Law making platform

The site of zaolutai is located in the southeast of the ancient county, 25 kilometers southwest of Yongcheng city. It is said that Xiao He, the Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty, made laws here, hence his name. There are round mounds in the site. It is about 7 meters high, 54 meters long and 34 meters wide at the bottom. The thickness of the cultural layer is 8-9 meters. The upper level is the remains of Shang Dynasty, and the lower level is the remains of Longshan Culture in Henan Province. Now it is a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

Zaolutai site

synonym

Zaolutai generally refers to the site of zaolutai

Zaolutai site is located in the southeast of Xucheng Town, southwest of Yongcheng City, Henan Province. It is an ancient cultural site. It is said that Xiao He, the Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty, made a law here, so it was named zaolutai. This kind of legend does not conform to the historical facts, but Xiao He was granted the title of Zhu.

There are round mounds in the site. It is about 7 meters high, 54 meters long and 34 meters wide at the bottom. The thickness of the cultural layer is 8-9 meters. The upper level is the remains of Shang Dynasty, and the lower level is the remains of Longshan culture

. There are rich cultural relics here, including stone axes, bone arrows, bone cones and so on.

As a historical relic with rich cultural connotation, zaolutai is of great significance to respect the sages, abide by the law and warn future generations.

In June 1963, the people's Committee of Henan Province announced the first batch of key cultural relics protection units

. In May 2013, it was approved as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

brief introduction

Zaolutai, also known as Dutai in ancient times, is located in the southwest of Chengzhen government. Xiaoqing is one of the eight ancient sceneries in Yongcheng. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, visited here with his friends. He wrote in his poem "reminiscent of the past, visiting Qiaojun and joining the army in Yuan Dynasty": "once you meet a king at the south end of the Weiqiao bridge, you will be separated from the others in the North of juantai."

It is said that Xiao He, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, made laws in Taiwan, so it was named at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. After Liu Bang passed through the country, he knew that the land belonged to Pei County, his hometown. That is to say, he designated the county as his own Tangmu City, so he transferred the land of Xiao He to Gucheng County of Nanyang (now Gucheng County of Hubei Province).

In 1936, archaeologists from the Henan Provincial Institute of historical sites of the Kuomintang came to zaolutai for excavation.

Legend of zaolutai

The story takes place from 202 BC to 195 BC. Liu banggang calmed down the world and put forward the policy of "recuperation". In order to govern the country well, he ordered Han Xin to set up the military strategy and Xiao He to write a code of laws within two years. As Xiao He was old and infirm, there were rebellions in various regions, and he needed to be punished. He was busy with state affairs, so he could not spare time to make laws. In order to accomplish this task, Xiao he discussed with the emperor to recruit talented students to study and write together. There is a poor scholar named Qiu Sheng in the county town of Zhen. He had both talent and appearance. He knew astronomy and geography well, and he was well-educated. He was regarded by Xiao He as a "counselor" with a monthly salary of six taels of silver. Xiao He ordered Qiu Sheng to create a code within one year. As a result, Qiu returned to his hometown of Zhen County. Because of the noise and uneasiness of living in the street, Qiu set up a hut on a large earthen terrace about 100 meters high, two miles away from home, and wrote the law behind closed doors.

Qiu Sheng's wife has to climb a hundred meter high platform to deliver food to her husband for three meals a day. No matter it's stormy, cold or hot, the good wife will deliver the food from the beginning to the end.

Just in the season of peach blossom, Qiu Sheng's law book was written nine months in advance. When she was delivering food to Qiu Sheng, she happened to pass by her uncle's peach garden. She saw big and sweet peaches all over the tree, which were blown to the ground by the wind. Without telling her uncle, she picked up two peaches from the ground and wrote a code for her husband nine months in advance to celebrate. But unexpectedly, he broke the law made by his husband and was considered to have stolen the peaches he picked up in the peach garden without the master's knowledge. According to the law, he violated the "crime of stealing the law" of disobeying women's morality. She was taken back to her mother's home by her husband.

After Qiu Sheng divorced his wife, he didn't tell his mother that his daughter-in-law had been divorced. His mother was very angry and asked Qiu Sheng to withdraw the letter of divorce and get her back. Qiu Sheng thinks that the laws he made have not yet been promulgated, and the law enforcers turn back. How can he govern the country well and educate others not to break the law? He believed that the law was merciless, supreme and inviolable. So Qiu Sheng didn't listen to his mother and didn't get his daughter-in-law back. Qiu Sheng's mother asked her son, "what's the crime according to your law to divorce your mother?" Unexpectedly, Qiu Sheng violated the law he wrote. According to the law he made, he committed "unfilial crime" and should commit suicide. Qiu Sheng's mother tried to find out how to deal with her son's violation of the law. Unexpectedly, Qiu Sheng's character was so rigid that she sacrificed herself for the law.

After giving orders to his mother, Qiu Sheng killed himself with scissors.

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