Cao's Park

Cao Cao Park

synonym

Cao's Park generally refers to Cao Cao park

Cao Cao Park, formerly known as Cao's Park, is located in Bozhou City, Anhui Province. It was renamed Cao Cao Park in 2010 because there are Cao Cao family tombs in the park. The park covers an area of 300 mu, and the building is imitative of Han Dynasty, which is magnificent. The park is divided into four parts: Memorial area, mausoleum area, rest area and recreation area. The main body of the memorial area is the Cao Cao memorial hall, covering an area of 2200 square meters. The built-in wax statues and exhibits of Cao Cao reflect his great achievements in politics, military affairs and literature. The mausoleum area is the tombs of Cao Cao's family, with forest of Steles, corridor of Steles, corridor, etc. visitors come here to express their nostalgia.

geographical environment

"Four tombs" are four mounds in the north-south arc distribution of Cao's Park, about 8 meters high and about 5 meters low, covering an area of about 2500 square meters. They are the tombs of Cao's family, and are known as "Cao Si Gu Dui" or "Cao's Gu Dui" among the people. The tombs are surrounded by pines and cypresses. In the dead of night, the wind moves the branches and leaves, making a rustling sound, just like the waves of the sea. Therefore, there is a saying of "four tombs of pines and cypresses".

The mausoleum area is the tombs of Cao Cao's family, with forest of Steles, corridor of Steles, corridor, etc. visitors come here to express their nostalgia.

geographical position

Cao Cao park is located on both sides of Weiwu Avenue in Bozhou City, Anhui Province. In a narrow sense, Cao Cao Park refers to the South Gate of Shaohua Road, the north gate of Hong Kong pedestrian street and zhulanxuan painting and calligraphy society founded by the famous calligrapher and painter Wei Kuan, and the east gate of Wei Wu Avenue, one of the main roads in Bozhou City. Caocao Park mainly includes Dongyuan Han tombs, caosigudui, Liuyuan gudui, Xuejia gudui, Guanyinshan gudui, Zhangyuan Han tombs, Mayuan Han tombs, yuanpaifang Han tombs, yuanbaokeng Han tombs, etc. It covers an area of about 10 square kilometers. On June 5, 2001, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

History and culture

According to the literature, there are tombs of Cao Teng, Cao Bao, Cao song, Cao can and Cao Yin in the south of Bozhou. In recent years, archaeological excavations have confirmed that in addition to the tombs of Cao Teng and others recorded in shuijingzhu, there are also tombs of Cao Ding, Cao Luan, Cao Xun, Cao Shui, Cao Xian and many unknown ones in the south of Bozhou. It can be seen that the Cao family, since Cao Teng's rise, has formed a huge bureaucratic group with a vast clan cemetery.

From the excavated tombs, we can see that the shapes and sizes of the tombs of Cao's ancestors are basically the same. They are multi chambered tombs with brick and stone structure. Generally, they are composed of front chamber, middle chamber, back chamber and different number of ear chambers or side chambers. Among them, the most representative are Cao Teng's tombs with stone structure and Cao song's tombs with brick structure.

The tombs of Cao Cao's ZongZu cover nearly 12 kilometers of Bozhou. Now there are two tombs, Dongyuan No.2 and Zhangyuan No.1. According to textual research, tomb No.2 of Dongyuan is the tomb of Cao Teng, Cao Cao's grandfather, and tomb No.1 of Zhangyuan is the tomb of Cao song, Cao Cao's father. The tomb group of Cao Cao's ancestor has been listed as one of the top ten buildings in Bozhou. Cao's Park was built on this basis. Dongyuan Village stone tomb, located in the southeast of Dongyuan village, Bozhou City, was excavated in 1973. According to the records of shuijingzhu and the unearthed cultural relics, the owner of the tomb is Cao Teng, Cao Cao's grandfather. The stone tomb of Dongyuan village is a large mound with bluestone inside. The door of the tomb faces east. It is 15.3 meters long, 10.2 meters wide and 3 notes high. It is composed of corridor, front room, middle room, back room, North and South ear room, and East and west side room. It is made up of 872 large stones. There are murals in each room of Dongyuan stone tomb, such as the pictures of ladies, visiting heaven, celestial phenomena, fairyland, etc Vast, just like a grand underground palace, it is of great significance to the study of the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty and underground architecture. It's a pity that all the burial objects in the tomb have been burned and stolen. The cultural relics cleaned up include: jade clothes with copper thread, jade pillow, metal pig, bronze claw ornament, ceramic fragments, etc. the shape of metal pig is very similar to that of today's Bakha pig, with protruding ridge, round body, short legs, erect ears and extravagant lips, which is of great value to the study of the development history of Chinese pig breeding.

