China Pyramid: Emperor Gaozu (AKA Liu Bang) - Han Dynasty Pyramid Tomb - Changling 长陵

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From around 200BC, this is the tomb of Emperor Gaozu of Han (汉高祖 256 BC – 1 June 195 BC), otherwise known as Liu Bang (刘邦) - yes the same guy from the Three Kingdoms computer games.

Responsible for starting the Western Han Dynasty and becoming its first emperor, this gentleman was obviously very important in Chinese history, and is very well known to those of us who follow said history. You can (and should) read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...

You'll notice another tomb here too (with polluting smokestacks in the background) - that belongs to his wife, Empress Lu (皇后吕雉). Both tombs are almost the same size and appearance.

As for the video itself - let's call this one "short and sweet". Frankly I was feeling quite sick on the day when filming this and was facing a 3KM walk back to the bus afterwards (and started my day out late), but being the last day of this China trip I had to come and see the tomb.

Not to mention, as you'll see in the video, someone decided it was a good idea to surround this area with pine trees, and these trees come right the foot of the tomb's perimeter. They almost totally obscure the view of the tomb from ground level, so there were really no long shots of this tomb and I could only really see it when I was standing right next to it. I should have come 7 or 8 years ago when there was just open farmland here. Same thing with the pine trees is being done to a few of the other tombs in Xianyang too - I'm not a fan of it, I think the tombs will be nearly invisible in 10 years time.

Anyway, for what it's worth enjoy this brief glimpse of Changling 长陵, yet another of China's so-called (but not) "mysterious pyramids".

More info in Chinese : https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%95%B...