黄帝陵

相传黄帝陵是中华民族的始祖轩辕黄帝的陵园，它位于陕西省黄陵县县城北的桥山顶上。黄帝是我国原始社会末期一位伟大的部落首领，是开创中华民族文明的祖先。我国后来能巍然屹立于世界四大文明古国之列，这与黄帝的赫赫殊勋是分不开的。

据说黄帝活了118岁。有一次，在他出巡河南期间，突然晴天一声霹雳，一条黄龙自天而降。它对黄帝说：“你的使命已经完成，请你和我一起归天吧。”黄帝自知天命难违，便上了龙背。黄龙带走了黄帝之后，只剩下了黄帝冠了。人们把黄帝的衣冠葬于桥山，起冢为陵。这就是传说中黄帝陵的由来。但是也有人说，黄帝死后就安葬在桥山。

黄帝陵区约四平方公里，山水环抱，林木葱郁。参观者到达桥山山顶，首先看见路旁的一块石碑，上刻“文武百官到此下马”。陵前有一座祭亭，亭中央立一高大石碑，碑上刻有郭沫若题的“黄帝陵”三个大字。祭亭后面又有一块石碑，上书“桥山龙驭”四字。再后面便是黄帝陵。黄帝陵位于山顶正中。自汉武帝以来，在清明节祭奠黄帝陵为国家大典，这里留下了许多朝代的御制祭文。

黄帝陵下的轩辕庙里面尚有一些建筑、古柏和石碑等文物。跨进庙门，左边有一颗巨大的柏树．树高19米，树杆下围10米，中围6米，俗语称它“七搂八扎半，疙里疙瘩不上算”。一些外国学者称它为“世界柏树之父”。相传，此柏为黄帝亲手所植，距今已有4,000多年的历史了。庙门北有一过厅和一碑亭，碑亭里陈放着47块石碑。最北边坐落着大殿，大殿向前还有一株高大的古柏，树皮斑痕密布、纵横成行，树杆上遍布洞孔，实为群柏之奇。

The Mausoleum of Emperor Huangdi

It is said that the Mausoleum of Huangdi is the tomb of Chinese

people’s ancestor Xuanyuan huangdi. It lies on the top of Qiaoshan Mountain which is in the north part of Huangling county, Shaanxi province. Emperor Hangdi was a greatest tribe leader at the end of the primitive society; he is our ancestor who creates the Chinese civilization. What he did made great contribution to China’s becoming one of the four ancient civilized countries in the world.

It is said that Emperor Huangdi lives for 118 years. One day, during his tour of inspection in Henan province, accompanying with the sudden appearance of thunder, a yellow dragon was quickly flying down from the sky. It said to emperor:\" your missions have been finished and now please go together with to the heaven.” Emperor Huangdi knew that he could not go against the god’s order, so he rode on the back of the dragon and left the world without taking his clothes and hat. People buried his clothes and hat in the Qiaoshan Mountain and made a tomb for him. This story is the origin of the legend of the tome of Mausoleum Huangdi. But others said that emperor Huangdi was buried in the Qiaoshan Mountain.

The Mausoleum of Huangdi covers an area of 4 square kilometers, with the mountains and waters surrounding, the forests appear green all the year round. The visitors will first see a stele standing aside the road when they arrive at the top, and the stele is carved with the words: civil and military officials please get off the houses when you reach here. A fiesta pavilion stands in front of the tomb with a high stele in its middle part, and the Chinese writer Guomoruo’s words the Mausoleum of Huangdi was carved in the stele. And another stele carved words qiao shan long yu lies behind the pavilion. Go forward; we will see the Mausoleum of Huangdi. It lies in the middle part on the top of the mountain. Since the Emperor Hanwudi, holding a memorial ceremony for the Mausoleum of Huangdi during the Tomb-sweeping Day became the national celebration, and Drive-makes cebuns from many dynasties are left here.

Some buildings, coopers and steles still exist in the Xuanyuan temple which lies at the foot of the Mausoleum of Huangdi. Entering the gate, we will see a huge cooper standing in the left, which is 19meters’ tall, the lower waistline is 10 meters and the middle waistline is 6 meters, people usually use the phrase it will take more than seven people to hold it with their hands outstretched but eight and a half pitchers will be left, even though they other little numbers are not included to describe it. And some foreign scholars name it the father of the coopers in the world. It is said that the tree was planted by emperor Huangdi, and it is 4000 years up to now. In the north part of the gate, there is a hall and a pavilion with 47 stone steles on show. In the far north, a big hall was sitting there and in front of the hall there is a high and big cooper. The tree bark is densely covered with scare, the length and width go frequently and the holes are scattered here and there on the tree truck, which make the cooper quite unique among all the other coopers.