Hot water tombs located in west China's qinghai province county township hot water heat ditch of the west bank, is a tang dynasty (618-907) tomb group of sites.

Tombs distributed in hot water, hot water, zama, pond blanchard, leant about 7 km long in four village area, including various types of tombs 165, most of which have been excavating. 1982 ~ 1986, the archaeological institute of qinghai province to explore collation. Inside the tomb, tombs mainly divided into trapezoidal and round two. Tomb was built with rammed earth or gravel with back cover with rammed earth, tamping layer covered by clay between branches. Rammed earth below as the stone walls of the isosceles trapezoid with a flat, the edge QiYou adobe or mud ball, and coated with red on the outside of the powder. Tomb in stone masonry, the pyramid-shaped mound, in the room, or so after muscle and room. Tombs are the pyramid-shaped, before the pyramid-shaped mound and huge sacrificial pit, pit excavated a wooden, wooden dozen, silks, glassware, treasure, such as relics, part of the collection of shape and design with rich artistic style in central Asia.

 

Hot water tombs found, for the study of the western region of China in the tang dynasty tomb shape of cultural exchange as well as local and central Asia and so on, is of great significance. (state administration of cultural heritage)

 

Hot water but as the national key cultural relics protection unit.