Where is Cai Lun Memorial Garden?

The Cai Lun Memorial Park in Leiyang City, Hunan Province is an important place built by the Leiyang Municipal Party Committee and the Leiyang Municipal People's Government to commemorate the great inventor of papermaking, Cai Lun. It is located by Cai Zi Pond, Caihou Road, Leiyang City , covering an area of ??116 acres, with an investment of 140 million yuan, was reopened to the outside world on August 28, 2001, and is an important national tourist attraction.

Paper and papermaking are one of the four great inventions in ancient China. In the first year of Yuanxing (105 years) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun used cheap and easily available bark, waste hemp, old cloth, and broken fish nets as raw materials to create plant fiber paper that was light, cheap, and suitable for writing. It was known in history as " Caihou Paper "replaced bulky bamboo slips and expensive silk, made outstanding contributions to the spread of human culture and the progress of world civilization, and has been respected and commemorated by people for thousands of years. The existing Caihou Temple, Cai Zichi, stone mortar and the existing Cai Lun papermaking workshop in the park are important historical witnesses that Cai Lun summarized the experience of his predecessors, invented papermaking and people have applied and spread papermaking from generation to generation. They are important historical witnesses for studying Cai Lun and the history of papermaking technology. important physical information. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Cai Lun Memorial Garden has become an important place to promote science, inherit civilization, and carry out patriotism education. It has received the attention of central leaders and widespread concern from all walks of life. Guo Moruo, Zhou Gucheng, Hu Sheng, Zhou Guangzhao, Mao Zhiyong, etc. successively wrote inscriptions on Cai Lun's tomb, Cai Lun Memorial Hall, Cai Lun Memorial Garden, and Science and Technology Inventors Square. In 1985, the Hunan Provincial People's Government announced Caihou Temple and Cai Lun Tomb as key cultural relics protection units in the province; in 1996, the State Education Commission, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Culture, State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army Caihou Temple (Cai Lun Memorial Hall) was named one of the 100 "National Primary and Secondary Schools Patriotism Education Bases".

The bronze sculpture of Cai Lun

The statue is 3.7 meters high. It was designed by Professor Hu Bo of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and produced by Guangzhou Daguan Environmental Sculpture Studio. Cai Lun's image of sword-browed eyebrows, plump heavenly eyes, and tallness reflects the demeanor of a great nation. Cai Lun sat on the floor in accordance with the sitting habits of his era. His left hand was placed on a stack of paper, and the long sleeve of his right hand naturally hung down on his right. On his knees, he stares into the distance with his slightly tilted head as if thinking, showing the inventor's unique intelligence, perseverance and indomitable spirit. Cai Zichi

Rectangular, 190 meters long and 47 meters wide. According to legend, Cai Lun built it when he returned to his hometown to teach papermaking. The water in the pool is clear, sparkling, and lined with green trees. Later, the shore collapsed and the pond was blocked, and it became desolate. Since 1949, the Leiyang Municipal People's Government has repaired it several times, including stone strips on the bank of the pool, green trees surrounding the pool, and a stone embankment bridge (2 meters wide and 47 meters long). On the stone bridge on a moonlit night, you can see the reflection of two moons rippling in the pond. The poem about the Eight Scenes of Leiyang includes: "Only the double moon in Caichi is beautiful." In 1997, a stone pavilion was built on the bridge, named "Shuangyue Pavilion" and "Sihou Pavilion".

"Huaisheng Terrace"

It covers an area of ??2,000 square meters and is shaped like a half moon. The table is paved with granite covering an area of ??1,600 square meters, and the perimeter of the table is inlaid with 99.8 meters of white marble guardrails. The radius of the relief wall is 19 meters, the arc length is 55 meters, and the effective picture is 43 meters. It shows the whole process of Cai Lun's tireless and dedicated invention of papermaking, highlighting the great contribution of "popularizing all nations, it is not Lun paper". "Huaisheng Terrace" was built in August 2001 and named by Comrade Lei Liangyu, then Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.

Stele Corridor

66.8 meters long and 3.6 meters wide, it is a semi-closed antique garden building with a zigzag layout. There are 44 columns and 75 marble steles in the stele corridor. The content of the stele consists of construction records, evaluations of Cai Lun by ancient and modern celebrities, etc., and leaves room for future generations to continue recording. The construction technology adopts the traditional Chinese architectural golden dragon and seal painting, and the entire stele corridor is carved with dragons and phoenixes, which is full of brilliance. The stele corridor was built in August 2001.

