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Zhaoling Mausoleum has a circumference of 60 kilometers and covers an area of 200 square kilometers. There are more than 180 accompanying tombs in total. ), the construction of Zhaoling Mausoleum lasted for 107 years, and a large number of cultural relics were left on the ground and underground, which is the physical witness of the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In the 1970s, archaeologists successively excavated more than 40 accompanying tombs including Xu Maogong, Yuchi Jingde, Cheng Yaojin, Zhang Shigui, Zheng Rentai, Princess Changle, and Concubine Wei, and built the Zhaoling Museum.
Zhaoling Museum is located in front of the tomb of Li Ji (Xu Maogong) in the center of Zhaoling Mausoleum, in Yanxia Town, Liquan County, Shaanxi Province, 15 kilometers away from the county seat in the west and 11 kilometers away from Lingshan Mountain in the north. It is a site-type museum. There are more than 8,000 pieces of cultural relics in the museum, and there are four exhibition rooms, namely, the Zhaoling Cultural Relics Exhibition Exhibition Room, the Tang Tomb Mural Exhibition Room, and the Stele Exhibition Room (Zhaoling Stele Forest), and the four exhibition rooms collectively display the Zhaoling Mausoleum More than 400 pieces (groups) of fine cultural relics were unearthed from nearly 40 accompanying tombs. In the exhibition hall of cultural relics of Zhaoling Mausoleum, a large number of precious cultural relics unearthed from the altar site of Zhaoling Mausoleum and some accompanying tombs are displayed, including painted glazed pottery unique to Zhaoling Mausoleum and colorful Tang Sancai. The gold-pasted and painted figurines of civil and military officials unearthed from the tomb of Zhang Shigui have been designated as national treasures. The Tang Tomb Mural Exhibition Room exhibits a large number of murals unearthed from the accompanying tombs, which are visual representations of political, diplomatic, cultural and military activities in the Tang Dynasty. The Zhaoling Forest of Steles was first built in 1974. A total of more than 60 monuments including the Six Steeds of the Zhaoling Mausoleum, the Monument of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, and the Monument of the Zhaoling Mausoleum were collected, many of which are national first-class cultural relics.
opening hours
08:30-17:30 all year round (last admission 17:30)
