1913-1914 Song Lingzhao, Gongxian County, Henan Province Photographed by Langdon Warner

A group of old photos taken by Song Mausoleum in Gongxian County, Henan Province in 1913-1914; The photographer is Langdon Warner

Langdon· Warner, an American explorer, visited historical sites from 1913 to 1916 when he was a teacher at Peking University. It is said that he stole many Chinese cultural relics

This group of photos is now in Harvard University

Gongxian County was established by the Qin Dynasty. It was called Quegong in the Shang Dynasty, Gong Bo State in the Zhou Dynasty, and now Gongyi City

Song Mausoleum, namely the imperial mausoleum of the Northern Song Dynasty, is the mausoleum of the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and his royal family. Song Mausoleum is located in Gongyi City between Zhengzhou and Luoyang, with Songshan Mountain in the south and the Yellow River in the north; It covers an area of about 156 square kilometers& nbsp;

There are more than 300 tombs and more than 700 stone carvings in the Song Tombs, which are of great cultural and artistic value. The mausoleum group covers the seven emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, except for the two Huiqin emperors, and the mausoleum of Zhao Hongyin, Zhao Kuangyin’s father, which is collectively called“ Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs”. Around the eight imperial tombs, there are more than 300 tombs of empresses, royal relatives and famous generals and officials& nbsp;& nbsp; The tombs of such ministers as Kou Zhun and Bao Zheng are also among them. It pioneered several kinds of mausoleum areas, embodied the royal order of order and hierarchy, and formed a royal funeral culture with rigorous theory and unique characteristics& nbsp;