Hangzhou Yue Fei Temple Travel Guide

Yue Fei Temple, also known as Yue Tomb, Yue Fei Tomb, is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, West Lake District, Beishan Road, No. 80, is located in Hangzhou Qixia Ridge, the southern foot of the South Song Dynasty, the famous anti-Jin general E Wang Yue Fei’s grave. Yue Fei Tomb was built in the Southern Song Dynasty Jia Ding fourteen years (1221), after hundreds of years is still relatively well-preserved, architectural specifications have been in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi fifty-four years (1715) rebuilt when the change. 1979, Yue Fei Tomb according to the Southern Song Dynasty architectural style of the comprehensive renovation of the tomb is divided into three parts of the Tomb, the Shrine of the Heroes of the Dragon, Kai Zhong Shrine. Yue Fei’s Tomb has greater value in history, art and social cohesion. on March 4, 1961, Yue Fei’s Tomb was approved by the State Council and announced as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1996, Yue Fei’s Tomb was listed as one of the 100 “National Patriotism Education Bases for Primary and Middle School Students” by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the State Education Commission, the Ministry of Culture and other six departments. “In 2021, Yue Fei’s Tomb was announced by Hangzhou Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau as one of Hangzhou’s ”Ten Representative Historical and Cultural Buildings”.

Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing eleven years on the 29th day of the waxing moon (January 27, 1142), Yue Fei was framed by Qin Hui, the jailer Kui Shun back his body escaped from Lin’an City, to the Nine Curves Shrine, buried in the North Mountain. Shaoxing thirty-two years (1162), Song Xiaozong became the throne, in the name of the abdication of Song Gaozong issued an edict to vindicate Yue Fei, Yue Fei’s remains to the gift of a grade of officials buried in Hangzhou Qixia Ling, the southern foot of the tomb of Yue Fei, after the successive dynasties have been rebuilt. Southern Song Dynasty Jia Ding fourteen years (1221), the Song Ningzong edict to change Yue Fei’s tomb next to the Zhiguo Guanyin Temple for the “praise Chung Diffractive Fortune Zen Temple”, and set up the “give praise Chung Diffractive Fortune Temple Edicts” monument in recognition of Yue Fei’s achievements.

Yue Fei’s Tomb is divided into three main parts from west to east: Zhonglie Ancestral Hall, Tomb Park and Qizhong Ancestral Hall. The Tomb Park is located in the west to east direction, and Zhonglie Ancestral Hall and Qizhong Ancestral Hall are located in the north to the south direction, and all of them are surrounded by stone blocks. Yue Fei’s tomb is surrounded by a stone fence, 1.45 meters high, 7 meters in diameter; Tombstone above ground 2.7 meters high, 0.7 meters wide, 0.3 meters thick; Tomb built in front of the tomb que, que before the wall, embedded in the “loyalty to the country” four words, the South Road next to the stone people, stone animals. The left side of his son Yue Yun tomb; tomb door with iron casting Qin Hui and other four people kneeling like. Shining wall in front of the two compartments of the gallery, displaying Yue Fei’s handwriting and celebrities through the ages with a total of 125 stone tablets inscribed.

Yue Fei Tomb in the middle of the cemetery park, along the east-west axis of symmetrical layout, a Song Dynasty architectural style of the tomb que will be distinguished as mausoleum and cemetery in two parts of the cemetery. Passing through the tomb gate, there is a tunnel leading to the front of the tomb, Yue Fei’s tomb is in the center, and the tombstone is engraved with “Tomb of King Yue E of Song Dynasty”. To the left of Yue Fei’s Tomb is Yue Yun’s Tomb, with the inscription “Tomb of Yue Yun, Marquis of Song Jizhong” on the tombstone. On the east and west sides of the tomb area are the Zhonglie Shrine and Qizhong Shrine, which are the ancillary buildings of the tomb. The area of Zhonglie Shrine consists of the gatehouse, the courtyard in front of the shrine, and the main hall of Zhonglie Shrine, which are symmetrically arranged along the north-south axis, and the main hall is at the end of the 23-meter-long road that enters the gatehouse. In the main hall on both sides of the east and west two hips, respectively, is dedicated to the Yue Fei generals Zhang Xian, Niu Gao Lie Wen Hou Ancestral Hall and Auxiliary Wen Hou Ancestral Hall. In the Qizhong Ancestral Hall, west of the Zhonglie Ancestral Hall, there are statues of Yue Fei’s five sons, Yun, Lei, Lin, Zhen and Ting in the east hiatus, and statues of his five daughters-in-law and his daughter, Yinyuan, in the west hiatus.

To the left of Yue Fei’s Tomb is Yue Yun’s Tomb, which is surrounded by a stone fence, on which a couplet of “righteousness and wickedness are the same as ice and charcoal since the ancient times, and reputation and destruction are judged to be false and true nowadays” is engraved on the front column of the stone fence. Tomb door of the lower side of the four cast iron figure, cut hands, face tomb and kneeling, that is, framed Yue Fei Qin Hui, Wang, Zhang Jun, Wanyi Seol four people. Behind the kneeling statue of the tomb door has a couplet “green hills are fortunate to bury loyal bones, white iron innocent cast sycophants”. In front of the wall, embedded in the Ming Hongzhu writing “loyalty to the country” four words. The north and south of the cemetery in front of the wall each has a gallery of monuments, displaying a total of 125 stone monuments through the ages. The north gallery displays Yue Fei’s poems, zhangzha, handwritten letters, portrait monuments, etc. The south gallery is the descendants of Yue Fei’s tomb of poems, offerings and restoration of the tomb of the inscription.

Tomb Road on both sides of a variety of stone carvings left over from the Ming Dynasty, counting down a pair of figurines for civil officials, military figurines of two pairs of stone horses, stone sheep, stone tiger each pair, two by two, together constitute a group of stone statues. Along the road there is a Jingzhong cypress pavilion, pavilion display eight sections of cypress tree about 120 million years above the fossil, its age than the Southern Song Dynasty cypress is much larger, paleontology known as the “silicified wood”.

The main hall of Zhonglie Temple is a wooden structure building with a heavy eaves and hermetic roof, and a plaque of “the heart shows the sky” hangs between the eaves, which was rewritten by Marshal Ye Jianying in 1979. Inside the hall, there are many famous writers of plaques and couplets, in the center of the Yue Fei statue, statue above the cursive “return to my river and mountain” gold plaque is rumored to be Yue Fei’s handwriting.

Outside the main hall of the Qizhong Ancestral Temple is the damaged cultural relics outdoor exhibition area, focusing on the display of the relevant stone damaged cultural relics collected over the years. The Qizhong Ancestral Hall was opened as the Yue Fei Memorial Hall in 1984, which is divided into three exhibition rooms, collecting, organizing and displaying a variety of relevant historical facts and materials. The third exhibition room displays a stone figurine of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was unearthed in 1979 during the excavation of Yue Fei’s tomb.

Opening hours: 07:30-17:30 (admission stops at 17:30)

Address: No. 80, Beishan Road, north of Su Causeway, Xihu District, Hangzhou

Tel: 0571-87986653

Tickets: 25 RMB/person