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Introduction to the cemetery where Princess Liao Chen and Xu were buried together.

The tombs of Princess Liao and Princess Chen are located in Qinglongshan Town, Naiman Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is located in the shallow hilly area on the northern edge of Liaoxi Mountain. The mountains are long, the trees are lush, the wind is blowing, and the springs are clear. 10 In the northeast of the town, there is a small village called Bugetu. On the hillside west of Bugetu village, Princess Chen and Xu, nobles of Liao Dynasty who died young, were buried.

1June, 985, the tomb was discovered when a reservoir was built in the northwest of Bugetu village. After receiving the report, the Inner Mongolia Cultural Department immediately sent archaeologists from the Inner Mongolia Institute of Archaeology to investigate, and with the close cooperation of Zhemeng Museum and Naiman Palace Museum, the tomb was cleaned and excavated, so that the precious cultural relics that had been sleeping for nearly a thousand years could be rediscovered.

The tomb is a brick multi-chamber tomb with a total length of16.4m. The whole tomb consists of six parts: the entrance, the courtyard, the front room, the east and west wing rooms and the back room. The stepped pyramid-shaped mound is 6.5 meters long. The patio is slightly rectangular in shape, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like a funnel, which is connected with the front tomb door and the back tomb door. The bottom of the patio is flat and made of bricks. The anterior chamber is rectangular, with a length of 3.48m from north to south, a width of1.93m from east to west and a height of 2.65m.. The roof of the coupon is paved with square bricks. The east and west ear chambers are round, with domes at the top and striped blue bricks on the surface. The back room (main room) is circular in plane, with an east-west diameter of 4.38 meters. The upper part of the room is folded into a dome, with staggered floors and square bricks. There are wooden door frames and double wooden doors embedded between the front and rear rooms, which can be opened and closed freely in a clean way. Next to the brick wall of the main room, there is a wooden wall made of cypress, which leads to the top of the tomb. There is a brick corpse bed on the ground of the north wall of the main room, and there is a brick rectangular platform in front of the corpse bed. There are 16 carved pot doors on the east, west and south sides of the corpse bed and altar, which are beautifully decorated.