County-level city · Shaanxi

Xingping 兴平市

Xingping (兴平市) contains Maoling (茂陵), the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che (汉武帝刘彻). Construction began in 139 BCE and continued until his burial in 87 BCE.

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Representative view in Xingping · 兴平市代表景观：兴平 御井文保碑
Representative view in Xingping · 兴平市代表景观。Source photograph / 原照片：兴平 御井文保碑. · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Administrative area
County-level city · 县级市
Part of
Xianyang
Chinese name
兴平市
Local areas
County-level city guide

Area & population

Area in the source
496.00 km²
Population · 2018
556,088

Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.

Companion tombs and stone sculpture

The tomb stands south of Ce Village (策村) in Nanwei Town (南位镇). Maoling is surrounded by companion burials, including those of Wei Qing (卫青), Huo Qubing (霍去病) and Huo Guang (霍光). Maoling Museum (茂陵博物馆) stands before Huo Qubing’s tomb and concentrates on Western Han history, with the mausoleum, the general’s burial and a group of large stone carvings as its central subjects.

A Confucian hall and local collections

Xingping Museum (兴平市博物馆) occupies the site of the Confucian temple’s Dacheng Hall (大成殿), founded in 1372. The south-facing hall is five bays wide and three deep. Its museum displays cover ancient local civilisation, bronze mirrors and Ming sculpture; collections also include a jade Laojun figure (老君) and bronze images of Guan Yu (关羽) and the City God (城隍).

Sources for this guide

汉武雄风 大美茂陵 · Xingping City Government

兴平市博物馆 · Xingping City Government

Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-26.

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Traditional tiled gate with a sign reading Maoling MuseumThe entrance gate of the Maoling Museum, Xingping, Xianyang · 咸阳兴平茂陵博物馆大门 Source-recorded photograph date: 2005-10.

Maoling Museum茂陵博物馆

The Maoling Museum (茂陵博物馆) stands in Nanwei Town in Xingping, Xianyang, Shaanxi, east of the Maoling mausoleum of Emperor Wu of Han and inside the tomb precinct of the general Huo Qubing. It is a Western Han period museum built around Maoling, Huo Qubing's tomb and the large group of stone sculptures there.

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Sources & geographic information

Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.

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