Fengyang County
Fengyang County
凤阳县 | |
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| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Anhui |
| Prefecture | Chuzhou |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Fengyang County is a county of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou prefecture-level city.
Historical sites
Fengyang's best known historical site is linked with the name of the county's most famous native, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398). Although coming from a poor family, he became an important rebel leader and, later, the founder of China's Ming Dynasty. Once entrenched as an emperor in the nearby Nanjing, he honored the memory of his father, Zhu Wusi (d. 1344), and his mother, Mrs. Chen, by posthumously raising them to imperial dignity, and building for them an imperial-style mausoleum, known as Huangling (皇陵, literally, "Imperial Mausoleum"). [1] The emperor even started building the new imperial capital, named Zhongdu (中都, "The Central Capital") near his childhood hometown, but the idea was eventually abandoned.[1]
The stone figures of the Huangling mausoleum's have survived, and have been re-erected at the original location, some 7 km south of the county seat ((32°48′50″N 117°31′10″E / 32.81389°N 117.51944°E)).[2]
The mausoleum statuary and the remains of the capital-building project are protected as a national historic site known as "Zhongdu Imperial City of the Ming and the Imperial Mausoleum's Statuary" (明中都皇故城及皇陵石刻).[3]
References
- ^ a b Eric N. Danielson, "The Ming Ancestor Tomb". China Heritage Quarterly, No. 16, December 2008.
- ^ Huangling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty
- ^ Zhongdu Imperial City of Ming and Stone Tablets in Imperial Mausoleum
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