Description of Lei Zu Memorial Hall:
The boat leaves Xiling Gorge, overlooking Xiling Mountain, and among the green trees in front of Wangniang Slope, there is a Lei Zu Memorial Hall commemorating the mother of the Chinese nation.
Silk is in Xiling. Xiling has a vast territory. In the era of the Yellow Emperor, Xiling was all historical records, and it has a history of more than 4, years. Ancient Xiling, that is, with Yichang as the center today, includes parts of eastern Sichuan, western Hubei, northern Hunan and Jingxiang. Xiling Gorge is named after Xiling Mountain, which is a famous mountain in Xiazhou (now Yichang) at the junction of the middle and upper reaches of the river. In the Records of Yuanfeng Nine Domains written by Cun Wang in the Song Dynasty, Xiling Mountain was listed as the first of six historic sites in Xiazhou.
According to Records of the Historian, the Yellow Emperor lived in the hill of Xuanyuan and married the daughter of Xiling for Lei Zu. Lei Zu was the imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor, and gave birth to two sons. After that, there was a world: one was the mysterious vessel, which was for Qingyang, and Qingyang settled in the river; The second is Changyi, and it is like water. Changyi married Shushan's daughter, called Changpu, gave birth to Levin, and Levin was blessed. Yichang belongs to the territory of the ancient Xiling Kingdom, which is the center of the distribution of Xiling tribes, and is naturally the hometown of Lei Zu, the daughter of Xiling. In today's Xiling Mountain in Xiling Xiakou Scenic Area of Yichang, in Lei Zu Cave beside the Ancestors' Creek, in Xuanyuan Cave and Xuanxiao Cave on Huangniu Rock, there are sacred sites of Lei Zu everywhere. Lei Zu teaches people to reel their silkworms, and has established the achievement of illumination for generations to come. The people of Xiling have been honoring Lei Zu as the Mother Silkworm from generation to generation. Every year, on the 15th day of the third lunar month, Lei Zu was born, and a temple fair was held to offer sacrifices.
Lei Zu combined with the Yellow Emperor to unify the great cause of China. She worked day and night, devoted herself to it, and died. When she accompanied the Yellow Emperor on his southern tour, she died on the way because of overwork and died in front of Lei Zu Peak in Hengshan Mountain, Nanyue. The Yellow Emperor named her as the ancestor god and Taoist god, and people honored her as the protector of sericulture and textile industry.
Xiling Mountain, the holy land of Lei Zu. As early as the Song Dynasty, it was inscribed as a monument in Xiazhou. In the Ming Dynasty, Xiling Mountain was a towering ancient tree, and at that time, Xiling Mountain Temple had formed a considerable scale.
The ancient Xiling Mountain is a sacred place to worship Lei Zu, the daughter of Xiling, the princess of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The ancestral temple on Xiling Mountain was destroyed by the artillery fire of the Japanese aggressor army in June 194. Ruthless history has recorded the blood feud of the land being ravaged, the people being slaughtered and the ancestral temple being bombed, and has given us a warning that we should always remember that backwardness will be beaten.
With the reform and opening up, the country prospered, and Yichang people made in-depth textual research, as early as the end of the 198s, they put forward a motion to restore the Xiling Mountain Scenic Area and establish the Lei Zu Memorial Hall. After entering the 199s, the textual research on the Xiling area and the wife of Xiling became more and more thorough, and was fully discussed in newspapers and magazines, forming a good situation of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, and achieving a win-win situation for both sides. On the basis of full discussion and extensive consultation, the construction plan of Xiling Scenic Area was perfected, and ground was officially broken in February 1993.
In July, 1994, Lei Zu Temple, the first phase project of Xiling Mountain Scenic Area, was completed. Lei Zu Temple, a memorial building, covers an area of 925 square meters, with a building area of 1,217.27 square meters. From the outside, it looks like three floors, but actually it has four floors, with multiple double eaves and sharp corners. From the bottom to the top, the height is 26.53 meters; Twenty-four groups of wind chimes, hung with upturned corners, fluttered with the wind and spread across the sky.
