The Tomb of Feng Yuxiang is located at the foot of Mount Tai on the western side in Tai’an City, Shandong Province.
Feng Yuxiang was born in Chaoxian County, Anhui Province. Climbing the ranks, he held posts as commander of the sixth Mixed Brigade of the Northern Seas Army, commander of the 11th Division, military governor of Shaanxi and Henan Province and Army inspector who opposed Yuan Shikai’s self-proclamation as emperor, as well as Zhang Xun’s restoration of the dethroned monarch.
During the second war between the warlords of the southwestern and governmental sects in 1924, Feng mounted the Beijing Coup where the leader of the governmental sect, Cao Kun, was imprisoned and formed the national Army as commander-in-chief and commander of the first Army. He also expelled the dethroned emperor of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Puyi, from the Forbidden City. In 1926, Feng joined the KMT and dispatched troops to Henan Province, while coordinating efforts with the Northern Expedition Army. Since 1928, he mobilized troops against Chiang Kaishek, launching the Chiang-feng and the Central Plains wars successively. Following the September 18th Incident, Feng advocated vigorously for resistance against the Japanese aggression, and objected to Chiang Kai-shek’s “Non-resistance Policy.” In 1933, cooperating with the CPC, Feng started Anti-Japanese Civilians’ Allies in Zhangjiakou and recovered large areas of lost territories. He was defeated, however, under the combined attacks of the KMT and the Japanese.
Feng held important positions in succession in the KMT government. After the victory over the Japanese, he continued to maintain to cooperate with the CPC for peace and democracy, opposing civil wars and dictatorships. Feng also initiated the China KMT Revolutionary Committee and, in September 1948, on his way home after studying water conservancy abroad in 1946, Feng was killed onboard a ship that caught fire on the Black Sea. In October 1953, Feng’s tomb was moved to Mount Tai in compliance with his last wish.
The Tomb of Feng Yuxiang was made of the granite from Mount Tai and faces the west, opposite Dazong Bridge (Bridge for All People), which Feng suggested be built when he lived on Mount Tai from 1932 to 1935. On the front of the tomb is Feng’s inlaid bronze bust containing seven Chinese characters: Fen Yu Xiang Xian Sheng Zhi Mu (the tomb of Mr. Feng Yuxiang) by Guo Moruo, and a poem by himself entitled I .
(Source: chinaculture.org)
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