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
.