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The Mausoleum of Emperor Guangwudi of the Han Dynasty
Located in Baihe Township, Mengjin County 20 kilometers north of Luoyang, the mausoleum was built for Emperor Liu Xiu, the first Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It consists of the mausoleum yard and a memorial monastery covering an area of 66,000 square meters. The mausoleum lies in the middle of the yard, 290 meters high and 50 meters in perimeter. Besides, there are five tablets inscribed respectively in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Sui-Tang period. As the cypress smell of apricot, so they are called apricot-cypresses, which are the only trees of its kind existing in China today.
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