Tombs near Dongqian Lake, Ancient burial site at Dongqian Lake, Ningbo, China

Tombs near Dongqian Lake is the collective name for ancient tomb passages along the shores of Dongqian Lake in Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang. The Southern Song examples, chiefly the Shi family passages for Shi Zhao, Shi Jian and Shi Miyuan, form China's only surviving Southern Song tomb-sculpture group, with nearly 140 Southern Song pieces and over 40 Yuan and Ming pieces. Carved stone figures of civil officials and generals, horses, tigers, drums and stone pillars line processional ways laid out by geomantic rules and royal ritual order.

The burial grounds developed over multiple dynasties, with major tombs from the Southern Song period showing how burial practices evolved. The site gained national protection status because it preserves a layered record of human settlement at this location across different eras.

The stone figures at the Shi family tombs follow the layout of a royal burial: a spirit gate, stone columns, drums, tigers, horses, and civil and military officials line the processional way. The carving combines realistic detail with expressive line, and the same official figures were copied and sent to Florence in 2008.

The tombs lie along the shores of Dongqian Lake in Yinzhou District, Ningbo, with the Shi family processions and Yu Youding's tomb among the six sites listed in 2001. The stone figures stand in rows along the spirit paths, so look for the civil officials and military officers, stone horses, tigers and drums in sequence. The Maojia site in Guangxi village, Yinjiang, identified in 2010 as the quarry for these carvings, lies away from the lake.

In 2008, replicas of the site's civil and military official statues were given to Florence, Italy, as a return gift for the replica of Michelangelo's David that Florence had sent in 2007. The Florentine city government chose the statues, but differences in taste caused some controversy there. On 21 February 2009 the pair was installed at Villa Vogel.