Xian Mountain

Xian Mountain is the hill above Xiangyang where the Monument of Tears stands, raised for Yang Hu, the military man, politician and writer of the late Cao Wei and early Western Jin. The stele was first called the Stele of Lord Yang the Great General of the Expedition to the South, or simply Lord Yang's Stele, and it took its present name from his successor Du Yu, after the people around it came each season to sacrifice and shed tears. After Yang Hu died in 278 the people of Xiangyang built a temple and set up the stele on Xian Mountain, the place where he used to walk and rest. The monument has been broken and raised again ever since, and the broken stele is now kept in the Xiangyang Museum.