The tomb of Yuan Chonghuan, located in Xiejie, Donghua City, Beijing, underwent large-scale renovation in 2002 and was opened to the public at the end of that year. The author recently checked the relevant information and learned that the tomb of Yuan Chonghuan was preserved after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it was also personally cared for by Chairman *.

That was in 1952. Four well-known democrats, including Li Jishen, Zhang Shizhao, Liu Yazi, and Ye Gongxuan, jointly wrote a letter to Chairman Mao on May 14, 1952, requesting that the ancestral tomb of Yuan Chonghuan be preserved and rebuilt. After only two days, Chairman Mao gave instructions in a letter on May 16: "Please ask Comrade Peng Zhen to investigate and deal with it." If there is no big problem, the tomb of Yuan Chonghuan should be preserved. At that time, the founding of the People's Republic of China had just been two and a half years old, and it could be said that there were all kinds of ruins waiting to be rebuilt; the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was in full swing, and there were many real urgent tasks. The democrats directly appealed to the top leaders of the party and the state on matters such as the preservation of the ancestral tombs of historical figures, and Chairman Mao also made a clear statement in a timely manner, which shows the harmony and clarity of the country's political and social life atmosphere at that time.

Yuan Chonghuan (1584~1630 AD) was the most famous anti-Qing general in the late Ming Dynasty, his ancestral home was Dongguan, Guangdong, and later settled in Tengxian County, Guangxi. He was a junior in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and was first awarded to Shaowuzhi County, Fujian. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the turmoil and peasant uprisings in various places made the imperial court overwhelmed and anxious, and the border troubles were still frequent, and the rising Houjin continued to invade, making the imperial court helpless and helpless. Yuan Chonghuan was concerned about Liaojiang, resolutely put pen to paper, and because of the repeated victories of the Later Jin Army, he was promoted to the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of Yushi, and served as the governor of Jiliao. This is equivalent to the official title of the current Minister of Defense and Vice Minister of Supervision, and the Jiliao Governor is similar to the position of the Governor of Northeast China. It can be said that the heavy task of the Ming court to block the Houjin invasion in the northeast was placed on Yuan Chonghuan. During his tenure in Liao, he also defeated the attacks of the Houjin army many times, and won the great victory of Ningyuan and Ningjin. In a decisive battle with Nurhachi, Yuan Chonghuan wounded Nurhachi to death with artillery fire, which was very effective in stopping the southward advance of the Houjin army.

In the second year of the last Ming Dynasty emperor Chongzhen (1629 AD), Huang Taiji bypassed Yuan Chonghuan's Guanjin defense line in western Liaoning to attack Beijing.

In just a few years, Huang Taiji knew that Yuan Chonghuan was powerful, so he listened to the counter-plan set up by his Han strategists, and marched under the city of Beijing, not to fight with Yuan Chonghuan, but to make an alliance with Yuan Chonghuan to make an alliance under the city. Emperor Chongzhen, who proclaimed himself "not the king of the country" and regarded the Manchu Dynasty as "the minister of the country", really fell into the plan, listened to the slander, and finally arrested Yuan Chonghuan and imprisoned him, creating a huge case of injustice and a huge disaster of self-destruction of the Great Wall.

Yuan Chonghuan promised the country with his body, and had the ambition and feelings of "serving the country with a minister's heart, swearing to sing a triumphant song and returning; but leaving his innocence, and what to say about his bones", he still couldn't get rid of the tragic ending that the upright loyal ministers in the feudal dynasty often had, and finally Chongzhen was tortured (a kind of torture that splits the limbs) and died in Xishi in the third year (1630 AD).

After Yuan Chonghuan was killed, one of his subordinates surnamed She risked being beheaded by the whole house, and stole Yuan Chonghuan's head back from the court and hid it in his own courtyard. Later, he secretly transported Yuan Chonghuan's bones back and buried them in the original Guangdong Yiyuan in Guangqumen, and Yuan Chonghuan was beheaded in a different place. Since then, the She family has also been incognito, guarding the tomb for generations in the cemetery of Xiejie in Donghua City, and it has been passed down for more than 370 years for 17 generations.

