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首丘
shǒu​qiū

to be buried in one's homeland

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首丘 shǒu​qiū
to be buried in one's homeland
(literary) to have one's head facing home at death; to be buried in one's hometown. Based on the legend that a dying fox always turns its head toward the hillock where it was born.