Tomb of Liu Hanru

Tomb of Liu Hanru

The Tomb of Liu Hanru is a cultural relic protection unit of Dacheng County.

The "Duxian Jiacheng" Tomb of Liu Hanru from the Qing Dynasty: The Qing-era "Duxian Jiacheng" tomb complex is located north of the county town at the Vocational Education Center School (the main tomb is within the school’s sports field), and consists of a stone statue garden for Liu Hanru, who served as the Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate during the Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty. It stretches over a thousand meters from north to south and several hundred meters northeast. In the past, from south to north, there were, in sequence, a pair of stone guardian lions, a stone memorial archway (inscribed with “Duxian Jiacheng,” with four pillars carved with lion figures), a pair of ornamental columns, a pair of stone tigers, a pair of stone sheep, four turtle-based stone steles arranged side by side, two pairs of stone horses symmetrically arranged in an upright position, two pairs of stone statues of military officials symmetrically arranged, the tomb of Liu Hanru (in front of which there was a turtle-based stone stele and a stone offering table), with one stone statue of a civil official on each side of the tomb, and the tombs of his four sons in front of his tomb (each son’s tomb had a stone stele and a stone offering table). In his lifetime, Liu Hanru achieved many accomplishments in office. He resigned from his post in the third year of the Shunzhi era and passed away due to illness in the fourth year of the Kangxi era. He was buried with the ceremonial honors befitting a first-rank official. In the past, the Liu Hanru Tomb complex extended westward to the north of Fengzhang Street Village, connecting with the tomb complex of his second son, Liu Jian (who served as Minister of Justice during the Kangxi era), with a water channel known as the “Liu Family Ditch” that featured water flowing in reverse (from east to west despite the land sloping higher eastward), symbolizing prosperity and prominence. Both the tombs of Liu Hanru and Liu Jian were destroyed during 1958 and the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Some relics remain buried underground at the Liu Hanru Tomb. In 1982, the Liu Hanru Tomb complex was designated as a county-level key cultural relic protection unit by the People’s Government of Dacheng County.