Hengshan Ancient Tomb Cluster
The Hengshan Ancient Tomb Cluster is a cultural tourism attraction.
The Hengshan Ancient Tomb Cluster site in Jinshantun is an important cluster of Jin Dynasty tombs in northern Heilongjiang Province. It is a municipal-level cultural heritage protection site. Located on Beishan at the Hengshan Management Office in Jinshantun, at 129°21' east longitude and 47°20' north latitude, on the left bank of the Tangwang River. The site spans 100 meters from east to west and 300 meters from north to south, with 56 ancient tombs distributed across a 30,000-square-meter sunny, horseshoe-shaped valley slope. This ancient tomb complex was discovered in 1965 when farmland was being developed in the Jinshantun District.
According to the *Jinshantun District Local Chronicles*, during the Liao Dynasty, Hengshan was part of the territory of the Jurchen people, belonging to the Punuli State of the Five Nations, and later came under the jurisdiction of the Tangwang River Military Command and the Five Nations Pacification Commissioner. In the Jin Dynasty, it was part of the Tunhe Meng’an, where Jurchen troops were stationed and a military headquarters was established.
After the tomb cluster was discovered in 1956, in addition to unearthed artifacts such as stone tables, stone stools, an “octagonal relief carving stone pagoda with dancing figures,” wheel-made pottery jars, bronze mirrors, small wooden shoes, jar-bodied glazed pottery bridge-ear jars, shovels, copper coins, and jade birds, a gold-plated tally token was also excavated. The token was covered in gold foil and inscribed with incised Jurchen script—it was the first gold tally ever unearthed by Chinese archaeologists. Soon after, a bronze seal of the military headquarters was also found. In 1988, the Hengshan Ancient Tomb Cluster site was approved by the People’s Government of Heilongjiang Province as a provincial-level cultural heritage protection unit.
Address: On Beishan at the Hengshan Management Office, Jinshantun District
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