Lei Zuling

Lei Zuling

Leizu mausoleum, located in Qinglong mountain, Jinji Town, Yanting County, Sichuan Province, is "the first Mausoleum of the female ancestors of China". It faces south from the north, with the mountain as the mausoleum and the tomb as the heart, with the blue sky overhead and the sea of clouds in front. Leizu, Huangdi Yuanfei, is the great mother of the Chinese nation. She was "the first to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, to draw silk and weave, to make farming and mulberry, to make legal clothes, to promote marriage, to uphold etiquette, to set up palaces, and to lay the foundation of the country". She was honored as "the first silkworm" by emperors of all dynasties, and worshipped as "the God of silkworm" and "the God of action" by folk calendar.

geographical environment

It is located in Qinglong mountain, Jinji, where Leizu was born and buried. The tomb is a line of eight trigrams, with three sides exposed and five sides hidden inside. The mausoleum is 24.95 meters long, which means the highest of the twenty-four festivals and the ninth five year plan. The mausoleum is 60 meters in diameter and 190 meters in height, belonging to the first Mausoleum of Chinese female ancestors. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Leizu was widely respected by people from all over the world and officials of the imperial court. Because she first domesticated silkworm and created silk industry, Leizu was regarded as the first silkworm. In order to facilitate people's intuitive understanding, the wall of the temple was painted with a mural of "Lei Zu picking fruits and offering sacrifices to his relatives and discovering insects". There is such a written record in the temple: "Leizu, the daughter of the Xiling family, was the imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor yuan. She began to teach the people how to raise silkworms and manage silk cocoons for clothing. Later generations worshipped silkworms first." There is a conference room without a conference table in the side room. On the wall is an easy to understand picture of emperor Xuanyuan courting Leizu. The house that the painter imagined is far beyond the architectural style of the temple here. It looks like the palace of Leizu. The Yellow Emperor in the picture is like a bridegroom in a drama, with a sincere look. Leizu is generous and measured, which is the expression of the painter's position on Leizu. The main hall in the backyard is new. Climbing more than ten stone stairs to a platform behind, the courtyard is full of vegetables. In the main hall, the light from the lattice window pattern makes the hall show a kind of solemnity formed by transparency. The incense burner in front of the pavilion is also a stone relief incense burner with unique characteristics in China. It is 7m long, 1.5m wide and 2.5m high.

The temple complex of more than 3000 square meters is composed of Honghui Gaohua, Leizu palace, magnificent stage, clean and elegant memorial hall, conference room, office, reception room and kitchen. Gaodeng Town, where Leizu palace is located, has rich and colorful Leizu legends and unique Leizu landscapes. There are also a large number of unearthed cultural relics. Such as: stone axe, ancient mulberry fossil, ancient mulberry remnant, bronze mirror, golden silkworm, ancient silk, ancient Suozi, pottery chicken, pottery tiger, pottery cup, pottery house, Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coin and original sacrificial inscription. Leizu culture, with its unique connotation of great nation, great culture, great unity and unity, is unique in ancient civilization and ancestral culture.

Inheriting the excellent national culture, spreading Chinese civilization and learning the spirit of ancestors can not only enhance the national cohesion and centripetal force, strengthen the sense of national identity of the same root and origin, effectively promote the process of peaceful reunification of the motherland, but also help to stimulate the national pride of the global Chinese, enhance national self-esteem, self-confidence and the innovative spirit of constantly striving for the technological peak of the times, and serve the Chinese nation It laid a solid ideological foundation and spiritual power for the great cause of the rejuvenation of China.

Main landscape

South Gate Square area

The south gate square covers an area of 9000 square meters, all of which are paved with marble, with about 500 square meters of large-scale relief on the ground. It is lifelike for swimming fish, Tianshu, Shuiwen, Xiangyun, etc. The ecological water landscape revetment of 1800 square meters makes the whole South Gate Square area flexible and full of vitality, with about 5000 square meters of landscape greening. The South Gate Square is the main entrance of leizuling mausoleum and the main functional entrance for holding large-scale sacrificial activities. At present, the south gate is majestic and beautiful, and the "Chinese mother National Memorial Park" is shining. The tourist center is a two-story green tile antique building, with a construction area of about 1500 square meters and perfect functions. It can provide tourists with consulting, guide, e-commerce, special crowd services, special tourism commodities, route display and other services, and provide convenient, fast and accurate tourism information. The south gate is also the main vehicle parking and battery car transfer point in the scenic area. The large parking lot covers an area of 8000 square meters, with 90 parking spaces of various sizes.

Dam relief

From the south gate into the scenic area, all kinds of flowers and trees on both sides of the road are stacked and scattered, and birds sing and flowers smell all the year round. Walking among them, changing scenery step by step is beautiful. Looking at the vivid relief of the dam, the 800 square meter dam tells the story of Leizu's glorious life from heaven's gift to fengnv, tasting grass to help the people, discovering natural insects, raising wild silkworms, reeling silk to make clothes, combining leixuan with the people, passing on skills to the people, touring the world, and assisting the Yellow Emperor.

