Vicissitudes of a thousand years Murong Village

Murong Village is an administrative village in Shizhe Town, Changzi County, located 15 miles west of Changzi County, at the foot of a hill called "Qiusiling" north of Changlin Highway, with 186 households, 768 people, and a land area of 1301 mu. Because it is a village that only existed after the burial of Murong Yong, the Emperor of Western Yan, it has a history of more than 1,600 years.

In the history of our country, during the two Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Murong clan of the Xianbei tribe rose from the northeast Liaoning region and established the Former Yan, Later Yan and Western Yan successively. During the Western Yan Dynasty, Murong Yong served as the capital of his eldest son and declared himself emperor for 9 years. After his death, he was buried under the Hilly Ridge in Murong Village, and there is still a remnant of the mausoleum.

Murong Yong, the eldest son of The Western Yan Jiandu, was proclaimed emperor

Murong was a branch of the Xianbei clan. In the fourth year (294) of yuan kang at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Xianbei chief Murong Hui led his troops from Tuhe (northwest of present-day Jin County, Liaoning) to migrate to Dazhicheng (in the southwest of present-day YiXian County, Liaoning) to expand xinjiang and become a hegemon. In May of the eighth year of Xianhe (333), Murong Xi died and was succeeded by his son Murong Hui. In the third year of Xiankang (337), Murong Hao was proclaimed the King of Yan, set up hundreds of officials, and formally established Former Yan, and Murong Clan gradually rose. During the Pre-Yan period, it occupied all or most of present-day Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, as well as parts of Jiangsu and Anhui, and died in the fifth year of Taihe (370). In the first month of the ninth year of Taiyuan (384), the Former Yan nobleman Murong Chui proclaimed himself king in Guandong and established Later Yan, and in the same year, Murong Hong officially established Western Yan.

Murong Yong (慕容永), courtesy name Shuming, was the grandson of Murong Yun's younger brother Murong Yun. After the fall of Former Yan, he moved with the crowd to Chang'an. The family was poor, the couple relied on the production and sale of leather boots for a living, and later served as a small general under Murong Chong, and was promoted to Huang Menlang because of his repeated military achievements. During the Western Yan Dynasty, he also served as Shangshu, Taiwei, and Duke of Hedong, and was a minister with real power in Western Yan. Most of the Western Yan generals were humble and humble, and they strongly hoped to return to their hometowns in the east. In March of the eleventh year of Taiyuan (386), more than 400,000 people of the Xianbei people abandoned Chang'an and marched east. There were frequent infighting on the way, and they were attacked by The Former Qin army and suffered heavy losses. Everyone jointly elected Murong Yong as the governor of Dadu, the great general, Da Dan Yu, the Yongqin Liang Liang Sizhou Mu, and the King of Hedong, and called him the Domain of Later Yan. In October of the same year, Murong Yong led his people to continue to return to the east. On the way, the Western Yan and Former Qin armies met at Xiangling (襄陵, in present-day Xiangfen, Shanxi), where the Former Qin army was defeated and the princes and officials were captured by Western Yan. Murong Yong took advantage of the victory to take the throne of his eldest son, the emperor, and changed his name to Yuan Zhongxing. The hundreds of thousands of people in Western Yan returned to this point.

Murong Yong claimed to be empress dowager, and Western Yan divided one side, mainly operating the territory, and there was no major military conflict with other regimes. Murong Yong implemented the policy of supporting the people by resting things, supporting the people, encouraging cultivation and weaving, clothing criminal law, strengthening Ding Jia, exerting great efforts to govern, promoting advantages and eliminating disadvantages, revitalizing hundreds of industries, and strengthening the Jiangshan, so that the Western Yan Dynasty entered a heyday of political clarity, economic prosperity, and people's livelihood. At its peak, its territory stretched from Xuanguan (present-day northwest of Jiyuan, Henan) in the south, Xinxing (present-day Xinzhou, Shanxi) in the north, and Taihang Mountain and the Yellow River in the east and west, occupying most of present-day Shanxi Province.

In August of the nineteenth year of Taiyuan (394), the Western Yan Dynasty was overthrown by Murong Chui of Later Yan. Murong Yong, his secretary of state, and more than thirty generals were killed. More than 70,000 people in the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Western Yan were all owned by Later Yan, and Western Yan died.

