Ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Emperor

Ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Emperor

The Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum is located in jinliuzhai village, Zhaozhuang Town, Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province. It is a cemetery exhibition hall centered on the tomb of Liu Qing, the great grandfather of Liu Bang and the great ancestor of Liu. There are many historical sites such as Tomb mounds, tombstones, ancestral temples, halls, statues of 24 emperors and so on. It is the best scenic spot to investigate Liu's lineage and carry forward the culture of the Han Dynasty. Now it is the local "key cultural relics protection unit". The ancestral Mausoleum of the Han emperor has become a sacred place for Liu's family at home and abroad.

Brief introduction to the cemetery

Located in jinliuzhai village, Zhaozhuang Town, Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province, the Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum is an exhibition hall of the gate of the Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum in Fengxian County. Now it is the local "key cultural relics protection unit". Now it is the local "key cultural relics protection unit".

Protective repair process

The Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum, commonly known as "huanglin", has always been a place where the Liu family of the local Hanli hall worships their ancestors. There used to be a tomb and a ancestral temple. However, after thousands of years of dynastic changes and vicissitudes, coupled with the "broken four old" after the founding of the people's Republic of China, many historic buildings have been destroyed. Now there are earth tombs and some relics of Liu Bang's great grandfather and the great emperor's grandfather Liu Qing. In 1992, the local government and the people surnamed Liu carried out a protective restoration of the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Emperor. The main gate is a Han style red paint gate composed of four large stone pillars, and the lintel is inlaid with four characters of "Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum". There is a big stone lion on both sides of the gate. On the east side of the gate are monuments and signs for cultural relics protection. On the front of the courtyard is a 4-meter-high white jade statue of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. On the right east side of the courtyard is the exhibition room, in which there is an introduction to Liu Bang's life. On the left side is the exhibition room of "celebrities and culture of Han Dynasty". The main hall in the middle of the courtyard behind the statue of Liu Bang is a tall and solemn "Han Dynasty emperor hall", in which there are statues of Liu Bang and 24 emperors of Han Dynasty. The backyard is Liu Qing's tomb. The tomb is a round earth tomb surrounded by a brick retaining wall about 1 meter high. Under the tomb wall, there are stone tablets inlaid with four characters "Tomb of Liu Qing". There are two ancient steles in front of the tomb, the "emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty" in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and the "hometown of the Han Dynasty" in the Qianlong period. The ancient stele has been damaged, and the handwriting has peeled off, but it is still vaguely recognizable. There are also Tang Yao emperor monument, Liu Legong monument, Liu Qingzhi tombstone, Liu Renhao Monument and the supreme emperor monument. In the north of Han Emperor's mausoleum, there is Liu's ancestral hall, named Hanli ancestral hall, which is now a public site. The cemetery is connected with Fengdan highway by asphalt road. On both sides of the road from Fengdan highway to huangzuling of Han Dynasty, a pair of tall Huabiao stands.

Liu Qing was a senior official of the state of Wei in the late Warring States period. After Qin destroyed Wei, he moved eastward from Kaifeng to twelve Li northwest of Fengxian, where he died. In order to escape the pursuit of Qin soldiers, Liu Qing took the ancient Liu character as the surname of Jin. After he was very sad, he restored the surname of Liu, so he called it "Jin Liu Zhuang". During the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to suppress the Nian Army and the Taiping army, the Qing government called on all localities to dig ditches and build villages. The villagers of jinliuzhuang also dug rivers outside the village and set up two gates in the East and the West. From then on, jinliuzhuang was also known as jinliuzhai.

About Liu Qing's tomb, there are legends of "Phoenix points" and "ants build graves". According to legend, Liu Qing lived in front of the door, and there was a dense Wutong tree in front of him. One day, the wind was blowing hard and the dust was flying. A phoenix went against the wind and landed on the Wutong tree in front of the Liu Qing gate. People say that Liu Qing is going to be lucky. Soon, Liu Qing died, and his family was destroyed for a long time. Even the coffin was not money. So he had to dig out the Wutong tree as a coffin. When the Wutong was suddenly thundered and lightning, heave rain and heavy rain, people could not keep their eyes open. People had to push the coffin into the pit of the Indus tree, and they had to bury their homes on the ground. The next day, people came to build a tomb, but found that the ants had already piled up into a tall mound. The auspicious Phoenix dug the grave for Liu Qing, and the industrious ants piled the grave for Liu Qing, which implied that the heaven was auspicious to the Liu family.

