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Xu Shen Cultural Park and Tomb 许慎文化园Xǔ Shèn Wénhuàyuán
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Luohe, Henan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Luohe
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Xu Shen Cultural Park and Tomb
A culture park of about 10 hectares built around the tomb of Xu Shen, the Eastern Han scholar who compiled the Shuowen Jiezi, regarded as the first comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters. A Han-style hall named for Xu Shen's honorific 'sage of characters', an 80 m avenue of characters carved with famous calligraphy, a dictionary museum, an exhibition hall on the Shuowen Jiezi and a stele forest of more than a thousand stones line the axis leading to the tomb. The earth mound stands on a low rise with steles put up by local magistrates in 1656, 1707 and 1876.
How to get to Xu Shen Cultural Park and Tomb
In Xuzhuang village, Shaoling district, about 10 km east of central Luohe by road.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Sha–Li Rivers Scenic Area 沙澧河风景区 (under 10 km), Shenzhou Bird Park 神州鸟园 (10 km), Bi'an Temple Stele 彼岸寺碑 (10 km), Xiaoshang Bridge 小商桥 (20 km).
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