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Western Xia Tombs

Xixia wang ling is located at the east foot of helan mountain, about 30 kilometers west of yinchuan city, ningxia hui autonomous region. It is the royal cemetery of the xixia dynasty. In 53 square kilometers of land, there are nine the mausoleum of hadrian, 253 buried tomb, is China's largest exi...

Xixia wang ling is located at the east foot of helan mountain, about 30 kilometers west of yinchuan city, ningxia hui autonomous region. It is the royal cemetery of the xixia dynasty. In 53 square kilometers of land, there are nine the mausoleum of hadrian, 253 buried tomb, is China's largest existing, ground site one of the most complete imperial tombs, is known as "a mysterious miracle", the "Oriental pyramid".

Xixia was a feudal dynasty founded by the qiang ethnic group in the early 11th century. From 1038, li yuanhao was proclaimed emperor in xingqing prefecture (yinchuan city). In 1227, he was destroyed by Mongolia. In the history, he lived for 189 years and experienced 10 emperors. Its territory "east of the Yellow River, the west side, yumen, south Xiao Guan, BeiKong desert, where more than", the height of an area of about 83 square kilometers, including most of today in ningxia, gansu, Inner Mongolia eastern western, northern shaanxi, qinghai, xinjiang, large areas of eastern and southern republic of Mongolia. In the early period, the northern song and the liao were evenly divided, and the middle and later dynasties and the southern song and the jin were all set up, which was described as "one of The Three Kingdoms, the two hundred years of the northwest".

XIANGJI TEMPLE

Xiangji temple old name xingfu temple, later by song zhenzong named "xiangji temple". It was a famous temple -- the grand canal, this lake area ship traffic on the grand canal, is through the canal into the hangzhou hangzhou first and leave the country a temple, buddhist believers and hangjiahu a...

Xiangji temple old name xingfu temple, later by song zhenzong named "xiangji temple". It was a famous temple -- the grand canal, this lake area ship traffic on the grand canal, is through the canal into the hangzhou hangzhou first and leave the country a temple, buddhist believers and hangjiahu area from the canal to linyin temple, tianzhu dachaoshan pilgrimages point, so she has a high status in canal and hangzhou clergy.

Xiangji temple was destroyed at the end of the war and rebuilt in 2009. Original thing two tower, now only west tower, stone castle in the eight sides nine layers imitation wooden type, step by step a tower body to receive points, in addition to the above the rail with engraved on the second floor, yu are lake stone building, Kentucky sumeru type, its each layer in turn by the flat seat on piled up, the tower, tower eaves, DaCha to the end, is partly gourd, Buddha, or scripture. Under the eaves the flat section of the family is five, and the corner section is seven. The center of each side of the tower is carved with relief on both sides.

The temple was not very large outside, but it was not very small when it went in. There were many monks in prayer and there was free incense for everyone to enter. It is worth mentioning that his family's vegetarian noodles, which are famous in hangzhou city, come up on the one side and smell the nose, and then eat a bright light with chopsticks.