Sacrifice to Huangdi Mausoleum in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

In the sacrificial ceremony of the Yellow Emperor in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Huangdi Mausoleum Temple was highly valued, and the Huangdi Mausoleum Temple in Xuanyuan was listed as the key for repair and maintenance. In the fifth year of Song Taizu Kaibao (972), according to Zhao Kuangyin's will, it was stipulated to sacrifice to the Huangdi Mausoleum in Qiao Shan once every three years. The Yuan Dynasty also attached great importance to the sacrifice of Huangdi Mausoleum. According to the regulations of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of creation, and the state should offer sacrifices. The Ming Dynasty also attached great importance to the sacrifices of the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's accession to the throne, he believed that Xuanyuan family of Huangdi was not only the founder of doctors, but also the ancient ancestor of the Chinese nation. In the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Taizu (137 1), the imperial court did agree that the place to worship the Yellow Emperor was in the central county of Shaanxi (now huangling county), and it was stipulated that the sacrifice should be held once every three years. The emperor personally wrote a eulogy and sent his ministers to Qiao Shan to offer sacrifices. Qiao Shan's Huangdi Mausoleum is listed as a national shrine for ancestor worship, and it is required that every time the mausoleum is sacrificed, stones and monuments should be engraved with inscriptions, the date of sacrifice, the name and quantity of sacrifice, the names of the principal and accompanying officials. He also sent a delegation from Zhongshu Province to visit the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, leaving the earliest monument to the Yellow Emperor in history. In the seventh year of Hongwu (1374), Ming Taizu ordered that a statue of the Yellow Emperor be built in the main hall of Xuanyuan Temple as a memorial service. Today, there are inscriptions on the Huangdi Mausoleum that emperors Ming Taizu, Chengzu, Xuanzong, Daizong, Yingzong, Sejong, Mu Zong, Zongshen and Xizong sent envoys to the Huangdi Mausoleum to offer sacrifices. In the Qing Dynasty, according to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, national sacrifices were held in the Huangdi Mausoleum in Qiao Shan, usually once every three years, and there were also temporary sacrifices. In the Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial ceremony of Huangdi Mausoleum Temple was grand, large-scale and numerous, with 30 times recorded. During Guangxu period, Qiu, a patriot from Taiwan Province, sacrificed to the Huangdi Mausoleum after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, leaving a poem "There is a legend of heroes in the sleeve, and the sunset comes to the Huangdi Mausoleum". On the Double Ninth Festival (1908), Shaanxi League paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and read the memorial in front of the ancestral tomb to show its determination to revive the Chinese nation.