meters wide from east to west. The top is 15 meters long from north to south, 8 meters wide from east to west, covers an area of 5841.33 square meters, and has a sealing volume of 62961.24 cubic meters. Up and down the tomb, around the cemetery, rocky rocks, pines and cypresses, shaded tombs, a deep scene of mountains and forests. The east and west corners of the south and north sides of the tomb have a winding path that leads to the top of the tomb.
Stone carvings such as stone people, stone horses, stone elephants, and stone tigers placed in front of the tomb have a profound influence on the stone carvings of tombs in later Chinese dynasties, and have been inherited by the art of tomb stone carvings in later Han dynasties.
On March 4, 1961, Huo's tomb was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
No. 006 Liaoyang Mural Tomb Group Liaoning
The Liaoyang Han mural tomb group is located in the northern part of Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, around the stick platform, three trenches and north garden. Discovered in the early 20th century, the tombs are stone mural tombs from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Han and Wei dynasties, and the tomb owners were all dignitaries of the Gongsun regime that divided Liaodong at that time. In the 1950s, the Liaoning Provincial Museum and other units organized excavations of tombs and cleaned up several tombs. The tomb is all made of stone slabs.
On March 4, 1961, the Liaoyang Han mural tomb group was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
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No. 007 Donggou Ancient Tomb Group Jilin Province
The Donggou ancient tomb group is gradually famous for the discovery of the Good Taiwang Monument in the early years of the Qing Dynasty. It is distributed in the Donggou Ancient Tomb Group on the Donggou River in Ji'an City, Jilin Province, and in the nearby foothills, river valleys and Pingchuan Rivers, with an area of about 16 kilometers long from east to west and about 2 to 4 kilometers wide from north to south. According to 1966 statistics, the total number of ancient tombs is 11300, and 7160 exist today. According to the different materials and forms of construction, it can be roughly divided into two categories: stone tombs and earth tombs. But why is it called Donggou? It is because the Japanese "cultural robber" Yokoi Tadashi, who first came to Ji'an and conducted archaeological research on Goguryeo ruins, pronounced it inaccurately, read "tong" as "hole", and also wrote "donggou" on its research materials, so the name of Donggou Ancient Tomb continues to this day.
On March 4, 1961, the Donggou Ancient Tomb Group was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
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No. 008 Fengshi Tomb Group Hebei
The Fengshi Tomb Group, also known as the Fengjia Tomb, commonly known as the "Eighteen Chaos Tombs", is located in the north area of Houtun Village, Qiancun Township, Chengcheng County, Hengshui County, Hebei Province. At present, there are still 15 tombs with sealed soil, the largest is about 7 meters high, and the tomb group covers an area of more than 2,000 acres.
On March 4, 1961, the Fengshi Tomb Group was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
No. 009 Zhaoling, Shaanxi
In the tenth year of Emperor Taizong's reign (636), Empress Dowager Changsun was critically ill and buried on her deathbed. It is located on the main peak of Jiugao Mountain in Yanxia Town, Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. There are more than 180 funerary tombs, which are the "Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty" in Guanzhong, and also the largest and most funerary tombs in the imperial cemeteries of Chinese dynasties; it is a representative imperial mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty, known as the "Famous Tomb in the World".
The Zhaoling Project was carefully designed by the brothers Yan Lide and Yan Liben, who came from an engineering family and successively served as masters of the Tang Dynasty.
The Xuangong of Zhaoling was built on the mountainside of the southern slope of the main peak of Jiugao Mountain, with a radius of 60 kilometers, and an underground palace was built at the bottom of the peak, including the funerary tomb, stretching for tens of miles, magnificent and spectacular.
On March 4, 1961, Zhaoling was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.
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No. 010 Qianling, Shaanxi
In the first year of Emperor Gaozong's reign (683), Wu Zetian appointed the official Shangshu Wei to be responsible for the Qianling project, and In August of the following year, Li Zhi was buried, after which the Qianling project continued.
The "Sixty-one Statues of The Lords", these life-size stone figures, dressed in different costumes, with robes and girdles, and lapels and purple sleeves. But they all stood side by side, their hands arched forward, and their posture was extremely humble, as if they were lined up here to welcome the arrival of the emperor, but these stone statues had no heads.
On March 4, 1961, Qianling was included in the list of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.