Tomb of King Zhao Wuling

Tomb of King Zhao Wuling

The tomb of King Zhao Wuling is located in the west section of Xinhua West Street in Lingqiu County, from which the name of Lingqiu County comes. It originally covers an area of 60000 square meters, and now has a protected area of 10900 square meters. The perimeter of the tomb is 220 meters, and the height is 10 meters. During the reign of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, a stone tablet was erected in the south of the tomb, and a stone tower with a height of 4 meters was built. It was repaired in the seventh year of the Republic of China, with a stone tablet and a Shinto of 246.67 meters long. In 1984, a wall was built around it to protect it. The cemetery is covered with trees and the mound is covered with grass. After rebuilding the archway and tomb mound, Wuling tomb is even more magnificent and majestic. It is now a key cultural relic protection unit in Shanxi Province. The square in front is called Wuling square.

Life of the characters

King Wuling of Zhao (340-295 BC), named Yong, was the son of marquis Su of Zhao in the Warring States period and the sixth king of Zhao. During his reign from 325 BC to 299 BC, he innovated and carried out Hufu riding and shooting, which opened up territory for Zhao state and made Zhao strong from weak. Among all the emperors of China, he was a statesman and militarist with great achievements. His "Hufu riding and shooting" had epoch-making significance in the history of ancient Chinese war. He built the Great Wall, moved people to northern Xinjiang, developed border areas, set up counties and other major measures, which promoted the great integration of Chinese and northern minorities, and was praised as one of the most influential hundred great men in Chinese history by modern historians

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From 325 B.C. to 299 B.C., King Wuling of Zhao was in power. He innovated to make his country strong and carried out Hufu riding and shooting, which opened up the territory of Zhao and made Zhao strong from weak. Among all the emperors in China, he was a statesman and militarist with great achievements. In the 27th year of King Wuling (298 BC), he passed on the throne to his youngest son, King Huiwen of Zhao. He called himself "master father" and led the army to continue to open up territory and destroy Zhongshan state. In the fourth year of King Huiwen's reign (295 BC), his father and King Huiwen traveled to different palaces (on the East Bank of Fuyang River in the northeast of Pingxiang County, Hebei Province), and his son Zhang was defeated. Prince Cheng and Li Duiwei lived in his father's palace. In March, Yu starved to death in the sand dune palace. In the 11th year of emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (196 BC), a city was built and a county was set up here. Because of its tomb, it was named "Lingqiu" to commemorate the emperor of the Ming Dynasty

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In 326 B.C., when Zhao Wuling, 12 years old, succeeded to the throne, he was in the middle and late Warring States period. Wars between countries were frequent, and the trend of annexation became more and more fierce. Zhao was surrounded by Qi, Zhongshan, Yan, Linhu, Loufan, Donghu, Qin, Han, Wei and other countries. At that time, Zhao was called "the country of four wars". In the middle of the territory, there is a Zhongshan state. This Zhongshan state was founded by the Baidi people. It was defeated by the Wei general LeYang (see the battle of Wei against Zhongshan). Later, because it was not easy to control from other countries, Zhongshan state took the opportunity to recover. Zhongshan kingdom lies in the middle of Zhao Kingdom, which is divided into two parts, Handan centered and Daijun centered. If Zhao Kingdom wants to make a difference among the princes, it must first destroy Zhongshan kingdom.

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The ticket is 20 yuan

traffic

You can take the train passing by Jingyuan railway and get off at Lingqiu. Take the bus for 1.5 yuan and get off at the street park in the urban area. Then take the bus to the West for 1000 meters.

Explanation of Mausoleum

Where is the mausoleum behind King Zhao Wuling? This issue has been controversial for more than two thousand years, which has puzzled people. According to the materialist point of view, the final determination can only be made by archaeological means. However, this does not prevent us from analyzing various factors

In terms of literature, the first is the annotation made by Ying Shao, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, for "Lingqiu County" in Hanshu geographical records: "King Wuling was buried here because of his surname." According to the book "Ji Jie" in "Shi Ji · Zhao Shi Jia", Ying Shao said that King Wuling was buried in Lingqiu of the county. " Since then, the local chronicles of Shanxi, Datong and Lingqiu all hold this view. Another record is many other tombs: Taiping Huanyu Ji and Cangzhou Zhi have two records, one is Lingshan in Hebei Province, the other is the old city of Cangzhou in Hebei Province; in addition to Cangzhou tombs, there are five tombs of King Zhao in the west of old city of Handan and Pingshan County in Hebei Province in Da Qing Yi Tong Zhi and Ji Fu Tong Zhi.

Only from the literature, the data sources of the tomb of King Zhao Wuling in Lingqiu, Shanxi are relatively early, and the data sources of the tombs in Hebei are relatively late. It should be said that the former has high credibility and authority.

