Modern Express News (Reporter Zhang Ran) Recently, the stele hall of Nanjing Ming Xiaoling "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" has completed the first comprehensive renovation in history, which fundamentally solves the problems of roof leakage and wood structure instability. "May Day" check-in Ming Xiaoling, don't forget to come to the stele hall to see the "Zhilong Tang and Song" stele of Kangxi Yushu.
Ming Hsiao Mausoleum Monument
From the beginning of March to the end of April this year, with the approval of the higher cultural relics department, the Zhongshan Cemetery Administration organized the first comprehensive renovation of the stele hall building of the Ming Tomb. In accordance with the principle of "not changing the original state" and "minimal intervention", the repair focused on the roof, wall, wood frame, indoor and outdoor floors and other diseased parts, and repaired them, fundamentally solved the problems of roof leakage and wood structure instability, and provided a good storage space and protective environment for the inscription cultural relics such as the Tang and Song Dynasty monuments in Zhilong, and effectively eliminated the potential safety hazards of cultural relics. In the next step, the Zhongshan Cemetery Administration also plans to systematically restore the stone carvings of the Ming Tomb, including the stele hall and inscriptions, and continue to promote the holistic, systematic and preventive protection of Zhongshan's historical and cultural heritage.
"Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" monument
It is understood that the Ming filial piety mausoleum stele hall is located between the civil and military square gate and the hall of enjoyment, originally the "front door of the hall of enjoyment", is a door in front of the hall of enjoyment, is a five-bay building, and was destroyed in the late Qing Dynasty. In the three years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the stele hall was rebuilt, and it was the style of the double slope hard mountaintop.
In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, Xuanye, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, made his third southern tour, led the princes and ministers to worship the Ming Tomb of filial piety, and wrote the four characters of "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty". On the second day, the message was announced: "I went to lay the Hongwu mausoleum yesterday, and saw that the wall was collapsed many times, and it could be handed over to Song Qian, the governor of Jiangsu, and Cao Yin, the weaver Langzhong, to repair it together." The four characters of the imperial book 'Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty' were handed over to the weaving Cao Yin plaque to hang on the hall, and the stone was strangled in parallel to hang forever. Chin this. "Cao Yin is the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions".
The name of the stele hall originates from the stele in the palace. In addition to the Kangxi imperial pen "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" stele, there are also Kangxi first mausoleum chronicle tablet, Kangxi third mausoleum chronicle tablet and Qianlong imperial pen inscription poem tablet left and right two links.
The stele hall after the renovation
As a "talking stone", the inscription is not only the imprint of the times, but also the carrier of cultural continuity. In July 2023, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the "List of the First Batch of Ancient Famous Monuments and Inscriptions", including 1658 Tong (Fang) inscriptions, cliff stone carvings, and the Nanjing Ming Filial Piety Mausoleum "Great Ming Filial Piety Mausoleum Divine Meritorious Virtue" monument and "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" monuments were successfully selected.
The "May Day" holiday is approaching, and the Stone Elephant Road is full of greenery, and you can feel the 600 years of changes in the world cultural heritage. Come to the Ming Tomb, after seeing the "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty" monument, you can also visit the new exhibition. Recently, with the completion of the renovation project of the Ming Filial Piety Tombstone Palace, the theme cultural exhibition of "Zhilong Tang and Song Dynasty - Memories of the Vicissitudes of Filial Piety Tombstone" was also exhibited outside the site of the Monument Palace, which was the first time to interpret the history and culture of the Ming Filial Piety Tomb for tourists in detail.
The content of the exhibition includes 12 graphic layouts, such as "Qing Chengming System, Kangqian Rule", "Kangxi Southern Tour, Respecting the Tomb of Filial Piety", "Kangxi Imperial Pen Governing the Long Tang and Song Dynasties", "Qianlong Relic Style, Six Confessions of Filial Piety Tomb", "Qianlong Relic Style, Opening the Foundation Customization", "Qianlong Relic Style, Inscription Poems and Monuments", etc., which comprehensively introduce the history of the Ming Filial Piety Mausoleum and the inscriptions inside and outside the stele hall.
(Photo courtesy of Zhongshan Scenic Area)