Fuling: The Stairway into an Ancestral Landscape
At Nurhaci’s tomb, a wooded slope becomes part of the ceremonial architecture.
Fuling, also called Dongling or the Eastern Tomb, commemorates Nurhaci and Empress Xiaocigao. Stone figures, a long stairway, commemorative writing and enclosed ritual buildings shape a deliberate progression through the landscape. It is a different tomb from Hong Taiji’s Zhaoling in the north of the city.
At Nurhaci’s tomb, a wooded slope becomes part of the ceremonial architecture.