Guanling Mausoleum, Archaeological cemetery at Dangyang, China

Guanling Mausoleum is the burial site of Guan Yu's body in Dangyang, Hubei. Its five courtyards and four halls follow a central axis from the stone archway and huabiao columns through the horse hall, worship hall, main hall and rear hall to a circular earthen mound 7 meters high, topped by old trees and faced by a Ming stele reading "Tomb of the Marquis of Hanshou".

Guanling was first built at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty as the Dawang Tomb, the burial place of Guan Yu's body; Sun Quan is said to have buried the body with honours befitting a feudal lord. In 221, during Liu Bei's campaign against Wu, he came here to pay respects and founded a Guan Yu shrine on Yuquan Mountain. Southern Song times brought a walled enclosure and extensive planting of pines and cypresses; under the Ming the site was enlarged and took the name Guanling.

The mausoleum is one of the main sites where General Guan Yu is venerated, a figure worshipped in Chinese folk religion as a god of war and righteousness. Visitors can see incense and offerings left by worshippers in the temple areas, showing that the place is still actively used for devotion today.

The site is located north of Dangyang city and can be reached on foot or by car without difficulty. A morning visit tends to be quieter, making it easier to walk through both the temple and burial areas at a comfortable pace.

The sources disagree on where Guan Yu's head lies: tradition holds it is at Guanlin in Luoyang, but the historian Tian Fusheng argued the tomb at Guanzhuang village is the real burial place, and that Guanlin was only a shrine built in the Wanli era. The body itself was buried here by Sun Quan with the honours of a feudal lord.