From the second floor of Dishui Cave to the west, there is a very quiet Qingshishan Road leading to Huxieping on Niuxing Mountain. The mountain road is steep and abnormal, and the bamboo forest beside the road is green. It climbed up the chain and reached Huxieping about 800 meters later.
According to legend, at the end of Qing Dynasty, Mao Siduan, Mao Zedong's great grandfather, followed a "Feng Shui master" into the mountains to chop wood and came to a mountain. During the break, he came across this place as a "land of geomantic omen", and Mao Siduan decided to leave it to his two sons: Chen De and Chen Yi. The two sons discussed and decided that whoever died first would be buried in this "treasure land".
1904, as a younger brother, Chen Yi died. In order to verify whether this place is a "treasure land", Mao Shunsheng just parked the coffin next to the cemetery and didn't officially bury it until 19 12. Legend has it that at the time of burial, the cemetery was surrounded by stones and tiger rocks on the flat where tigers rested. It's just that when putting the coffin, the soil is loose, just enough to accommodate a coffin. When the coffin was buried, there was a faint flute sound around. This legend gradually spread, and in the 1920s and 1930s, it reached the ears of Chiang Kai-shek who was superstitious about geomantic omen. At that time, the grandson of the tomb owner Mao was uprising in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It is said that Mao Zedong is immortal and a real dragon was born.
1On June 29th, 932, grave diggers of the Kuomintang rushed to Shaoshanchong and dug up the "Long Mai" in Mao Zedong in the dark to destroy the "Dragon Soul" of Mao Zedong. When the grave digger entered the tiger, he suddenly heard a noise outside the mountain, which made the bandits of the grave digger tremble, thinking that Mao's ancestral grave and grandpa's grave really appeared and the magic soldiers would secretly protect them. In his panic, he dug several graves at random and stole the bones, but Mao Zedong's grandfather's grave failed to be dug.
When Chiang Kai-shek and Mao repeatedly failed in the confrontation, Chiang Kai-shek decided to attack again, but the people of Shaoshan had learned the last lesson. They filled the graves of Mao Zedong's ancestors with earth overnight, buried gravestones in the ground and built several fake graves beside the graves. Therefore, the Kuomintang came to dig graves again because it could not find the direction at all and failed. After liberation, the organizers of grave robbery were severely punished by the people's government.
1986 65438+On February 28th, Shaoshan Administration excavated the buried tombstones when sorting out Mao Zedong's grandfather's tomb. The tombstone is inscribed as follows: Xia Yueji, son of Renzi in the first year of the Republic of China, tomb of Mao Gongyi's eldest brother, Wu Shan outside the inner mountain, male Yichang, Sun Zedong, Ming and Lin. The inscription means Zemin and Zeqin, which are the real names of the two younger brothers.
The name Hu Xieping is modern. Before the 1960s, there were often South China tigers resting and sunbathing here, hence the name. Now, Mao Zedong's grandfather's tomb in Huxieping has been restored. Two Shi Hu from Wenling, Zhejiang, lie on the stone hill in front of the grave, and a tiger pavilion is built on the north side of the ancestral grave. Tourists come here, accompanied by Shi Hu, overlooking the mountains, without exception, their hearts are shaken, and there seems to be a tiger whistling in their ears. Climbing into the distance, Shaoshan has a panoramic view.