The Imperial Tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty, located in gongyi city, Zhengzhou City, has a history of more than 1,000 years since it was built in the sixth year of Gande, Song Taizu (AD 968). There were nine emperors in the Northern Song Dynasty. Except for Qin Zong, who was captured by Jin Bing and died, the other seven emperors and Zhao (the father of the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty) were buried in Gongyi. These tombs in the Northern Song Dynasty are commonly known as "Seven Emperors and Eight Mausoleums". In addition to the emperor's mausoleum, there are empresses and imperial clan nobles, as well as heroes such as Gao Huaide, Kou Zhun, Bao Zheng, Yang Liulang and Zhao Pu. There are nearly 1,000 mausoleums. Due to the war, most of the ground buildings in the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty were destroyed.
The imperial tombs in the Northern Song Dynasty are mainly divided into four areas: Xicun Mausoleum, Caizhuang Mausoleum, County Mausoleum and Baling Mausoleum. The West Village Mausoleum includes Yong 'an Mausoleum, Yongchang Mausoleum and Yongxi Mausoleum. Cai Zhuang Mausoleum includes Yongding Mausoleum, Gao Huaide Mausoleum, Cai Qiling, Bao Zheng Mausoleum and Kou Zhun Tomb. There are Yong Zhaoling and Yong Hou Ling in the county mausoleum area; Baling includes Yongyu Mausoleum and Yongtai Mausoleum. The imperial tombs in Song Dynasty are completely different from other imperial tombs: the mausoleum platform is located in the lower part, and the emperor and queen are buried in different caves, thus forming an isolated case in the history of ancient imperial tombs in China.
Address: gongyi city, Zhengzhou.
Opening hours:
Yongding Mausoleum 8: 00-1:30,14: 00-17: 30; The rest of the tombs are open all day.
Ticket information:
It's free. Yongzhaoling, located in the urban area, is open for free; Tickets for Yongding Mausoleum in the suburbs of 20 yuan; The rest of the graves are scattered in the fields, and there are no tickets.
Traffic guide
For Yongzhaoling (Songling Park), you can take buses such as 1, 8, and tourist line in gongyi city and get off at the west gate of the park (city hotel), or take buses 2, 7, and 9 to get off at the north gate of the park (Songling Building). You can take CMB at Gongyi Bus Station to reach Xicun Mausoleum, Caizhuang Mausoleum and Baling. The imperial tombs in the Northern Song Dynasty were scattered. If you go to the "Seven Emperors and Eight Mausoleums", it is recommended to charter a car.
Gongyi museum
Gongyi Museum is located in the southeast corner of Yongzheng Mausoleum in the Northern Song Dynasty, and its overall appearance is garden-style antique architecture. It consists of cultural relics collection hall, exhibition hall, office building, service building and other building facilities. There are 22 134 cultural relics, and 5 19 fine cultural relics are displayed in the exhibition hall. The basic exhibition includes seven parts *** 12 exhibition hall, including Luo _ treasure, Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb, stone carving art, ceramic essence, three colors of Tang and Song Dynasties, wood carving and jade, and temporary exhibition, which shows people a magnificent historical picture.
Address: No.82 Du Fu Road, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Closed on Monday, Tuesday-Sunday: 9: 00-1:30, 15:00- 18:00.
Ticket information:
It's free.
Traffic guide
Take bus 1, 3, 6 and Zhengxi high-speed rail line in gongyi city, and get off at the city museum station.
Yongzhaoling
Yongzheng Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Zhao Zhen, Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, this place was called "Xiaoyi Fort", also known as "Hall Garden", and now it has been transformed into Songling Park.
The entire Yongzheng Mausoleum is grand in scale and magnificent in architecture. It follows the feudal geomantic geomorphology and geomantic theory, moves with the terrain, and is surrounded by mountains and waters, with a dome in the southeast and a sag in the northwest. It consists of the Imperial Tomb, the Empress Mausoleum and the Summer Palace. Quetai to Beishenmen, the north-south axis is 55 1 m long. There are 13 pairs of stone statues, 2 pairs of Shiyang, 2 pairs of Shi Hu, 2 pairs of stone horses, 1 pairs of stone horns, stone suzaku, stone statues and stone watchtowers, which are east-west symmetrical. These stone carvings are exquisite and lifelike, among which "Qin Rui" and "Horn" are masterpieces in the history of sculpture.
There are many precious sacrifices buried under the mausoleum, and there are many buildings on the mausoleum, such as the upper palace, the lower palace and the temple palace view, which have been seriously damaged now. In the Yuan Dynasty, tombs were looted, plowed into ruins, and a generation of cultural relics and facilities were completely destroyed, and the prosperity and grandeur of the past were no longer seen. There are existing building bases such as magpie platform, breast platform, gate valve and angle valve on the ground, especially Shinto stone statues are well preserved.
