This fully expresses the reverence for Emperor Yan. The main hall, with an area of 400 square meters and a height of12m, is a hall with A Qing style. In the center of the hall is the statue of Emperor Yan, 4.5 meters high, with bright eyes and solemn kindness. There are large murals painted on the walls on both sides of the temple about Emperor Yan, namely Changyang Imperial Beauty Alliance, Bathing Holy Kowloon, Saturnalia, Sun God, Medicine God and Emperor Yan, which tell the story of Emperor Yan's life and achievements. In the south of the main hall, there is a straight path leading to the back hill, and Yan Di Mausoleum is on the back hill. The path winds up along the mountain road with 999 steps. The Yandi Mausoleum here is a huge circular mausoleum, surrounded by four Zhou Songbai forests, and there are statues of the emperor on both sides of the passage in front of the tomb. The tomb of Yandiling was built with bluestone, and the words "Yandiling" were engraved on the tombstone. Mausoleum is a forest of steles for poems, couplets and paintings, praising the achievements of Emperor Yan.
In Gaoping, Shanxi, there is also a mausoleum of Emperor Yan, commonly known as the "Imperial Tomb". This mausoleum of Emperor Yan is said to have existed from Xuanyuan Huangdi. There is a temple behind the mausoleum called Gu Wu Temple. Gu Wu Temple was probably founded in the Song Dynasty. According to the inscription of Jiajing period in Ming Dynasty, the mausoleum of Shennong in Yan Di was handed down from generation to generation and was enshrined in the sacrificial ceremony. It is a scenic spot in our city because of its steep terrain and long-term deep occlusion of trees. 1475 "Rebuilding the Monument of Emperor Yan's Palace" records that the base site of Emperor Yan's Palace in Shennong is in front of Guguanli Village, and Zhao Ji's base site is too old to be verified. The temple is in the southeast of Ma Huan Village, where there are tombs and wooden fences around it, but there are more than 700 steps between the temple and the palace. According to Gaoping County Records, it is said that the ancient Yandiling was changed to Mazhen, 40 miles north of the county seat, where the emperor tasted grain. Later generations thought it was a mausoleum with a temple behind it, which was dedicated in the Spring and Autumn Period. Now the stone table is still there. Sun Zhu Zaiyu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang VIII, wrote in the article "New Records of Yangtou Mountain": The southeast of the mountain is called Guguan Village, and the east of the village is called Ma Huan Town. There are some ancient tombs in the southeast of the town. The ruins of the city wall are 60 steps wide from east to west and hundreds of steps from north to south, with dense pines and cypresses. According to legend, this is the mausoleum of Yan Di, and the stone pillars and objects are covered with gold and yuan.
There is a cypress tree in the temple with a root circumference of 6 meters. According to this inference, the Gu Wu Temple has a history of at least several thousand years. The temple is located in the north and south, with a huge building scale, surrounded by walls and divided into two houses. The central axis is divided into stage, stage sacrifice, mountain gate, south road and main hall. It turns out that there are many stone tablets in the temple yard, about forty or fifty pieces. After that, there were only five main halls and a dozen east and west wings. On the back wall of the East Wing, there is a stone tablet of Yan Di Mausoleum, which stands at 1 16 1. Behind the "Yandiling" stone tablet, there is a tunnel leading to the tomb, and there is a ever-burning lamp in the tomb, which never goes out all the year round. The main hall of Yan Di Mausoleum is five rooms wide and six rafters deep, with a suspended roof and a glass ridge. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty and was greatly maintained in the Ming Dynasty. On the ridge brake in the middle of the roof, the front is engraved with the words "Yan Di Shennong Hall" and the back is engraved with the words "Six years of Jiajing in Daming". The altar in the temple is about one meter high and is carved with relief patterns such as dragon, unicorn, deer and flowers. It turned out that there were statues of Emperor Yan and his wife's queen in the NuanGe on the altar in the temple, but later the statues disappeared. There are exquisite murals painted on the gables on the east and west sides. The content of the mural is Shennong growing grain, making farm tools and tasting herbs.
Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, it is the ancestor worship festival of Yandiling and Gu Wu Temple, and a grand temple fair will be held in the surrounding villages, lasting for nearly one month. There is a folk song, "Go to Yangzhou and go to Hankou, it is better to be the head of the club in Gu Wu Temple", which describes the grand occasion of the temple fair at that time. In the past dynasties, local people offered sacrifices to Yan Di Mausoleum every year.
In Shangqiu, Henan Province, there is also a tomb of Emperor Zhu Xiang, one of the ancient emperors, which means Emperor Yan. According to the note of Ci Yuan: "Zhu Xiang is nicknamed Yan Di." According to "zhecheng county County Records", "Zhu Xiangling is in the east of the county, which has been stagnant for a long time." According to legend, when Emperor Yan of Zhu Xiang was in power, strange winds often blew here. When the wind is strong, it is dark, sand and stones fly, the sky is dry and the earth is cracked, the plants are yellow, and the grains are not harvested. Natural disasters harm people, making them unable to live and even facing extinction. Emperor Yan of Zhu Xiang was so anxious that he decided to kill the people and save lives. So he asked his men to make a banjo out of twisted wires and cool barrels. The yellow wind stirs up the sky, pulls weeds and folds trees. Emperor Yan of Zhu Xiang sits at its high end, plucking the strings, and the sound is fierce, vibrating the sky, and the strange wind subsides. In an instant, the sky was overcast, it rained heavily and the grass sprouted. Since then, the weather has been good, the harvest has been good every year, and the granary is full. People live and work in peace. Emperor Yan of Zhu Xiang's family has been in charge of Zhu Yi for a long time and has done many good things, which has won the admiration of the public. According to "zhecheng county County Records", he was buried in the east of the city 15, with a tomb like a hill, named Zhu Gu.
It is said that after the death of Emperor Yan of Zhu Xiang's family, Zhu Yi people added soil, and the tomb was as big as a hill, which was given by the people. Although the tomb has been washed away by floods many times, it remains the same. During the Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, a small village gradually formed when there were people here.
The Yan Di Mausoleum is a circular clay structure, with a height of10.9m, a circumference of158m and a diameter of 50m. The tomb is surrounded by bluestone, with a height of 1.5 m, and the tomb is surrounded by steps made of bluestone, with a height of 50 cm, which means "the sky is round". The mausoleum is huge and magnificent. In front of the tomb, there is the tablet of "Yan Di Zhu Xiangling Mausoleum", Xiangchi and four stone tablets.
One summer, when neighbors were enjoying the cool under a tree, they found a pig arched in front of Zhu Xiang's grave, and a black thing arched out. Everyone picked it up and took a closer look. They were all surprised. It turned out to be a statue of Guanyin bodhisattva. The matter reached the government, and the county magistrate built a temple in front of Zhu Xiang's tomb. There are three halls, three mountain gates and several east and west wing rooms, which are quite large in scale and famous for their fragrance, so it was originally named Kannonji. Because the temple was in front of Zhu Xiang's mausoleum, it was later called Zhugu Temple. Legend has it that when Ming Huidi Zhu Yunwen couldn't escape to gather, he often went to Zhugu Temple in front of the mausoleum to burn incense to worship his ancestors and planted a Gleditsia sinensis tree in front of the mausoleum. Later, the tree has been flourishing and graceful.
There are also many cultural relics of Emperor Yan throughout the country. In short, Emperor Yan is one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, one of the first emperors of China, a god of agriculture and medicine, and his mausoleum, no matter where it is, is always worthy of people's sacrifice, and it is a holy place for our Chinese descendants to seek roots and sweep graves.
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