Tomb of Lin Zexu

Tomb of Lin Zexu

Lin Zexu's tomb is located at the foot of Jinshi mountain, jiaoma'an village, in the provincial military region of Fuzhou City, facing Wufeng mountain from north to South and Southeast. The surface of the tomb is Ruyi shaped. The tomb is rammed with three layers of clay. It is 14.6 meters wide and 37 meters deep. The sealing soil is uplifted and shaped like a cauldron.

Lin Zexu's tomb is decorated with a round word "Shou" in the middle of the slope protection after sealing, with a diameter of 0.82 meters. A tombstone with a height of 1.08 meters, a width of 2.55 meters and a thickness of 0.16 meters was erected before the earth was sealed.

In the center of Lin Zexu's tomb, there is a rectangular stone tablet inscribed with 56 characters in regular script. The writing method is traditional. When reading it, the first line is in the middle, then in the right, then in the left, and then in the right, then in the left, and so on.

In 1988, the State Council announced Lin Zexu's tomb as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Inscriptions on the surface of the stone

The official titles listed on the tablet belong to Lin Zexu. According to the regulations at that time, fathers can enjoy them even after their death. A couplet was inscribed on the left and right corner columns of the confession: "the hundred Zhang pine catalpa reindeer soil, the cattle sleeping in the millennium." The inscriptions on the surface of the tablet are as follows: "emperor Qing Gaofeng senior official, Lianghuai salt administration, former Jiangsu Provincial envoy, Mr. gaigulin, Mrs. Pei Chen, male Shaomu, female Zheng, male Yuren, female Li Ru. In the midsummer of the third year of the reign of Emperor Daoguang, Jidan was established. " Regular script, straight down 11 lines (read from the middle, left, right), word diameter 12 cm.

In the inscriptions, "the Duke of gagulin" is Lin binri, Lin Zexu's father (1749-1827), "Mrs. Chen" is Chen Yu, Lin Zexu's mother (1759-1824), "Shaomu Gong" is Lin Zexu, "Mrs. Zheng" is Zheng Shuqing, Lin Zexu's wife (1789-1847), "Yuren Gong" is Lin Yilin, Lin Zexu's younger brother, and "Li Ruren" is Li's wife. This tomb was built for Lin Zexu's parents in 1826, when his mother died.

main features

On both sides of the tombstone, the pillars are also made of three kinds of soil. On the top of the tombstone, it is engraved: "hundred Zhang pine catalpa reindeer soil, thousand autumn GUI Festival lying cattle sleep." On both sides of the tomb screen before the earth was sealed, the inscription reads: "the wind of Qinghua represents the crane of Yuan Dynasty, the cloud protects the beautiful city and the jade fish.". On both sides of the first floor of the tomb is a pair of lions. They are made of three clay sculptures. The male plays with the ball and the female carries her son.

A pair of blue stone tablets are erected on both sides. On the left is the inscription on imperial gift, and on the right is the inscription on imperial gift. It is 2.6 meters high and 1.10 meters wide. On the second floor of the tomb, there is a horizontal screen of sanhetu in the middle, on which is engraved the regular script of "wufenglaixiang", with a height of 0.59 meters and a width of 0.46 meters.

Lin Zexu's tomb was erected in 1851 when the imperial court sent officials to offer sacrifices. In 1961, Fujian Provincial People's Government rebuilt it and listed it as a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province. In 1981, the cemetery was expanded, with slope protection in the front and pine and bamboo planting in the back. In 1988, the State Council of the people's Republic of China announced it as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

On January 13, 1988, the State Council approved its inclusion in the list of the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Lin Zexu's tomb is closed to the public for the time being.

Brief introduction to the owner of the tomb

Lin Zexu (1785-1850), who was born in Houguan county (today's Fuzhou City), was famous for banning opium and resolutely resisting British invasion. Lin Zexu is a descendant of jiumulin, a famous family in Putian in Tang Dynasty. He was born in 1785 and was a Marquis of Fujian Province in Qing Dynasty.

Lin Zexu wrote xiankaoxingzheng in the seventh year of Daoguang: "Fu Jun taboo bin RI, named Yanggu, is from the Lin family of Jiumu in Putian. His ancestors moved from Putian to Qidian township (now cendou village, Haikou town) in Fuqing, and then moved to Fuzhou in early Qing Dynasty."

Lin Zexu was a great patriot who was "the first person to look at the world with open eyes" in modern China. In 1840, he was appointed to Guangdong to ban smoking. He carried out a vigorous and resolute campaign to ban opium. He destroyed 2.37 million jin of confiscated opium in Humen public, and won the victory of the campaign. In 1798, Lin Zexu was a scholar studying in Aofeng Academy. In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), he was elected as the Secretary of Xiamen coastal defense Tongzhi, and later entered Fujian governor Zhang Shicheng's shogunate. Jiaqing 16 years (1811) Jinshi, selected as Shu Ji Shi, granted editing.

Experience

He has successively served as deputy examiner of Jiangxi provincial examination and chief examiner of Yunnan provincial examination. In the 25th year of Jiaqing (1820), he was appointed as the censor of Jiangnan Road, transferred to Hangzhou Jiahu Road, Zhejiang Province, built seawalls, promoted water conservancy and developed agriculture. During the Opium War, he was a patriotic politician who advocated banning opium and resisting aggression. Historians call him the first minister of modern China. Lin Zexu was born on July 26, 1785 (August 30, 1785) in a family of lower feudal intellectuals in Gudong Street (now Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Fuzhou City).

His father, Lin binri, made a living teaching, reading and lecturing. Only relying on the meager income of my father's private school can not support my life, so my mother uses manual labor to share the family's difficulties.

Address: east foot of Jinshi mountain, Ma'an village, north suburb, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian military region.

Longitude: 119.278862

Latitude: 26.118671

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