Tomb of Wang JiaPing

Tomb of Wang JiaPing

The Tomb of Wang JiaPing is a cultural relic protection unit of Shanxi Province.

The Tomb of Wang JiaPing is located south of Heyangbao Village, Naihe Township, 15 kilometers southwest of Shanyin County. It is the burial site of Wang JiaPing, a renowned statesman of the Ming Dynasty, and is a provincial-level key cultural relic protection unit. Covering an area of 10,168 square meters, the tomb complex is grand in scale. The above-ground memorial hall still stands, along with ceremonial stone figures such as stone humans, stone sheep, and stone horses, as well as ten steles. Most of the inscriptions on the stelae consist of imperial edicts and honorific titles, but the site has now been severely damaged.

Shuozhou City, Shanxi

Wang JiaPing (1535–1603), courtesy name Zhongbo and style name Duinan, was a native of Heyangbao, Shanyin County. He once served as Vice Minister of Personnel and concurrently as Grand Secretary of the Eastern Library, and retired as Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion. As a result, he is commonly referred to as “Wang Ge Lao” (Old Master Wang) among the local people in the Yanbei and Shuozhou regions.

Wang JiaPing was born into a family of declining fortunes, where his parents combined farming with scholarly pursuits. Endowed with remarkable intelligence, quick wit, and extraordinary mental acuity, he passed the examination for xiucai (a local scholar) at age 13, became a juren (provincial graduate) at 29, and at the age of 33, in the second year of the Longqing reign during the Ming Dynasty (1568), he successfully passed the imperial examination to become a jinshi (advanced scholar)... For more detailed information about Wang JiaPing ++

Further Reading:

· Second Batch of Provincial-Level Cultural Relic Protection Units in Shanxi