Gongzhufen – The Princess Tombs (公主坟)

Peking · China · Cemetery · Grusel 2/5

Beneath one of Beijing's busiest interchanges lay the tombs of two princesses – sisters who died in the same spring, and a legend of a false princess.

The Gongzhufen interchange, 'Princess Tomb', takes its name from what lay beneath it: the graves of the Jiaqing Emperor's daughters Zhuangjing and Zhuangjing Gulun, who died two months apart in the spring of 1811, aged only 31 and 28, and were buried side by side outside Fuxingmen. Popular imagination never settled for the truth. For generations it was told instead that a Han Chinese 'false princess' rested here – in some versions the general's daughter Kong Sizhen, in others a poor girl adopted by the Qianlong Emperor – a tale that later inspired the television hit 'Princess Pearl'. When metro Line 1 was cut through in 1965, archaeologists opened the tombs, lifted out swords, silks and jewels, and had the remains removed. Today traffic roars around the clock above the spot where two sisters were meant to lie in eternal rest – and the name refuses to die.

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Gongzhufen – The Princess Tombs (公主坟) liegt in Peking, China.