Shentou Town has a long history and splendid culture. It is the hometown of Dongfang Shuo, a great official in Taizhong of the Han Dynasty, and the fiefdom of Fuping Marquis Zhang Anshi during the reign of Emperor Zhao of the Western Han Dynasty. There are many cultural relics and touching legends such as the original Shuo Temple, Shuo Mu Temple, ancient Yanci City ruins, existing Shuo Tombs and the majestic Han tombs. Dongfang Shuo, known as the "Wisdom Saint", and the rolling Han tombs It marks Shentou Town’s profound cultural heritage and long and vicissitudes of history.
Dongfang Shuo was a famous politician, writer and artist in the Western Han Dynasty. He was praised by the world as the "Sage of Wisdom" and was as famous as the "Sage of Literature" Confucius and the "Sage of Martial Arts" grandson. As a politician, he fought against the villains in the officialdom with his eloquence, versatility, and extensive knowledge. He spent his whole life "clearing the emperor and supporting the emperor"; as a writer, he was recognized for his careful logic, sharp writing style, and incisive exposition Praise from later generations of literati. Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, recited in "Yu Hu Ling": "The world does not know Dongfang Shuo, and Dayin of Kinmen is a banished immortal." Later generations of literati and painters such as the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi and the great calligrapher Yan Zhenqing have set up monuments and biographies to praise his paintings; as an artist , with his comedy, humor and superhuman IQ, he is praised by later generations as the originator of Chinese jokes, cross talk, riddles, divination and Chinese popular literature. As the hero of comedy, Dongfang Shuo is two thousand years older than Chaplin, the master of comedy in the West. Dongfang Shuo, with his profound cultural heritage and extraordinary wisdom, has become the pride and great wealth of our Chinese nation and the pride and great wealth of the people of Shentou Town. The rolling Han tombs are commonly known as the "Seventy-two Doubt Tombs". They are distributed in an area of ??Shentou Town that is about 5 miles long from east to west and 3 miles wide from north to south. There are 38 ancient tombs in existence. The largest one is about 60 meters in diameter and 9 miles high. meters, the smaller one is 14 meters in diameter and 5 meters high. The ancient tombs are undulating and majestic. According to the research of historian Zhao Chunwan, the tombs are the family tombs of Fuping Marquis Zhang Anshi during the reign of Emperor Zhao of the Western Han Dynasty.
"Shentou" Town is located 10 kilometers away from Lingcheng District, Dezhou, Shandong Province. There is a group of ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty that stretch for several miles in the west of the town. According to popular legend, the "Seventy-two Tombs" are as tall as a hill and have not diminished after thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, which is quite strange.
There are many strange and special ancient cultural relics and legends that echo it. For example, there are many villages and towns named after "temples", namely: Guojiamiao (said to be the largest national temple with nine pagodas and two temples), Yaowang Five Temples, Qianqiancai Temple, Loujiamiao, Lujiamiao, etc. "Temple" refers to a place where ancestors' shrines were worshipped in ancient China. In addition, there are Yan Zhenqing, Tang City Wall, Pingyuan County Tomb, Lingxing Gate, Lianpo Yinma Well, etc.