Yangxiong tomb

Yangxiong tomb

Yang Xiong (53 B.C. - 18 A.D.) is Ziyun, Han nationality. Officials and scholars in the Western Han Dynasty. He was born in Chengdu (now Youai Town, Pixian County, Chengdu, Sichuan). Less studious, stuttering, well read, good at Fu. In his forties, he began to travel to Chang'an, the capital of China. He saw the call by writing, and played "sweet spring", "Hedong" and other Fu. When Emperor Cheng was in office, he was Huang menlang. Wang Mang was a doctor at that time, and he wrote to Tianlu Pavilion. Yang Xiong is the most famous Fu writer in the Western Han Dynasty after Sima Xiangru. The so-called "Xie Ma alone to find a story, the article Han shame Yang Xiong.". In Liu Yuxi's famous "humble chamber inscription", the xishuziyun in "xishuziyun Pavilion" is Yang Xiong. Yang Xiong once wrote "taixuan" and so on, regarding the metaphysics originated from Laozi's Tao as the highest category, and taking the metaphysics as the central thought when constructing the universe generation schema and exploring the development law of things. He is the inheritor and developer of Taoism in Han Dynasty, which is of great significance to later generations.

Yang Xiong, a famous litterateur, philosopher and linguist in the Han Dynasty, is also a great Confucian recognized by domestic scholars as well as Confucius and Mencius. Both Yang Xiong and Sima Xiangru are famous in Bashu for their Fu, and they still have a wide influence in Southeast Asia. Yang Xiong grew up in Pixian County. In Ziyun village, Youai Township, Pixian County today, there are relics of Yang Xiong's tomb for later generations. Yangxiong tomb (also known as "Ziyun tomb") is a round mound with hundreds of cypress trees planted on it. It has been listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province. In the vicinity of Yangxiong's tomb, there is also a relic of the "cloud Pavilion of xishuzi" highly praised by Liu Yuxi, a writer of the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Xiong's tomb is located in Youai Town, sanyuanchang, 11 kilometers southwest of Pixian city. The tomb is round, several meters high and 10 meters in diameter. It is sealed like a hill. The cemetery is open and surrounded by farmhouses and bamboo forests. Xu bamboo forest in front of the tomb is the former site of Ziyun Pavilion.

Address: Ziyun village, Youai Township, Pixian County, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.77627334811

Latitude: 30.835925401375

Tel: 028-69506639

Chinese PinYin : Yang Xiong Mu