Emperor Wu's Mausoleum

Han Guangwu mausoleum, also known as Yuanling mausoleum and Han mausoleum, is the mausoleum of Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The cemetery is rectangular, with Mang Mountain in the South and the Yellow River in the north. It consists of two parts: the cemetery and the ancestral temple. The tomb is located in the middle of the cemetery. Located on the west side of the cemetery, Guangwu temple is the sacrificial Temple of Emperor Guangwu. It is composed of Que men, stele Gallery, twenty eight dormitory hall, Guangwu hall, etc., forming a row upon row of Han Dynasty architectural communities. The most distinctive feature of the mausoleum is the large number of thousand year old cypresses. There are 1458 plants in the mausoleum in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The thousand year old cypresses, which stretch from the ground to the sky, are solemn and solemn.

Emperor Wu's Mausoleum

The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, formerly known as the original mausoleum, is also known locally as "Han mausoleum", commonly known as "Liu Xiu tomb". It is the tomb where the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu and empress Guanglie Yin Lihua were buried together. It is located in Tiexie village, Baihe Town, Mengjin County, Henan Province.

In February 2020, in order to thank the medical staff for their dedication, the scenic area will be open to the public for free from the date of reopening to December 31, 2020, with medical workers' qualification certificates, nurses' qualification certificates and other relevant work certificates.

General situation

The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is located in Baihe Town, Mengjin County, 20 kilometers north of Luoyang City, Henan Province. The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was called Yuanling in ancient times, commonly known as Hanling, also known as Yuanling and Hanling. The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu (6-57 B.C.) and empress Guanglie Yin Lihua, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was built in 50 A.D. and consists of Shinto, Mausoleum and ancestral temple. The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu is close to Mang Mountain in the south, the Yellow River in the north, the mountain and the water in the north. The gate of the palace is towering and magnificent. The Shinto is broad and goes directly to the front of the mausoleum. There are many stone inscriptions and uneven steles on both sides. The cemetery is rectangular, covering an area of 66000 square meters. The tomb is located in the center of the cemetery. It is rammed earth mound shape, 17.83 meters high and 487 meters long.

Features

The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a rare mausoleum garden in China

Emperor's Mausoleum selection: a special case

The tombs chosen by emperors of all dynasties were built on the back of mountains and facing rivers, which symbolized their ambition to control all things with broad mind. The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu is an unconventional one.

There are only one thousand cypresses in one garden in China

In the mausoleum, there are 1458 cypresses planted in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are thousands of ancient cypresses in the mausoleum.

Cypress apricot quality, arbor good

Mausoleum Cupressus is a rare tree species in China. Its wood color is golden, hard and soft, cypress body is apricot fragrant, section color is beautiful, commonly known as "apricot cypress". Fourth, the Han mausoleum has a wonderful scenery. In the third spring of the year, around the Qingming Festival, when the sky is clear and the dawn is early, the purple smoke between the branches of the ancient cypresses fills the cemetery. It looks like light smoke, floating like floating clouds, gathering clouds of smoke, rolling and dropping. Being in the park, it's like climbing the sky and visiting the fairyland.

It's a long time ago

There are also some peculiar scenes such as "bitter love for (neem) cypress", "birdsong cypress" and "Han Emperor lying on his back". For thousands of years, Guangwu emperor mausoleum has been regarded as a marvelous and virtuous place for visitors, which has a high historical and scientific value for the study of Chinese emperor mausoleum. In 1963, it was announced as the first batch of provincial key cultural relics protection units by Henan Provincial People's Committee and the fifth batch of Chinese key cultural relics protection units by the State Council in June 2001.

A detailed introduction to tombs

Environmental characteristics

The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu is located in the north of the mausoleum, facing south, covering an area of more than 100 mu. It is rectangular and consists of three parts: ancestral temple, Abbot's courtyard and mausoleum. The tombs are covered with pines and cypresses. In front of the tombs, there is a domed stele engraved with "the mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu, the founder of Zhongxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty". From the mausoleum to the gate, there is a Shinto. On both sides of the Shinto, there are stone statues, stone horses and other stone carvings, as well as neat and verdant cypress trees. Today, apart from the tombs, it is a lush and beautiful cypress forest. Among them, there are 28 towering cypress trees, which the local people call "twenty-eight campuses". It is said that they are the "twenty-eight generals of Yuntai" who have made great achievements following Liu Xiu in the South and North battles.

Cypress is a wonder

The cypress trees in Liu Xiufen can be called a wonder. The whole cemetery is green with pines and cypresses. The thousand year old cypresses are all over the sky. They are green and luxuriant. Among them, "birdsong cypresses" and "bitter love cypresses" are unique among cypresses. There is a peculiar fragrance in the whole mausoleum, which is sent out by the green cypresses in the garden. If the rain is over and the sky is clear, the aftertaste is deeper. Where the wind is over, the fragrance of the ancient cypresses can be spread 10 miles away. Hanling ancient cypress is the only tree species in China. This cypress is firm and soft in quality, beautiful in section color and rich in fragrance. Because of its golden wood color, cypress body apricot yellow, also known as "blood cypress", for thousands of years known as strange. As a matter of fact, Liu Xiu advocated simple burial. At that time, the funeral instruments and accompanying objects were very simple. There was no grand hall at the beginning. The millennium old cypresses in the garden were also planted in the Sui and Tang Dynasties more than 500 years after his death. Liu Xiu is indeed worthy of being the king of Ming Dynasty.

