Eastern Qing tombs
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The Eastern Qing tombs are an imperial mausoleum complex of the Qing dynasty located in Zunhua county of Tangshan in Hebei province, 125 kilometres northeast of Beijing. They are the largest, most com
Yu Mausoleum, of the Qianlong Emperor.
Eastern Qing tombs in 1900.
The Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum was a major incident in early June 1928, in which some of the major mausoleums of the Chinese Qing dynasty in the Eastern Qing tombs were ransacked or vandalized b
Eastern Qing tombs
…into the Zhaoxiling mausoleum in 1725, during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor. The tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Qianlong Emperor were looted by troops under the command of the warlord Sun Dianying in 1928. Other tombs were looted in the 1940s and 1950s, leaving only the tomb of the Shunzhi…
State of the burial chamber of Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb, photographed as part of the post-1928 looting investigations. Cixi's discarded corpse, burial shroud and damaged coffin are visible in the background.
Sun Dianying, the Chinese warlord who perpetrated the 1928 demolition and mass looting of the imperial tombs of the Eastern Mausoleum complex
Funerary procession of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Memorial tower of Cixi's tomb.