Tu-character Stone Tablet

The Tu-character Stone Tablet stands on China’s border with Russia. It was built in 1886 when the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) remarked its border with Russia. Before China lost its territory east of the Wusuli River to Russia in 1860, a result of the China-Russia Convention of Peking, Hunchun was a coastal area to the Japan Sea.

This former boundary tablet should be 10 kilometers away from the mouth of Tumen River according to the Convention of Peking. But the greedy Russians put it 23 km away from the river mouth. Wu Dacheng, an imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty emperor came to resettle the border issue, and moved the tablet to the current place, and regained China’s rights of going to the sea by the Tumen River. Currently, the tablet is no longer a boundary marker, but national first-class cultural relics, and a provincial-level patriotism and national-defense education base.