Why are Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and Ming Mausoleum in Zijin Mountain?

Purple Mountain is located in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, also known as Zhongshan. The three peaks in Zhongshan are connected together like dragons and mountains. Water and the city are integrated into one, magnificent, and it was called "the dragon of Zhongshan and the tiger of Shicheng" in ancient times. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Wuhou once praised: "Zhongshan is long and flat, and the stone is on the side of the tiger, which is also the home of the true emperor."

Ming Mausoleum is the burial tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of Ming Dynasty, and his empress Ma Shi, which is located at the foot of Mount Everest in Dulong Prefecture at the southern foot of Zijin Mountain. Covering an area of 6,543,800 square meters, it is one of the largest imperial tombs in China. In 2006, it was listed in the first batch of AAAAA scenic spots in China. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da. At the same time, Liu Bowen boarded the Purple Mountain, agreed in advance that three people would go to see it separately, and wrote it in the palm of his hand after selecting the land of geomantic omen. As a result, all three people wrote to Du. So I chose this place to build a mausoleum.

Mingling mausoleum

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, including its ancillary buildings, covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters, and it is also an AAAAA-level scenic spot. Ming tomb is adjacent to the west.

19 12 Sun Yat-sen took office as the interim president of the Republic of China in Nanjing. On the same day, he went to the Ming Tombs and Purple Mountain to pay homage and give a eulogy:

Sun Yat-sen reported to me the good news of expelling Manchu and restoring the Han Dynasty. From the perspective of Han standard, Sun Yat-sen compared the career achievements of overthrowing Qing Dynasty with those of overthrowing Yuan Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang. Although it reflects the narrow nationalist concept of bourgeois revolutionaries.

19 12 In March, when Sun Yat-sen was hunting in the Purple Mountain, he once said nonsense: "I will die another day, and ask the people of China for this? Gram soil to place the body. "

When I died, I also left my last words: "After I die, I can be buried at the foot of the Purple Mountain. Because Nanjing is the seat of the interim government, I will not forget the Revolution of 1911. "

1925, Soong Ching Ling and others visited the tomb site in Zijinshan.

1925, Dr. Sun Yat-sen passed away. According to his last wish, his body was buried in Maoshanpo, Zijin Mountain. To the west is Linggu Temple, and to the west is the Ming Tombs.

It is not only a treasure trove of geomantic omen, but also faces the sages across the mountain and overlooks the whole Jinling City.