Also known as Wodusi Tomb. It is located on the south side of Tian (Chang) Yang (Zhou) highway at Qiuwan Bay outside the east gate of Tianchang. Wogong is Wo Tian, a native of Dengzhou, Shandong Province. In 1546, the 25th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, he was a martial arts Jinshi. He served as the deputy commander in chief of Zhejiang Province and the garrison of Yizheng. In 1553, Japanese pirates invaded Yangzhou and pressed on Tianchang. Wo led troops to meet the enemy and defeated the enemy about six miles east of the city. Tianchang was thus preserved. When Wo was in pursuit of the Japanese pirates, unfortunately, his horse got stuck in the marsh and he was killed. He was posthumously awarded the title of General Zhenyuan and governor of all affairs. The people remembered his merits and virtues and built a tomb and a shrine. There are many steles in front of the tomb. One of the existing steles was erected by the Tianchang County Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association in 1932. The inscription on the stele reads: ‘The tomb of Wo Tian, the deputy commander in chief who was posthumously awarded the title of General Zhenyuan and died in the battle against Japanese pirates.’ The Han tomb group at Sanjiaowei has a total of 25 tombs that have been cleared. Except for one tomb dating back to the late Warring States Period, the rest are all from the early and middle Western Han Dynasty. These tombs are concentrated within an area of about 1,000 square meters, 2.5 to 3 meters deep from the surface. There are two types of burials: single burial and double burial. All are rectangular vertical earthen pit tombs. Coffins and sarcophagi are used as burial objects. They vary in size and shape and are mostly in the north-south direction. There are many kinds of unearthed cultural relics, including bronze ware, iron ware, lacquer ware, wooden ware, jade ware, pottery, agate, colored glaze, silver ware, horn ware, etc., totaling 748 pieces. The main tomb, Tomb No. 1, is 4.8 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. It is a joint burial tomb for a couple. There are more than 380 funerary objects. Five seals of four materials, jade, silver, copper, and wood, were unearthed in the tomb. The tomb owner, Huan Ping, was a palace attendant of Guangling King in the Western Han Dynasty. A wooden lacquer seal was unearthed in Tomb No. 19. According to the surname Huan in the two tombs and the inscriptions such as ‘Huan Le’, ‘Huan An’, and ‘Da Huan’ on many lacquer wares, it is inferred that the Han tomb group at Sanjiaowei is the tomb group of the Huan family.
Wogong Tomb
Also known as Wodusi Tomb. It is located on the south side of Tian (Chang) Yang (Zhou) highway at Qi[...]
