Tonggui Domain

Tonggui Domain

Tonggui Domain is a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Tonggui Domain (Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit)

Era: Qing Dynasty

Announcement Date: August 29, 1997

Located on the mountainside of Longfeng Mountain at the North Gate of Chengguan, about 100 meters north of Huancheng North Road. It is a collective tomb where the ashes of over ten thousand soldiers, officials, and civilians who resisted the Qing during the late Ming Dynasty were buried. The Prince of Lu of the Southern Ming, Zhu Yihai, initially established his provisional court in Shaoxing, later moved by sea, and in the tenth month of the sixth year of the Shunzhi era (1649) of the Qing Dynasty, relocated to Zhoushan, where he set up a temporary palace. In the eighth year of the Shunzhi era (1651), Qing forces captured Zhoushan, and over ten thousand resistance fighters and civilians perished. The Qing military officer Qiao Junbo gathered the remains of the deceased and cremated them here, burying them collectively, and erected a stele inscribed horizontally with the words “Tonggui Domain.” The tomb faces south and is built on a north-south axis. The burial mound is semi-circular, with a diameter of 3.5 meters. The front face of the tomb is 1 meter high and 3.5 meters wide, with the top constructed in the shape of a hexagonal pyramid.

Source: Zhejiang Cultural Relics Website

Further Reading:

· Fourth Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units