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Cao Cao Mausoleum 曹操高陵Cáo Cāo Gāolíng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Anyang, Henan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Anyang
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Cao Cao Mausoleum
The tomb of Cao Cao (155–220), the statesman, general and poet of the late Eastern Han, at Xigaoxue village, excavated from 2008 and confirmed by archaeologists in 2009. The Cao Cao Gaoling Ruins Museum, opened in April 2023, is a hall built over the whole site: it covers the brick tomb with its sloping entrance passage, front and rear chambers and four side rooms, together with the remains of the spirit road, the enclosure walls, ditches and buildings in front of the tomb. Its exhibition of 488 objects includes stone tablets naming 'King Wu of Wei', Cao Cao's title, and twelve pottery ding vessels of the kind reserved for an emperor.
How to get to Cao Cao Mausoleum
At Xigaoxue village in Anfeng township, about 18 km north-west of central Anyang, roughly 30 minutes by car.
Nearby
- Yinxu 殷墟 10 km
The last Shang capital, where China's earliest writing and Fu Hao's tomb came to light
Also within 20 km: Ye City Site 邺城遗址 (10 km), Ma Family Manor 马氏庄园 (10 km), Yuanlin (Tomb of Yuan Shikai) 袁林 (20 km), Wenfeng Pagoda in Anyang 文峰塔 (20 km), Zhangde Prefecture City God Temple 彰德府城隍庙 (20 km), Gaoge Temple 高阁寺 (20 km).
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