East Cemetery situated at the foot of Mt Chanrui

East Cemetery situated at the foot of Mt Chanrui, west of Malanyu, Zunhua City, Hebei Province, 125km from Beijing in the west, and 150km from Tianjin in the south. It is the largest of the three, surrounded by scenery hills around, 125km long from south to north, and 20km wide from west to east, occupying totally 2,500km2.
Altogether 15 mausoleums were built here, 5 of emperors, 4 of empresses, 5 of concubines, and the one for a princess east of Malanyu. Their placement observed the principles: the emperor’s as the center, the empresses’ and the concubines at the side in order of their ranks, 161 tombs in total.
East Cemetery is the largest of the existing imperial graveyards in China, harmonious and integrated with the natural environment to provide a beautiful scene for the world. But the most grandiose two, Yu Mausoleum and East Ding Mausoleum, were blasted open and seriously damaged by troops of warlord Sun Dian-ying in 1928.