After reading Kang Youwei's cemetery, look at Liang Qichao's cemetery. Master and apprentice are worlds apart!
Kang Youwei's tomb is the graveyard of Kang Youwei, a famous politician, thinker and reformist leader in modern China. It is located on the Fushan Mountain in Laoshan District, Qingdao, Shandong Province. The original site of Kang Youwei's tomb is overgrown with weeds.
the path in front of Kang Youwei's tomb. During the period of "Breaking the Four Old Houses", Kang Youwei's tomb was dug up, and his skull was put in a dump cart, and he was pushed around the street for public display. A label was attached to his head, which read: "The dog head of Kang Youwei, the largest royalist in China".
The inscription "The Tomb of Mr. Kang Youwei" was written by Liu Haisu, a disciple of Kang Youwei and a master artist. After the inscription is a brief introduction of Kang Youwei's life.
kang Youwei's tomb.
The tomb of disciple Liang Qichao is located in the ginkgo, pine and cypress area northeast of the East Ring Road of Beijing Botanical Garden, with a total area of 1.8 hectares, which is divided into east and west parts. The eastern part is the cemetery, and the western part is the attached forest land.
Different from ordinary tombstones, the fonts of these characters engraved on Liang Qichao's tombstones are not the common Song style or handwritten calligraphy style, but a kind of square artistic characters, which are very consistent with the shape of the whole tomb in style and obviously designed intentionally.
On the west side, there is a beautiful small white octagonal stone pavilion, surrounded by caves, a platform built around it, and a dome carved with petals.
The tombstone is very wide and tall, and it is engraved with the words "The tomb of Mrs. Li Taitai, the first official and the first wife".
The whole cemetery is a dense cypress forest, and there are several cemeteries in the forest, including the tomb of Liang Qixiong, the seventh brother of Liang Qichao, the tomb of Liang Sizhong, the third son of Liang Qichao, and the tomb of Liang Sizhuang, the daughter of Liang Qichao.