Tomb of Yang Bangyi

Tomb of Yang Bangyi

The Tomb of Yang Bangyi is a cultural relic protection unit of Nanjing.

The Tomb of Yang Bangyi is located within the Martyrs' Cemetery on Yuhuatai in Yuhuatai District and dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Tomb of Yang Bangyi is a cultural relic protection unit of Nanjing.

Yang Bangyi (1085–1129), courtesy name Xiji, was a native of Yangjiazhuang Village in Jishui County (now Yunzhuang Village, Huangqiao Township, Jishui County, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province). In the fifth year of the Zhenghe era (1115) during the Northern Song Dynasty, he passed the imperial examination as a selected scholar. He successively served as the magistrate of Wuyuan County in Shezhou, as a teaching professor in Qizhou, and as an instructor. Later, he was appointed as a propagandist official and the magistrate of Liyang County in Jiankang Prefecture. In September of the third year of the Jianyan era (1129), he was assigned the concurrent roles of vice prefect of Jiankang Military Command and supervisor of the River Defense Deployment Office. In the third year of Jianyan (1129), when the Jin army captured Jiankang, Yang Bangyi refused to surrender and wrote in his own blood, “I would rather be a ghost of the Zhao family than a minister of another state.” Wanyan Zongbi ordered his heart to be cut out. Yang Bangyi’s detailed information++