Ming King Shu Tomb Museum
Ming-dynasty underground palace tomb of a princely dynasty, its coffin chamber carved with lotus motifs and Tibetan script.
This guide to the Ming King Shu Tomb Museum in Chengdu follows Zhu Youxun, a prince whose father and older brother both died before or soon after taking the Shu throne, leaving it to him almost as an afterthought in 1432. It traces his brief two-year reign, cut short in his mid-twenties by a wasting illness the old records call wind sickness, with no battles or scandal to mark his time. You'll descend into the underground chamber his family built for him, uncovered by archaeologists in 1979. Look up in the coffin chamber for the lotus carvings and Tibetan script never mentioned in his official biography.
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