Cai Wenji Memorial

Cai Wenji Memorial

Cai Wenji memorial hall, located in Caiwang village, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, is built on Cai Wenji's tomb. In August 1957, it was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level by the provincial government.

There is an exhibition of CAI Wenji's life in the museum, which introduces Cai Wenji's life story and social customs in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. There are also "Lantian cultural relics exhibition" and the famous modern calligrapher Shudan's "Hujia 18 Pai" stone carvings.

essential information

Cai Wenji's tomb is located about 100 meters northwest of caiwangzhuang village, Sanli Town, Lantian County, Southeast of Xi'an city. It is about 8 meters high and lush. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Shaanxi Province.

In the 1990s, a Wenji memorial hall was built in Lantian County to display Wenji's anecdotes and cultural relics unearthed in the territory. The tomb and village name were engraved on 18 pieces of blue marble with four body calligraphy. It has been handed down to local people for thousands of years.

Cai Wenji memorial has collected more than 130 cultural relics about CAI Wenji, including 50 precious cultural relics above the third level of the state. A considerable number of cultural relics were unearthed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a dynasty with important influence in Chinese history, which has formed the characteristics of high-level cultural relics, strong representation and wide influence. More than 80 pieces of high-quality cultural relics were exhibited for the first time.

Tour

Address: caiwangzhuang village, Sanli Town, Lantian County, Southeast of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

Admission: Free

Personage introduction

First married Wei family

Cai Yan (about 177-223), namely Cai Wenji, is a famous zither player in the late Han Dynasty. According to historical records, she is "erudite and talented, and is good at melody." His father Cai Yong is a close friend of Cao Cao. Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao when she was 16 years old. The Wei family was a Hedong family at that time, and Wei Zhongdao was an outstanding college student. The couple were very kind to each other, but the good time was not long. Within a year, Wei Zhongdao died of hemoptysis. Cai Wenji never gave birth to a son and a half. The Wei family thought she had killed her husband. Cai Wenji, who was arrogant at that time, went back to her mother's home despite her father's opposition.

The plundered Xiongnu

Later, her father died in prison, and Wenji was taken away by Xiongnu. She was only 23 years old that year. She was taken as Princess by Zuoxian king. She lived in Xiongnu for 12 years and had two sons. During this time, she also learned to play "Hujia" and some foreign languages. In the 13th year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao remembered his good friend Cai Yong's friendship and learned that Wenji had been exiled to the southern Xiongnu. He immediately sent Zhou Jin as an emissary, carrying a pair of gold and a pair of white walls, and redeemed her. This year, she was 35 years old. Under the arrangement of Cao Cao, she married Tian Xiaowei and Dong Si. In this year, the famous "battle of Chibi" broke out

Remarry Dong Si

When Cai Wenji married Dong Si, her life was not very harmonious at first. Cai Wenji was often in a trance because of her sad life. Dong Si was born in his heyday. She had a good appearance, a general history, a good command of music and a high self-esteem. Naturally, she was not satisfied with CAI Wenji. However, under the prime minister's instruction, she had to accept her. In the second year after her marriage, Dong Si committed a crime and died, so she went to Cao Cao's prime minister's house to plead for mercy. Cao Cao thought about his friendship with Cai Yong in the past, and also thought about CAI Wenji's tragic life. If Dong Si was executed, Wen Ji would not survive, so he excused him.

From then on, Dong Si felt grateful for his wife's kindness and reassessed Cai Wenji. Both husband and wife saw through the world. They went back to Luoshui and lived at the foot of the mountain with beautiful scenery and luxuriant trees. A few years later, Cao Cao hunted here and went to visit. Cai Wenji and Dong Shisheng have a son and a daughter who married Sima Shi, the son of Sima Yi.

be a brilliant man of wide learning

Wenji is erudite and gifted in music since she was a child. When she was 6 years old, she heard her father playing the piano in the hall. Through the wall, she heard the sound of her father breaking the first string. Her father was surprised and deliberately broke the fourth string, but she pointed it out again. When she grew up, she was even more outstanding. After returning to the Han Dynasty, referring to the tones of the Hu people and combining with her own tragic experience, she created the sad and heartbreaking Qin song "Hujia 18 Pai"; after she married Dong Si, she was sentimental and left in disorder, and wrote the poem of grief and indignation, which is the first autobiographical five character narrative poem in the history of Chinese poetry.

Address: Lantian County, Xi'an City

Longitude: 109.31046295166

Latitude: 34.171630859375

Tel: 029-82734159

Ticket information: 5 yuan

Opening hours: all day

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