Covering an area of 875 mu, it is an ancient palace-style building complex with magnificent momentum, grand scale and luxurious temples. It has always been called "the first ancestral temple in the world".
Taihao Mausoleum, based on Fuxi and innate gossip's mathematical theory, is an isolated case of a large palace-style ancient building in the imperial mausoleum temple in China. The whole temple is divided into three "imperial cities": the outer city, the inner city and the Forbidden City. The whole mausoleum has three halls, two floors, two corridors, two squares, one platform, one altar, one pavilion, one temple, one hall, one garden, seven views and sixteen doors.
These dozens of buildings mainly run through the central axis perpendicular to the north and south. If the north and south gates are opened layer by layer, you can directly see the huge mausoleum of the Fuxi family of Taihao in the Forbidden City from the first gate in the south, which is called "Ten Gates Photography".
Taihao Mausoleum faces the rippling 10,000-mu Dragon Lake in the south. 70 meters north along the lake is a Cai He River with a width of about 25 meters, which is the southern boundary of Taihao Mausoleum. The 1 1 meter-wide stone bridge across the Cai He River is called Dushan Bridge, commonly known as Mianqiao, which means good men, women and tourists who worship their ancestors. When they come here, they have already met with the "grandfathers" and should devote themselves to goodness. The bridge is 25 meters long, with an open-shouldered blue stone bridge and four stone lions at the bridge head.
Crossing the bridge 30 meters is the first gate of Taihao Mausoleum, the Wumen Gate. This gate was built in the Ming Dynasty. It rests on the top of the mountain with a single eaves, with three rooms wide, red doors and golden nails, 9 rows and 9 roads in the middle door and 7 rows and 9 roads on both sides, which is a royal rule.
There is a platform in front of it. There are three five-level vertical treads in front, and two hard gable walls on both sides. Above the door, there are plaques such as "Taihao Mausoleum", "Wumen Gate" and "Open the Heaven and Stand the Pole". Its east and west sides are about 24 meters apart, and it has a steamed bun-style rolled shed roof, east gate and west gate.
After the meridian gate, the main tunnel of the central axis is paved with bluestone, and the cypresses on both sides are towering and solemn. About 30 meters away from Wuchaomen, there is a small river called Daiyu River, and there are three open-shouldered stone arch bridges on the river, corresponding to Wuchaomen, Dongmen and Xitianmen respectively.
The Jade Belt River passes through the East and West Mausoleum walls and leads to the Cai He River. On the outside of the tomb wall, there is a well called Jade Belt Buckle.
Not far from Yudai Bridge, it is a temple-style "Easy Gate", formerly known as Tongde Gate, commonly known as "Sanmen", with a height of 8 meters and a distance of 0/26 meters from Wumaomen/KLOC. It is a hard mountain with a single eaves, with three wide doors and three coupons, and it is the second door of Taihao Mausoleum.
There is a tall building across the Yi Gate, and a stone tablet is hung upstairs, which is called "Congenital Gate". It is the building of A Qing Dynasty, and like Yimen Gate, it is named after praising Fuxi's achievements. There are three pavilions on the stage, covered with gray tiles, surrounded by cloisters, and there is a brick arch in the center of the stage.
After the congenital gate, it is Taiji Gate Square. There is a jade belt road running through the east and west, connecting Sancaimen in the inner city and Donghuamen in the outer city in the east, and Wuxing Gate in the inner city and Xihuamen in the outer city in the west.
Opposite the congenital gate in the north of the square is the "Taiji Gate", formerly known as Taiji Square or Jimen. It is the center of the East, West, North and South of Taihao Mausoleum, named after Fuxi innate gossip's mathematical theory, and it is juxtaposed with the "Second Instrument Gate", "Four Elephant Gate", "Three Talents Gate" and "Five Elements Gate".
Taiji Gate belongs to a three-story and three-column wooden archway in ancient buildings, built on a five-story high platform. There is a corner gate called "Looking Up" in the east and a corner gate called "Looking Down" in the west, to show that the Fuxi family of Taihao looks up at the sky, overlooks the earth, looks at everything, creates innate gossip and initiates Chinese civilization.
Beyond the Taiji Gate is the central courtyard of Taihao Mausoleum. There is a bell tower in the southeast corner of the compound and a drum tower in the southwest corner. East and west are opposite, five rooms wide and three rooms deep. It is a double-eaved cloister, built on the mountain. The lower part is a straight abutment, and the upper part is covered with grey tiles. There is a wooden ladder in the building to get upstairs.
