Yongning Palace

Taizhou Yongning Palace

synonym

Yongning palace generally refers to Taizhou Yongning palace

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the palace built by Yang xingmi, the leader of the state of Wu, was located in Hailing County of the state of Wu (now Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province). The former site was located at the corner of the Drum Tower of Taizhou. Later, it was destroyed by war due to the change of dynasty. In Taizhou, the historical development is of great significance.

history

In the early period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Jianghuai and Jiangnan belonged to the state of Wu. The founder of the state of Wu is Taizu Yang xingmi, who was born in Hefei, Anhui Province. In the early years of Tang Zhaozong, he was appointed as the governor of Huainan. There were wars and disputes, and his ministers were strong and his lords were weak. The separatist rule between the two kingdoms became more and more intense in the late Tang Dynasty. In the late years of Tang Zhaozong, Yang xingmi was granted the title of king of Wu, capital Guangling. Since then, a local political power with Yangzhou as the center, Xuhuai in the north and Jinling in the South was formed. It was one of the ten states and was known as Yang Wu in history.

Taizhou is fashionable as Hailing County, but it has been known as a granary since ancient times. It is an important place in the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers. Moreover, there are many salt farms in Taizhou. The taxes collected are an important source of income for the Yang Wu regime, which is the foundation of the country. The Hailing mausoleum is close to the Guangling mausoleum, so not long after Yang xingmi was granted the title of Queen Wu, she built a palace in Hailing mausoleum. When she came to visit, she advised farming and inspected the salt prison. Under the active promotion of the Yang Wu regime, the economy and culture of Hailing have been increasingly developed, and the status of the city has been further enhanced. After Yang xingmi died in Guangling in the third year of Guanghua, his son Yang Wo ascended the throne. In the second year of Wuyi (920), five towns, including zhaoyuanchang in the north of Hailing, were set up in Xinghua County because of rich taxes on salt and grain. Yang Wo died soon after his illness, and his younger brother, Yang Pu, the king of Danyang, became his elder brother. In the early years of his accession to the throne, he set up the Hailing institution. At this time, hailing county was essentially within the scope of the state.

At this time, the government of Yang Wu was basically controlled by Xu Zhigao. Xu Zhigao is the grandfather of Li Yu. He was originally from Xuzhou, his ancestral home is Haizhou, which is today's Donghai County. When he was six years old, Xu Zhigao became an orphan. Later, he avoided the chaos of huaisi and went to Kaiyuan Temple in Haozhou to be a little monk. In the second year of qianning in Tang Dynasty, when Yang xingmi attacked Haozhou, he saw that he had a strange appearance and wanted to be adopted son. Sometimes some people objected to him on the grounds of disordering the blood of the royal family. Yang xingmi gave him to Xu Wen, a powerful official, as his adopted son, named Xu Zhigao. Xu Wen was deeply loved by Yang xingmi for his good deeds. After Yang xingmi's death, he gradually grasped the power of Yang Wu. Xu Zhigao was also good at Xu Wen. After Xu Wen's death, he took charge of all the military affairs at home and abroad, and after he assisted the government, he had the intention of accepting Zen. In the winter and October of 937, Yang Pu was forced to be subordinate to Xu Zhigao. Xu Zhigao claimed that his surname was Li, and he was the great grandson of Wang Ke, the eighth son of emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the name of Shun kingdom was changed to Tang Dynasty, and the capital of Shun kingdom was Jinling.

A few days after Xu Zhigao ascended the throne, he promoted Hailing county to Taizhou and ruled Hailing county with the meaning of "the country is peaceful and the people are safe". Taixing county was set up in the five townships south of Hailing, and it belonged to Yancheng of Chuzhou and Xinghua of Jiangdu; Hailing salt officer was promoted to Hailing supervisor, and hailing supervisor governed dongtaichang. The next month, Chu Rengui, the governor of Taizhou, expanded Zicheng and built Luocheng outside it. Zhao Puchu's poem "Ta Sha Xing" says "Zhou Jian Nan Tang Dynasty" is to chant this historical fact.

After Xu Zhigao was called emperor by Zen, he made Yang Pu emperor. In May of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, Yang Pu was moved to Danyang palace in Runzhou. He was soon killed. In the third year of Shengyuan (939), Xu Zhigao took his surname Li and changed his name to Li min. Then he appointed Prince Yao to lead the Pinglu army's Jiedu envoy, and moved Yang's family to the former palace built by Yang xingmi in Taizhou, and named it "Yongning Palace". In name, he wanted to repay the favor of Yang's abdication, so that his descendants could live in the palace built by their ancestors forever. In fact, this is the place where Yang's descendants are imprisoned.

