The emperor of China's feudal society was extremely extravagant during his lifetime, and he was also buried after death, so Chiang Kai-shek's intention was to search for dragons' dens around Jinling, looking for them, and chose a treasure land between the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Ming Xiao Mausoleum.
The Ming Xiaoling Tomb is located in the north of the Plum Blossom Mountain in the eastern suburbs of the Purple Mountain in the eastern suburbs of the former capital of the Six Dynasties Jinling, which is named for the widespread planting of plum blossoms, because Sun Quan, the emperor of the Three Kingdoms Wu, is buried here, so the mountain is also known as "Sun Linggang". At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang was building a mausoleum, a minister suggested to Zhu that Sun Quan's tomb be moved. Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree, and said: "Sun Zhongmou is also a man, leave him."
After the completion of Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum, an epitaph was erected, which was a very necessary thing at that time. After thinking about it again, everyone thought that only Mr. Zhang Taiyan, who had a close friendship with Sun Yat-sen and had a deep foundation in Chinese studies, could handle this matter. Zhang Taiyan himself said: "Regarding the secret friendship with Mr. Zhongshan, the depth of mutual knowledge, his epitaph is only I can win, and only I am qualified to write it, I want to make an epitaph for Mr. Zhongshan." Sun Yat-sen's funeral committee also issued a circular letter on March 15, 1925, formally inviting Zhang Taiyan to serve as an officer of the memorial service preparatory office and write an epitaph. In this way, Zhang Taiyan wrote the simple and elegant, condensed and prudent "Tribute to Sun Gongwen". Zhang Taiyan's refusal to allow the writing of the epitaph also deprived Chiang Kai-shek of an opportunity to make political capital. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek was jealous of him, and he refused to use the epitaph written by Zhang Taiyan in his capacity as director of the construction of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and as a representative of the party-state. Therefore, after the completion of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, although the stele pavilion was there, there was no epitaph, and the four characters "Tianxia is the Gong" were engraved in the pavilion to replace it. In this regard, Zhang Taiyan said angrily: "Jiang Yi personally likes and dislikes, and would rather make the tomb of the revolutionary father lack an inscription, which is a pity!"
After the Linggu Temple on the Purple Mountain, there is also the tomb of Tan Yanmin. Tan Nai was a scholar during the Guangxu period and was awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit. During the Qing government's preparation for the constitution, Tan was elected chairman of the Hunan Advisory Council. Because of its smooth work and excellent moderation, people give it the nickname "licorice", and licorice is a medicine for reconciliation. With his smooth means, during the vicissitudes of Xinhai, Tan held important positions in the vicissitudes of Xinhai, whether it was the Beiyang government, the Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's mansion, and Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government. Later Tan died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and on September 4, the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931 AD), the Kuomintang government held a state funeral for Tan Yanmin. His tomb was built according to the height of the mountain. In front of the tomb there is a giant stele on the back of the turtle, and behind the stele stands a wide archway. The palace-style altar houses the remains of Tan Yanmin, and a pair of copper cranes and copper deer are placed at the corners of the corridor. In front of the tomb are stone lions, Huabiao and bronze dings erected by Tan's children. There is also an oval-shaped pool where water lilies are in full bloom like fragrant flowers. The tomb is backed by the majestic Bell Mountain, where the mountain wind passes, the pine waves are flowing, the surrounding mountain springs are flowing, and the birds are singing. What an amazing feng shui treasure land.
In Meihua Mountain, there is also the tomb of the great traitor Wang Jingwei. Wang died on November 11, 1944 in Nagoya, Japan, and his body was packed in a wooden coffin and transported to Nanjing by the "Sea Crane" aircraft dedicated to Wang's lifetime. His tomb is located on the side of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the design is also modeled after the drawings of Mr. Sun's tomb. The cost was about 50 million Chinese reserve bonds, which was also a staggering amount at the time. As soon as the core construction of the tomb was completed, the Japanese surrendered and the construction stopped. Before Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, He Yingqin, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang army, ordered that Wang's tomb be moved. He's chief of staff, Xiao Yisu, entrusted the task to the 74th Army and Nanjing Mayor Ma Chaojun. Qiu Weida, commander of the engineering corps of the 74th Army, decided to blow it up with explosives. On January 21, 1946, Li Battalion, commander of the engineering battalion of the 51st Division of the 74th Army, led his soldiers to blast open the cellar of Wang's tomb with 150 kilograms of TNT high explosives. Uncovering the coffin, Wang's corpse was covered with a blue sky and white sun flag, and the corpse was dressed in a civil official dress - navy blue robe and black horse coat, wearing a top hat and a large ribbon on his waist. Inside the pocket of Wang's horse coat was a white note about 3 inches long, with the four characters "Return of the Soul" written in a brush. It was written by Wang's wife Chen Bijun when she received Wang's corpse from Japan. Wang's body was then cremated, and a small pavilion was built at Wang's tomb. On the north and south sides of Meihua Mountain, two small roads were also built, various flowers and trees were added, and the surrounding area was newly decorated to welcome the arrival of Chiang Kai-shek.
