Tomb of Prince Yide in Qian County, Shaanxi

The Tomb of Prince Yide is the joint tomb of Li Chongrun, the eldest son of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, and his wife, Lady Pei. It is also one of the accompanying tombs of the Qianling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong of Tang. On April 23rd of the second year of the Shenlong era of the Tang Dynasty (June 8, 706), Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian, buried Prince Yide, Li Chongrun, and his wife, Lady Pei, together in the Qianling Mausoleum according to the system of 'numbering the tomb as a mausoleum'. The tomb of Prince Yide, which has been excavated, is 100.8 meters long and consists of eight parts: the tomb passage, six tunnels, seven skylights, eight small niches, the front corridor, the back corridor, the front tomb chamber, and the back tomb chamber. The tomb is rich in burial objects, with more than 1,000 various cultural relics unearthed and nearly 400 square meters of murals. These murals can be regarded as masterpieces of the representative painting schools from the early Tang to the prosperous Tang, which are extremely rare in the authentic paintings of the Tang Dynasty. On March 4, 1961, the Qianling Mausoleum, including the Tomb of Prince Yide, was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as the first batch of key national cultural relics protection units.