Sun Tzu's Hometown is located in the cultural zone of Huimin County, Shandong Province. It is a garden-style antique building complex built in memory of Sun Wu, a great strategist in ancient China and the "originator of military science". The first phase of Sunzi Hometown was completed in April 1992 and opened to the outside world. The main buildings are Sunzi Academy, Sunzi Statue, Cultural Square and Le 'an Lake. Sunzi Academy is one of the main buildings, covering an area of 2,843 square meters. The overall architectural style is a group building with symmetrical axes imitating the wooden frame platform beam structure in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 7 main buildings, including the main hall, the east-west annex hall and the side hall, and the left and right south halls, totaling 35 rooms. Surrounded by corridors, carved beams and painted buildings are simple and elegant, and a copper courtyard logo is set up on the white marble pedestal surrounded by lotus patterns in the center of the Intermediate People's Court, which is the general logo of the whole academy. The courtyard logo is headed by a ceremonial weapon, with a shield as the body. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the long weapons, such as Ge, Ji, spear, beryllium and bow, are two wings, which are combined into a whole that crosses left and right, and looks like a lucky bird with wings flying, symbolizing the dialectical thought of the unity of opposites between war and peace and the war strategy of attacking and defending, advancing and retreating, and accurately embodying the theme of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
The statue of Sun Tzu is located in the center of the square on the north side of Sun Tzu's hometown. It is carved from high-quality granite, 8 meters high and weighs more than 3 tons. On the front of the base of the statue, there are four characters inscribed by Guo Huaruo, a famous expert on the Art of War. On the back, there is a four-character inscription on Sun Wu's life written by General Wu Rusong of the Academy of Military Sciences for the Huimin county party committee and county people's government. Behind the statue, there is a screen wall indicating the Han Dynasty calligraphy slips, painted with thirteen articles of Sun Tzu's Art of War. On the south of the screen wall, there is a water area of 15, square meters-Le 'an Lake, and on the southwest of the screen wall, there is a monument titled "The Preface of Le 'an Sun Shi", which was engraved by the descendants of grandchildren from Sihong and Siyang counties in Jiangsu Province according to the preface of Le 'an Sun Shi's Spectrum written by Sun Wenruo, the 49th ancestor, in the 26th year of Shaoxing (AD 1156), and presented to the grandson's hometown of Huimin County in 1994. After the completion of the first phase of the project, Sun Tzu's Hometown was designated as the teaching base of Sun Tzu's Art of War by the Foreign Training Department of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and became the "patriotism education base in Shandong Province" and "national defense education base in Shandong Province".
On October 7th, 23, Sun Tzu's Art of War City opened in Kaesong, which made Sun Tzu's profound military thoughts more intuitive in his hometown. Sun Tzu's Art of War City is a large-scale cultural tourism landscape in the province based on the ancient city wall and moat ruins of Dizhou in Song Dynasty with a history of thousands of years.
Sun Tzu's Art of War City
Sun Tzu's Art of War City was founded in October 22, located in the north of the county. According to the current graphic design plan, the control area is 72 mu, forming a vast flat area around the ancient city wall, moat, provincial highway Qingzi Road and Lehu Road. The whole area is divided into three parts, including 2 scenic spots, with a planned total investment of 1.5 billion yuan, which will be divided into three phases. Covering an area of 238 mu, Wushengfu scenic spot is a group of magnificent Qin-Han style buildings. The plane layout of the whole building complex is arranged with Quemen and fifteen halls lined up vertically from south to north along the central axis, with a total length of 999m and a width of 88 m.. There are more than 1, objects and more than 2 examples of war in Wusheng House. In order to truly reproduce the rich connotation of military culture, the internal display breaks the traditional display mode, and each hall and compartment uses a large number of sound, light and electricity to form three-dimensional animation multimedia, panoramic models, large-scale panoramic paintings, semi-landscape paintings, murals, sculptures, paintings, film materials, special scenery buildings and a large number of objects, pictures and words for visitors. The scene of Wushu Sheng's military performance includes camp tent, military performance field, point platform and Wusheng altar, which mainly reproduces the large-scale costume music and dance and battle demonstration 25 years ago in a unique classical form. The Eight Arrays Pavilion is the first in China. It is a multi-dimensional building. According to the Eight Arrays created by Sun Tzu, it shows the ancient array law and contemporary information warfare thoughts, and embodies the rules of war in Sun Tzu's Art of War. The ancient weapons museum is a collection of ancient cold weapons, firearms, chariots, warships and other war equipment, including white blades, long-range shots, firearms, chariots, warships, protection and so on.
