Tomb of Zuo Zongtang

Tomb of Zuo Zongtang
Tomb of Zuo Zongtang
左宗棠墓
	Tomb of Zuo Zongtang.
General information
Location	Tiaoma Town, Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan
Country	China
Coordinates	28°05′53″N 113°05′56″E / 28.098161°N 113.099021°E
Completed	1886
Technical details
Material	Granite

The Tomb of Zuo Zongtang (Chinese: 左宗棠墓; pinyin: Zuǒ Zōngtáng Mù) is the tomb of Zuo Zongtang, a Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty. The tomb dates from 1886, and is located in Tiaoma Town of Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan, China.^[1]^[2] It has been categorized as a provincial level key cultural heritage in 1996 by the Hunan Provincial Government.

History

The tomb was built for Zuo Zongtang, who was a statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty. The tomb is located in Tiaoma Town of Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan. When Zuo Zongtang died in 1885 in Fuzhou, Fujian, he was buried in here in the following year.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards blasted open an entrance way and entered the tomb, Zuo Zongtang's body was dumped in the wild.^{[citation needed]}

In 1986, during the 100th anniversary of Zuo Zongtang's death, Hunan Provincial Government rebuilt the tomb.

In January 1996, it has been designated as a provincial key cultural unit.