The Yang Mausoleum
The Yang Mausoleum (阳陵) is in the northern plain of Xianyang (咸阳). It is the mausoleum of Han Jing-Emperor (汉景帝). Han Jing-Emperor was the fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and he was reigning from 156 B.C. to 141 B.C.. As the former three emperors of the Han Empire, Han Jing-Emperor kept loose policies for recovering population, economy and national strength, which were seriously reduced in the wars since the end of the Qin Dynasty. At his times, the Han Empire accumulated abundant wealth, and recovered from the ravages of wars. However, this emperor still treated the Huns with forbearing policies. The forbearing policies included: Keeping so-called "friendly marriage"(Giving royal women to the Huns); giving food, silk, cloth, gold and other treasures to the Huns; keeping passive defense and forbidding border-guard forces to pursue the Huns.
Near the Yang Mausoleum, there is the tomb of Empress Wang (王皇后, the wife of Han Jing-Emperor). Empress Wang was the mother of Han Wu-Emperor (汉武帝). She was first married with an ordinary man named Jin Wangsun (金王孙). One day her mother got a divination which said that her two daughters would be nobles. Then she peremptorily took her elder daughter back from the family of Jin Wangsun, and demanded Jin Wangsun to dissolve the marriage with her elder daughter, but Jin Wangsun angrily refused. In order to break off the relations of the young couple, the avaricious woman directly offered her elder daughter to the crown prince. Later, her younger daughter was offered to the crown prince, too. The crown prince loved her two daughters very much. Later, the crown prince ascended the throne, and he was Han Jing-Emperor. The elder daughter of the woman gave birth to one son and three daughters for Jing-Emperor. After defeating a strong rival, she became the empress of Jing-Emperor. Her son stopped the policies of tolerating the Huns, and started fierce wars to not only the Huns but also other foreign nations.
