Cai Yong's tomb is located in the north of Xiazhuang Natural Village, Xi'an Village, Dong'an Community, Huangli Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Cai Yong's incident was recorded in the first chronicle of Changzhou in the fourth year of Xianchun (1270) in the Song Dynasty. "Adjacent Chronicles" records: "In the Han Dynasty, the tomb of Cai Bozhe was in Hu Village, Shangyi Township, with a large tomb. According to this biography, Yong Zeng lived in Wuzhong for 20 years. He was later buried here after his death." According to the elderly people in the local area, Cai Yong's tomb was very tall before liberation, covering an area of ??one or two acres, and was seven or eight meters high, at least five or six meters high. It was only during the War of Liberation that the Kuomintang troops built trenches and took out soil to level the area, and later during the Cultural Revolution it was leveled some more. In the 1980s, local farmers leveled it some more to build houses. As for those neat bricks, of course they were taken away to make the foundation. According to on-site visual inspection, the foundation of this building is now significantly higher than the foundations of surrounding houses. Local farmers passed it down by word of mouth and all recognized the story of Cai Yong's tomb. So are there any written records? Through the visit, we actually discovered that there is indeed a record of Cai Yong's tomb in the family tree of a family named Wan. And there are relatively detailed records. This family tree was established in 1948. It seems that the existence of Cai Yong's tomb is certain.
In addition, in Liyang, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, dozens of miles away from Huangli Dong'an, there are legends about Cai Yong's reading desk and Cai Yong's Jiaowei Qin.
There is a mound in the north of Xi'an Village, Xi'an Village, Dong'an Community, Huangli Town. For more than a thousand years, people have said it was Bo Jiedun. According to "Guangyu Ji", there is the tomb of Cai Yong in Hu Village (street) in Wujin. Cai Yong (132-192), courtesy name Bojie, was born in Qixian County, Henan Province. He was a great writer, calligrapher and musician in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the emperor's reign, he paid homage to Yilang. During Dong Zhuo's reign, he was the general of Zuo Zhonglang, and he had a high reputation in the world. According to villagers, in the early years of the Republic of China, Bo Jiedun was more than two feet high and as large as an acre. Later generations of the Cai family often came to pay homage to it. Because the pier is next to the village, it is convenient for the villagers to collect soil. Occasionally, they hoeed several neat bluestone slabs of the same shape (two feet long, two feet wide, and three inches thick), and wanted to move them home. The elders saw it and urged it to be covered to preserve the beauty of the ancient tomb. During the "Cultural Revolution", the local production team leveled part of the land as a community site, and several new houses were built on the west and north sides of the pier. As a result, the foundation of the pier was reduced, and the height of the pier was only two meters. Later, because the villagers built new houses, the pier is now invisible. The water of Gehu Lake is vast and its blue waves are thousands of hectares. In Xiazhuang Natural Village, Xi'an Village, Dong'an Community, Huangli Town, Wujin District, on the lakeside, Cai Yong, a great writer, calligrapher and musician of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was buried silently here. Cai Yong, a native of Qixian County, Henan Province, in the kingdom of poetry and music, he held a high position and ruled from the south. However, his life experience was too tragic. Because of his expertise in writing and learning, he is talented. At that time, in order to usurp the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, who was powerful in both the government and the public, tried every means to force Cai Yong to become his staff. He even promoted Cai Yong three times in one day, to General Zuo Zhonglang. Later, in order to protect the Han Dynasty, Wang Yun used a series of beauty traps to protect the Han Dynasty. , first promised Diaochan to Dong Zhuo, and then to Lu Bu, which caused Dong and Lu to fight internally and killed Dong Zhuo. It stands to reason that Cai Yong can now take off his shackles and resume his beloved career. However, it was precisely because of Cai Yong's outstanding talent that Wang Yun was jealous. Wang Yun had Cai Yong imprisoned on the pretext of following Dong Zhuo and doing evil. It is said that he once told people in prison: He was born in Qixian and his whole life was full of worries. After his death, he was buried in the East and found peace. For this reason, he did not want to be buried in his hometown in Henan, where wars raged all year round, but he wanted to be buried on the shore of Gehu Lake, a place with beautiful scenery and little war. It is said that the name Dong'an came from this. The incident of Cai Yong was recorded in the first chronicle of Changzhou "Adjacent Chronicles" in the fourth year of Xianchun in the Song Dynasty (1270): "In the Han Dynasty, the tomb of Cai Bojie was in Hu Village, Shangyi Township, with a large tomb. According to this biography, Yong Zeng lived in Wuzhong for twenty years and was buried here after his death." It can be seen that Cai Yong was indeed buried in the Dong'an area of ??today's Huangli Town. Recently, the author went to Dong'an to look for Cai Yong's tomb on the spot. Wan Bingchu, an 83-year-old man from Xiazhuang Natural Village in Dong'an, said that Cai Yong's tomb is indeed in Xiazhuang. Under the guidance of the villagers, the author found Cai Yong's tomb next to the residence of the fifth villager group of Xiazhuang Natural Village. According to villagers, in the early years of the Republic of China, Cai Yong's tomb mound was more than two feet high and covered an area of ??one acre of land. Descendants of the Cai family were seen coming here to pay their respects.
During the "Cultural Revolution", the local production team leveled the land and leveled the soil of the tomb mound into a community yard. Now, houses have been built around the cemetery, and Cai Yong's tomb mound has been razed to the ground among them. The villagers recalled that when they were picking out the soil, they found many uniform bluestone slabs with the same shape. Later, it was discovered that it was a brick pit in the tomb, and there was a brick underground ditch next to the tomb passage. After more than 1,800 years, there are few relics left in the pit. Compared with the splendid and luxurious Tang and Han tombs, Cai Yong's tomb is too desolate and lonely. However, Cai Yong's humanities were deeply rooted in "Pi Ling Zhi". The "Book of the Later Han" written by the historian Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty also wrote the "Biography of Cai Yong". There are 29 parallel essays by Cai Yong. The "Jiaowei Qin" made by Cai Yong has been called one of the "Four Famous Qins in China" by later generations and has been famous throughout the ages. It is said that this Qin was made when he lived in Liyang, only a few dozen miles away from Dong'an.