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Lingyuan Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site is located at the junction of Lingyuan and Jianping, on a mountain ridge stretching for more than ten kilometers between the Nuruerhu Valley. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit. Its location is 119°31′ east longitude and 41°21′ north latitude. It has a semi-mountainous and semi-hilly landform with an altitude of 600-650 meters. After archaeological investigation and excavation, more than 20 Hongshan cultural sites have been discovered here, including sacrificial sites and stone tombs. The locations are centered on the large hill platform at Niuheliang (I) (Goddess Temple), surrounded by Numerous stone tombs are laid out along the mountains, forming a site group with a main area of ??about 5 kilometers from east to west, 2 kilometers from north to south, and an area of ??about 10 square kilometers. Including related ruins, the distribution area is about 50 square kilometers. Currently, the excavated ***There are 5 locations. On the rolling hills about 10 kilometers from east to west and 5 kilometers from north to south, goddess temples, altars and stone tombs are regularly distributed, forming a large-scale prehistoric sacrificial site group that is independent from the residential area. At the same time, a large number of exquisite pottery, stone tools and jade were unearthed. Since its discovery in 1981, the Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site has aroused great interest from domestic and foreign scholars and attracted great attention from relevant parties. Liaoning Province has specially established an archaeological work station in Niuheliang. More than 100 experts from the Chinese Archaeological Society gathered in Niuheliang for discussions. Relevant scholars from Britain, the United States, France, Japan, India and other countries came to inspect it. They agreed that the Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site is not only a prehistoric sacred place for the Chinese nation (which pushed the history of Chinese civilization forward for more than 1,000 years), but also one of the world's civilization centers. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Bank have also sent people to evaluate the project many times, and commissioned experts from the University of Cambridge in the UK to conduct on-site inspections. Through comprehensive scientific research on the Niuheliang Hongshan cultural site, experts and scholars believe that from the goddess statues in the temple, the ancestors of Hongshan have moved from nature worship and totem worship to higher-level ancestor worship, which reflects the social trends of that time. The concept of theocracy. The size and location of the stone tombs reflect the social hierarchy at that time. The large tomb and funerary objects in the center of the stone tomb reflect the concept of royal power in society at that time: "one person dominates". Judging from the altars and large-scale sacrificial activities, they reflected the religious concepts of the society at that time. Judging from the jade burial ceremony, it reflects the cultural concepts of the society at that time and the traditional Chinese etiquette concepts. Authoritative figures in the archaeological field linked the archaeological discoveries in Niuheliang to ancient historical legends, pointing out that "the center of activity in the Yellow Emperor's era can only be matched by the time and space framework of the Hongshan Culture." Therefore, the discovery of the Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Temples, Temples, Tombs and a large number of jade artifacts has been proved by conclusive and rich archaeological data: it has provided powerful physical evidence for the five thousand years of civilization history of the Chinese nation, and has provided a profound understanding of the social development history of ancient China. , traditional culture history, ideological history, religious history, architectural history, and the study of art history will all have a significant and far-reaching impact. The Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site has twice been listed among the top ten archaeological discoveries in the country. It is known as the "new dawn of Chinese civilization" and has been included in the World Cultural Heritage Tentative List. Lingyun Temple Lingyun Temple (commonly known as Guandi Temple or Laoye Temple) is located in the east section of Shifu Road. It was built in the seventh year of Qianlong (1742 AD) and is a county-level cultural relic protection unit. The whole temple covers an area of ??more than 5,000 square meters, facing south. The overall layout adopts longitudinal symmetry. On the central axis are the Shanmen Tianwang Hall and the main hall building. There are bell towers and drum towers on the east and west sides. The main hall and Tianwang Hall are located on both sides of the temple. There are 5 auxiliary rooms and 20 auxiliary rooms. The auxiliary rooms of Tianwang Hall are built on rolling dragon ridges. The auxiliary rooms on both sides of the main hall are built on hard mountain ridges. The mountain gate is a resting mountain wing ridge style building. The bells and drums on the second floor and the second floor are resting on four corners of the mountain. The main hall is in the hard-mountain style, with a Xieshan rolling shed-style building in the front, which is closely connected with the main body. The back hall of Lingyun Temple was originally dedicated to Guan Yu, Zhou Cang and Guan Ping. The two sides were also dedicated to the God of Fire and the King of Medicine. The two sides in the middle of the mountain gate It is dedicated to stable boys, the second hall is a corridor, and the four walls of the house are decorated with rich murals. The temple was once famous in Lingyuan and the surrounding areas. Now it is visited by tourists and has become a well-known Buddhist temple. Siguanyingzi White Pagoda This pagoda is located at the foothills of Dahei Mountain in Xiaotagou, 3 miles west of Weizhangzi Village, Siguanyingzi Town. It is a hexagonal and six-level brick tower with solid dense eaves built in the Liao Dynasty. The outer body of the tower is sprayed with white mortar. It is about 15 meters high. Each floor has brick eaves. The eaves slope is built with slab tiles and tube tiles. Each side of the bottom floor is carved with a Bodhisattva statue. . It is a Chaoyang municipal cultural relic protection unit. Shibalibao Ancient Pagoda This pagoda is located in Zhangzi Town, Song Dynasty. It is an octagonal seven-level solid brick pagoda with dense eaves. The top is broken. The base of the pagoda has a modern stone protection project. There are brick-carved Bodhisattva statues on each side of the upper part of the Xumizuo. On the side is a standing statue of an attendant, with a brick-carved bracket on top. This tower is located in the west of the Yuzhou city site in the Liao Dynasty. Judging from the construction shape and materials used, it is inferred that it was built in the Liao Dynasty. Tianshenghao Jin Dynasty Stone Arch Bridge is located in Tianshenghao Village, Sanjiazi Township. It spans the ancient river bed and is a single-hole stone arch bridge with five pillars and four railings. The bridge body is 5 meters long, 4.7 meters wide, 3.4 meters high, and the span of the bridge hole is 2.9 meters. The bridge has upper and lower arches, the upper arch is semicircular, and the lower arch is semielliptical. Eight-shaped water-blocking wing walls are built on both sides of the bridge. The bridge deck is made of more than 90 fan-shaped stone strips, and the joints are filled with white ash. The waistband is fastened with iron chains. There are round stones on both sides of the bridge arch, and on each section there is a large relief lotus flower with a diameter of 28 cm, with eight petals and five stamens. The flower is surrounded by 30 round lotus flowers in the middle, and is set off by 5 cm thick string patterns on the top and bottom. In the middle of the bridge arch, there is a piece of stone inscribed with the intention of building the bridge. It is engraved in regular script: "Only in the tenth year of Dading, the year is Geng Yin, and Xinhai is the first day of the lunar month, Liu Baitong wrote it personally in Gouhechuan, 50 miles west of Longshan County. It is not Baitong's independent work. It was built by the two Lius working together, and the two Lius were Liu Wu Liuhai."

The characteristic of this bridge is that the masonry method of upper and lower arches is used to strengthen the stability of the bridge, so that the upper and lower arches become one, and the river water flows out from the tunnel. The design is unique and beautiful.