Read Kang Youwei’s Cemetery and see Liang Qichao’s Cemetery. There is a world of difference between master and disciple!
Kang Youwei’s Tomb is the tomb of Kang Youwei, a famous politician, thinker and reformer in modern China. It is located on Fushan Mountain in Laoshan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province. The tomb at Kang Youwei's former site is overgrown with weeds.
Kang Youwei’s grave in front of Xiaodao. During the Destruction of the Four Olds, Kang Youwei's grave was dug up and his skull was placed in a dump truck and wheeled through the streets for public display. A label was affixed to his head, which read: The dog head of Kang Youwei, the largest royalist sect in China.
The teacher on Kang Youwei's epitaph was written by Liu Haisu, a disciple of the art master Kang Youwei. After the epitaph is a brief introduction to Kang Youwei's life.
Kang Youwei’s grave.
The tomb of Liang Qichao’s apprentice is located in the Ginkgo Pine and Cypress Area northeast of the East Ring Road of the Beijing Botanical Garden. The total area of the cemetery is 1.8 hectares, divided into east and west parts. To the east is the cemetery and to the west is attached woodland.
Different from ordinary tombstones, the fonts of these words engraved on Liang Qichao's tombstone are not the common Song style or handwritten calligraphy, but a square artistic font. The style is very consistent with the shape of the entire tomb, which is obviously Deliberately designed.
There is a beautiful white octagonal pavilion on the west side, surrounded by a portal, a platform and a dome carved with petals.
The tombstone is very wide and very tall, with the inscription on it is the first person to take the civil service examination.
The entire cemetery is a dense cypress forest, and there are several cemeteries in the forest, including the tomb of Liang Qichao's seventh brother Liang Qixiong, the tomb of Liang Qichao's third son Liang Sizhong, and the tomb of Liang Qichao's daughter Liang Sizhuang.