Hydrophilic wooden plank road

From the relief of Leizu lake dam to the top, it is a newly built hydrophilic wooden plank road. The plank road is 450m long and 6.5m wide. It is full of wood structure, solemn and simple, harmonious with the environment and natural. The plank road is scattered along the whole line, and there are five viewing platforms, so that you can have a panoramic view of Leizu mausoleum.

Island of peace

Stepping out of the wooden plank road is the starting point of the core scenic spot of the pilgrimage road, Heping island. Standing on Heping Island, leizuling stands majestically on the top of Qinglong mountain. Heping Island square covers an area of about 1900 square meters, forming a Tai Chi figure.

Shinto square

On the top of Heping island is a solemn Shinto square, covering an area of about 5000 square meters. All of the square is paved with granite stone, which is magnificent. At the entrance of the square are two majestic Han que towers. On both sides of the square, there are symmetrical and majestic granite relief cultural columns with the characteristics of "twelve Earthly Branches". Looking at the railings carved with tripod and Phoenix elements, it is natural.

altar

The whole altar square covers an area of 3600 square meters, and the altar covers an area of 1500 square meters. There are three layers in total. The first layer is surrounded by auspicious cloud patterns. All kinds of sculptures on the whole altar are superb. The Phoenix on the balustrade of each layer of the altar is lifelike. Standing in the center of the altar, you can feel with your heart and achieve the baptism of your soul.

Lingdao

After the altar, wufenglaiyi memorial archway is magnificent. At the beginning of the memorial archway, you can see that it is a high-rise Mausoleum Road. The total area of Leizu Mausoleum Road project is 27065 square meters. It is built according to the situation of the mountain, with a height of 93 meters and a total of 620 steps. The two giant ground carvings in the middle of the Mausoleum Road are like two phoenix flying around the Qinglong mountain. Two giant jade silkworms stand up from the Phoenix to show Leizu's great contribution of "de Pei, three emperors, and five emperors raise silkworms". Further up, the Phoenix memorial archway is glorious. On both sides of the stone steps behind the memorial archway, there are 12 tomb gods standing, guarding the peace of Leizu.

Leizu tomb

Leizu mausoleum stands on the top of Qinglong mountain. On the left and right sides are towering bell and drum towers. From a broad view, it is thousands of miles away. It was built long before the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is a place where people think of the past, cherish their relatives, and remember to offer sacrifices to Leizu. The restored Leizu mausoleum is in the shape of eight trigrams, with the mountain as the mausoleum, three sides exposed and five sides hidden inside. The mausoleum is 24.95m long, which means the highest of the twenty-four festivals and the ninth five year plan. The diameter of the mausoleum is 60m and the height is 190m. It is the first Mausoleum of Chinese female ancestors. In 1993, Yang Chao, a veteran leader and scholar of Sichuan Province, inscribed the "Leizu tomb" stele for the original tomb, which was included in the center of the tomb. The stele Pavilion in front of the mausoleum, 14m wide and 9m high, adopts the Kun hexagram structure of the eight trigrams. The tombstone is 2.8m high, 1.2m wide and 0.3m thick. The three ancient seal characters of "Lei Zu Ling" were written by Mr. Qiu Chengguang, a famous Chinese calligrapher in Singapore, in Yanting.

Sacrificial ceremonies over the years

2016 (bingshen) grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Lei Zu

Sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of Sichuan Provincial People's government, Mianyang Municipal People's government, and Sichuan Leizu Culture Promotion Association, the 2016 (bingshen) grand ceremony for ancestor worship in the hometown of Leizu, the Chinese mother, was solemnly held in the sacrificial square of leizuling in Yanting. More than 3600 representatives of Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered in the sacrificial square to participate in the grand ceremony of ancestor worship.

2017 (Dingyou) grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Leizu, mother of Huaxia

It is jointly sponsored by China Yanhuang Culture Research Association, Taiwan Affairs Office of Sichuan Provincial People's government, Sichuan women's Federation, Sichuan returned overseas Chinese Federation and Mianyang Municipal People's government.

2018 (1898) grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Lei Zu, mother of Huaxia

The third cross-strait Leizu cultural exchange activity and 2018 (1898) grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Chinese mother Leizu was held in Yanting National Memorial Park of Chinese mother Leizu, Sichuan Province. Nearly 10000 people from home and abroad, Taiwan compatriots and people from all walks of life attended the ceremony.

The grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Lei Zu, mother of Huaxia in 2019

The fourth cross-strait Leizu cultural exchange activity and 2019 (Jihai) grand ceremony of ancestor worship in the hometown of Chinese mother Leizu was held in Yanting County. Nearly 10000 Chinese people on both sides of the Strait gathered in the National Memorial Park of Chinese mother Leizu to Worship Chinese mother and promote Chinese culture.

It is co sponsored by the Chinese Yanhuang Culture Research Association, Taiwan Affairs Office of the provincial government, Provincial Department of culture and tourism, provincial Economic Cooperation Bureau, returned overseas Chinese Federation, provincial women's Federation, Provincial Federation of literary and art circles, provincial council for the promotion of international trade, Provincial Writers Association and Mianyang municipal government.

Leizu's allusions

Leizu in his youth showed his unique intelligence. One day, when Lei Zu was picking mulberry, he happened to find the yellow cocoon of mulberry insect and picked it to play in his mouth

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