Partial List of Cultural Relics Destroyed during the Cultural Revolution:
1. The main hall of Emperor Yan's Mausoleum was burned down, the tomb was excavated, and the bones were burned to ashes.
2. The cemetery of Cang Jie, the creator of Chinese characters, was destroyed and transformed into a "Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery".
3. Shanxi Shun帝陵was destroyed, and a loudspeaker was hung on the tomb.
4. In Zhejiang Shaoxing Kuaiji Mountain, Dayu Temple was demolished, the huge statue of Dayu was smashed, the head was cut off at the neck, and it was paraded through the streets on a cart.
5. One of the three sacred statues personally consecrated by Buddha Sakyamuni when he was alive, the eight-year-old life-sized statue, had its face destroyed.
6. Confucius' grave was leveled and excavated; the great stele of 'Great Accomplisher of Sage Teacher Wenxuan King' was smashed to pieces! The temple steles were smashed, and the clay statues in Confucius Temple were destroyed. The grave of Kong Lingyi, the seventy-sixth generation descendant of Confucius, was also excavated.
7. On the banks of He County Wu River, Xiang Yu's Overlord Temple, Yu Ji Temple, and Yu Ji's Tomb continued their incense offerings for two thousand years until today. After the "sweeping", the temples and tombs were all smashed into ruins. Visitors to the Overlord Temple after the Cultural Revolution only saw a stone lion half buried and half exposed on the ground.
8. In the storm that swept everything away, Huo Qubing's tomb also suffered misfortune. Not only were the incense candles and divination cylinders broken, but Huo Qubing's statue was also completely destroyed.
9. The Fragrance Pavilion in the Summer Palace was smashed, and the Buddha statue was destroyed.
10. Both the Wenchang Temple and the Chenggong Shrine of Wang Yangming, including the statue of Wang Yangming, were completely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
11. The newly appointed Party Secretary of Taiyuan City set three fires, the first of which was to destroy temples. Of the 190 temple relics in the city, except for a dozen or so that could be preserved, all were destroyed. By his order, more than a hundred relics were completely destroyed within a day. Upon hearing the news, the director of the Shanxi Provincial Museum rushed to Fanglin Temple and only managed to retrieve a bag of clay sculpture heads.