The Feng's Tomb Group lies 7.5km southeast of Jingxian County in Hebei Province.
The Feng's Tomb Group, which was called Eighteen Disorderly Tombs in old times, is the graveyard of the Feng'sfamily, a big familyin the Northern Dynasty (386-581). The tomb group was unearthed in 1948 along with more than 300 pieces of cultural relics. In 1955, the Beijing History Museum (now the National Museum of Chinese History)made an all-around research into the tomb group. They collected more than 100 pieces of cultural relics, including pottery, china, bronze ware, copper seal, among which there were four piecesof celadonZun(wine vessel), decorated with fine patterns andevenly glazed. Praised as the outstanding representative of the northern celadon, they are now treasured up in the National History Museum of Chinese History.
Furthermore, five inscriptions on the memorial tablets within the tombsof the Northern Wei (386-534), Eastern Wei (534-550), Northern Qi (550-577) and Sui (581-618) dynasties were unearthed, which were respectively the inscriptions for Feng Monu in the second year (521) of the Zhengguang reign, for Feng Yanzhi in the third year (541) of the Xinghe reign, for Feng Zihui in the fourth year (565) of the Heqing reign, for Feng Yuhui's wife in the third year (583) of the Kaihuang reign and for Feng Yanzhi's wife in the ninth year (589) of the Kaihuang reign. According to historical records, Feng Monu and Feng Yanzhi both died in Shanxi, but after their deat their coffins were all buried in their ancestral home Jiuying, thereby confirming the custom ofJi Zu Er Zang(buried together with the ancestors) practiced by thebig families in the Northern Dynasty.
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