Tomb of Yuan Jiliu

　　   Yuan Jiliu (1868–1932) was Mao Zedong’s Chinese literature teacher during his time at the First Normal School of Hunan, and Mao greatly respected him. Yuan Jiliu’s tomb is located in Menggong Village, Luohong Township, Longhui County. In 1953, Mao personally inscribed the tombstone with the words “Tomb of Mr. Yuan Jiliu.” The current tomb monument is a stone pagoda with a square base. The body of the pagoda is built from Xiang white marble, and the front is inlaid with a marble tablet engraved with Mao’s own handwriting: “Tomb of Mr. Yuan Jiliu.”

　　

　　Yuan Jiliu (1868~1932)　　   Yuan Jiliu (1868–1932), courtesy name Zhongce, also known as Zhongqian in examination records, was born in 1868 in Huludai, Baojing County (his sixth-generation ancestor Yuan Wencong had relocated the whole family there in the early Qing Dynasty). In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), he returned to his ancestral home in Yuanjiadang, Bayou, Yonggu Tuan, Xinhua County (now Bailian Village, Menggong Township, Longhui County) with his family. More+