From the perspective of tomb mound, the scale and shape of the tomb of King Wuling of Zhao in Lingqiu not only conform to the regulations of the mausoleum of Warring States, but also are basically similar to the tomb of King Wuling of Zhao in Handan. The tomb in Cangzhou is not only unsealed, but also not seen by local elders and cultural relic departments. The tomb in Lingshan is definitely the tomb of King Zhongshan, not the tomb of King Wuling of Zhao. What about the tomb of King Zhao in Handan and Pingshan? Through the investigation of cultural relics, the cultural relics department of Handan has preliminarily analyzed the tombs as Jinghou, Chenghou, Huiwen, Xiaocheng and mourning Xiangwang. If the above exclusion is credible, then the tomb of King Zhao Wuling in Lingqiu will become the only one.

The main reason why people doubt the tomb of King Zhao Wuling in Lingqiu in history is that Lingqiu is too far away from the sand dune palace where King Zhao Wuling died of starvation and Handan, the capital of Zhao state. But we know that although the funeral of King Wuling of Zhao invited the vassal states to mourn openly and solemnly, the people who held the funeral, as mentioned above, were the ones who made the tragedy of King Wuling starved to death. King Huiwen was a young man under the dictatorship of Chengzi and Lidui. They were afraid and hated King Wuling, and they could not escape the strong pressure of the government and the opposition. It is their first choice to eliminate the impact of the incident on Zhao's political life as soon as possible and to minimize the influence of King Wuling of Zhao on later administration. It's just in line with their political requirements to bury King Zhao Wuling a little further and weaken the influence of the incident as far as possible?! Don't you get rid of the political embarrassment of sacrificial ceremony in the future?! And Lingqiu already has "Zhao Guocheng", which is also the place where King Zhao Wuling often lived. Is there a more suitable choice than here?! King Zhao Wuling is a great hero of the Chinese nation. Jian Bozan, a famous historian, walked along the footprints of King Wuling of Zhao Dynasty for a while, and then he said with clear and deep praise: "no hero is better than King Wuling"! As the hinterland of the state of Zhao, the people of Hebei are unlikely to forget him. Isn't it easy to understand how to commemorate and remember this great man in the form of tombs and temples?!

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Thirty miles southeast of Lingqiu County, Lingqiu got its name. The Qing Dynasty poet Feng Yunmao visited the tomb of King zhaowuling and wrote a poem called "Tomb of King zhaowuling":

The moon is small on Cangshan Mountain in the desert, and the tomb of King Zhao is old on Qingshan mountain. Strange butterflies hunt wild flowers with the wind, and yellow foxes sing autumn grass at night. In the past, there were heroes in their spirits, and their customs were the greatest achievements. Imagine the aftereffects of mountains and rivers, and recognize birds and insects through broken steles. Every year, the lamp is wet and the Dragon flag is gathering with night elves. Jiashi Huang Yun brings a sword. It is red and the ghost tunes the zither. Long distance garrison base Wang Fei Lou, seven stars hanging city river double flow. Who remember the old song and dance, pearl buried wild pine sorrow. I come to the stage to think of the past alone, and sprinkle the muddy wine on the loess. Maple green nostalgia Ancient Soul doubt, sad chant hanging Jun Jun do not know.

The death of the tomb owner

In 298 BC, King Zhao Wuling announced: "I'm going to pass the throne to the prince. In the future, you will respect him just like you respect me. As for me, I'm going to fight for territory in Zhongshan. Then you will call me the lord father. "

The prince is the son of Queen Wu wa. He is ten years old

In 296 BC, Zhao's father finally conquered Zhongshan state in his 30th year in power, and the state of Zhao opened up several hundred Li. With the victory of the three armed forces, he held a banquet in Handan city for five days to celebrate the whole country. The next year, in the tenth year since the reform of Hufu riding and shooting, Zhao's father held a meeting. All the ministers gathered in the court to have a heated discussion on a series of major international and domestic issues, such as further promoting the Western Conquest (that is, fighting against the state of Qin), consolidating and improving and deepening the domestic reform. They also saluted the 14-year-old prince he, who was called the king and listened to the government.

Where is the master, he answers with a hand bow.

"Childe he" is just a semi skilled young man, standing in the middle of the court hall. His expression is stiff. He raises his hand and agrees awkwardly. It seems that he is counting money and counting for others. As he counts, he looks at Zhao's father beside him: what's the next step, put it in the safe? ——Would you like to order more?

At this time, Zhang (the eldest son), the prince Fengjun from Daidi, also came to pay homage to he Shili, the prince of Xiaowang. He bowed his head to his ears and lay on the ground, with a gray head and a face, shrugging his shoulders and praising his minister. The eldest child, who was originally from the prince, prostrated and saluted his little brother because his mother (empress Han) died earlier and made him so depressed. Of course, it's not his mother's fault

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