Geography of Shiling Street

Shiling Street is located in the central and eastern Chengdu Plain, the jurisdiction is located in the Longquan Mountain Range to the western Sichuan Plain transition of the shallow hills, for the shallow hills between the flat dam area. The overall terrain for the southwest high northeast low trend, the highest elevation of 535 meters, the lowest elevation of 494 meters. With the accelerated urbanization of Shiling Street, the shallow hills gradually disappeared (in addition to the Qinglong Lake Park area), taking the main urban landscape.

Shiling Street is bordered on the west by Chenghua District Baohe Street Office, on the north by Chenghua District Longtan Street Office and Shengdeng Street Office, on the south by Longquanyi District Damian Street Office, and on the east by Longquanyi District Xihe Town. Qinglong Lake Park is one of the six major tourist and leisure business districts in Chengdu. It starts from Chengluo Avenue in the north, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway in the south, Shuwang Avenue in the west and Round City Expressway in the east. It covers an area of about 10 square kilometers, with a greening rate of more than 80%. The wetland of Qinglong Lake has a water storage area of more than 1,600 mu. There are five large zones: water sports world, ecological agriculture zone, historical and cultural protection zone, cultural and sports zone, as well as recreation and entertainment zone. The park is the largest "oxygen base" in the eastern part of Chengdu's central city, an important ecological green space, and also an important project for building the city's lake system and urban forests, as well as an important place for Chengdu's citizens to enjoy leisure and activities. As of 2012, the park is undergoing infrastructure construction and is not yet open to the public, but it has become a famous place for photographers in and around Chengdu to "shoot birds".

Qinglong Lake wetlands play an important role in regulating the climate, conserving water, equalizing floods, promoting siltation and land formation, degrading pollutants and protecting biodiversity. In order to better protect the wetlands of Qinglong Lake, the forestry department has implemented archive management to provide scientific guidance for the next step in the development of wetland protection. It is worth mentioning that the forestry law enforcement officers carry out law enforcement inspections, focusing on combating illegal behaviors of poaching and illegal hunting of wildlife resources, strengthening the protection of wildlife in the wetland, and establishing a special observation point for migratory birds to monitor migratory bird populations and habits, migratory patterns, and epidemics and diseases around the clock. Has made clear the Shiling Street wetland protection of territorial management responsibility, Shiling Forestry Station is specifically responsible for the day-to-day management of wetlands.

There are many wild birds in the wetland of Qinglong Lake, according to the observation statistics of Chengdu Bird Watching Society for many years, Qinglong Lake has recorded 211 kinds of wild birds, including 29 kinds of rare, vulnerable and endangered birds, and there are only 500 critically endangered species in the world - the green-headed duck, the world's smallest geese and ducks, cotton teal and so on, and the lake has become an extremely important wetland in Chengdu area. Qinglong Lake has become an extremely important wetland in Chengdu. The Mausoleum of the King of Ming Shu is the mausoleum of the royal family of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and is located in the eastern part of Chengdu city center, at the foot of the Zhengjue Mountain in the Shiling Qinglong Lake Park. In the 90s of last century has been built Ming Shu Wangling Museum, has been the core area of Ming Shu Wangling included. Ming Shu Wang Ling to Ming Shu Xi Wang Mausoleum as the center, the surrounding area is also distributed more than ten Ming dynasty Shu Wangfu kings and princesses tomb complex, excavated Xi Wang Mausoleum and Zhaowang Mausoleum scale, near the Qinglong Lake Wetland and Zhu Xi Ancestral Hall. This excavation in 1979, in 1996 was announced by the State Council as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units of the Ming Shu Wang Mausoleum is the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang direct grandson of Shu Xi Wang Zhu You's mausoleum.

Ming Shu Wang Mausoleum to the third generation of Ming Dynasty King Xi Wang Mausoleum as the center, around its surrounding and adjacent areas have formed the most concentrated Xi Wang Zhao Fei Tomb, Xi Wang Jifee Tomb, Qianjiang Mourning Wyoming King's Tomb, Wyoming King's Tomb, Hui Wang Mausoleum, Zhao Wang Mausoleum, into the King's Mausoleum, into the King of the second consort's Tomb, half of the grave county king's grave and so on the ten mausoleums, ten mausoleum street is also so named.

Ten mausoleums have been excavated in the Xi-Wang Tomb, Zhao Wang Tomb two tombs. Xi Wang Mausoleum in 1979 by the archaeological excavation cleaning, unearthed more than 500 pieces of color glaze terracotta warriors and horses, dancing and music figurines and other precious relics. The underground palace is 28 meters long, 8.96 meters wide and 6.59 meters high, and only the restored steps are 44 meters. The center of the back wall of the hall inlaid with round hollowed out gold glaze double-dragon plate is known as the Ming Dynasty art treasures, the mausoleum of King Zhaowang a pair of imitation of Zhu Yuanzhang's head of the dragon for the country's best. And the western mausoleum than Wang Jian tomb (Yongling) more majestic, more exquisite than the Beijing thirteen mausoleums, the carving of the exquisite, calligraphy of the strong, the richness of the palace, mausoleum of the concentration, known as China's ancient emperors mausoleums of the most exquisite and most concentrated underground palace.

In January 2014, the Ming Shu King's Mausoleum and Chengdu Plain prehistoric city site, twelve bridges, Luojiaba site, the Tea and Horse Road, Shu Road, six large sites newly included in the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" large sites protection project library. Ming Shu Wangling will also usher in a new "turn". With the completion of the "ten ling park master plan", chengdu city of this area will be the core of the Ming Shu Wangling burial complex for the protection and construction, Ming Shu Wangling burial complex will be more complete protection. Dragon Boat Race: Chengdu people will stage a dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival every year, which is a grand annual festival for the people of Rongcheng. The Chengdu Jinjiang Dragon Boat Race, which had started in 2006, summons tens of thousands of Chengdu people to the banks of their mother river to celebrate the festival in the traditional way of dragon boat racing.

Zhu Xi's descendants pay homage to his ancestors: After the demolition of Zhu Xi's ancestral shrine on Chunxi Road's Kejia Lane in Jinjiang District for some reason, Zhu Xi's descendants in all parts of Chengdu's metropolitan area have to go to Zhu Xi's ancestral shrine in Shilingshijie Thousand Bow Village every year to pay homage to his ancestors by "three kneels and nine kowtows".

The Hakka dam feast: in the distribution of ten Ling street Dongshan Hakka people, there are still a lot of retained the red and white events organized dam feast habit. Such as the jurisdiction of the modern new homes, Ming Shu New Village and other farmers in the centralized resettlement area of the residents, although it has been separated from the rural life, but from time to time you can still see them to eat the scene of the dam feast.