Min Ziqian's tomb

Min Ziqian's tomb

Minziqian's tomb is recognized and well-known in two places, one is located in Jinan filial piety culture museum to the west of Jinan Baihua Park, and the other is located in minziqian village, 22 km southeast of fan county. Suzhou, Anhui Province also has minziqian ancestral temple and tomb, which is located in minci village, Caocan Town, Suzhou city. It is a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level

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brief introduction

Location 1: Min Ziqian's tomb is located in Jinan filial piety culture museum to the west of Jinan Baihua park. In front of the gate is a new antique temple. There is a sign on the wall that says "Jinan filial piety culture museum". On the north side stands a stone tablet engraved with the words "minziqian tomb", on which there are descriptions of the first batch of municipal key cultural relics protection units. Before the 1960s, min Ziqian's tomb was still very large. At that time, the tomb area was about 300 meters long from north to South and 200 meters wide from east to west. The diameter of the mound was 78 meters and the height was more than 10 meters. There were more than 30 ancient trees and more than 10 inscriptions. But later, during the cultural revolution, the whole tomb area was seriously damaged, the ancestral hall was demolished, the stele was destroyed, the ancient trees were cut down, only two trees were left, and the sealed soil was excavated to burn bricks and tiles. In recent years, with the appeal of many citizens to restore the protection of minziqian cemetery and the efforts of the cultural relics department, with the support of the municipal government, they successively invested more than 1.8 million yuan to repair the cemetery. The North-South Road on the west side of the cemetery is named minziqian road. Ouyang Zhongshi inscription. Then go north along the temple, more than 20 meters away is a protruding tomb. The tomb is about 3 meters high and the diameter of the earth seal is about 5 meters. It is round and surrounded by stone statues such as stone sheep, stone horse, stone lion, stone turtle, and two ancient trees.

Location 2: minziqian tomb, located in minzimu village, 22 kilometers southeast of fan County, is 1.5 meters high and 8.4 meters long, covering an area of about 20 square meters. The cemetery, which was near the Yellow River, was destroyed when it was washed away. According to the records of fan County: "in 1608, Chen kuichu, the magistrate of Wanli County in the Ming Dynasty, paid for the construction of tombs and ancestral temples. In 1809, Tang Shengxiu, the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, built a tomb temple and planted green cypresses beside the tomb. Sun Xingyan, the governor of Shandong Province, wrote an inscription on rebuilding Minzi's tomb. Minzifang, originally in the north of the tomb, was destroyed in the cultural revolution in 1966.

character

Min Ziqian (536-487 BC) was born in the state of Lu at the end of the spring and Autumn period. He was a master of Confucius. He was known as one of the 72 sages by virtue and Yan Hui. He is praised mainly for his filial piety. As one of the 24 filial sons, Confucius praised him and said: filial piety, min Ziqian! People are different from their parents. In the painting of twenty four filial piety compiled by the Yuan Dynasty, the allusion that Luyi shunmu whipped Luhua came from min Ziqian.

Address: minziqian Road, Licheng District, Jinan

Longitude: 117.06682736914

Latitude: 36.676714247553

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