Introduction to Longwu Hall: The five-finger stone was historically the last position of Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu, the ninth ancestor of the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. In 1630, Xie Zhiliang and Xie Shangkui, father and son of the former Taiyuan Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty, were ordered to establish a base at Wuzhishi and support the emperor here. Xu Tu rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty for 16 years, and was finally gathered by the Qing army. The soldiers of Hui, Chao, Ting and Gan were surrounded and defeated, leaving behind the "Longwu Hall", "Hunyuan Tower", "Jianmen Pass", "Training Ground", "Horse Race Course" and "Trench" for Wuzhishi. ", "War Wall", "Bingzhai" and many other historical sites.
About fifty meters away from Smart Spring, Hunyuan Tower is a large tomb made of bricks and stones. There is a small nine-story tower built on the top of the tomb. On the top of the tower is a stone more than one meter high, with the three characters "Hunyuan Pagoda" engraved on it. According to legend, this pagoda was built during the 16th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army gathered troops from the four prefectures of Ting, Gan, Hui and Chao to besiege the Ming general Xie Shangkui's tribe who was stationed at Wuzhishi. More than 10,000 soldiers from both sides fought in this decisive battle, killing corpses everywhere. Afterwards, the monks of Shilin Temple hired people to bury more than 10,000 corpses of soldiers from the Ming and Qing armies who died in the battle here. Later generations called it the "Ten Thousand People Pagoda", also known as the "Hunyuan Pagoda".

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