Tomb of Emperor Daoguang of China (Abandoned)

The Daoguang Emperor (16 September 1782 – 25 February 1850) was the eighth emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1820 to 1850.

His reign was marked by "external disaster and internal rebellion," that is, by the First Opium War, and the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion which nearly brought down the dynasty.

The historian Jonathan Spence characterizes Daoguang as a “well meaning but ineffective man," who promoted officials who "presented a purist view even if they had nothing to say about the domestic and foreign problems surrounding the dynasty."

Originally he should find his last resting place here but instead he was interred in the Muling Mausoleum, which is part of the Western Qing Tombs, 120 kilometers/75 miles southwest of Beijing.