Where is Meiquan ancestral grave?

Meiquan ancestral grave (Zou Tomb) is a cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province.

Meiquan ancestral grave (Meiquan Holy Land) is located in Houmazhuang Village, Pingxiang County. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zou was both civil and military and gained great fame. In order to promote plum blossom boxing to the society, he left Xuzhou for Kaizhou (now Puyang, Henan), and successively took Cai Guangrui, Wang and Meng Youde as disciples to teach him literature and martial arts. After the three learned the art, they passed the boxing and taught the skills in different ways. After receiving Han Huali and Sun Panlong in Kaizhou, Cai Guangrui went north to clear the way and pass the boxing. When passing through Neihuang County, the disciple who accepted Balizhuang was Wu in the year of Emperor Kangxi's Renchen (17 12). After that, I went north and came to Mazhuang Bridge (Houmazhuang) in Pingyi (Pingxiang County), Shunde, and accepted Zhang Fu as a disciple. He taught martial arts in Mazhuang, and later accepted his disciples Li Jinde, Xu Jinde and Zheng Yude.

In the year of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1705), Cai Guangrui ordered Li, Xu and Zheng to go to Henan to meet Zou, a great master. After Zou was invited to Mazhuang, he settled down and set up a field here to collect disciples, preach boxing and teach arts. "There were no fewer than 100 disciples at one time." Since then, Meihua Boxing has officially spread widely among the people. At that time, disciples from Pingxiang, Guangzong, Nanhe, Weixian, Julu, Jize, Quzhou, Yongnian, Shahe and Xingtai all came to Mazhuang to learn from their teachers. In the ninth year of Qing Qianlong (1744), Zou Wenju, the son of Zou, longed for his father, so he led his family to the north to find his father. After many twists and turns, I first stood in the Sanguan Hall of Nanhe, and then went to Guangzong Wei Village. There was no place to stand, and I took root in Mazhuang, Pingxiang (according to the roots).

When Zou Wenju's family came to Mazhuang, his father died a few years ago. After paying homage to his father's grave, he settled in Mazhuang, followed in his father's footsteps, devoted himself to boxing, and pushed plum blossom boxing to Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces with Mazhuang as the center. When Zou Wenju continued to write Zou's genealogy, he wrote: "In his early years, he moved to Mazhuang Bridge in the north of Pingyi. People knew that he moved south to the north, but he did not know how to return to his hometown." Later, Zou's grandparents and grandchildren were buried in the north of Mazhuang village, namely Zou's tomb. Zou's grandchildren Zou Ke, Zou Kerang, Zou and Zou Kecheng inherited their grandfather's legacy and taught plum blossom boxing for life. According to Zou Kecheng's inscription: "Zou Kecheng is both civil and military, and his martial arts are unparalleled, which is enough to help the world and strengthen the country. He can learn words and culture from Zhouyi, and he can learn from it. He has been taught by more than a dozen provinces and has been taught by hundreds of millions of people. "

1July, 1993, "Zou's Tomb Group" was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by the People's Government of Hebei Province. 1994 Wang Zuwu, Vice Governor of Hebei Province, wrote an inscription for Zou's tomb: "Meiquan Holy Land".

Address of scenic spots: Houmazhuang Village, Pingxiang County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province

Bus route: Take minibus to Houmazhuang, Pingxiang County.

Self-driving route: Take S325 eastbound from Xingtai City, walk about 40 kilometers, turn right at the sign of Meihuaquan Cemetery in Lunan, walk about 4 kilometers along the country road, and look left and you will see the cemetery, which is in the north of Mazhuang Village.