Tomb of Zhu Quan

Tomb of Zhu Quan, king of Ningxia

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The tomb of Zhu Quan generally refers to the tomb of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning

Located at the east foot of gouling, Huangyuan village, Shibu Town, Xinjian District, Jiangxi Province, Zhu Quan Tomb of King Ning is 26 kilometers away from Nanchang city. It is the largest underground palace in the south of the Yangtze River.    

In 1442, Zhu Quan built his own grave and visited it many times. In front of the tomb was the Antarctic palace of longevity, with the Antarctic palace in front, the Taiyuan palace and Chongxiao tower on the left, and the Xuanji palace and Lingjiang tower on the right. In front of the palace are the Zuixian Pavilion and a pair of 6.9-meter-high octagonal Chinese watches engraved with Taoist runes.    

The tomb behind the palace is hidden in the mountains. The tomb is made of rolled arch structure of green brick, with a total length of 31.7 meters, a width of 21.45 meters and a height of 4.5 meters. It is divided into four parts: the front chamber, the second front chamber, the middle chamber and the back chamber. There is no stone in the two doors. After the middle room, there is a rolling door through the back room. There is an alcove in the middle of the back wall. On both sides of the alcove are eight prisms made of red stone. There is a base under the pillar. On the base, there is a Zhengxin square. On the square, there is a bucket arch to support the eaves.    

On October 20, 1958, the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics Administration Committee carried out an excavation. As Zhu Quan studied Taoism in his later years, he was buried in a Taoist robe with a piece of money in his mouth and two lines of money in his body, six in each line. Other funerary objects include gold, silver, copper, tin, jade, porcelain and so on. Some of the treasures have been collected by the Palace Museum, and the rest in the Provincial Museum. Now it is listed as a national cultural relic protection unit.

Brief introduction to tombs

In 1442, Zhu Quan built his own grave and visited it many times. In front of the tomb was the Antarctic palace of longevity, with the Antarctic palace in front, the Taiyuan palace and Chongxiao tower on the left, and the Xuanji palace and Lingjiang tower on the right. In front of the palace are Zuixian Pavilion and a pair of 6.9-meter-high octagonal Huabiao carved with Taoist seal characters.

The tomb behind the palace is hidden in the mountains. The tomb chamber is a rolled arch structure made of blue brick, with a total length of 31.7 meters, a width of 21.45 meters and a height of 4.5 meters. It is divided into four parts: the front chamber, the secondary front chamber, the middle chamber and the back chamber. The front room is propped up with the stone, but there is no stone in the two doors. After the middle room, there is a ticket door to the back room. There is an alcove in the middle of the back wall. On both sides of the alcove are eight prisms made of red stone. There is a base under the pillar. On the base, there is a Zhengxin square. On the square, there is a bucket arch to support the eaves.

As Zhu Quan studied Taoism in his later years, he was buried in a Taoist robe with one coin in his mouth and six in each line. Other funerary objects include gold, silver, copper, tin, jade, porcelain and so on. Some of the treasures have been collected by the Palace Museum, and the rest in the Provincial Museum.

Huang Yuan Zhu Jia

The natural village of Zhujia in Huangyuan, near the tomb of Zhuquan, king of Ning, was formed in the early Qing Dynasty by the descendants of Zhuquan, king of Ning. It also became the tomb keeper of the Qing Dynasty. Within 100 meters near the tomb of Zhuquan, king of Ning Jing, there are tombs of Zhu Dianpei and Zhu Jinjun, king of Ning Kang. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of Zhu Quanming, had 26 sons, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, was the 17th. According to Jiao Hong's xianzhenglu, Zhu Quan was born with spirit, beautiful posture, fair complexion, beautiful beard and wisdom. Zhu Yuanzhang, a famous scholar in Ming Dynasty, was fond of learning and reading all kinds of books.

In 1448, after the death of Ming ningwang Zhu Quan, the descendants of Ming ningwang Zhu Quan settled down near the ancestral mausoleum in the early Qing Dynasty and formed a village, namely Huangyuan village, Shibu Township, Xinjian County, Jiangxi Province. In 1992, the descendants of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, gathered in Zhujia village, Huangyuan, Shibu Township, Xinjian County, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to compile the genealogy. In the spring of 2012, 20 years later, the descendants of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning discussed and invited the descendants of the king of Ning to participate in the genealogy revision. This old village plate contains the reproduction process of a ningwang family for more than 300 years, waiting for the excavation of the world. In 1958, the descendants of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, excavated the tomb of Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, and presented the revised eight branches of Zhu's genealogy to the archaeologists, which is now stored in Jiangxi Provincial Museum. The genealogy of the eight branches of Zhu's family provides important information for historians to study the descendants of Zhu Ming. It also provides detailed information about the tomb of the ningwang family near the tomb of Zhu Quan, king of Ning, for national archaeologists in 1958. Near the ancestral hall of Zhu, there is a collapsed remnant wall, climbing like, with a door frame inlaid on the wall; on the right side of the open space, there are a lot of scattered feldspar. Next to the feldspar, there is a dilapidated green brick wall, which forms "eight" with the remnant wall with a door frame. This is the most primitive Gate site of cunpanwangfu.

