Mangdangshan Han Tombs

At Yongcheng, on the border of Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu, a cluster of low hills holds the tomb complex of the Western Han kings of Liang. The chambers were not built but cut: the vaults were hollowed out of living rock, and the tomb of the king of Liang, opened in 1986, excavated from 1987 and completed in 1991, yielded a painted mural of the four directional spirits. On the main peak stands a high masonry platform of the early Western Han, found by archaeologists in 2006 and listed as a nationally protected monument in 2013.