北宋建国的第三年(公元963年),宋太祖赵匡胤就将皇陵选在巩县。在北宋王朝执政的167年间,先后有8个皇帝和1个皇帝的衣冠冢,加上赵匡胤的父亲宣祖赵弘殷的陵墓,统称“八帝十陵”,保存最完整的是“七帝八陵”。另外祔葬的皇后陵21座、亲王子孙公主坟1000多座、勋臣名将墓9座,现存地面石刻造像在千件左右,分布在30平方公里的陵区内。形成庞大的北宋皇陵群。其中徽 The third year of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 963), Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin selected the royal tombs in Gong County. During the 167 years of the Northern Song dynasty, there were 8 tombs of emperors and 1 emperor, plus the tombs of Zhao Hongyan of Xuan Zu, the father of Zhao Kuangyin, collectively referred to as the “Eight Mausoleums and Ten Mausoleums.” The most complete preservation is the “Seven Mausoleums and Eight Mausoleums” . In addition, there are 21 tombs of the Mausoleum of the burial mound, more than 1,000 princesses and grandsons of princes and grandsons, and 9 tombs of celebrities. There are thousands of pieces of stone sculptures on the ground, which are distributed in the tomb area of ​​30 square kilometers. Formation of a huge Northern Song Dynasty imperial graves. One of the emblem