After Guo Moruo died, he did not have a cemetery, the ashes were sprinkled in a large field of a people's commune. Guo Moruo on his deathbed, left a will: "After I die, do not keep the ashes, sprinkle my ashes to the Dazhai, fertilize the field." In order to fulfill Guo Moruo's last wish, his ashes were scattered to a field in Dazhai People's Commune in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province.
It is said to be because Guo Moruo once came to Xiyang County to visit the area, and was infected by the spirit of the Dazhai peasants' hard work, and had been y moved. After his visit, Guo Moruo wrote many poems to praise the land. The local people in Xiyang County also built a monument to Guo Moruo, which reads, "Comrade Guo Moruo will be immortalized forever." Because of Guo Moruo, today's Xiyang County has also become a tourist attraction, and many people come here just to see Guo Moruo.
Fertilizing the fields with his ashes after his death may have been a transcendent idea for the Romantic poet. He was free and uninhibited, and had his own pursuit of ideal beliefs, so perhaps after his death, he wanted to be one with this land that he loved so much, and he expected to be free from constraints and aspired to be free even after his death. And Guo Moruo himself is obsessed with archaeologists, he may feel that the mausoleum will be excavated, stolen, unsafe; and in his lifetime there are many archaeological blunders, Guo Moruo's this enthusiasm, in the excavation of the Dingling mausoleum to be released, but the excavation, but caused the biggest tragedy in the history of China's archaeology, thousands of cultural relics have been destroyed. In addition, he was not friendly with many people, other also have aspects of the wind is not good, may be worried about going after the mausoleum by people.