The History and Culture of Yangping Town

Quyang is known as the hometown of sculpture, and Yangping Town is the birthplace of sculpture with a long history and culture, which has nurtured generations of families in Yangping Town. There is a Huangshan Mountain in the town, which produces high-quality white marble with delicate texture and is suitable for carving. Therefore, since ancient times, Yangping has been a skillful craftsman. In the Yuan Dynasty, the sculptor Yang Qiong made a lion and a tripod as a tribute, which was highly praised by Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu and compiled into a palace, where masons from all walks of life built a metropolis. Today, the Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Square still radiates brilliant brilliance. Liu Puzhi, an artist in the late Qing Dynasty, won the second place in Panama International Art Fair for his works such as Fairy Pigeon and Dried Plum. From then on, it was called Quyang Stone Carving.

Quyang county Huangshan bahui

Huangshan Bahui Temple is located on Huangshan Mountain, which is 10 km south of the county seat. Because there were eight temples in ancient Huangshan, such as Shangge, Xiage, Bodhisattva and Bell Tower, it was called Bahui Temple. Founded in the Qi and Zhou Dynasties, it has gradually become a Buddhist holy place in central Hebei, and there is a saying that "Bahui Temple comes first, then Wutai Mountain Xiantong Temple". The stone Buddhist shrine on the top of the mountain, commonly known as the "Thousand Buddha Temple", is a representative landscape of Bahui Temple, which contains stone-carved Buddha statues and stone-carved Buddhist scriptures. It is of great value to study history, Buddhist scriptures and calligraphy. On July 23, 1982 was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit in Hebei province. The Tianchi Lake on the top of the mountain, named Huayanji Shengchi, is a perennial drought in Gu Quan. The drier the climate, the sweeter the water quality. There are also many historical sites nearby, such as the building foundation site in Sean in Han Dynasty and the "Seven Sounds of Wild Goose South" inscribed by Dongpo in Su Song. When the air is crisp in autumn, the mountains overlook and the scenery is infinite, which is also the origin of Huangshan Mountain, also known as "the girl's autumn capacity".

The archaeological team recently discovered a thousand-year-old tomb in Tianzhuang Village, Yangping Town, dating from the Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty. Baoding Cultural Relics Administration revealed on the 22nd that this is the most complicated brick tomb of the same period discovered in Hebei so far, and its huge scale is also rare in China.

The tomb is located in the south of Quyang County 15km. The whole tomb is a blue brick structure, and 12 tombs are connected internally, with a length of 66 meters from north to south and a diameter of 34 meters. It consists of an inner ring and an outer ring. The top of the tomb is a vaulted spire made of blue bricks, and the bottom of the tomb is paved with square bricks. Four blue brick columns are evenly distributed around the tomb, and the top of the column is the symbolic component of ancient Chinese architecture-bucket arch structure.

After the cleaning of two tombs before and after the ancient tomb, the unearthed remains are mainly white marble building components, porcelain fragments and a small amount of gold-plated ornaments, but a number of complete artifacts have not yet been found.

Li Qiuzhan, deputy director of Baoding Cultural Relics Bureau, said that in the ancient tombs in China, the structure of double-chamber tombs has shown that the owner's identity has reached the level of princes and ministers. This ancient tomb is not only a two-room tomb, but also equipped with many side rooms and two ear rooms. From the perspective of tomb geomantic omen, Tieshan, Sam and Huangshan are surrounded, and Shahe flows east and west, with an excellent pattern. The magnificent momentum of the mausoleum, the beautifully carved white marble components unearthed in the tomb, and various paintings also show the extraordinary identity of the owner.

Because the archaeological excavation has not yet ended and no related epitaph has been found, it is still difficult to determine the identity of the tomb owner.