Yuan Chonghuan's official revenge was achieved 152 years after his disaster, in the 47th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1782 AD), and it was achieved at the highest level of the emperor's edict. On the 4th day of December in the 47th year of Qianlong, Qianlong issued an edict to Shang Fu (i.e., the horse) and asked him to inform Shang An, who was then the governor of Guangdong, that "yesterday, after reading the history of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan supervised Ji Liao, although he was in trouble with our dynasty, he was still able to be loyal to what he did. At that time, the master was in a political coma, and he could not restrain his heart, so that his body was rebuilt, which was deeply compassionate. Yuan Chonghuan is a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, and now he has no descendants, but he has been out of office, and he has written a message to Shang'an, and he has found out in detail, and he will repeat it when he encounters it, and he will know this edict and admire it. "As the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong can have such an accessible mind and attitude towards the strange injustice suffered by his ancestors when they conquered the world and entered the Central Plains, which is really commendable in feudal society.

The Yuan Chonghuan Ancestral Hall and Tomb guarded by the descendants of the She family were preserved after the founding of New China due to the care of Chairman Mao and the Beijing Municipal Government, but over time, it became a miscellaneous courtyard where residents lived. Although the site was designated as a cultural relics protection unit in Beijing in 1984, there are nearly 20 households living in it, and it is impossible to mourn the martyrs and remember the ancestors. In 2001, the relevant departments of Beijing Municipality and Chongwen District raised more than 4 million yuan in accordance with the policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, and strengthening management", and finally completed the evacuation of the residents living in the ancestral courtyard. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics has invested more than 600,000 yuan to carry out a thorough renovation of the Yuan Chonghuan Ancestral Hall, which has generally restored the appearance of the 50s of the last century, so that this cultural relics protection unit has been liberated and restored to a place for education in patriotism and historical traditions.

Yuan Chonghuan Temple is a not very big courtyard, the gate facing the street hangs the plaque of "Ming Dynasty National Martyr Yuan Chonghuan Tomb", the plaque on the door is engraved with the title "Yuan Inspector Tomb", the couplet on both sides of the door reads: "Since the Great Wall is damaged in the present and the ancient; forever leave the resolute and strong mountains and rivers". After entering the door, a road leads directly to the tomb, and the hall is engraved with the inscription "Ming Dynasty Yue Martyr Yuan Inspector Tomb Hall". The hall in the hall is three rooms wide, and the center is dedicated to the "Statue of Yuan Inspector Chonghuan", and the couplets hanging on both sides read: "The cane must be ashamed of the snow; Hengge Yuan is not a feudal marquis", which very concisely summarizes the life of Yuan Chonghuan and the unique feelings of loyal ministers and good generals. Although this tomb is renovated and painted with red lacquer, it looks quite magnificent, but when you look around the room, you can see from the beams and other places that it is still the original old house frame. The east and west side halls on both sides of the tomb were opened up as exhibition rooms, displaying materials introducing Yuan Chonghuan and some objects, pictures and reproduced artifacts related to him.

Behind the tomb is a smaller courtyard, there is the tomb of Yuan Chonghuan, a stone tablet in front of the tomb is quite tall, the stone tablet is engraved with "the tomb of the general of the Ming Dynasty" seven big characters, the font is strong and powerful, it is written that the date of establishment is "February of the 11th year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty", it is "the theme of Wu Rongguang after entering the township". It was many years after Yuan Chonghuan obtained Zhaoxue, and the descendants of the same villagers carved the title for Chongmu Zhaoxuan and his martyrs.

With the renovation of Yuan Chonghuan's ancestral tomb, the Yuan Inspector Temple in Longtan Lake Park was also opened to the public during the Spring Festival in 2003. The temple was built in 1917 for Zhang Bozhen, a descendant of Yuan Chonghuan's fellow villagers, to commemorate his short life and show his tragic deeds. This temple is located on the east lake bank of Longtan Lake Park now, sits west to east, faces three rooms, and is built on a pedestal more than one meter high. The middle door of the temple hangs a couplet written by Kang Youwei, who is also a fellow villager in Guangdong: "His lineage is a great disaster at that time, when he survived and died in the middle of the summer, he enjoyed the death of the temple and the heavy Taishan Mountain; The main wall of the temple is inlaid with the stone carving of Yuan Chonghuan, and there are stone carvings such as "Ming Yuan Inspector Temple", "Yuan Inspector Temple Inscription", "She Yishi Epitaph" and so on. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, this temple has not been open to the public, but in 1984 it was also announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Beijing. Nowadays, a square has been built around the temple of Yuan Dushi, and a lawn has been laid, which has the conditions for receiving visitors to pay their respects and pay their respects.