Song Shao Di Mu, Tomb of the Last Song Emperor

This is a longer version of an article that was originally published on April 19, 2010, in the Shenzhen Daily. I have added to it from another of my pages here on jamesbaquet.com. I last visited the site in 2013, and it was substantially as described here.

The tomb of Song Shao, last of the Song emperors. The peculiar shape of the tomb is meant
to emulate a woman's legs; the placing of ashes in the door simulates a return to the womb.

Shenzhen is a newly-developed city, but if you look closely, you can still find some history.

Case in point: Song Shao Di Mu, the tomb of Song Shao (also called Song Di Bing or Zhao Bing), last emperor of China's Southern Song Dynasty, who died in the Pearl River Delta in 1279 and whose body, it is said, washed up on the shores of Shenzhen.