In addition to Sun Tzu's culture, there were more than 5 original pavilions and temples in Huimin, and then 25 typical cultural sites were discovered, including the ancient city wall built in Song Dynasty, Niubao Tomb, Taishan Palace built in Ming Dynasty, and Weishi Manor, a national key cultural relic protection unit and the only existing castle-style residential complex in Qing Dynasty.
The folk arts in Huimin County are also rich and colorful, including Huji Lantern Festival Book Fair, Torch Li Clay Sculpture Temple Fair, and Qinghe Town Woodblock New Year Pictures, which are one of the three famous book fairs in China since the Song Dynasty. In addition, Huimin County is rich in water resources, the Yellow River flows through here, and there are three rivers: Tuhai River, Shahe River and Tuma River. The water system is developed, the ponds are staggered, the north and south are connected, and the climate is mild. It is a national-level ecological agriculture demonstration county and a high-quality cotton seed breeding base county, which is rich in pastoral flavor.
The grandson's standard image evaluation demonstration meeting was held in Beijing.
With the strong support of domestic and foreign grandson cultural research experts, On the basis of widely soliciting opinions from people from all walks of life, after nearly 2 years of brewing and carving, the standard portrait of Sun Tzu's hometown was finally created. Since then, this outstanding strategist in ancient China has begun to have an image carrier. On August 3th, in the conference room of national hotel, Fuxingmen Street, Beijing, a demonstration meeting was held for the evaluation of the standard portrait of Sun Tzu's hometown. Eleven experts and scholars from all fields, including experts from the Chinese Art of War Research Association, were invited to review the standard portrait of Sun Tzu and express their opinions and suggestions. He Siqing, secretary of the county party committee and director of the Standing Committee of the county people's congress, Wang Yu, deputy secretary of the county party committee and county magistrate, and other relevant leaders of Huimin County attended the appraisal meeting. Hou Xianxiu, Deputy Secretary of Binzhou Municipal Committee, delivered a speech at the appraisal meeting.
At the judging meeting, the participants first listened to the introduction of Sun Tzu's standard portrait creator, Li Xuehui, a well-known young painter in Shandong, and then, Major General Yao Youzhi, President of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association, Major General Liu Chunzhi, Dean of Graduate School of National Defense University and Vice President of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association, Major General Wu Rusong, Vice President of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association, Researcher Wu Jiulong of National Cultural Heritage Administration, and Researcher Huo Seal, Director of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association. Researchers Y. Austin Chang and Luo Kun from the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, Tang Wuwen, deputy secretary-general of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association and professor of Logistics Command College, Xue Guoan from National Defense University, Wang Huiqiang from Military Museum and Zhong Shaoyi, deputy secretary-general of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association, expressed their opinions successively. Everyone agrees that the standard image of Sun Tzu is correct in creation principle, solemn in shape and profound in meaning, which embodies the physical characteristics of Sun Tzu's perseverance, bravery and elegance, and basically conforms to the historical records of Sun Tzu's image. At the same time, it is believed that Mr. Li Xuehui, the creator of the standard portrait of Sun Tzu's hometown, carefully consulted a large number of documents and materials in the process of creation, based on the principle of respecting history and traditional culture, and drew lessons from the previous descriptions of Sun Wu. The standard portrait of Sun Tzu created is vivid and vivid, which embodies the style and temperament of Sun Wu, a great ancient strategist, and shows Sun Wu's broad, wise and civil-military image.
In the end, the jury agreed that the statue can be used as a standard statue of the grandson of his hometown, and suggested that the standard statue should be further polished and improved according to the opinions put forward by experts.
Sun Wu's hometown military science forum:
According to the proposal of China Sun Tzu's Art of War Research Association, it was decided to establish Sun Wu's hometown military science forum after applying to the national intellectual property department. The forum is an unofficial, non-profit, regular and addressed organization. Through this forum, we will strive to build a service platform for high-level dialogue, academic exchange, development and friendship for the vast number of experts and scholars engaged in Sun Tzu's cultural research at home and abroad and people who love military culture. This is an organic connection between the cultural application of Sun Zi's military science and the development of Sun Wu's hometown. At the same time, on the occasion of the establishment of the forum, the unveiling ceremony of Binzhou Sun Tzu Cultural Foundation was held to broaden the communication channels between Sun Wu's hometown and well-known experts and scholars on Sun Tzu's Art of War at home and abroad, and to deepen the research, communication and application of Sun Tzu's Art of War.