The shrine of ancient saints and sages - Leizu Temple.
Leizu Temple, also known as Xiling Mountain Temple, covers an area of 1,000 square meters and has an altitude of 108 meters. It was built to commemorate Leizu, the wife of Huangdi, and was rebuilt on Xiling Mountain in 1993. Leizu was also called Leizu and Leizu. Folk silkworm farmers called her "Silkworm Mother Goddess". She was Huangdi's first wife and the earliest first lady in China. According to Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian: The Basic Annals of the Five Emperors", Huangdi lived in Xuanyuan Hill and married the daughter of Xiling, who was Leizu.
The Mausoleum of Leizu is located in Qinglong Mountain, Yanting County, Mianyang, northern Sichuan. The town to which Qinglong Mountain belongs was originally named Jinji Town, but has now been renamed Leizu Town. This "First Mausoleum of the Ancestor of Chinese Women" stands in the Leizu National Memorial Park, the Mother of China, less than four kilometers away from Leizu Town. The place is named after a person, and its fame will last forever; the mausoleum is majestic and imposing with a mountain as its center.
Leizu was the widower of Huangdi and gave birth to two sons, both of whom later ruled the country. Legend has it that after Huangdi fought with a dragon, he went south to Xiling and married a local village girl named Leizu. Leizu was beautiful and intelligent. She invented sericulture, silk reeling and weaving. Together with Huangdi, she organized the men, women and children of the tribe to work together, with the men farming and the women weaving, and together they created the ancient Chinese civilization. She devoted herself to the creation of the Chinese foundation and was later revered as the "First Silkworm".
Leizu was the empress of Emperor Huangdi. She taught people how to raise silkworms and reel silk, and established a great achievement that will shine for thousands of years. She is called "Goddess of Silkworm Mother". The fifteenth day of the third lunar month every year is Leizu's birthday, and temple fairs are held to worship her.
Yanting County, Sichuan Province, was first built in the first year of Yixi (405) during the reign of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was named Yanting during the Western Wei Dynasty because it was "close to salt wells". There are not only a large number of unearthed sericulture relics, fossils, Leizu cultural relics, and the Tang Dynasty "Leizu Holy Land" stele, but also many legends about Leizu discovering the celestial worm and raising silkworms and making silk.