On the first floor, you can see the Lei Zu Palace. At the top of the hall, there are exquisite painted and magnificent dragon and phoenix auspicious patterns, and there are 8 groups of 16 fighting arches and 28 phoenix under it, representing the descendants of the Chinese people all over the world, in all directions. Stepping into the big threshold, you can see the peony flower symbolizing richness when you look up, indicating the prosperity of the Chinese nation; Painted lotus root overflows with fragrance, which represents the noble character of Chinese children. In the center of the hall, there is a statue of Lei Zu, which is 6.3 meters high and was recreated by Chongqing Academy of Fine Arts according to the image of Lei Zu drawn before the Ming Dynasty. Lei Zu is spinning silk with a cocoon in his hand. Two maids, one holding a golden shuttle and the other offering silk. Lei Zu is kind and dignified, just like teaching people silkworms to teach artists.
after the completion of the first phase project of Lei Zu Temple, the first national seminar on Lei Zu culture was held in Yichang, which was jointly organized by China Yanhuang Culture Research Association, Hubei Yanhuang Culture Research Association and Yichang Municipal People's Government. More than 6 scholars and experts from Beijing, Hunan, Sichuan and Hubei gathered in Xiling Mountain to deeply study Lei Zu from different disciplines and explore the silk culture. With a large number of documentary facts, Yichang was eloquently confirmed as the historical position of ancient Xiling.
Today, Lei Zu Memorial Hall has become an educational front to promote excellent traditional culture and scientific civilization. When people approach the square in front of the museum, the Lei Zu Memorial Hall and the statues of Huangdi and Lei Zu will come into view. Climbing up the stairs, the double pavilion-style stele gallery will open its mind to you, and the inscription on the stele will tell you the history of the ages; Walking out of the stele gallery, the handwriting of Lei Zu, the mother of the Chinese nation, inscribed by Ms. Lei Jieqiong as a national leader in 1994 stands on the left in front of the temple. Standing on the right is a temple tablet. With the quotation of Shuowen Jiezi, it is noted that Lei Zu is a folk temple and a temple for ancestor worship.
Climbing up the stairs again, under the banner of the first ancestor of humanity, there is written a seven-character collection of Xiling Mountain people:
The first part is: Xuanyuan Hongen is better than the universe, and the second part is: Lei Zu's great achievements are Guan Gankun.
This couplet compares the universe with great kindness and makes great achievements in Gankun, affirming the ancestor status of Lei Zu and the Yellow Emperor.
when you step into the pavilion, a pair of long couplets jumps into your eyes.
The first couplet is: Mulberry, green, and wild clothes are worn by all the people, and the Lei Zu Chinese Virgin is magnificent;
The bottom line is: Silian Kyushu has been shining for thousands of years, and it's glorious, and it's colorful, and it's a princess, a silkworm mother in Chuxia.
Praise Lei Zu's historical achievements, and write down Lei Zu's great contribution to human civilization by inventing sericulture and reeling!
On the wall of the back hall, there is a finely crafted silkworm picture of Lei Zu, the Yellow Emperor. This is a bronze-like mural with simple and elegant characters and lifelike pictures.
on the second floor, you will enter the Lei Zu performance exhibition. In the four sections of the ancient silk in Xiling, Lei Zu, the first silkworm in Lei Zu, you will see the fruitful achievements made by Yichang scholars, experts and practical workers in the research work of Lei Zu project and Xiling textual research for more than ten years. With a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts, speaking with facts and testifying with documents, they corrected Li Daoyuan, the author of Notes on Water Classics, and mistakenly carved Xiyang in Huangzhou as Xiling and the annotations in Historical Records by Zhang Shoujie and Xu Guang, the literati in Tang Dynasty, which caused great mistakes through the ages, thus once again confirming Yichang's historical position as an ancient Xiling.
When you walk out of the dance hall on the third floor, you will be involved in the wave of joy and be absorbed in the music of Ode to Lei Zu. The song and dance performance of picking mulberry, weaving silks, meeting and seeing again will lead you from ancient times to reality. With the cheerful and emotional music, you will be tempted to go to Lei Zu and offer flowers. Your actions just show the Chinese people's devotion to their ancestors.
when you go up to the fourth floor, you will see the sign of "unauthorized viewing". The illegal building is low, and the vision is difficult to show, so people can see it. The Lei Zu Memorial Hall is unique in its view of the illegal building. In the illegal building, you can not only enjoy the spectacular beauty of lifting your eyes to see the Three Gorges, bowing your head to Gezhou, and the beautiful scenery of Xiling Mountain, but also see the footprints of Yichang from ancient Xiling Mountain to modern civilization.
Come down from the illegal building, pass through the Xumi Temple of the Fire Phoenix, cross the Taoli Forest and the Osmanthus fragrans Forest, and walk into the Xiling Ceramic Garden. Here, you can not only see the Gulong Pit, but also see the pottery experts teach you the pottery-making skills with modern electric kilns, prompting the mysteries of ancient pottery.
Come to Lei Zu Memorial Hall, pay homage to your great mother, and do your duty of filial piety for Chinese children!