Yongtai Mausoleum

Yongtai Mausoleum

Yongtai mausoleum is located in the south of Baling village, Zhitian Township, Gongyi City, Henan Province. It is about 400 meters away from bahuali, Zhitian town in the northeast and Yongyu mausoleum in the southeast. It is the mausoleum of Zhao Xu, the seventh emperor of Northern Song Dynasty. In the third year of Yuanfu (1100 AD), Zhao Xu fell ill and died in a few days. After seven months of mourning, he was buried in Yongtai mausoleum in August. In June 1963, song mausoleum was designated as a key cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province. In March 1982, song mausoleum was announced as the second batch of key cultural relic protection units in China by the State Council.

brief introduction

Yongtai mausoleum is the tomb of Zhao Xi, the emperor of zhe Zong. When Zhao Xu, the philosopher, was buried, the road was in heavy rain for a long time, and the hearse was deep in the mud, so the funeral procession had to sleep in the wilderness for several days. After the subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers stationed in the mausoleum of the Song Dynasty. In order to plunder and revenge, they plundered the mausoleum of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the whole world was devastated. In the mausoleum area, the corpses were everywhere, and the fireworks were everywhere. The royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty, who lived in Lin'an, was very sad when they heard that their ancestral tombs had been looted. Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, ordered Zhai Xing, father and son, governor of Henan Province, and Yue Fei and other generals to rush to Gongxian County to meet the Jin army. The Jin army was driven out of the mausoleum of the Song Dynasty, and the royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty sent people to repair the mausoleum. However, as soon as the song army withdrew, the Jin soldiers came back and retaliated even more. Fang tingshuo, the imperial envoy of Huaibei in the third capital, was ordered to visit the mausoleum in Gongxian County. He saw with his own eyes the forbidden area of the imperial mausoleum, which used to be dignified and solemn. Now it's full of wild animals, and it's very desolate for foxes and wolves. He wrote with deep pain: "all the people below Yongchang mausoleum are frightened. When tailing mausoleum is exposed, tingshuo takes off his clothes and covers it." He witnessed the tragedy with his own eyes. He saw that the bones of zhe Zong in Yongtai mausoleum were exposed in broad daylight, and Fang tingshuo could only take off his clothes and wrap them up. After hearing this, Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty was extremely angry. He burst into tears, but he had nothing to do.

Tomb owner's life

The life experience of Zhao Xu, the philosopher of Song Dynasty, has left infinite controversy, reverie and emotion to posterity. When he was first registered as emperor, his grandmother, Empress Dowager Gao, hung the curtain to handle political affairs. In the past nine years, Gao made all the decisions of state affairs. Zhao Xu could only "sit in the corner and draw a promise" (according to the instructions of Empress Dowager Gao, he signed the words "can" or "can't"). Later, when he talked with the minister about the hanging curtain, he said bitterly: "at that time, I was sitting in the back, short, and I saw nothing in the court. Only the back and buttocks of the Empress Dowager sitting in front of her can be seen. It was not until the death of Empress Dowager Gao in 1093 that he gained power. Shaosheng Shaoshu re employed the reformist officials to carry on the will of song Shenzong and Wang Anshi. However, excessive appointment of reformers led to excessive liquidation of conservative officials, which intensified the party struggle to a certain extent. On the border, he attacked Xixia and won, then stopped fighting with Northwest China under the mediation of Liao. This move has also been highly praised by the history of the Song Dynasty, "Xia Ziping, Xia's defeat, no longer able to army, repeatedly begged for peace." However, the Northern Song Dynasty's political power continued until then, and the political affairs were in decline. The problem of party struggle could not be fundamentally solved, and it became more and more intense in the later period of zhe Zong, which planted the root of the death of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Wang Fuzhi, a famous thinker in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, commented on the political affairs of zhe Zong Dynasty and said: "endless disasters have been brought about since then.". However, when future generations recall zhe Zong's life, they should not forget that he was only a teenager in his early twenties for the vast majority of his ruling career, which may be the period from high school student to university graduation.

Construction history

According to relevant historical records, 4600 craftsmen and 27600 pieces of stone were used to build the Yongtai Mausoleum of zhe Zong. Another 9744 soldiers and civilians were employed

The 500 men transported these stones to the mausoleum area from Susi mountain in Yanshi, 20 or 30 kilometers away (the rocks here are "warm and moist, rare and incomparable", and they are not easy to be weathered even if they are exposed to sunlight for a long time). In 1100 AD, zhe Zong fell ill and died in a few days. On the 10th day of the second lunar month, the quarrying team assembled and arrived at the construction site. In order to be buried in July, quarrying must be completed on May 11. The project was large and the construction period was tight, and officials such as mausoleum envoys were in a hurry to supervise the work. Because of poor working conditions and lack of drinking water, more than 1700 people fell ill on the construction site, and the dead continued to die day by day. Most of the dead were abandoned in the wild and rocks. According to the stone quarry inscriptions, "all the local people living in the mountain are cloudy, and they have accumulated a lot of gloom for a long time. They often hear that there are singers in the mountain who are like the voice of the service. They mean that those who die unfortunately are free from the ghost During the construction of Yongding mausoleum, 62 pieces of stone were used to carve servants, elephants, horses and other animals, 14 pieces of gate stone and 27377 pieces of Imperial Hall stone.

"Quarry inscriptions" records that: "all the people living in the mountain are cloudy, and it is dark for a long time. I often hear that there is a singer in the mountain who is like a voice servant. It means that those who are unfortunate and die suddenly are not free from their worries and carefree"? Thus it can be seen that the towering Ling mountains are disaster mountains for the poor.

Address: Southwest of Baling village, Zhitian Town, Gongyi City, Zhengzhou City

Longitude: 112.91325811766

Latitude: 34.651349747963

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