The next day, when people saw the cypress tree in front of the tomb split in two, they mistakenly thought it had been cut by ghosts and gods. They all clapped and cheered, which was very satisfying.
The next day, when people saw the cypress tree in front of the tomb split in two, they mistakenly thought it had been cut by ghosts and gods. They all clapped and cheered, which was very satisfying. Regarding the origin of the kneeling statue of a traitor in front of the tomb, according to records, in the eighth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Du commanded Li Long to cast Qin Hui, Wang's, Wanqi? The three statues, kneeling in front of the tomb, were soon smashed to pieces by the indignation of the tourists. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Lai, the deputy envoy to the imperial examination, recast it and added a statue of Zhang Junyi. Later, the governor Wang Ruxun secretly sank the statues of Wang and Zhang Jun in the West Lake because he had the same clan as the Wang family, which aroused public anger. Legend has it that people used fishing nets to fish out the iron statues. When Fan Lai was reinstated as the Zhejiang vassal, he restored the four iron statues. From then on, visitors frequently hit the stone and the iron head fell to the ground. It has been recast many times. The four kneeling statues in front of the tomb today were recast based on the iron statues in the Yue Fei Memorial Hall in Tangyin County, Henan Province during the restoration of Yue Fei's tomb in 1979. Yuewang Temple is located at the foot of Qixialing Ridge on the bank of West Lake in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Yue Fei (1103-1142), also known as Pengju, was a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty who fought against the Jin Dynasty. In the 32nd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1162), Xiaozong came to the throne. Yue Fei's injustice was vindicated and his remains were reburied here. In the 14th year of Jiading (1221), Beishan Zhiguo Yuan was converted into an ancestral temple, which is now the Yuewang Temple. The existing buildings were rebuilt one after another after the Qing Dynasty. Yue Fei's tomb is commonly known as Yue Fei's tomb. On the center line of Yuewang Temple. There is a tomb gate in front of the tomb, and there is a corridor through the tomb gate to the tomb. Yue Fei's tomb is in the middle, and the tomb of his son Yue Yun is on the left. Under the door of the tomb are four iron figures with hands cut behind their backs and kneeling facing the tomb. They are the four people who framed Yue Fei, including Qin Hui, Wang Shi (Hui's wife), and Zhang Jun. There is a couplet on the tomb door behind the kneeling statue, "It is a privilege to bury loyal bones in green mountains, and to cast innocent ministers into innocent white iron." Reference: /98/2004-4-14/news200441405251.htm