Western Xia Mausoleum 4 (Anling)

38.4367°N, 105.9667°E.

The Anling Mausoleum (Mausoleum 4) of the Western Xia, in the Helan Mountains imperial cemetery, Ningxia, China — the tomb of Emperor Yizong (Li Liangzuo, r. 1048–1067), son of the founding emperor Li Yuanhao and second ruler of the Western Xia dynasty. Original base approximately 100 metres per side; original height around 23 metres. The octagonal rammed-earth mound follows the Tailing template with double enclosure walls, a rear funerary palace, and a spirit way once lined with carved stone statues — most of the latter were destroyed in the Mongol annihilation of the dynasty in 1227. Li Liangzuo was placed on the throne at the age of one after his father's assassination, ruled under the regency of his mother Empress Mochang for sixteen years, and assumed personal rule in 1061 only to die six years later at twenty-one. His reign saw the consolidation of the Western Xia bureaucracy and the further development of the Tangut script.

A pyramid for a child emperor placed on the throne at one and dead at twenty-one, in the cemetery his mother controlled longer than he did.