Murong Yong was buried in the village of Lingxia Under the Tomb of Qiu

Murong Yong was an enlightened and pro-people monarch of Western Yan who reigned as emperor for nine years from the eleventh year of Taiyuan (386) to the nineteenth year of Taiyuan (394), and after his death, he was buried under the Hill Ridge in present-day Murong Village.

Under the Hill Ridge is an open area with flat terrain and beautiful forests. Looking at the city in the east, facing the Fa hato mountain in the west, and facing the Zhangshui River in the south, it is a treasure land of feng shui. There was originally no village here. After Murong Yong was buried here, according to etiquette, he sent a caretaker for Murong Yong's mausoleum. These people who guarded the mausoleum guarded it for many years, and after a long time, they brought their families to live. Here the ground is shallow, the soil is fertile, the travel is convenient, the environment is elegant, and it is very suitable for living and living. So they set up a family here, and their ancestors lived here for generations. After generation after generation of reproduction, the population has gradually increased, and naturally a small village has formed here. People call this village "Under the Grave" Village. Why is it called "Under the Grave" Village? It turned out that the place where the caretakers who cared for murong Yong's mausoleum lived was very exquisite. Take the tomb as the center, the left side of the tomb is the upper head, and the right side of the tomb is the lower head. To show respect for the emperor, the caretakers of the mausoleum had to live at the lower head of the mausoleum. Later, after there was a village, this village was called "Under the Tomb" Village. Later, it evolved into "Tomb" Village, "Tomb Study" Village, and "Mu Xue" Village. Because the people in the village have always been very taboo about the name of "Mu Xue" (harmonic "tomb"), in 1988 the village was renamed "Jinrong" Village, taking the historical year of "Jin", the genus of the region and the name of Murong Yong. In 2008, the village was renamed Murong Village.

QiuSiling and Qiushan are illuminated

QiusiLing is a branch of the Fajiu Mountains in Changzi County, with little undulation and resembling hills. After Murong Yong's death, because the mausoleum was not built, a hole was first dug on an earthen bank on the Qiusi Ridge, and Murong Yong's coffin was put in for temporary sealing, and then formally buried after the mausoleum was built. The people called this form "mound corpse". For this reason, the people called this ridge "Hill Corpse Ridge".

In order to pay tribute to Emperor Murong Yong, the people invited many monks to chant the sutra and chant the Buddha on the "Qiu Corpse Ridge" day and night, and surpassed the dead for Murong Yong Emperor. Later, a large-scale temple was built on the ridge, and in the main hall of the temple, a lying statue of Murong Yong was sculpted. Later, people called this temple "Sleeping Buddha Temple" and "Qiu Corpse Ridge" as "Qiu Si Ling".

According to legend, Murong Yong was killed on the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and the people took this day as Murong Yong's memorial day. Every year on the Qiusi Ridge, from the eighth to the tenth day of the first three days of May, when the Qiusi Ridge is crowded with people, the morning bell and twilight drums, incense and fire, very bustling scene. Later, the temple of Qiusiling was completely destroyed, and the remaining bricks and tiles can still be seen on the ridge. However, the QiuSiling Temple Fair has been passed down to this day, from Qiusiling to the Western Han Village in Shizhe Town, where it meets for three days every year from the eighth to the tenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

Witness the ruins of Murong Yong's mausoleum

In present-day Murong Village, there is a remnant of Murong Yong's mausoleum after it was destroyed, which is a large pit with an east-west length of about 20 meters, a north-south length of about 30 meters, and a depth of about 5 meters, because of its low-lying terrain, every summer when the rainy season comes, the big water is injected into it, strangely, even if the water is large, it will flow and lose, and there will be no water, and this pit that never stores water is left after the tomb is destroyed.

At present, two items have been identified by relevant experts as relics of Murong Yong's mausoleum. One was a stone gate and the other was a stone pillar, both of which were installed in a small temple in the east of Murong Village, which was rumored to have been built from something excavated from Murong Yong's mausoleum.

In October 2008, the Changzi County People's Government built a pavilion and erected a monument at the site of Murong Yong's mausoleum, which wrote a heavy stroke in order to inherit the historical context and promote the culture of the ancient capital, and the site of Murong Yong's mausoleum witnessed the eternity of history. (Source: Shanxi Daily)