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Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor 炎帝陵Yándì Líng
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Zhuzhou, Hunan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Zhuzhou
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor
One of four places in China honoured as the tomb of the Yan Emperor (Shennong), the legendary ancestor credited with farming and herbal medicine, at Luyuanpo in Luyuan town, Yanling County, beside the Mi River. A temple was first built here in 967 under the Song; its halls burnt in 1954 and were razed in the Cultural Revolution, then rebuilt in 1986–88, and the complex now spreads over a sacrificial hall, the mausoleum hall, a memorial garden and a stele forest on the hill. The memorial rites held here are on China's national intangible heritage list.
How to get to Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor
About 15 km south-west of Yanling county town by road; Yanling is roughly 3 hours' drive south-east of Zhuzhou.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Red Army Slogan Museum 红军标语博物馆 (10 km), Shuikou Site of Mao Zedong's First Company Party Branch 水口连队建党旧址 (20 km).
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