Tomb of Huang Daopo

Tomb of Huang Daopo

The tomb of Huang Daopo is located at No.13, Dongwan Village (former site of Wunijing town), Huajing Town, on the north side of the outer ring road of Xupu Bridge. It faces south and covers an area of more than 1000 square meters. There are two terraces in the tomb yard.

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Brief introduction of tombstone

Huang Daopo's tomb is surrounded by a 50 cm high marble ring, with an oval stone ring earth tomb in the middle. In front of the tomb stands a white jade tombstone. On the front of the tombstone is engraved with the handwriting of "Yuan Huang Daopo's tomb" inscribed by Wei Wenbo, former Secretary of the Shanghai municipal Party committee. On the back of the tombstone is engraved with an epitaph. In front of the tombstone is a long stone table and a stone bench. The tomb is surrounded by evergreen trees such as pine and cypress, boxwood, pagoda tree and Podocarpus arvensis, and surrounded by white courtyard walls on three sides. The whole cemetery is simple and solemn.

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Huang Daopo

It is also called Huangpo, huangsiniang and qiaogu. Born in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, he was born in Wunijing town. In her early years, her family was poor. When she was twelve or thirteen years old, she was forced to be a child's daughter-in-law. Later, she was exiled in Liangzhou (Hainan Island). Huang Daopo spent dozens of years there and learned the skills of planting cotton and weaving from the Li people. When she returned to her hometown in her later years, she actively engaged in the production of cotton textile industry. She used the technology she learned in Hainan, combined with the Han people's textile methods, to further change the textile tools and teach the advanced textile tools and technology to the local women, so that the local cotton textile market was far and wide, and promoted the development of pine The development and prosperity of textile industry in Jiangyi belt. In the Ming Dynasty, Songjiang became the center of cotton production in China.

Huang Daopo was an outstanding woman textile technical innovator in ancient China. Wunijing people in Songjiang Prefecture (now Huajing people in Xuhui District). It is said that Liu Liuzhou (today's Hainan Province) learned from the Li people a whole set of cotton textile technology, improved and innovated, and returned to his hometown in Yuanzhen years to teach cotton textile technology, which made a creative contribution to the development of China's textile technology, and also made Shanghai become China's cotton textile industrial center at that time.

Development of cemeteries

It was built in the Yuan Dynasty and experienced several vicissitudes. In 1957, it was restored by the Shanghai Municipal People's government and a stele was erected. On the front of the stele was inscribed "the tomb of Huang Daopo, a weaver of the Yuan Dynasty", and on the back the epitaph details his life story. In 1962, it was rebuilt and a white marble stele was erected. In recent years, it has been rebuilt. The cemetery is surrounded by pine and cypress, boxwood, Sophora japonica, Podocarpus arvensis and other trees, and is surrounded by flower windows and tiles. The platform of the tomb is paved with blue bricks. In the middle is an oval tomb. In front of the tomb is a table and a stone bench. In front of the right is a monument of 1957. In the middle is a monument of 1962. It is solemn and solemn. In 1984, it was rebuilt again, covering an area of 1 mu. It is a round stone circle earth tomb with green brick ground and three walls. In front of the tomb, there is a white jade stele named "Tomb of yuanhuangdaopo" written by Wei Wenbo. It was listed as a municipal cultural relic protection unit in 1987.

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Address: no.700, Xumei Road, Dongwan village, Huajing town

Longitude: 121.448739

Latitude: 31.124824

Tel: 021-64963328

Chinese PinYin : Huang Dao Po Mu