Tomb of Qu Dajun

Tomb of Qu Dajun

The Tomb of Qu Dajun is a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong Province.

The tomb of Qu Dajun from the Qing Dynasty, located in Panyu, is situated at the foot of Baozhu Hill in Sixian Village, Xinzao Town, Panyu City. The grave has a "convex" shape and is constructed of lime and sand. It is 14.50 meters wide at the front, 6.80 meters wide at the back, and 9.80 meters in length. The grave mound is saddle-shaped, with a bluestone stele 0.93 meters high embedded in the center, inscribed in regular script with “Tomb of Mr. Qu Wengshan of the Ming Dynasty”, and below it is inscribed “Inscribed by Chen Yue, Magistrate of Panyu County, in the winter of the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929)”. The grave tablet is erected to the right rear of the grave mound, written and inscribed by Wu Daorong, a local scholar.

The tomb of Qu Dajun’s father, Qu Dannuzhu, is located to the left of Qu Dajun’s grave tablet, with a bluestone stele inscribed in regular script as “Tomb of Qu Dannuzhu of the Ming Dynasty”. His mother’s tomb is located to the front right of Qu Dajun’s tomb, with a bluestone stele inscribed in regular script as “Tomb of Madam Huang, Mother of Qu of the Ming Dynasty”. To the right of this tomb is another lime-and-sand grave mound without a stone tablet, possibly the tomb of Qu Dajun’s son and daughter-in-law (the “Record of the Eight Springs Pavilion” in Sixian Village mentions: “His son Tiepiao and his daughter-in-law Li are buried below, within a few acres, where three generations are interred together”).

Qu Dajun (1630–1696), also known as Wengshan, Jiezhi, Shaolong, Fei Chi, and by the aliases Lengjun, Sanwai Yesou, and Baqing Weng, was a native of Panyu. He was a scholar and poet during the transition from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty. At the age of 18, he participated in the resistance against the Qing. In the seventh year of the Shunzhi reign (1650), to avoid persecution by the Qing court, he became a monk at Haiyun Temple under the dharma name Jinzong. In the 12th year of the Kangxi reign (1673), when Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing, Qu traveled from Guangdong to Hunan to join the army, but later resigned due to illness and returned home. He lived in seclusion, writing and farming, and died in frustration. He authored over 30 works including A New Account of Guangdong, The Record of the Loyalists of the Four Reigns of the Ming Dynasty, Poems Beyond Wengshan, and Brief Poems of Wengshan, totaling more than 3 million characters.

The current Tomb of Qu Dajun was rebuilt in the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929) under the direction of Chen Yue, Magistrate of Panyu County. In 1985, the “Sixian Pavilion” was constructed to the left front of the tomb.

In June 1989, the People’s Government of Guangdong Province designated it as a cultural relic protection unit.

Sixian Village: Located northeast of Xinzao Town and adjacent to Hualong Town, Sixian Village covers a total area of about 2 square kilometers. It consists of four natural villages—Sixian, Dagang, Shanwu, and Shayuan—and is divided into nine villager groups, with a total of 567 households and a registered population of 1,537. The village is 17 kilometers from the city center and 3 kilometers from Xinzao Town. It has approximately 1,600 mu of arable land. The main source of village collective income is land contract fees. The village is home to the provincial cultural relic protection unit, the Tomb of Qu Dajun. There are about 500 foreign residents and 17 enterprises of various sizes in Sixian Village. Both villager income and village-level economy are at a medium level in Xinzao Town. The main agricultural… More details about Sixian Village++

Further Reading:

· Third Batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relic Protection Units