Turning around, Master Taihu, the elder of Xuedou Temple, took a look at the front and back of Purple Mountain at Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, and finally chose a place between the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Xiaoling Mausoleum, which although it is halfway up the Purple Mountain, it still has a panoramic view of Nanjing. After Master Tai Void saw it, Chiang Kai-shek let Master Tai Void into the secret room, and after sitting down, Master Tai Void took out the tomb map he had drawn. Chiang Kai-shek said, "Master, please speak clearly. ”
Tai Hui said: "The secret of geography, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the situation was said, the Western Han Dynasty was said the stars, and today people only know the situation, followed by the stars and shapes." The mountains and rivers have not changed in ancient and modern times, and I have seen different things, and discovered the secrets of mountains and rivers, like foxes and blue birds. Checking temperament with the situation and anger with temperament is the saying of the Funeral Sutra. With the shape of an underground mountain, close the upper stars, take the things in the world, deform the mountains and rivers, and extrapolate one by one, follow the shape, all things are rational, understand the temperament of ten thousand mountains, and always have the trick..." After Master Tai Hui said the situation and stars in the "Funeral Sutra" and "Yin House", he turned to the topic. Although Chiang Kai-shek seemed to understand something, he still listened very seriously. Tai Hui continued: "I look at the Plum Blossom Mountain, its dragon cave is between the Zhongshan Mausoleum and the Ming Xiao Mausoleum, where you have a noble land, there must be a dragon's den, and when you choose your land, you must choose the dragon's cave first, and the dragon is mostly leaked at the foot of the mountain, and the situation is suffocated, and there is no great nobility." "Geography" book cloud: The Ming Dynasty is not as good as the dark arch, the dragon of a hundred miles has a situation of a hundred miles, and the dragon of a thousand miles has a situation of a thousand miles, each with the power of the dragon's den, because there is a dark arch. The plum blossom peak of the Purple Mountain is surrounded by dark arches, overlapping from the mountains, three peaks in the middle, and two peaks against the sky, which is the momentum of sitting down the true dragon. The size of each mountain is far and near, the tiger is on the dragon plate, and there is a heavenly gate and earth on the left and right, and the sky arc and the sky angle before and after it are called Jinwu law enforcement. Its heaven and earth axis, arch guard Ziyuan. It's really a good place that is hard to find. ”
Chiang Kai-shek listened and was overjoyed. Master Tai Hui also said: "I have said that the heaven-breaking machine has been broken today, the dragon's den has moved, and the gongdang has built a pavilion between the Zhongshan Mausoleum and the Xiaoling Mausoleum, which is called the 'Pavilion of Righteous Qi', which can contain the dragon." After 10,000 years of public affairs, it will be safe here, although it cannot protect the Jiang family from all generations, it will also make your Jiang family live a long life. ”
Chiang Kai-shek was even happier when he heard it. A few days later, on the pretext of looking for the famous places of Zhongshan, Jiang climbed the mountain with a stick, climbed up the hill from the west of Zixia Cave, and looked at the sky from afar, seeing the place shown by Taifu, the victory of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of the forest, which could not be compared with other places. See also that this place is both higher than the Ming Xiao Mausoleum and lower than the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. The east is Zixia Cave, the west is Dulonggang Baoqiu Peak, and the lower is the "Zhonglie Pagoda", that is, the Memorial Tower of the Fallen Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, the surrounding environment is elegant and pleasant, so he ordered his subordinates to open a stone pavilion under the rock, the name is spectacular, which is actually according to the instructions of Tai Huang.
The pavilion drawings were designed by Kitai Engineering and a total of 3 styles were drawn. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to be chosen by the Master of Tai Huang. Too illusory to choose one of them. This pavilion is square, with heavy eaves flying corners, covered with glazed tiles, and painted beams and colorful buildings. After the model was selected, construction began. Its pavilion is based on Suzhou granite, reinforced concrete structure, rich and solemn. It was autumn and the project was completed. Chiang Kai-shek was very happy when he saw it, named it "Zhengqi Pavilion", and personally inscribed the name of the pavilion. These three characters are engraved on the horizontal eyebrow on the front of the pavilion with a gold yin. The pillars on both sides were also written by Chiang Kai-shek. Blue background, yellow edge, gold lettering. The joint text reads: "Hao Qi Yuan Lian Zhonglie Tower; Purple light shrouds Mount Everest." The payment is: "Chiang's Zhongzheng". Behind the pavilion is a granite retaining wall, and there is a stele in the center of the wall, and the inscription is the "Zhengqi Pavilion Record" written by Sun Ke. #Carry forward Chinese traditional culture##我要上 Headlines##Newcomer Xiaobai asks for attention#