Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower

Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower is also a "national insurance" building located in Changle Temple Village, Qinglonghu Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. The tomb tower was built in Yongle for 16 years. It is an octagonal and nine-level masonry tower, about 33 meters high, and it is well preserved.

Yao Guangxiao is a heavy courtier of the Ming Dynasty Hongwu Dynasty, which influenced the direction of Chinese history, and also a figure of the monks who have long supported the kings of the two generations in history. Generally speaking, the tomb tower is quite well preserved.

Yao Guangxiao, a prominent figure in China's history, has played a major role in the planning and success of Beijing.

Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower, in Changle Temple Village, Qinglonghu Town, Fangshan, is the tomb tower of Mingcheng ancestor Zhu Yu, the heavy son Yao Guangxiao. Maybe because of the reason for being included in the national insurance, the village has rebuilt the tattered dirt road, and has just been paved with asphalt. You need to scan the code to enter at the entrance of the village. It is said that the tomb tower was built in Yongle 16 years (1418) and was built in the first year of Xuande (1426). The tower is an octagonal nine-level brick tower, 33 meters high, and the top tower is 3 meters high. Yao Guangxiao tomb tower is located on a square platform. At the bottom is an octagonal base, which has two octagonal suri. The Sumi tower is a sculpted lobe relief with a pattern of chrysanthemum, lotus and passion lotus flowers. It is covered with three layers of lotus petals. The middle tower is carved with four fronts and a fake door for the wood, while the other four sides have fake windows for the wood. The front door is embedded with a stone, and the book on it reads: "Prince Young Master gave Rongguo Gongjinggong Yao Guangxiao Tower" (hard to recognize). The tower is nine layers of astringent, each corner is suspended copper bell, the tower is iron, decorated in the shape of gourd, the lotus-shaped brake seat of the back lotus supporting the spherical brake body, the brake rod string of the phase wheel, round light, the moon and the treasure bead. The brake is made of eight chains to the corner. The flower pattern on the tower is chic and the sculpture is fine. The outline of the entire tower is clear and upright, which is very similar to the tower of Linji Temple in the ancient city of Zhengding. In 2013, Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower was listed by the State Council as the seventh batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country.

Zhongrai Mo distinguishes Yao Guangxiao from Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower and Changle Temple/Yao Guangxiao (1335 － 1418), young name Tianxu, Faming Taoyan, Zisidao, Changzhou (now Jiangsu Suzhou) people; the main planner of the battle of Jingdang, the most famous black-clad prime minister in Chinese history. Yao Guangxiao was a monk in Suzhou Miaozhixuan when he was young, and was well-versed in three religions. He had a good relationship with the academic leaders of the Confucianism and the Taoism in the early Ming Dynasty. Hongwu was selected by Ming Taizu for 15 years and met Yan Wang Zhu Ying with the "Chen Feng White Hat King" and presided over Qingshou Temple, becoming Zhu Ying's main counselor. In the third year of the difficult year, Yao Guangxiao stayed in Beiping, and suggested that Zhu Ying ride forward lightly and take Nanjing, so that Zhu Ying successfully took Nanjing and ascended to the throne. The land enemy of the country's terracotta warriors and horses, and finally won, is unique in history. After Chengzu, Yao Guangxiao served as the monk and the monk, Zuo Shanshi, and added the prince and the young teacher, known as the "black prime minister". Responsible for the relocation of the capital, planning the layout of today's Beijing city. After the failure of the interpretation of the book, he served as the top editor of the Yongle Dictionary and the Record of Ming Taizu, especially the Yongle Dictionary, which was his greatest contribution in Chinese cultural history. In the later years of the young master, when Buddhism became a decline in the early Ming Dynasty, he took on the responsibility of apologizing (Buddhism) and sorted out the "Dao Yulu" of the anti-rejection of Buddha, which was a major event in the history of Buddhism. In the 16th year of Yongle (1418), he died of illness and died at Qingshou Temple, and he was given to the Emperor Rongguo and Gongjing. The emperor personally wrote the inscription of the Shendao and entered the Mingzu Temple as a Wenchen. He was the first and only person in the Ming Dynasty. Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower is located in Changle Temple Village, Qinglonghu Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. Baidu map can find the location. Although Qinglonghu Town has developed a large number of real estate, Changle Temple Village and Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower have not been affected for the time being: the farmers drove a hundred goats slowly, and the air was in addition to the squeaking sound of copper bells on the tomb tower. That feeling of silence makes people forget the hustle and bustle of the city for a while. Yao Guangxiao Pagoda is outside Changle Temple Village, and Changle Temple is located in the village. It is a temple specially built by Zhu Ying for the elderly and reclusive Yao Guangxiao. Now it is very small and dilapidated, but from the stone construction of the cottages around the temple, it can be judged that this temple once occupied the land of the extreme Guangzhuang solemnity. Sure enough, it is a royal temple. The tomb tower and Changle Temple are very cold and there are almost no tourists. It is recommended that you come to visit by bicycle or motorcycle. You can drive for a trip for only 30 minutes. Then you will go back. Picture 1-4 is Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower 5-7 is the remains of Changle Temple Mountain Gate and the Great Hall. There are still monks on duty in the temple 8-9 is the imperial monument of Yao Guangxiao Tomb Tower. The monument pavilion has no longer existed, and the inscription is blurred and difficult to identify.