The new Huangyuan village, nurtured by the "royal residence", has more than 1000 people, 400 mu of farmland and 500 mu of green hills. In 1958, the relatively intact Tomb of Zhu Quan was excavated and became one of the first provincial cultural relics protection units in Jiangxi Province. Tomb keeping itself has become a kind of culture. Cultural heritage, whether tangible or intangible, is scarce and non renewable. To destroy it is to destroy the witness of civilization. Professor Chen Wenhua, member of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and professor of Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences, who participated in the excavation of Zhu Quan's tomb, once conceived that the tomb of King Ning would be slightly renovated, the Antarctic longevity hall and other buildings would be restored, the descendants of the tomb keeper would be further excavated, and the Ming Palace manor, the cultural relics of Chen Lenin's tomb and Zhu Quan's calligraphy and paintings would be built, which would be an excellent "King Ning tourism route".

Introduction to the tomb owner

Zhu Quan, the 17th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, was born in 1378. At the age of 13, he was granted a vassal to Daning, known as the king of Ning. In the first year of Yongle (1403), Nanchang was renamed. He is beautiful and intelligent. He is devoted to reading books all his life and has made great achievements.

In 1393, 16-year-old Zhu Quan was ordered to enter Daning Prefecture. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Daning is a military "giant town" with "liaozuo in the East and Xuanfu in the west". During his stay in Daning, Zhu Quan not only took part in the military action against the residual forces of yuan and Mongolia, but also "frugally controlled the country, opened up nurseries and planted trees, widely ordered the guards to manage the wilderness in Xinjiang, made it suitable for planting soil and things, and made the country use more abundant", which made Daning one of the important barriers in Northern Xinjiang of Ming Dynasty.

In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness, and his grandson Zhu Yun ascended the throne. Because a large number of vassals controlled the local military and political power, Jianwen emperor always felt the threat from the imperial uncles, so he adopted the suggestions of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others, and began to gradually cut the vassals. As the head of the powerful vassal, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was the main target of cutting the vassal. Zhu Di is "always resourceful and ambitious". In the first year of Jianwen (1399), Zhu Di rebelled against Qi and Huang in the name of "Jingnan". In 1402, Zhu Di captured the capital of Nanjing. The whereabouts of emperor Jianwen were unknown, and Zhu Di became emperor.

In October of the first year of Yongle (1403), Zhu Quan began to build Daogong at the east foot of gouling mountain. Two years later, Daogong was built to house the Antarctic fairy, Laozi, Zhuangzi, crane and deer idols. This palace was granted by Emperor Chengzu, so it was very grand and magnificent. In front of the palace gate, there is a plaque of "Antarctic Longevity Palace" written by Zhu Di. Zhu Quan wrote the word "Shenyin" in a large amount. In the face of injustice and humiliation, Zhu Quan vented his anger by "publishing" and "seeking Tao". The works of Zhu Quan's life can be divided into two periods based on his residence in Nanchang. In the early stage, as a prince, he studied the change of political power in history and summarized the experience and lessons to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty. In the later stage, because of the resentment of reality, Zhu Quan no longer studied history and completely separated from politics. In 1403, on the top of Xialing peak in the western mountains of Changbei, a fine house for learning Taoism was built. Most of them communicated with scholars and placed their feelings on publications and fairy Taoism. In 1408, Shen Yin Zhi was written and submitted to Zhu Di. The representative works of Zhu Quan's pure academic works in this period are zhengyinpu of Taihe, Yayun of qionglin, and Magic Secret spectrum. After Zhu Di died, Renzong Zhu gaochi succeeded to the throne. Zhu Quan didn't do what he thought. He was intoxicated with emptiness and devoted himself to the tea ceremony. He wrote a volume of "tea manual" which contributed a lot to Chinese tea culture.

Zhu Quan is a Taoist scholar, drama theorist and playwright in Ming Dynasty. Good at Guqin. The word "Zhen Xian" is called "Han Xu Zi" and "Dan Qiu". I'm an old man and a great Ming Qishi. He was friendly with Zhang Yuchu, the 43 generation teacher of heaven. He worshipped him as a teacher, studied Taoist Scriptures and carried forward Taoist principles. Seclusion, learning Tao, and supporting ambition. He has a good life and is very romantic. There are secret books in the group of books, so they are all published. There are dozens of works, such as secret history of Han and Tang Dynasties, which are all from the classics, Jiuliu, Xingli, Yibu and Huanglao. And compiled guqin music collection "magic secret score" and North music score and commentator "Taihe Zhengyin score". There are 12 kinds of zaju, including "Da Luo Tian" and "elopement Xiangru". There are eight volumes of Taoist monographs, the jade book of emperor to Tao Taiqing, which was completed in the ninth year of Zhengtong and included in xudaocang. His life, works and treatises are mostly about Taoism. His posthumous title is Xian, also known as Ningxian king.

The "Zhonghe" Qin made by Zhu Quan, king of Ningxian, is a kind of musical instrument with waterfall and pearls, which is recorded in history. It is known as the first Qin in Ming Dynasty. Guqin waterfall Lianzhu is the first of the four Qin kings in Ming Dynasty. It has been made by Zhu Quan, the Xianwang of Ming Ning for more than 500 years.

Address: gouling east foot, Huangyuan village, Shibu Township, Xinjian County, Nanchang City

Longitude: 115.68593859672

Latitude: 28.57896939133

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