"Zizhitongjian" records: "the people of Tang Dynasty transferred the emperor's family to Taizhou, named Yongning palace, and the defense was very strict. Yang Gong, the governor of Kanghua and the commander of Zhongshu, said that he was ill and went back to Yongning palace. " The descendants of the Yang family had a moment of peace in the old palace where their ancestors lived. Here, they were closely monitored by Chu Rengui, the governor of Taizhou. They were not allowed to go out of the palace, and were not allowed to marry outside the palace. Only the descendants of the Yang family were allowed to marry each other for 18 years. When Li Yu's father, Li Jing, was in power, he even used song Qiqiu's strategy of killing Yang's legitimate males. In Yongning palace, if a girl is allowed to grow up, if a man is five years old, Li's court immediately sends a Chinese envoy to the palace, confers a crown and clothes on him, and then gives him death. He is buried in the wasteland outside the palace, which is called xiaoerzhong. Long grass, small graves, more than ten years "let the emperor hundred how?" Inside the palace walls and outside the Huangyuan, there are so many young people with disheveled hair

In the dark, I don't know if there is a kind of fate. The Southern Tang Dynasty soon came to the end of the day. Li Min's son, Li Jing, had already lost the tie of cloves in his plantains. Under the strong military pressure of the Central Plains Dynasty, he quickly went to the title of the state, demoted the emperor to the throne, and declared himself a minister to the Later Zhou Dynasty. He only forced himself to hold the title of "Baoda" (preserving the status of a great power) and deceived himself in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River. In 956, the 14th year of Li Jingbao's reign, Chai Rongbing of Zhou Shizong entered Huainan and issued an imperial edict to pacify Yang's descendants. Li Jingwen was very afraid of it. He immediately sent Yuan Yuan envoy Yin yanfan to Taizhou to move to Yongning palace. Yang's descendants went to Runzhou. On the way, he killed all the more than 60 men of Yang's descendants and only crossed the river with more than 20 women. "The old hometown of Jiangnan and Jiangbei has had a dream in the past 30 years". The river is surging with thousands of worries and tears.

After Yang's son and grandson moved away, Yongning palace soon became luxuriant with grass and foxes stayed in the bird's nest. In the following years, the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty waged many seesaw wars in Taizhou. By the early Northern Song Dynasty, few people had heard of the ruins of Yongning Palace during the war, and there were few references to the local chronicles. It is recorded in the Taizhou annals by Daoguang that the drum tower in Taizhou city was the gate of Yongning palace. In the 15th year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty (957), Taizhou finally entered the Later Zhou Dynasty. In the second year, Chai Rong, the emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, came to Taizhou and changed it into tuanlian Prefecture. He was promoted to Taizhou thorn envoy Jing Hanru as tuanlian envoy. He changed the remaining palace gate of Yongning palace into halberd gate and gave the drum horn and halberd to be placed on it to show his martial virtues. Halberd gate is also known as the drum horn building. Later, Xuanzhao pavilion was built on the left of Jimen, Gongchun Pavilion on the right, and Yushu Shouzhao Pavilion on the north. Most of them were built or repaired on the former site of Yongning palace. The old style of the Southern Tang Dynasty can be seen at that time. The two Song Dynasties intersected, and the Jin people herded horses along the Yangtze River. In the war, the drum horn tower and pavilions were destroyed. In 1137, it was rebuilt on the site of gujiaolou, which is also called qiaolou. In the 11th year of Chunxi reign (1184), the building was damaged again. Wanzhong, a magistrate of Zhizhou, rebuilt the building and built additional buttresses on the East and west sides of the building. At that time, Han Yuanji wrote an inscription in the story of the drum tower, saying that the building was "a view of Jeter in a county". In the troubled times of song and Yuan Dynasties, scenic spots were destroyed. In 1370, the governor Zhang Yulin was still rebuilding the drum tower. In the following year, Zhizhou Shiyu built a bell tower in the southwest of Zhouzhi because the drum tower was in the southeast of Zhouzhi. On the second floor, before the reign of Zhizhou, facing east and West, it is majestic and spectacular. There is a big bronze bell hanging above the bell tower, which is indeed a relic of Yongning palace. At the top of the bell is a ring-shaped dragon button. The Dragon button is decorated with scales all over the body. It holds its head high and glares at its eyes. It has four straight claws, which is quite impressive. Lotus petal pattern is cast on the shoulder, eight trigrams pattern on the bottom and square pattern on the middle. The bottom foot is in the shape of eight lotus leaves with lotus seed pattern. The body of the clock is turquoise, full of a kind of ancient and quiet luster, exuding the flavor of that era, telling the story of that period of life and death of the court.

present situation

Most of the other sites of Yongning Palace are hard to find. The children's tomb has long been the setting sun and the grass is nowhere to be found. The bell tower nunnery and the drum tower are also buried in the tide of urban construction and transformation. The ancient bronze bell was listed as a key cultural relic of Jiangsu Province in 1982 and moved to the Tianwang Hall of guguangxiao temple, accompanied by the voice of the Buddha, "Yang Jiawei orders the sound of the flood", witnessing the dust laden past for thousands of years It's spreading.

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