Ancient Mu’ege City (Ancient Yi Culture Industrial Park of Dafang, Bijie)

　　The Ancient Yi Culture Industrial Park of Dafang, Bijie — Ancient Mu’ege City is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, situated in the northeastern suburbs of Dafang County, covering a total area of 4.5 square kilometers. The area includes the Shexiang Tomb, a national key cultural relics protection unit, and the Shexiang Museum (currently a national third-grade museum), which manages the tomb; the Mu’ege Castle Ruins, a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit; the “Guizhou Xuanwei Mansion,” reconstructed based on the scale and style of the ancient Yi people’s nine-tiered government complex, serving as the filming location for the 30-episode TV series *Lady Shexiang*; the Qingyun Tower and Doumu Pavilion ancient architectural complex, both county-level cultural relics protection units; undesignated immovable cultural heritage sites such as the ancient Zhudapo Post Road, and historic wells like the Sanguan Bridge Well, Yangjiaguan Well, and Guanshui Well; the millennia-old ponds Luoshi Pond and Xima Pond; as well as a distinctive Yi-style cultural street.

　　Shexiang Tomb: In 1961, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture listed the tomb as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit and allocated funds for its restoration, but it was also destroyed during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, to commemorate Lady Shexiang and promote ethnic unity and patriotism, a simple restoration was carried out in 1981, and in 1982, the Guizhou Provincial People’s Government re-listed the tomb as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. In 1985, the National Cultural Relics Bureau, the Guizhou Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture, the Bijie Prefectural Administrative Office, the Prefectural Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the Dafang County People’s Government jointly funded another restoration of the tomb. In 1988, the State Council designated the Shexiang Tomb as a national key cultural relics protection unit. The overall architecture of the Shexiang Tomb was built to the scale of a third-rank official as recorded in the *History of Ming*, incorporating the characteristics and style of ancient upper-class Yi tombs. In the 13th year of the Daoguang reign (1834) of the Qing Dynasty, Shexiang’s descendant An Gan submitted a petition to the Dading Prefecture requesting restoration, which was approved in the 18th year of Daoguang (1838). The tomb was then restored with a stone enclosure and earthen mound under the direction of Wang Xukun, the Prefect of Dading, and Wu Songliang, the Prefect of Qianxi, along with the erection of a front-facing stele and a tomb epitaph stele (the front stele inscribed with “Tomb of Lady Shexiang, Ming Dynasty Shunde Countess”). However, auxiliary structures such as the Shexiang Shrine were not restored to their original form, and the scale was far smaller than before. Since the Republican era, due to lack of management, the site has gradually deteriorated.

　　Address: Ancient Mu’ege City, Shunde Road, Dafang County

　　Type:

　　Category: Historical Site · Museum · Cemetery/Tomb · Ancient Town · Ancient Village

　　Opening Hours:

　　8:30–18:00

　　Ticket Information:

　　Gate Price: 80.0 RMB