Sun Yue's Tomb

Sun Yue's Tomb

Sun Yue's Tomb is a municipal cultural heritage protection unit in Beijing.

Sun Yue's Tomb is located

in Wenquan Village, Haidian District, on Xianlong Mountain, and is among the seventh batch of municipal-level cultural heritage protection units in Beijing.

Sun Yue was a renowned general of the National Revolutionary Army. He participated in the Luanzhou Uprising and the Beijing Coup alongside Feng Yuxiang, among others, which led to the removal of Puyi from the Forbidden City. The tomb covers an area of eighty acres, surrounded by a semi-elliptical platform. It is an earthen mound tomb, with a memorial stele in front. To the south of the tomb stands a memorial stele pavilion, and to the east is a memorial hall housing stone inscriptions with calligraphy by Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, and others.

Source: Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage

Further reading:

· Seventh Batch of Municipal-Level Cultural Heritage Protection Units in Beijing