Song ling gong yuan

Gongyi Song Tombs is a burial group of Northern Song emperors, distributed in the area of Xicun Town, Zhitian Town and Huiguo Town in Gongyi City, covering an area of about 30 square kilometers, with more than 300 tombs.

The Song Tombs contain the eight emperors and nine tombs, including.

Yong'an Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Hongyin, Emperor Xuanzu of Song;, Yongchang Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizong of Song;, Yongxi Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Gui, Emperor Taizong of Song;, Yongding Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzong of Song;, Yongzhao Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Zhen, Emperor Renzong of Song;, Yonghou Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Shu, Emperor Yingzong of Song;, Yongyu Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Oh, Emperor Shenzong of Song;, Yongtai Mausoleum, the tomb of Zhao Xu, Emperor Zhezong of Song;, Yongxian Mausoleum, the tomb of Emperor Qinzong of Song the tomb of Zhao Huan, Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

There are also tombs of the accompanying clansmen, and tombs of famous ministers such as Kou Jun and Bao Zheng.

Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong were taken away by the Jin dynasty during the Jinghang Rebellion. A few years later, Emperor Huizong died in Jin, and after the Shaoxing Peace Conference, the Jin sent the coffin of Emperor Huizong back to the Southern Song Dynasty, and Emperor Gaozong buried it in the Six Tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty in Shaoxing. A few years later, Emperor Qinzong also died in Jin, and the Jin people buried the coffin of Emperor Qinzong in the Song Tombs, which were circular in shape and did not have a stone pathway. The Song Emperor Gaozong sent a mourning for Emperor Qinzong and gave him a temple name and a posthumous title, and gave the mausoleum the name of Yongxianling. Therefore, the Song tomb complex only includes the tombs of Northern Song emperors other than Emperor Huizong.

The emperors' tombs were basically the same, including the tomb platform, which was surrounded by a sacred wall with corner towers, four sacred gates on all sides of the sacred wall, a pair of stone lions outside the east, west and north sacred gates, and a sacred path outside the south gate, with stone wengzhong, stone animals and stone pillars on both sides of the sacred path.