The tomb of Duoziliang in Tang Dynasty is located on the south slope of Duoziliang Mountain, 37 kilometers northwest of Yanchi County, Wuzhong City, Ningxia. At present, * * * has unearthed six. The six tombs are all flat-bottomed stone tombs excavated along the mountain. The entrance to the tomb was cut in the cross section of the hill. The entrance to the small tomb is square in plane, with a flat top and straight walls and an arc-shaped corner. The wall surface is carved into triangle, trapezoid and other geometric figures with vertical chisel, horizontal chisel and oblique chisel. There are many niches, with coffin beds and unsealed upper parts, and some tombs are supported by prismatic columns. Now it is a county-level cultural relics protection unit.
Unearthed cultural relics include wooden barrels, colored glass balls, Shi Ding, epitaph, pottery, currency, Hu Xuanwu's tomb gate, etc. These cultural relics are collected in the autonomous region museum and the county museum respectively. The glass ball was designated as a national first-class cultural relic by the National Cultural Heritage Administration expert group. The most famous is the tomb gate of Hu Xuanwu, which was unearthed in Tomb No.6 and was designated as a national treasure. The single door of the tomb is 89 cm high, 43 cm wide and 5 cm thick, with a cylindrical door pivot up and down. Women are engraved on the left door leaf, and men are engraved on the right door leaf. Both of them wore round hats, tight robes with round necks and narrow sleeves, long soft boots on their feet, waving their arms and dancing. Each takes a circular carpet with a diameter of about 1 m as the stage, throwing it vertically and horizontally, turning like the wind and never leaving the carpet. This door is skillful in knife making, exquisite in craftsmanship, smooth in picture lines, vivid in characters' expressions, beautiful in posture and strong in realism, which is of great historical and artistic value.
According to extensive epitaphs, the owner of the tomb was a Yue family in Daxia, surnamed He and one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, who died in 700 AD. The epitaph shows that it was once the jurisdiction of Rulu County in Luzhou.
The special shape and burial customs of Liang and Tang tombs in Xunzi are extremely rare in Tang tombs in northwest China and even in the whole country. Its 0-inch stone door fan engraved with Hu Xuan dance patterns is designated as a national treasure, which not only reflects the superb carving skills of stone carvers in the Tang Dynasty, but also shows the real cultural and artistic life in the Tang Dynasty. It is an extremely precious material for studying the culture and art of the Tang Dynasty and even the whole ancient China.
The significance of the excavation of this group of Tang tombs lies in the study of the tomb shape and burial customs, as well as the textual research on the tomb age, owner clan and related place names in Tang Dynasty, which reflects the migration and integration of ancient Chinese nationalities. The excavation of Liao Ziliang's Tang tomb confirmed the migration and settlement of Turks in Yanchi area of Ningxia, which is of great reference to the study of historical geography of Tang Dynasty and local history of Ningxia. At the same time, the changes in the ecological environment around the tombs in Liangtang, Caiziliang are of great practical significance to remind people to further strengthen environmental protection.