The Yang Shan Stone - Emperor Yongle's ambitious plan for a monument taller than the Statue of Liberty. Workers who failed to meet quotas faced severe punishment including execution. The giant slab was ABANDONED - too heavy to transport! He settled for a 30-ft version instead 🏛️
Key facts:
- Ordered by Emperor Yongle in the early 15th century (early 1400s)
- Would have stood over 230 feet tall, taller than the Statue of Liberty
- Three parts: roughly 52 ft pedestal, 164 ft stone slab, plus crown
- Combined weight estimated at approximately 57,000 tons
- Workers failing daily quotas faced severe punishment including execution
Sources
Yangshan Quarry - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgThe quarry is famous for the gigantic unfinished stele that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor in the early 15th century. In scope and ...
The Stone Stele of Yangshan Quarry | Amusing Planetamusingplanet.comThe dimensions he ordered to his court engineers were astounding—the base was to be 16 meter tall and 30 meter long on its side, the body was 50 ...
A Relic of Imperial Aspirations - The New York Timesnytimes.comThe Emperor Yongle, who ruled in the early 15th century, wanted to have the grandest monument imaginable for the tomb of his father, the founder ...
Yangshan Stele Quarry_Baiduwikibaike.baidu.comThis project, personally decreed by the emperor, mobilizing massive manpower and resources on a grand scale, exhausting the people and draining the treasury, ...
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