Tomb of Tang Bin

Tomb of Tang Bin

The Tomb of Tang Bin is a cultural tourism attraction.

The Tomb of Tang Bin is located at Jigu Ancient City to the northwest of Ningling County. During the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty, his memorial tablet was moved to the Hall of Virtuous Officials. In the third year of the Daoguang reign, it was relocated to the Confucian Temple. Today, the Tang Family Ancestral Hall can be found within the county town of Suizhou. In 1963, it was designated as one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province. Tang Bin (1627–1689), courtesy name Kongbo, was a native of Suizhou (now Suixian County). In the seventeenth year of the Kangxi reign (1679), he was recommended to take the Broad Learning and Eminent Scholars examination and was appointed as a Hanlin Academy lecturer, becoming a tutor to the crown prince. He was later promoted to Governor of Jiangning, and in the twenty-fifth year of the Kangxi reign (1686), he was appointed Minister of Rites, and subsequently Minister of Works. Aside from serving as the chief editor of the History of Ming, he also authored works such as Luoxue Pian (Essays on the Lu School) and Qian’an Yigao (Posthumous Manuscripts of Qian’an), which were published. Later, due to his philosophical ideas aligning with the political needs of the early Qing period, he was honored as a “Famous Scholar of Neo-Confucianism” and posthumously given the title “Wen Zhengong of Tang.”