'Guardians of wheat fields' draw crowds to Henan's Song Mausoleums
By Shi Baoyin and Qi Xin |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2026-06-12 19:06
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Crowds of tourists this summer have opted to visit the stone figures in the wheat fields at the Song Mausoleums in Gongyi, Henan province.
Aptly nicknamed "guardians of the wheat fields", the statues have found a modest popularity on social media. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian capitalized on the trend with a poetic post on the X platform accompanying a video of the wheat fields: "Harvesters move through waves of grain, while Song Dynasty imperial tomb statues, around 1,000 years old, stand in silence."
