Introduction to Sima Qian’s tomb: Behind the Sima Ancestral Hall is Sima Qian’s tomb. Northern Wei Dynasty geographer Li Daoyuan described what he saw and heard during his inspection of Sima Qian's tomb in "Shui Jing Zhu". The book records: "There is a temple in front of the tomb, and there is a stele in front of the temple. In the fourth year of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty, Yin, the prefect of Hanyang, Ji paid homage to the relics and showed great public morality, so he built a stone chamber and erected a cypress monument. "
There is an ancient cypress on the top of the tomb, which is divided into five branches. It is known as "Five Sons Dengke". The planting of cypress in the cemetery is to hope that the spirits of the deceased will be as eternal as the cypress trees; the reputation of "five sons to pass the imperial examination" is to hope that future generations will win the first prize in the exam and have more talents.