Zhuge Liang’s former residence four: Yinan County

The "Zhuge Liang Hometown Memorial Hall" located in the center of the village is an antique-style building built by the Yinan County People's Government in 1992. The memorial hall covers an area of ??2,700 square meters. The main hall faces south from the north, with green bricks and gray tiles, simple and spectacular. A plaque "Zhuge Liang's Hometown Memorial Hall" inscribed by Li Zichao hangs on the main entrance. On the east side stands a stone tablet titled "Looking at the Sea Tide" written by Professor Wang Rutao of Linyi Normal College and Chairman of the Linyi Area Zhuge Liang Research Association, and written by Jiang Dongshu. On the west side, there are four portrait stele and several portrait stones such as "Expedition Picture" and "Plowing War Picture". On the left side stand three relics of the Han Dynasty - stone tablets with perforated Han portraits. They were all unearthed from Zhuge Liang's hometown. They are quaint, solemn and awe-inspiring. Zhuge Liang was born in such a small village in April of the fourth year of Emperor Guanghe of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 181). It is said that when he was born, a bright invention was about to shine outside the window, so his father changed his name to "Liang" with the courtesy name Kongming. Zhuge Liang's ancestor Zhuge Feng served as a military officer in the Han Dynasty, and his father Zhuge Gui also served as the magistrate of Taishan County during the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, Zhuge Liang died when he was 12 years old. Later, his mother Zhang passed away. The 13-year-old Zhuge Liang and his younger brother Zhuge Jun followed their uncle Zhuge Xuan to Yuzhang. Later, Zhuge Xuan took Zhuge Liang and his brothers to join his old friend Liu Biao in Jingzhou. In the second year of Jian'an (197), Zhuge Xuan died of illness. Zhuge Liang and his siblings lost their livelihood and moved to Nanyang to live in seclusion and farm to make a living. On both sides of the main entrance of the main hall, there are carved beams and painted pillars, bright columns and colorful windows, which are magnificent in scale. Above the door of the main hall hangs a four-character golden plaque inscribed by the famous calligrapher Jiang Dongshu. In the middle of the hall is a statue of Zhuge Liang, with two gold plaques hanging on it: "A Generation of Wise Prime Minister" and "Famous in the Universe". Surrounded by 14 murals that comprehensively reflect Zhuge Liang's magnificent and glorious achievements in his life.

In 1992, the People's Government of Yinan County invested 400,000 yuan to build the "Zhuge Liang Hometown Memorial Hall" in Sunjiahuangtuan, Zhuanbu Township, Yinan County, covering an area of ??2,700 square meters. style building. The perforated stone tablet with Han portraits erected on the left side of the memorial hall is a relic of the Han Dynasty. There is a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in the courtyard, with a height of 23 meters, a tree circumference of 3.6 meters, and a canopy covering more than 360 square meters. The three Han portrait stones in the memorial hall were all unearthed from Zhuge Liang's hometown. The main hall is 7 meters high, 9 meters wide and 12.4 meters long, with a construction area of ??111.6 square meters. There is a statue of Zhuge Liang in the middle of the hall, surrounded by 14 murals, which comprehensively reflect Zhuge Liang's magnificent and glorious achievements in his life. "Wolong Park" (also known as Xishan Zhuge Liang Park) was built on the west slope of Yinan County. The park had a total investment of 6 million yuan and was constructed in two phases in 1992. A sister pavilion has been built, with the largest bronze statue of Zhuge Liang in the country, using 3.5 tons of copper, 7 meters tall, and a total weight of 7,000 kilograms. It also has relief sculptures with a total length of 50 meters and a total of 14 pieces. Each piece is 5.25 square meters. The stone sculptures are all carved according to the story of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and record Zhuge Liang's glorious achievements. In addition, there are 5 antique buildings, four granite stone sculptures of war horses, and two turtle and camel steles. The inscriptions on the steles are engraved with Zhuge Liang's previous and later military achievements. The Nine Dragon Wall faces People's Street, with a total length of 15.2 meters. It is carved from white marble and has two park gates, both of which are antique-style buildings. The Yinan County Government has hired tourism experts to formulate a plan for the Kongming Tourist Area, which plans to make full use of the environment of Zhuge Liang's hometown to carry out in-depth tourism development and focus on showing Zhuge Liang's life achievements and the cultural atmosphere in which he grew up.