Cai Lun Papermaking Workshop

In August 2001, Cai Lun Papermaking Workshop was rebuilt on the original site according to the architectural style of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to legend, it was the place where Cai Lun taught his apprenticeship in papermaking. The ancient papermaking processes of retting, pounding, papermaking, paper pressing, paper separation, and baking (or airing or drying) paper are displayed in the workshop. It also contains a stone mortar that is said to be used by Cai Lun for pounding materials when he taught papermaking: "It is Cai Lun's paper pounding mortar." Visitors can personally operate and experience this ancient papermaking technology, and can keep the papyrus made by themselves as a souvenir.

Incense burner and treasure tripod

There is a hexagonal pavilion in the Cai Lun Memorial Park. There is a white marble stone carving "bao tripod" in the pavilion, which is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part has four corners with spires. The two words "Baoding" are engraved in the shade, and there is a couplet engraved in the shade that says: "There is fire in the furnace for thousands of years, and the fragrance in the bottle is for generations." It was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The stone inscription is "built in February of the 35th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty". The middle part is in the shape of a drum, with a Xumi pedestal underneath. The shape is quite quaint and it was probably dated to the Tang Dynasty in the late Tang Dynasty. It is said that there were originally two tripods, but only one remains today. It was used by the people of Leiyang to burn money and paper to worship Cai Lun.

Caihou Temple

It was originally the former residence of Cai Lun (AD 63-121), the inventor of papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later generations built a temple on his homestead to commemorate Cai Lun. "Shui Jing Zhu" records: "(Leishui) passes through Caizhou in the northwest, and in the west of the island is Cai Lun's former residence, with Cai Zichi next to it."

The Caihou Temple was built in an ominous year and was rebuilt in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1338) by Chen Zongyi, the magistrate of Leiyang. After several reconstructions and demolitions, the existing buildings were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty and are simple and elegant. It covers an area of ??408 square meters, is located south to north, and has a brick and wood structure. It is divided into three entrances and two courtyards. The front hall has three rooms with a single-slope small green tile roof, and there are walkways on both sides. The central axis is the corridor, and the roof is connected to the middle hall. The three middle and back halls are suspended on the top of the mountain, and are also connected by walkways and corridors. . The stone forehead of the gate is "Caihou Temple", and the stone couplet reads: "The moon is reflected in the fragrant pond, and the wind of the old house remains."

Cailun Ancient Well

It is 18.3 meters deep and 0.9 meters in diameter. It is a cylindrical solid well with yellow mud hard soil walls and granite pavement around the well. It is 3.9 meters long and 3.9 meters wide. According to legend, it is Cai Lun drank from the well. The water was clear and sweet, and it was said to strengthen the body and prolong life. Later, Cai Lun moved to Beijing as an official, and his surname moved here. Later generations drank the water and thought about its source, so they built and expanded it on the spot to commemorate it.

Cai Lun’s Tomb

Built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it is Cai Lun’s tomb. The tomb is a single-chamber brick-roofed tomb with a height of 2.2 meters, a length of 7.84 meters, and a width of 2.7 meters. It is surrounded by granite and has a tomb door and steps to enter the tomb. The bricks have geometric patterns common in Han tombs. In August 2001, the Leiyang Municipal People's Government built a monument-protecting pavilion in front of the tomb. The front of the tombstone is engraved with the inscription "Cai Lun's Tomb" written by Guo Moruo in 1959; the back is engraved with an inscription written by the Leiyang Municipal People's Government for Cai Lun.

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Cai Lun (-121) was a native of Leiyang County, Hunan, Eastern Han Dynasty. The courtesy name is Jingzhong, his date of birth is unknown. In the last years of Emperor Ming's reign, he entered the palace as a eunuch and passed through Xiaohuangmen. During the reign of Emperor He, he served as a regular servant and began to participate in government affairs. He once served as Shang Fangling, who was in charge of the manufacture of imperial utensils. In the past, people used silk or bamboo or wooden sketches to write. "It's expensive, simple and heavy, and inconvenient for people." By the Western Han Dynasty, a kind of primitive paper appeared.

When people rinse silk wadding, they often uncover a layer of Cai Lun's details++