Xianling Mausoleum cultural tourist scenic spot is located in the eastern suburb of Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, which enjoys the honors of world longevity town, national historical and cultural city, and excellent tourism city in China, with an area of 3.18 square kilometers. The scenic spots include the world cultural heritage mausoleum, Mochou village---the first folk custom village in Central China, Mochou Lake, a National Wetland Park, and the Ming Dynasty imperial culture exhibition hall. It is a semi open scenic spot integrating water scenery, garden landscape, human history, and ancient buildings. Its tourism resources are irreplaceable. The combination of landscape, forest and mausoleum resources is excellent, and it has exclusive advantages in the national mausoleum tourism resources, It has a high value of viewing and recreation.
Xianling Mausoleum for the father of emperor Jiajing, Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty, presents the tomb of Emperor Zhu Youyuan and his mother Jiangshi. Built in 1519, it took 40 years to complete and covers an area of 183.15 hectares. The whole mausoleum has two cities surrounding it, red walls and yellow tiles, and is resplendent. The total length of wailuo city is 3600 meters, winding up and down among the mountains. The mausoleum is composed of more than 30 large-scale buildings. It is gradually arranged with steles, pavilions, squares, Xiangsheng group, temples, Fangcheng minglou and Baocheng. It is a masterpiece of combining architectural art and environmental aesthetics. It is the highest form of expression and architectural model of ancient Chinese funeral art. In particular, the mausoleum structure of "one mausoleum and two tombs" is unique in the mausoleums of emperors in the past dynasties. The two secret underground palaces are mysterious and unpredictable, which is even more amazing. In January 1988, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit. On November 30, 2000, Xianling Mausoleum, as a representative of the Royal Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, was first listed in the world cultural heritage list.
Mochou village is the supporting service area of the scenic spot, with a total planning area of 1600 mu. The village has about 40000 square meters of exquisite courtyards and neighborhood buildings built in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republican Period, and about 80000 square meters of the first original rural chufeng building community in China, including 2 resort hotels, 2 boutique hotels, 1 Apartment Hotel, 6 theme B & B, more than 10 workshop style restaurants, more than 20 theme Chinese food and more than 200 traditional snack shops, more than 50 cultural and intangible cultural heritage exhibition and experience areas, 5 different venues for performing arts, a bar street, a river for boating as well as rich tourism formats such as racecourse, hot spring, winery, golf driving range and boundless swimming pool, bring tourists a return journey of "exploring history and looking for nostalgia", which is a demonstration sample of Hubei Tourism Transformation and upgrading and industry coupling development, It has set a benchmark for Hubei Cultural vacation.
Mochou Lake, a National Wetland Park, is named for the birth and growth of Mochou girl, a famous artist of Chu state who was good at singing and dancing for thousands of years“ Where is Mochou? In the west of the stone city of Mochou, the boats beat two oars to urge Mochou to come. "In ancient times, the white snow tower and the Yangchun terrace faced the obvious mausoleum across the water. The 3000 mu Mochou Lake is sparkling, with pavilions and green trees along the coast. The 6000 meter trestle road for tourism and leisure around the lake constitutes a beautiful picture. The natural Mingtang Mochou Lake was approved as a National Wetland Park in 2016.
The imperial culture exhibition hall of Ming Dynasty, with Ming culture as the theme, is like a seal in natural landscape painting,presenting the structure of the Chinese character "Ming", with "Ri" as the main hall and "Yue" as the auxiliary hall. The exhibition hall displays a large number of Ming Yingjing King's tomb, Liangzhuang King's tomb and related cultural relics unearthed from the mausoleum. Its collection of more than ten thousand precious cultural relics is a treasure house for the study of Zhong Xiang's history and culture, especially the burial culture of Ming Dynasty emperors.
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