Last updated 2026-11-15 — Tomb of General Gan Ning After General Gan Ning died in battle, he was buried in his hometown. However, because he was originally from the Shu Kingdom but served the Wu Kingdom, and because he died in the Battle of Yiling, which led to the tragic death of Liu Bei, the Emperor of the Shu Han, his family feared being implicated and went into hiding under assumed names, fleeing to distant lands. Although the locals respected Gan Ning’s loyalty and bravery, they dared not openly honor him. They secretly built a small earthen mound tomb for him here and did not dare to erect a monument or record his story. It wasn’t until 1932, when the local schoolteacher Du Jieshan renovated and reconstructed the tomb, that two stone tablets were erected for the first time — one in front of the tomb and the other at the head of the new Qinglong River Bridge. The inscriptions on these tablets read “Tomb of the Great General Gan Ning” and “Hometown of Gan Ning, Former General of Wu and Governor of Xiling.”