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Yue Fei Memorial

Updated: 2008-01-18 18:00:39

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The Yue Fei Memorial, located inside the Yue Fei Temple at Tangyin County of Henan Province, is a memorial of the national hero Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). The Yue Fei Temple was initially built in the spring of 1450 in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and expanded successively in the following years. It was not until decades later that it reached the present scale of six courtyards, over 90 buildings with the total space of 4,200 square meters. In June 1958, the Yue Fei Memorial was set up in the Yue Fei Temple. The memorial keeps its original architectural style and the main content for exhibitions is the 27 statues and over 200 stone tablets left from the Ming and Qing dynasties. All the stone tablets are either the records of founding and restoring the temple or the poems composed and engraved by the descendents at the time when they paid homage to Yue Fei. The best ones are the engraved tablets of the handwriting written by Dong Qichang, Wang Yue and Chen Yiqin of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In 1982, the east and west corridors and the bedroom hall of the memorial were turned into exhibition rooms to show its basic collections of the Exhibition of Yue Fei's Historical Relics and the Exhibition of Tablet Inscriptions Written in Yue Fei's Own Hand.

The memorial has collected 734 volumes of books, 388 rubbings, 1,251 photos, 20 items of related information materials and 600 items of artworks done by home and foreign calligraphers and artists.

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