Where is Cao Cao s grave? Where is Cao Cao s tomb

Gaoling is Anyang Gaoling (Cao Cao Tomb), also known as Wei Gaoling, located in Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang City, Henan Province, 12 kilometers west of Cao Cao's royal capital Yebeicheng. According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and other historical records, Cao Cao died in Luoyang in 220 AD, and the coffin was transported to Yecheng (now Yebei City, southwest of Linzhang County), and buried in the hills west of the Ximen Leopard Temple in Yecheng.

On December 27, 2009, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage recognized that the archaeological excavation is located in the south of Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang City, Henan Province, which is the tomb of Cao Cao. In May 2013, Cao Cao's Gaoling Mausoleum in Anyang became the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In June 2013, the Cao Cao Gaoling Mausoleum in Anyang, Henan Province and the Yecheng site where it is located were shortlisted for the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the Protection of Large Ruins" approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Finance.

Cao Cao cemetery in the south of Shicunying Township Shangqiyuan Village about 1 km south of the place (this place now belongs to the northwest of Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang County, Henan Province, and Shangqiyuan Village is separated by a Zhanghe River), has found a piece of Lu Qian's epitaph in the Zhao period after the Sixteen Kingdoms, this epitaph is bluestone, 30 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide, the epitaph has 120 words, describes the specific relative position of Lu Qian's tomb and Cao Cao's tomb.

Cao Cao's tomb is a "mystery of the ages" that the world pays attention to. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, generations of politicians, thinkers, historians, writers, and geographers were very interested in Cao Cao's tomb. The process of Cao Cao's tomb becoming a historical mystery has far exceeded the value of Cao Cao's tomb itself and has become a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Therefore, the investigation and visit to Cao Cao's tomb is actually a process of exploring a kind of history and culture.

Cao Cao died of illness in Luoyang in the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), and the coffin was transported back to Yecheng

His grave hasn't been found yet! It should be near a Simon Leopard Temple! As for which one is the Simon Leopard Temple, it hasn't been decided yet!

Nobody knows! It's an archaeological secret!

Cao Cao's tomb was not found. It is said that after his death, 72 tombs were erected, so that people could not find his tomb. People have been looking for it for more than a thousand years.

After all, when it comes to tombs, there are treasures buried in them. However, it was not until 2009 that the tomb of Cao Wei in Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang City, Henan Province, was confirmed to be the tomb of Cao Cao after archaeological excavations and unanimous recognition by the Chinese archaeological community.

Cao Cao's tomb said:Regarding the location of Cao Cao's tomb, there are many sayings for more than 1,000 years, such as Xuchang outside the city, Zhanghe River under the water, Tongque Taixia said, Hebei Pengcheng said, the most famous is the seventy-two doubtful graves - Cao Cao was afraid that the tomb would be stolen and excavated before he died, and ordered 72 coffins to be carried out of Yecheng from the four directions of southeast, south, northwest and buried in 72 different directions next to the Zhanghe River, laying a puzzle.

Cao Cao once asked his descendants to bury him thinly before he was buried, and not to hold a funeral with great fanfare, at that time many people thought that this was Cao Cao's way to avoid the revenge of his enemies, a kind of political show, in fact, he had already buried a large number of precious treasures in his own tomb.

Cao Cao's suspicious grave is seventy-two, and the world can see its shadow. Ah Pu deceived countless people during his lifetime, and he still does so after his death!

Throughout history, almost every generation of princes and generals has done their best to decorate their tombs after their deaths, delusionally thinking that they can enjoy the power and wealth of the yang world after going to the underworld. Among them, there are representative ones such as the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Qianlong, Cixi's Eastern Emperor Mausoleum, etc., but in fact it backfired. Instead of letting yourself sleep, you have attracted an endless stream of tomb robbers.

So what about Cao Cao's tomb in **?

1. The location of Cao Cao's tomb is in Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang County, Henan Province.

2. The archaeological excavation of the No. 2 cemetery in Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang County, Henan Province finally solved the mystery of the location of Cao Cao's tomb: after authoritative research, the owner of this Eastern Han Dynasty tomb is the famous Cao Cao, King Wu of Wei.

3. A total of 59 inscription tablets were unearthed in the tomb, including rectangular, gui-shaped, etc., and the inscriptions recorded the names and quantities of the burial items. Among them, 8 gui-shaped stone tablets are engraved with inscriptions such as "Gehu Euphorbia often used by King Wu of Wei" and "Gehu Dadao often used by King Wu of Wei".

4. On a stone pillow that was stolen from the tomb and recovered, there is an inscription "The Comfort Stone Often Used by King Wu of Wei". These materials provide an important and direct historical basis for determining the identity of the tomb owner.

5. In the cleaning of the tomb, some bones such as human skulls and limb bones were found, and experts preliminarily identified three individuals, one man and two women, among which the owner of the tomb was a man and was about 60 years old, which coincided with Cao Cao's death year of 66 years old. After research, it was determined that this Eastern Han Dynasty tomb was the tomb of Cao Cao, King Wu of Wei, recorded in the literature.

6. The discovery of Cao Cao's tomb confirms that the location of Cao Cao's tomb, Cao Cao's nickname, and the thin burial system he advocated are conclusive and reliable information in the literature.

Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang City, Henan Province. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit, and it is a large brick chamber tomb with many burial chambers. Cao Cao's tomb is located in the Cao Cao Wang's capital Ye 12 kilometers west of the north city, Cao Cao's high mausoleum plane is a zigzag, sitting west to east is a double-chamber brick tomb with a slope tomb road, the scale is large, the structure is complex, mainly composed of the front and back rooms of the tomb road and four side rooms.

The slope tomb road is long meters, wide meters, the deepest distance from the surface is about 15 meters, the tomb plane is slightly trapezoidal, the east side is 22 meters wide, the west side is 18 meters long, the tomb covers an area of more than 740 square meters. According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and other historical records, Cao Cao died in Luoyang in 220, and his coffin was buried in the hills west of the Ximen Leopard Temple in Yecheng (now southwest of Linzhang County, Hebei Province and the northern suburbs of Anyang City, Henan).

Cao Cao, a native of Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui), was an outstanding politician, military strategist, writer and poet in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. After Cao Cao's death, he was buried in Gaoling. Judging from the existing historical materials and archaeological discoveries, Cao Cao did not have a secret burial, let alone a suspicious tomb, but advocated that the funeral should be simple.

According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and other historical records, Cao Cao died in Luoyang in 220 AD, the coffin was transported to Yecheng, and buried in the hills west of the Ximen Leopard Temple in Yecheng. Hundreds of years later, the tomb of Cao Cao, whose tomb was simple, was lost in the old traces of history. After the Song Dynasty, Cao Cao was regarded as a traitorous male, and the unknown location of his tomb has also become a proof of his treachery.