Hemei Lady Li Tomb

Built in 1759, this is the tomb of Li Suhui (李肅惠), a woman from Tong’an in Quanzhou, Fujian who came to Taiwan in the Kangxi era with her husband Yang Guochang (楊國暢). She was the mother of Yang Zhishen (楊志申), an early settler in Changhua who built several irrigation canals across the plains in the 1710s and 1720s and went on to lead one of the most powerful landowning families in central Taiwan. The headstone bears the posthumous title anren (安人), an for officials’ mothers, but the pair of stone pens (石筆) flanking the grave exceed what was permitted at that rank, hinting at the family’s wealth. It was designated a city monument in 2018.