The ancestral tomb of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, commonly known as the Imperial Forest, has always been a place where Liu's ancestors were worshipped in the local Hanlitang. Originally, there were tombs and shrines. However, after thousands of years of regime change and vicissitudes of life, coupled with the dilapidated buildings after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many historic buildings were destroyed, and there are now earth graves and some relics of Liu Qing, Liu Bang's great-grandfather and father of Emperor Tai Shang. In 1992, the local government and Liu's clan carried out protective restoration of the ancestral tomb of the Han Emperor. The main entrance is a Chinese-style red painted gate composed of four large stone pillars, and the lintel is inlaid with four characters of the ancestral tomb of the Han emperor. The two emperors at the gate are each guarded by a big stone lion. There are monuments and signs to protect cultural relics on the east side of the gate. After entering the gate, there is a courtyard. On the front of the courtyard is a white marble statue of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, which is more than 4 meters high. The right east wing of the courtyard is a showroom, in which Liu Bang's life is introduced. On the left, the West Chamber is the exhibition room of celebrities and cultures in the Han Dynasty. Located in the middle of the courtyard behind the statue of Liu Bang, the main hall is a tall and solemn hall of emperors in the Han Dynasty, in which there are statues of Liu Bang and 24 emperors in the Han Dynasty. The backyard is Liu Qing's tomb. The tomb is a circular mound with a brick retaining wall about 1 meter high around it. There are stone tablets embedded under the tomb wall, and the four characters of Liu Qingzhi's tomb are written. There are two ancient monuments in front of the tomb: the great ancestor of the Western Han Dynasty in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty and the hometown of Han Dynasty in the Qianlong period. The ancient monument has been damaged, and the handwriting is peeling off, but it is still faintly discernible. There are also Tang Yaodi Monument, Liu Leigong Monument, Liu Qingzhi Tombstone, Liu Renhao Monument, and Emperor Tai Shang Monument. To the north of the Han Emperor's Ancestral Cemetery, there is Liu's family shrine, named Hanli Temple, which is now a public site. The cemetery has asphalt roads connected with Fengdan Highway. On both sides of the starting end of the road from Fengdan Highway into the mausoleum of the Han Emperor, a pair of tall huabiao stand respectively.
Liu Qing was a doctor of Wei at the end of the Warring States Period. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed Wei, he moved from Kaifeng to Shili in the northwest of Fengxian and was buried here. In order to escape the pursuit of Chi, Liu Qing took the archaic character Liu Zi as his surname, and after great sadness, he restored Liu's surname, hence the name "Jin Liu Zhuang". During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, in order to suppress the Nian Army and Taiping Army, the Qing government called on all localities to dig ditches and build villages. Villagers in Jin Liu Zhuang also dug rivers outside the village and set up two gates for the east and west. From then on, Jin Liu Zhuang was also known as Jinliuzhai.
about Liu Qing's tomb, there are folk legends about "phoenix acupuncture" and "ants building graves". According to legend, when Liu Qing was alive, there was a dense buttonwood tree in front of the door. One day, when the wind was blowing hard and the dust was flying, a phoenix went against the wind and landed on the buttonwood tree in front of Liu Qing. Phoenix does not fall into a land without treasure. People say that Liu Qing is going to have good luck. Soon, Liu Qing died of illness, and his family was in decline for a long time. He didn't even have money for the coffin, so he had to plane the buttonwood for the coffin. During the funeral, there was a sudden thunder and lightning, and it rained cats and dogs. People couldn't open their eyes under the heavy rain, so people had to push the coffin into the pit of the buttonwood tree, scribble a few shovel soil and go home. The next day, when the weather was clear, people came to build graves, only to find that they had already been piled up by ants into a tall mound. Auspicious phoenix dug a grave for Liu Qing, and industrious ants built a grave for Liu Qing, which implies that heaven is auspicious and auspicious for the Liu family.
After Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, he built the Imperial Ancestral Mausoleum by imperial decree. Later, Liu Che, Liu Xuan, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu and Han Ming Emperor renovated it many times, making the Imperial Ancestral Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty a royal cemetery with complete ministries, large scale and magnificent momentum. In order to protect the ancestral tombs from floods, Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Dynasty built Yongning Temple in Fengxian ancient city to pray for his hometown, and built Taihang Dike behind the ancestral tombs of the Han Emperor. Today, there is still a section of the Taihang Dike River. The existing tomb of Liu Qing is five meters in diameter and three meters in height, surrounded by masonry walls. With Liu Qing's tomb as the center, due north is the Liu Family Temple, which is also called "Hanli Temple" because it is the hometown of Liu Bang. Liu Xin, the fifth grandson of Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu, the grandson of Liu Bang, was sent to Fengxian to guard the ancestral tomb, and was named "Hou of Lingxiang". After two years, he was demoted to a common people, and kept the mausoleum for generations to worship his ancestors. In the northeast corner of Liu Qing's tomb, there is the Temple of the West King, that is, the Temple of Liu Bang. In 199, a stone tablet erected in the 27th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1688) was discovered here. In the northwest corner of Liu Qing's tomb, there is the Dongwang Temple, that is, the temple of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a pair of stone caps and lions. On the left side of Dongwang Temple is Sanyi Temple, which is the memorial temple of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Taoyuan during the Three Kingdoms period. On the right is the Xuandi Temple. Later, when Liu Xuan proclaimed himself emperor, Fengxian worshipped his ancestors and built a palace. Now there is the stone threshold of "Xuandi Palace" by Liu Xuan, the new emperor. Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Liu Bei and Liu Xuan are all descendants of Liu Qing. Behind the Xuandi Temple, there is a stone tablet named "What is the view of a Bodhisattva Temple in the hometown of Han Dynasty?" in the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757). It can be seen that the Bodhisattva Temple and the Temple of Fire also came to join in the fun to borrow Liu's strong incense. In front of Liu Qing's tomb, there was a thousand-meter-long Shinto, lined with stone men, stone horses and stone prime ministers. What a magnificent imperial ancestral cemetery.