Address: No.84 Du Fu Road, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
8:00- 18:00
Ticket information:
It's free. The tour guide explains about 30 yuan.
Traffic guide
Take bus 1 8, and get off at the west gate of the park (city hotel), get off at the north gate of the park (Songling Building) on bus No.2, No.7 and No.9, and get off at the south gate of the park (Sunshine Hospital) on bus No.3, No.6, and get off at the east gate of the park (Armed Police Hospital).
Yongxiling
Yongxi Mausoleum is located in the northeast of Hutuo Village, Xicun Town, gongyi city, about two kilometers northwest of Yongchang Mausoleum. This is the tomb of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty. Twenty-four pairs of Shinto statues in front of the mausoleum are well preserved, as are the stone lions outside the four palace gates in the east, west, north and south. There is a new tree stone tablet in front of Tainan Mausoleum, engraved with the words "Song Taizong Zhao Xuanguang Yiling".
The most famous stone sheep in Yong Xiling, together with the stone lions in Yong Yuling and the stone statues in Yongtai Mausoleum, is the top-grade stone carving in the Mausoleum of the Song Dynasty, and it is said that "Hutuo Mausoleum is a stone sheep". These stone sheep lie with their heads held high, with beautiful images, vivid charm and vivid ecology. They are the most plump, vivid, beautiful and affectionate images of sheep in the mausoleum sculptures of Song Ling and even China.
Except for Shiyang, other animals and figures are well preserved. The image of princes is changeable, with exquisite carving techniques, or with fine eyes, high nose and deep eyes, or short stature, holding gifts for the emperor. It is also a good place to enjoy the stone carvings in Songling. From Yongxi Mausoleum, you can have a panoramic view of the architectural sites and stone carving sites in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Address: Northeast of Hutuo Village, Xicun Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Open all day
Ticket information:
No tickets are needed.
Traffic guide
Gongyi Bus Station takes CMB from Gongyi to Xicun and gets off at Lingao.
Yongchang tomb
Yongchang Mausoleum, located in the north of Xicun Town, gongyi city, is the mausoleum of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Lingdong is adjacent to his father Zhao Xuanzu's Yong 'an Mausoleum and his brother Taizong's Yongxi Mausoleum in the west. It is said that Yongchang Mausoleum was selected by Zhao Kuangyin himself. After paying a visit to his parents' mausoleum, he boarded the turret and lamented that time flies, so he took out his bow and arrow and shot it to the northwest, and told the minister that the place where the arrow landed was his "Imperial Hall", named Yongchang.
Yongchang Mausoleum is well preserved. The height of the mausoleum is about 15 meters. There is one door in the east, west, north and south, and 1 pair of stone lions are placed outside the four doors. Outside the south gate of the cemetery and north of Shishi, there are a pair of town gate warriors; There are two pairs of imperial secretaries at the south gate and in front of the mausoleum. The south gate is 45 meters away from the breast platform, and all kinds of stone statues are arranged symmetrically. 37 pieces, including elephant trainer 1 piece, 2 envoys, 3 horse control officers, 2 envoys and western military commanders 1 piece.
In addition, the only Swiss bird with sheep's head in Song Ling can be seen in Yongchang Mausoleum. There are also two samurai, and the statues are grotesque: both of them are big heads, and one is wearing a huge helmet, even covering his ears and standing askew with a weapon; The other is a tall man with a pocket axe and a smile.
Address: North of Xicun Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Open all day
Ticket information:
No tickets are needed.
Traffic guide
Gongyi Bus Station takes CMB from Gongyi to Xicun and gets off at Lingao.
Yongyuling
Yongyuling, located in the southeast of Baling Village in the southwest of gongyi city, is the tomb of Song Shenzong Zhao Yong, the sixth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was built in 1085. There are two mausoleums in Baling Village, which are called Baling District, Yongyu Mausoleum in Song Shenzong to the east and Yongtai Mausoleum in Song Zhezong to the west. Dongling is the most exquisite place for carving stone lions, while Xiling is the best stone statue, which is what the locals call "the lion statue of Dongling".
The two stone lions carved on both sides of the Shenmen Gate in the south of Yongyu are perfect. They looked at each other, glaring at each other, and they were forceful. The lion hung a bell around his neck and tied a chain on his back. His legs are muscular, he strides forward and is full of energy. This is also the most successful work of Songling stone lion modeling.
Yongyuling is "stacked" with a slightly square bottom. The original two steps no longer exist. There are 17 stone carvings in front of the tomb, all of which are exquisite. Even foreign envoys are lifelike, with curly hair and even curly beards, holding gifts for Zongshen.
Address: Southeast of Baling Village, Zhitian Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Open all day
Ticket information:
No tickets are needed.
Traffic guide
1. Yongyuling is near Gongyi South Station. After getting off at Gongyi South Station by train, you can take a taxi or walk.
