Seven Character Rhythm Poetry Visit to Li Shizhen Memorial Hall (Study Trip)

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Hundreds of scholars walked through the ancient town, greeted by the beautiful water of Yuhu Lake on both sides.

A leisurely stroll through the exhibition hall will bring you great achievements, and a stroll through the stele gallery will provide you with great moral comments.

In the garden, you can read the cards to identify the elixir, and swear an oath to serve the elite in front of the tomb.

Seek truth, be pragmatic and benevolent, and have clear ideas for research and innovation.

Li Shizhen Cemetery

Li Shizhen Cemetery is located on the shore of the beautiful Yuhu Lake in the southeast of Qizhou City, covering an area of ??80 acres. It consists of Li Shizhen Cemetery, Li Shizhen Memorial Hall, Li Shizhen Medical History Archives and The drug park consists of four parts. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national patriotism education demonstration base. Since its opening to the outside world in April 1981, Li Shizhen Cemetery has received an average of more than 400,000 Chinese and foreign tourists every year.

Herbal Stele Gallery of Herbal Garden

National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit

Geographical Location

Southeast of Qizhou City, Hubei

Introduction to attractions

Introduction to Li Shizhen Cemetery

Go east along the Yangtze River from Wuhan, pass through Echeng, Huanggang, and cross Huangshi. It takes about 100 kilometers of waterway to reach the great Ming Dynasty in my country. Qizhou Town is the hometown of medical scientist Li Shizhen. Li Shizhen's tomb, a national key cultural relic protection unit, is located in the beautiful Crab Land on the bank of Yuhu Lake in the east of the ancient city of Qizhou, across the lake from his former residence Waniba.

Li Shizhen (1518-1593) was not only a great medical scientist in our country in the sixth century, but also one of the world's cultural celebrities. He comes from a family of ancient doctors. He studied medicine with his father since childhood and accumulated long-term medical practice experience. After thirty years of hard work, he collected extensive information, archaeological evidence, identified doubts and corrected errors, and devoted his graduation energy to finally complete a masterpiece of medicine. ——"Compendium of Materia Medica". Since its publication in 1596, the book has been reprinted more than 60 times in China, and has been translated into Latin, Korean, Japanese, English, Russian, German, French and other foreign versions. It has been widely circulated around the world and has become an important part of the international scientific community. important documents.

The Li Shizhen Cemetery, with the Li Shizhen Memorial Hall as the main body, consists of five parts: the Materia Medica Gallery, the Memorial Hall, the Medicine Hall, the Herb Garden, and the Cemetery, which are spread out in sequence on a 500-meter-long strip. It covers an area of ??80 acres, including a construction area of ??more than 6,000 square meters, all of which are reinforced concrete imitating Ming Dynasty buildings.

Entering the corridor courtyard through the mountain gate (the gate of the memorial hall), there are 80-meter-long Materia Medica corridor on both sides. Embedded in the inner wall of the stele gallery are Li Shizhen's portrait stele, "Li Shizhen's Biography", "Compendium of Materia Medica Original Preface" and 128 kinds of herbal specimens.

Main Attractions

After the gallery, there is the Memorial Hall, which is a courtyard. Here are arranged a model exhibition of Qizhou City in the Ming Dynasty, a memorial exhibition of Li Shizhen, and an exhibition of statues of Li Shizhen practicing medicine. The exhibition comprehensively and systematically introduces Li Shizhen's life and the great achievements of "Compendium of Materia Medica" with a large number of cultural relics, photos, and documents.

Go through the Moon Cave Gate from the Memorial Hall and you will see the Medicine Hall. There are four exhibition halls upstairs and downstairs, each displaying herbal works of the past dynasties, statues of ancient medical scientists, and specimens of animal, plant and mineral medicines. and famous and high-quality special Chinese and Western medicine products produced by key pharmaceutical factories in various provinces and cities across the country.

Going out of the medicine hall is the 15-acre herbal garden, where more than 100 Chinese herbal medicines are planted. The flowers are fragrant and the leaves are green all year round, and they are in various shapes for people to enjoy.

After passing the medicine corridor of Baicao Garden, you enter the tomb area, bypass a larch forest, and see Li Shizhen’s tomb among the green pines and cypresses on the hillside. Climb up the steps to the third platform. In the middle is the tomb of Li Shizhen and his wife Wu. The tomb of his father Li Yuechi and his mother Zhang is on the left. The tombstone has clear inscriptions. Around the cemetery, there are evergreen pines and cypresses, medicinal gardens and flowers, full of fragrance and vitality. There is a marble monument standing in the middle of the platform on the second floor. On the top of the monument stands a bust of Li Shizhen, with hexagonal memorial pavilions on both sides. In front of the lotus pond in the cemetery stands a majestic bluestone archway with the four characters "Holy of Medicine" engraved on it. Under the archway stand two pairs of stone lions. The archway is located about 150 meters directly in front of the tomb.

The Li Shizhen Memorial Hall has been designated as a patriotic education base in Hubei Province and one of the "100 National Patriotic Education Bases for Primary and Secondary Schools" by the State Education Commission. One of the “demonstration bases”. It has become the next ideal place for commemoration, education, scientific research and tourism in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, attracting thousands of tourists from home and abroad.