Mausoleum of the Zhou Ancestor 周祖陵

About Mausoleum of the Zhou Ancestor

The page names the four as a Qihuang culture area, a Zhou ancestor farming culture area, a Qingyang farming culture experience park and a filial piety culture area. The Qihuang area rests on the page's statement that Qingcheng is the home of Qi Bo, the founding figure of Chinese medicine, who it says discussed the way with the Yellow Emperor, producing the Huangdi Neijing. To promote traditional Chinese medicine culture, it records, Qingcheng County carried out the Qi Bo Sacred Landscape project, with a Qi Bo sculpture, a thousand-family stele forest of the Huangdi Neijing, a Chinese medicine culture wall, the Jishi Pavilion, the Sixiang Pavilion, the Qi Bo Hall and a Hall of Ten Famous Physicians among its features.

The thousand-family stele forest, the page says, recruited 1,088 well-known Chinese calligraphers to write out the text of the Huangdi Neijing in sections for display as a specialist stele forest. The Zhou ancestor culture area was built, it says, to highlight the achievements of the Zhou ancestors, with the Zhou Ancestors Hall, the Zhou Kings Hall, the Zhaozhou Sage Ancestor paifang, the Jiang Yuan Hall, the Hou Ji Hall, a stele pavilion, the Bagua Pavilion, the Jian Pavilion, the Qifeng Pavilion and bell and drum towers among its structures. The farming culture experience park is built around what the page calls the five blessings of grains, fruits, vegetables, flowers and medicinal plants, with field paths, circulating water channels, locally suited trees, eastern Gansu folk custom and a farmstead park, and its main structures include the main roads, a spiral road, an altar, a sacrificial square, 24 solar-term pillars, a Qihuang Chinese medicine museum, a workshop street, an exhibition hall and a custom square.

The page does not say when the site was founded, gives no opening arrangements or ticket information, states no scenic-area grade, and does not describe the tomb or mausoleum itself, despite the site's name. It also states that the stele forest project achieved three national firsts; that is the page's own assessment and this record does not adopt it.

What to look for

• The thousand-family stele forest, for which 1,088 calligraphers wrote out the text of the Huangdi Neijing in sections
• The Qi Bo sculpture, the Chinese medicine culture wall, the Jishi Pavilion and the Sixiang Pavilion among the features of the Qi Bo Sacred Landscape project
• The Zhou ancestor culture area, with the Zhou Ancestors Hall, the Zhou Kings Hall, the Zhaozhou Sage Ancestor paifang, the Jiang Yuan Hall, the Hou Ji Hall and the stele, Bagua, Jian and Qifeng pavilions
• The 24 solar-term pillars, the altar and the sacrificial square of the farming culture experience park

Location & getting there

Getting to Mausoleum of the Zhou Ancestor

Check which interiors and courtyards are accessible. Active places of worship and protected monuments may have different visitor rules.

• Search for 周祖陵 with 庆阳市 and 庆城县.