Historical evolution

Park renamed

Bozhou Cao's Park was renamed as Cao Cao's Park, a word difference, attracted the attention of many citizens, Bozhou City, the relevant response said that the change of name is mainly to prevent Bozhou celebrities from being robbed by others, starting a celebrity defense war.

Caocao Park in Bozhou is the largest park in Bozhou and one of the famous tourist attractions in Bozhou. Free for tourists. Li Shaoyi, a researcher of Bozhou ancient culture, said that the predecessor of Cao's Park was actually a desolate and mysterious cemetery. In the early 1970s, a series of Cao Cao family tombs near gudui, such as Cao song's father's tomb and Cao Teng's grandfather's tomb, were excavated, which gradually made the identity of these isolated tombs clear. But what is the relationship between the owners of these isolated tombs and Cao Cao? The question mark continues.

In the late 1990s, Cao's Park was built to protect the four isolated mounds. On June 5, 2001, Caocao Park was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Social repercussions

Cao's Park, which has been used to being called by people, was suddenly renamed, which not only did not make Bozhou people feel uncomfortable, but also made many Bozhou people feel a sense of "hate late".

Liang Dayong, director of the Management Committee of Cao Cao Park, also said excitedly that the change of Cao's Park into "Cao Cao Park" will certainly benefit Bozhou. First, it will increase the popularity of Bozhou, and second, it will increase the popularity of the park. "At the same time, Cao Cao's identity as a native of Bozhou has been spread, which will play a positive role in promoting the development of tourism. I feel that changing the name of "Cao" to "Cao Cao" will be even louder. " Liang Dayong said.

Reasons for renaming

Three reasons for "Cao Cao Park"

Cao's Park changed its name to "Cao Cao Park" seems to be popular. So why did Cao's Park suddenly change its name to Cao Cao park at this time?

Fan Xinghong, deputy director of Bozhou culture and Tourism Bureau, listed three reasons for renaming Cao's Park as Cao Cao's Park: one of the reasons is to publicize Bozhou. Second, improve the market awareness of Bozhou tourism publicity. Third, we should prevent Bozhou celebrities from being robbed by others and start a celebrity defense war. "In recent years, the four famous people in Bozhou have been fighting all over the world. How can we prevent our ancestors from being robbed by others? This is also a good way to protect them." When it comes to Bozhou's historical celebrities, fan Xinghong is very sincere.

Cao Cao's cultural relics should be related to Cao Cao

Xue Bing, director of Bozhou cultural relics department, revealed that after the Cao's Park in Bozhou was renamed "Cao Cao Park", the four Cao's isolated piles in the park will also be renamed "Cao Cao family tombs".

Whether it's Cao's Park renamed "Cao Cao Park" or Cao's isolated pile renamed "Cao Cao family tombs", Bozhou people hold a common attitude this time. Li Shaoyi, a researcher of ancient culture in Bozhou City, also thinks that it is worthy of the name.

Li Shaoyi said: "compared with the original" Cao's Park ", the name of" Cao Cao Park "is louder, more attractive and clearer. Cao's solitary pile was changed into "Cao Cao family tombs", which is closer to Cao Cao and smaller in scope. Li Shaoyi very much agrees with the changed name. The original name of Cao's Park is really vague. At the same time, Li Shaoyi also suggested that the relevant departments, Bozhou should be related to the historical relics of Cao Cao.

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