After Liu Bang became emperor, he issued an imperial edict to build the emperor's mausoleum. After that, Liu Che, Liu Xuan, Liu Xiu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty were renovated many times, making the emperor's Mausoleum a complete, grand and magnificent Royal Cemetery. In order to protect the ancestral mausoleum from flood, Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han dynasty built Yongning Temple in Fengxian ancient city to pray for his hometown, and built Taihang dike after the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty. The existing Tomb of Liu Qing has a diameter of five meters and a height of three meters, surrounded by tomb walls. Taking Liu Qing's tomb as the center, to the north is Liu's ancestral hall, which is also called "Hanli ancestral hall" because it is the hometown of Liu Bang. Liu Xin, the fifth grandson of Liu Wu, Liang Xiaowang, the grandson of Liu Bang, was sent to Fengxian County to guard the ancestral mausoleum and was named "Marquis of Lingxiang". Two years later, he was demoted as a commoner and kept the mausoleum for generations. In the northeast corner of Liu Qing's tomb, there is Xiwang temple, which is Liu Bang's temple. In 1990, a stone tablet erected in 1688 was found here. In the northwest corner of Liu Qing's tomb, there is Dongwang temple, the temple of Guangwu emperor Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are a pair of stele caps and lions. On the left side of Dongwang temple is Sanyi temple, which is the memorial Temple of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Taoyuan during the Three Kingdoms period; on the right side is Xuandi temple. After Liu Xuan became emperor, Fengxian County worshipped his ancestors and built a palace. Now there is a stone threshold of "Xuandi Palace" left by Liu Xuan. Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Liu Bei and Liu Xuan are all descendants of Liu Qing. After Xuandi temple, there is a stone tablet in 1757 of Qianlong's 22nd year. It can be seen that the Bodhisattva temple and the fire temple also come to join in the fun to borrow Liu's exuberant incense. In front of Liu Qing's tomb, there was a thousand meter long Shinto with stone man, stone horse and stone prime minister on both sides. It is a magnificent imperial cemetery.

Historical status

Since the hometown of the royal family in the Han Dynasty was jinliuzhai, Fengxian County, most of the surnames of Liu came from the Han Dynasty, and Liu Qing, the owner of the imperial mausoleum of the Han Dynasty, was the great ancestor. Therefore, today's jinliuzhai Han Emperor's ancestral mausoleum has become a holy land for Liu's family to find their roots and ask their ancestors at home and abroad.

Main attractions

It is reported that the planned tourism development project of the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Emperor. On the basis of the expansion of the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty, more than 10 cultural scenic spots of the Han Dynasty, such as Zhoubo temple, zhouyafu tomb, Xiaohe house, zhanshechu, Gaozu temple, fenyushe and longwuqiao, will be restored and transplanted. With the Mausoleum as the center, Xiwang temple, Dongwang Temple, Sanyi temple, Xuandi temple, Bodhisattva temple and Huoshen temple will be rebuilt around the mausoleum to form an arched pattern with the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty as the center and other scenic spots as the center Increase tourist attractions, enrich the connotation of Han culture, inherit the national historical charm.

The Han Emperor's ancestral tomb is the ancestral Tomb of Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. The project planning highlights the traditional Chinese sacrificial culture. The overall design is divided into three parts: "entrance service area", "Han culture experience area" and "ancestral tomb sacrificial area". In the spatial sequence, "three corridors" run through the "four squares", so that the three parts are naturally combined and the building communities are orderly connected. The design style of the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty is vigorous and rugged, the color is mainly "black white gray", and the shape and color complement each other, which fully embodies the essence of the Han Dynasty architecture of "simplicity and beauty".

Festival activities

On January 18, with the theme of "beautiful Fengxian", the first China Fengxian Han Culture Lantern Festival, which aims to show the beautiful life of Fengxian people, was solemnly opened in Zhaozhuang town. The Lantern Festival will last 28 days from January 18 to February 14, covering the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Valentine's day.

The Han Emperor's ancestral Mausoleum scenic spot in the festival is full of bright lights and colorful people. By about 7 pm on the 18th, the flow of people had reached nearly 15000. It is expected that the peak period will be from the 20th to the end of the month, and the daily flow of people will reach more than 30000.

On Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese festival, people from all over the world will come to the ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Emperor. Liu's descendants will burn paper and incense, set off firecrackers and fireworks, which is very lively. There will be portraits of Liu's ancestors in the old courtyard. If there are too many people, they will not open to the public for fear of damaging cultural relics. The grandfather of Zuling Management Office will dictate the scenic spots and history of Zuling, so that people can have a deeper understanding.

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