Tomb of Madam Fan, First-Rank Lady
The Tomb of Madam Fan, First-Rank Lady, commonly known as the Small Imperial Mausoleum, was the burial site of Madam Fan, mother of Lu Bing—Grand Guardian, concurrently Junior Preceptor, and head of the Imperial Bodyguard—and wet nurse to the young Ming Shizong Emperor (the Jiajing Emperor) in his infancy. The tomb is surrounded by rolling hills, with a 2.4-meter-high earthen mound and a circumference of 19.2 meters. Five meters south of the tomb’s memorial archway stand a pair of ornamental columns (huabiao), 25 meters further south lies an imperial pond (mingtang), and 10 meters beyond that are three stone stelae. South of the stelae are a pair of warrior statues, a pair of stone horses, a pair of stone camels, a pair of stone sheep, and a pair of stone lions, stretching along a spirit way approximately 150 meters long. It is now a protected cultural heritage site of Hubei Province.
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