Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs 金陵Jīn Líng

About Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs

The burial ground of the Jin dynasty emperors, laid out below Jiulong Mountain after the Jurchen court moved its capital to Zhongdu (Beijing) in the 1150s, and the earliest imperial cemetery in the Beijing area. Archaeologists excavated the tomb of the dynasty's founder, Aguda, in 2001–2003; no halls stand today, and the remains are building foundations, a stone stairway on the Sacred Way and broken steles on the hillside.

How to get to Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs

Below Jiulong Mountain north of Longmenkou village in Zhoukoudian town, Fangshan District, about 45 km south-west of central Beijing, on a waymarked hiking trail from Chechang village that also passes the Cross Temple ruins about 1 km away. As of 2026 the excavated core of the tomb area is closed to the public, and visitors can walk only the Sacred Way and other marked areas.

Nearby

• Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site 周口店北京人遗址 under 10 km
  Limestone caves on Dragon Bone Hill where the fossils of Peking Man were found
• Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 20 km
  Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses
• Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 30 km
  An 800-year-old stone bridge lined with hundreds of carved lions, by a walled Ming fort
• Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 40 km
  Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn
• Cuandixia Village 爨底下村 40 km
  Ming and Qing courtyard houses stacked in tiers up a hillside in the western mountains

Also within 20 km: Cross Temple 十字寺遗址 (under 10 km), Shihua Cave 石花洞 (under 10 km), Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave 万佛堂、孔水洞 (under 10 km), Yao Guangxiao's Tomb Pagoda 姚广孝墓塔 (20 km), Liulihe Bridge 琉璃河大桥 (20 km), Baqi Cave 八奇洞 (20 km).

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