Song Ying's Tomb

The listing

The Jiangsu provincial list of protected sites records Song Ying's Tomb as Ming, at Tuanshan, Wushan, in Zhetang Subdistrict, Lishui District. In listing the district's heritage, the district overview also mentions a "tomb of the imperial son-in-law", which should be the same site.

The clearing of 1974

According to notes on the Lishui 114 forum — a local forum, not a cultural-relics body or an academic publication — the tomb was found during construction work in August 1974 and cleared again. The post records the tomb as 14 metres long, 6.1 metres at its widest and 54 square metres in area, made up of a passage, a front chamber and left, right and rear chambers, all of brick with barrel vaults and floors of square tiles. Two epitaphs, of Song Ying and of the Xianning Princess, were found in the passage, and the grave goods included a jade belt and gold rings.

These figures rest on a single account, so this entry presents them as notes from a local forum rather than as settled fact. The page does not explain the relationship between Song Ying and the Xianning Princess, and this entry does not add it.

To be added

An excavation report or official cultural-relics documentation, the identity and lives of Song Ying and the Xianning Princess, the full form of the tomb and a complete inventory of its grave goods, and the batch number and year of the provincial listing. The weak source cited here should be replaced once official documentation is found.