2. Take the No.2 bus from Gongyi to Zhitian Town at Gongyi Bus Station, then take the minibus to Baling Village and walk out of the village in the southwest.
Yonghouling
Hou Yongling is located in gongyi city, about 200 meters northwest of Zhao Yongling, near gongyi city Chinese Medicine Hospital. This is the tomb of Zhao Shu in Song Yingzong. Song Yingzong has no chance to ascend to the throne. Because Song Renzong had no children, he became the first emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty to inherit the great cause of reunification as the eldest son. Among the tombs buried with him are Gao Empress and Wu. It is said that the tomb of Yang is among them.
Hou Yongling Mausoleum is a very humble mausoleum in the Northern Song Dynasty, with a residual height of15m and a square bottom. There are still 16 stone carvings before the tomb, of which the most exquisite is the only "watchtower" left in the east. It is octagonal, and each side is carved with a fine Yunlong pattern, which is as thin as a hairspring and changes in flow. It is the best stone carving in Songling.
There are still 46 stone carvings on both sides of Shinto, including 24 in the east and 22 in the west (lack of elephant tamers and envoys). Although these 46 stone carvings exist, they are poorly preserved. Some were only cut in half, and some were beheaded. The noses and mouths of stone statues and stone lions were badly damaged.
Address: 200 meters north of Yongzhaoling, Xinhua Road, gongyi city, Zhengzhou.
Opening hours:
Open all day
Ticket information:
No tickets are needed.
Traffic guide
After going out from the west gate of Yongzhaoling (Songling Park), cross the road and go west. This road leads to Gongyi weather station, and Yonghouling is just west of the weather station.
Yongtai mausoleum
Yongtai Mausoleum, located in the southwest of Baling Village, gongyi city City, Song Zhezong, is Zhao Xu's mausoleum. Compared with the Li Yongling Mausoleum in East Song Shenzong, the local people call it Xiling. Xiling is the most famous stone statue, alongside the stone lions in Yongyuling and the stone sheep in Yongxiling. Therefore, there is a saying that "the lion in Dongling is like Xiling, and the stone sheep in Hutuo River is good".
Song Zhezong Zhao Xu ascended the throne at the age of 9, and didn't take power until the death of Empress Dowager Gao eight years later. In Wang Anshi's political reform, he restored the Jiabao law, the exemption law and the young crops law, which reduced the burden on farmers and improved the country's situation. He was also one of the more successful emperors in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Jin Dynasty, Song Ling was destroyed and excavated on a large scale. Today, there is only a bare mound left in Yongtai Mausoleum.
There are only 1 elephant tamer in the stone carving erected on the Shinto of Yongtai Mausoleum, and only 1 maid without head among the original four eunuchs and maids in front of the Mausoleum. The military commanders in front of the mausoleum are tall and powerful, the Swiss animals have fine patterns, and the horses and birds are also vividly portrayed, which is worth appreciating carefully.
Address: Southwest of Baling Village, Zhitian Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou
Opening hours:
Open all day
Ticket information:
No tickets are needed.
Traffic guide
1. Yongtai Mausoleum is near Gongyi South Station. You can take a taxi or walk to Gongyi South Station by train.
2. Take the No.2 bus from Gongyi to Zhitian Town at Gongyi Bus Station, then take the minibus to Baling Village and walk out of the village in the southwest.
Heluo confluence scenic spot
Since ancient times, Heluo culture has been the source of Chinese culture. According to legend, it is a place where rivers draw pictures, Luo writes books and Fuxi draws gossip. According to historical records, the Yellow Emperor, Emperor Yao, Yu Shun, Yu Xia, Shang Tang, Zhou Chengwang and Duke Zhou all made sacrifices here when they ascended the throne. Therefore, the Heluo region has an extremely important position in history, attracting literati, social sages, Chinese and foreign celebrities to mourn their homeland and write poems and fu, leaving a large number of poems and songs, forming an extremely rich Heluo culture.
At the same time, the scenery here is also beautiful. According to legend, there were eight scenic spots in Gongxian County during the ten years of Qianlong, including assorted valley, spring outing in Luokou, autumn wind in Mangling and night bell in grottoes. Climbing to the top of the mountain, you can see the spectacular sight of the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Luohe River. Looking at the Yellow River in the west, the turbid waves are surging, and the water comes from the sky and flows eastward. South Zhanyi Luo, two clear and turbid waters meet, and the river and Luo are distinct.
Address: gongyi city East 10 km at the intersection of the Yellow River and the Luohe River in Heluo Town, gongyi city, Zhengzhou.
Ticket information
Free admission ticket
Traffic guide
Heluo confluence scenic spot is located at the intersection of the Yellow River and Luohe River in Nanhedu Town, Gongyi, about 10 km away from Gongyi urban area, and the tourist bus from Yongzhao South Gate is direct.