Xuyou tomb
In the ancient Yao and Shun era,
Xuyou tomb
In today's Xuchang City, the hinterland of the Central Plains, there is an aristocratic scholar named Xu You, who is the leader of Kunwu tribe and the ancestor of Xu surname today. According to records, Xu You led his people to live mainly in Yanling County, Xuchang City and Jishan, Dengfeng City. He made a living by farming and valued righteousness over profit, so he became famous. When Emperor Yao knew about it, he wanted to give him the throne. Xu You didn't want to be an official, so he fled to Ji Mountain to live in seclusion. Yao asked him to be the head of Kyushu. He went to wash his ears and said he didn't want to hear this. Finally, Yao passed the throne to Shun. For thousands of years, the eternal beauty of Yao and Shun's demise has been widely praised. Xu Youren was also revered by later generations as the originator of hermits!
The ancestor of Xu, the teacher of Yao and Shun. He is famous for his resignation, seclusion and all ears. He is the first recorded hermit in the history of China, and is called the originator of hermits. Xu You's noble character of rejecting Rong Lu and retiring modestly had an important influence on the formation of China hermit culture and even Taoist culture, and became a part of China's traditional cultural spirit. The recluse thoughts, interests and feelings formed from Xu You, such as humility, tiredness of being an official, returning to nature, disdaining fame and fortune, being indifferent, traveling, forgetting poetry and books, working hard, etc., have been respected and pursued by intellectuals in past dynasties, forming the spiritual character of China intellectuals.
Gan Ming Temple Tower
Gan Ming Temple Tower in Yanling is located in the northwest corner of Yanling County, Xuchang City, Henan Province. The former site of Gan Ming Temple was built in the fourth year of Sui Renshou (604) and rebuilt in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Judging from the structure and shape of the tower, it was built in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty. The hexagonal 13-story pavilion brick tower is about 38 meters high. Under the tower is a blue brick tower foundation. Brick arches are built under the eaves of the tower, with coupon doors, fake windows and Buddhist niches. There are steps for climbing in the tower. On the second floor, the pagoda is embedded with inscriptions, and on the third floor, there are eight carved bricks of glazed Buddha statues embedded around the pagoda. At the top of the tower is a copper circular pagoda. In front of the tower is the inscription of the first year of the Dragon (1567) 1. 1986 1 1 month, announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Henan.
Yinzhou north
Important Inscriptions of Eastern Han Dynasty in China. The full name is "Han is engaged in inscriptions". Xiping six years in the Eastern Han Dynasty (177) was published. The seal script of the tablet has been broken, leaving only the words "cong" and "Ming". The monument is 2 meters high and 0.93 meters wide. In the year of Yuan Qing Yuan (13 12), Daluhua in Yanling County was discovered in Weichuan when repairing the Confucius Temple, then moved to the Confucius Temple and was buried soon. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (Jiajing), the river flooded and the embankment collapsed, but the stone came back and was put back in the Confucius Temple.
Inscription official script, *** 14 lines, full of 27 words. This paper introduces the family background and official position of Yin and Zhou Dynasties, followed by a eulogy. Yinzhou, whose real name is Nan Zhou, is a descendant of Yin Jifu, Zhou Xuanwang. Father is the guardian of the long-term social order. When Yin and Zhou were young, they ruled the biography of the ram in the Spring and Autumn Period. He once served as commander of Kunyang, and later engaged in it. He died in Xiping for two years (173) at the age of 62. Inscription is one of Han Li's representative works. Its font is square and vigorous, its structure is broad and clear, and its brushwork is elegant and vigorous. There is a word-for-word Ming Tuoben handed down from generation to generation.
Chimonanthus Yanling
Chimonanthus praecox is a traditional and precious ornamental flower with a long cultivation history and rich Chimonanthus praecox culture.
Chimonanthus Yanling
Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, called wintersweet Han Mei, and there is a saying that "Han Mei is known through a wild pond". Yao's Remnant Pieces also called Chimonanthus praecox a cold guest. Chimonanthus praecox is the first flower among all flowers before spring, especially the tiger-hoofed plum, which blooms in October of the lunar calendar, so it is called early plum. Chimonanthus praecox flowers first and then leaves, flowers and leaves do not meet, and branches are thinner when flowering, so it is also called dried plum. When Chimonanthus praecox blooms, it usually snows, so I want to enjoy Chimonanthus praecox. After the snow, you will walk through the snow, so it is also called Xue Mei. Also called wintersweet, because it blooms in early winter and bears fruit in winter, it is also called winter plum.
Chimonanthus praecox is mainly distributed in the southern part of the Yellow River Basin, cultivated everywhere, and wild in Qinling and Hubei. There are many cultivated varieties. According to Zhao Tianbang's book Chimonanthus praecox in China, Chimonanthus praecox has four varieties, 12 and 165. Among them, there are pure yellow, golden yellow, light yellow, dark yellow, purple yellow, silvery white, pale white, snow white and yellowish white, and the stamens are red, purple and white. Among them, the best is Yanling Chimonanthus praecox produced in Yanling County, Henan Province, which is known as "Yanling Chimonanthus praecox is the best in the world". The representative variety is' Suxin Chimonanthus praecox': it is called' Yanling Suxin Chimonanthus praecox' in Yanling literature, and its heart is white and fragrant. Because it is not completely open, the opening is downward, like "hanging on the golden bell", so it is called Jin Zhongmei.
Xing Guo Si Tower
Xingguo temple Tower, located in Malan Town, 5 kilometers south of Yanling County, is named after the temple name. The tower faces south, with depressions in the west, newly-built xingguo temple South Wall in the east, avenues in the south and houses in the north. This tower was built in Song Taiping during the period of rejuvenating the country. During the Northern Expedition, the sixth floor of the tower was given to warlord troops and was partially destroyed with mortars until 1937 abandoned the temple. 1963 Henan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau allocated funds for partial restoration. 1989, the provincial cultural relics bureau allocated funds to reinforce and widen the tower foundation to 3 meters. 1986 Henan provincial people's government announced it as the second batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.
Xingguo temple Tower is a pavilion-style building with nine-story hexagonal masonry structure and a height of 27 meters. It consists of three parts: tower foundation, tower body and tower gate. The tower foundation has a circumference of 20m, a height of 1m, a thickness of 1m and a width of 3m after reinforcement. Each floor of the tower is decorated with arches, rafters and flowers. The eaves of the tower extend 65,438+0 meters, and there are 6 door niches. The iron tower brake has a hollow tower body, the original wooden shed board has no tower body layer for a long time, and there are semicircular arch gates on the north and south sides of the tower body. A tower room is built at the south gate of the first floor, and a step is built at the north gate, so that the door can climb to the south gate (niche) on the second floor, around the tower eaves for half a week, and climb to the north gate (niche) on the second floor. You can climb from the tower on the third floor to the seventh floor with your feet. The external structure of the tower is rigorous, straight and beautiful, and it is a typical building in the Northern Song Dynasty. The tower has a good reference value for studying ancient buildings and Buddhist activities in the Song Dynasty.