There is a big clock cast in Ming Dynasty hanging on the bell tower. When you hit it, its voice is melodious. There is a big drum hanging in the drum tower. Knock on it, its sound is sweet. On the second floor of the bell and drum, the eaves are soaring, Zhao Mu confronts each other, and the morning bell and evening drum resound through the mausoleum area.
Corresponding to the Taiji Gate, facing it is the Tian Tong Temple, commonly known as the Auditorium, which was built in the Ming Dynasty. It is the largest and highest-ranking key building in the mausoleum temple, with five rooms wide, three rooms deep and a dragon and phoenix ridge. The roof is covered with yellow glazed tiles and the ridge is beautifully decorated.
There are three glazed Jixing pottery buildings in the middle and niches downstairs. The book in the niche has the word "Taihao Fuxitang", which has 28 constellations. The four corners of the temple are Pang Juan, Little Chef Hippo, Han Xin and Luo Cheng, "Four Unique People" and other kissing animals.
There is a "Zhang Ba Mu niche" in the temple, which is finely carved and solemn in shape. There is a statue of Fuxi in the niche, with horns on his head, tiger skin on his waist, leaves on his shoulders, gossip in his hand, barefoot and bare belly. Appreciate Zhu Xiang and Hao Ying around you. Zhu Xiang is Longfei's family, making calligraphy deeds, and Hao Ying is Ganlong's family, making armor calendars.
On the wall of the temple, there is a bluestone relief "Fuxi Holy Trace Map", which tells the story of following the giant's trail. Fuxi was born in Wanqiu, making a net, offering sacrifices, cooking stoves, surnames, getting married, drawing eight diagrams, engraving books, making calendars, making rituals and making wars, and returning all the foreigners to the service with dragons as officials.
There is a platform in front of the temple, which is the central place for ancestor worship ceremonies in past dynasties.
The Temple of Heaven and the Bell and Drum have two floors, and there are 42 east and west cloisters, which are in the shape of a square. There are cloisters, lattice doors and windows, tile ridges, kissing animals, painted eaves rafters and red columns and green windows in front. There are "Two Instrument Gates" leading to the outer city in the northern section of Donglangfu, and "Four Elephant Gates" leading to the outer city in the northern section of Xilangfu. The two doors face each other.
Walking down the back steps of Tian Tong Temple, it is the "Ren Xian Temple", which is second only to Tiantong Temple in scale, commonly known as the "Second Temple". Seven rooms are wide and five rooms are deep, with double eaves, grey tile roof, high platform cloister and huge columns. The structure is simple, dignified and rigorous.
Tian Tong Temple is 7 meters away from Ren Xian Temple, also called "Sleeping Hall". It is a high-rise building, with double eaves and hills, three rooms wide and three rooms deep. It is surrounded by cloisters and covered with gray tiles.
Your Highness is the gateway to the ancient city. Above the portal, there is the word "Taishimen" carved in relief. There is an iron plaque on the right that says "Follow Heaven" and on the left that says "Praise the Gods". The sleeping hall is built on the top, and the hatchback has steps and corner doors, so you can swim around the temple, so it is also called "transfer floor". The whole building was built in the Ming Dynasty, and it was built three times.
There is a 15 13 imperial monument in the building, so it is also called "Imperial Monument Pavilion". It is the earliest preserved ancient relic in Taihao Mausoleum. The inscription begins with the words "Hongwu four years".
There are more than 200 ancient monuments in Taihao Mausoleum, most of which are eulogies to Fuxi, and some of them describe the process of rebuilding or adding buildings in the mausoleum. Most of them are monuments where people from all over the world come to "worship their ancestors". And the emperor sent ministers to sacrifice, so it was called "Imperial Sacrifice Monument".
Behind the sleeping hall is the "innate gossip altar". The altar is made of blue bricks, with straight walls and equilateral octagons, surrounded by bluestones. Innate gossip blue bricks are used for the altar surface, and the order is dry, change, separation, shock, smoke, hurdle, root and Kun. There is an octagonal groove in the middle, on which there is an original "negative image of dragon and horse", commonly known as "four unlike images".
Behind the altar of innate gossip is the Forbidden City, and in the city is Fu's great mausoleum, which is "ten sous high". Below the upper circle, take the meaning of the circle.
There is a huge tombstone in front of the mausoleum, with a large diameter, no inscription and no age.
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