Wonder

Another wonder of the original mausoleum is known as one of the "eight sceneries" of Mengjin County, namely "Xiaoyan of Han mausoleum". Before and after the Qingming Festival every year, when the clear air, the fine wind and the morning light appear, the cemetery is suddenly filled with purple air, like smoke and floating clouds. It moves slowly from west to East, gradually making the whole cemetery shrouded in misty clouds. At this time, from the gap between the branches and leaves of the ancient cypress, the air gushed out, up and down, rolling and falling. The whole cemetery has become a smoky world, with emerald cypresses, red walls, ancient steles, wooden tombs and fragrant night grass and flowers all looming like a fairyland. An ancient tourist once wrote "dawn smoke of Han mausoleum" and said: "the thunderstorm battle in Kunyang is still in full swing, and the soul of the red talisman returns to SuoYu letter. Today, looking back at the mausoleum, you can see his smoke trees are green." For thousands of years, there has been an interesting saying in the local area: when this scene appears, it will foretell a good harvest. Therefore, every spring and March, people close to the Han mausoleum in the morning, far away in the evening to listen, pray for the dawn smoke spectacle.

Guangwu Temple

Located on the west side of the cemetery, Guangwu temple is the sacrificial Temple of Emperor Guangwu. It is a new temple built in memory of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu. Construction started in September 1997. The whole building is a group building, covering an area of 3300 square meters and a construction area of 1250 square meters, with a total investment of more than 2.5 million yuan. It is composed of Guangwu hall, 28su exhibition hall, Mountain Gate, inverted seat, etc., forming a row upon row of Han Dynasty architectural community. Facing steep cliffs in the front and green mountains in the back, they are scattered high and low. After the completion of the temple, it will become another important cultural landscape in the mausoleum area. It is located at the foot of Mang Mountain and on the Bank of the Yellow River. It has a tendency of "riding on the river and riding on the mountain". It is a special example in the feudal history of 2000. It is still a mystery to what it means. Up to now, there are 1500 ancient cypresses of Sui and Tang Dynasties preserved in the garden. The huge outline of these cypresses has formed a clear and recognizable figure of human lying, commonly known as "Han Emperor lying on his back". When the dawn smoke appears in the Han mausoleum, the purple smoke curls in the mausoleum, just like a fairyland. When you clap your hands under the bird cypress, the cypress trees will emit "chirping" birdsong, which makes countless visitors feel magical.

Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty

Personage introduction

Emperor Guangwu, Liu Xiu (6 bc-57 BC), was born in Caiyang, Nanyang (now southwest of Zaoyang, Hubei Province), and the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty. In the last years of Wang Mang's peasant uprising, he set up troops in Chongling township of Nanyang County. Together with his elder brother Liu Yan, he joined the Lvlin uprising army and eliminated the main force of Wang Mang in the first Kunyang war. Later, it leveled off the separatist forces in Guandong, Longyou and Xishu, unified the whole country and became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with Luoyang as its capital. During his reign, he issued nine imperial edicts to release slaves, reduce taxes, build water conservancy, and streamline officials. From 25-57 A.D., he reigned for 32 years. Guangwu emperor Liu Xiu was the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He once served as Nandun Ling, the temple Title Shizu, and the posthumous title Guangwu. After the outbreak of the Chimei Greenwood uprising, in the third year of the Dihuang reign (A.D. 22), Liu Xiu and his elder brother, in order to restore the rule of Liu's family name, set up a "Chongling army" in Chongling (today's Zaoyang south, Hubei Province). In the fourth year of the emperor, Liu Xiu made great achievements in the battle of Kunyang. After Liu xuanqian, the reformer, moved his capital to Chang'an, Liu Xiu was sent to Hebei to appease him. The powerful landlords in Hebei led their clans, guests and children to Liu Xiu, which became the pillar of his founding.

Characters and deeds

Liu Xiu refused to listen to the change of regime. In the autumn of the same year, the peasant uprising army in Hebei area was broken down and incorporated, which expanded its strength. Therefore, Guanxi called Liu Xiu "tongmadi". Soon, it broke with the reformed regime. In June of the first year of Jianwu (A.D. 25), Liu Xiu, with the support of his ministers, became emperor in Yicheng (today's guchengdian town in Baixiang, Hebei Province). He rebuilt the Han regime and soon established his capital in Luoyang, which is known as the Eastern Han Dynasty in history. In the third year of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu defeated the red eyebrow peasant army and controlled the whole middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. In the sixth year, it unified Kanto and made the Dou Rong in Hexi subordinate to it. In the ninth and twelfth years of Jianwu, Tianshui and Bashu were pacified. After 12 years, Liu Xiu finally completed the cause of reunification.

Ascend the throne

Liu Xiuxiong was able to fight and defeat Wang Mang. Three years later, he became emperor in Hebei city in June 25. In October of the same year, Luoyang was established as the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to pacify the separatist forces, after 12 years of arduous civil war, the whole country was finally unified in AD 36. After he became emperor, he went back to his hometown Chongling five times to build gardens, temples, ancestral halls and old houses, to watch the fields, to hold banquets, to change Chongling Township into Zhangling County, and to exempt him from corvee. He was diligent and honest in administration, to help the poor, to attach importance to agriculture and education, to lay down martial arts and culture, and to govern the country by judo, which made rapid recovery and development of China's economy, thus making historical contributions to the prosperity and progress of the Chinese nation

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