Former Residences of Qiu Jun and Hai Rui
Memorial sites in the hometown of Qiu Jun, the great scholar of the "Nanming Qidian" (Ming-dynasty philosopher / author of "Daxue Yanyi Bu"), and upright official Hai Rui; Hai Rui's tomb park is separately on Qiuhai Avenue (approx. CNY 30)
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Memorial sites in the hometown of Qiu Jun, the great scholar of the "Nanming Qidian" (Ming-dynasty philosopher / author of "Daxue Yanyi Bu"), and upright official Hai Rui; Hai Rui's tomb park is separately on Qiuhai Avenue (approx. CNY 30). Qiu Jun was the most eminent scholar to emerge from Hainan Island in the Ming dynasty, rising to Grand Secretary of the Wuying Hall; his "Daxue Yanyi Bu" (Supplement to the Extended Meaning of the Great Learning) is a landmark synthesis of ancient economic statecraft, and Ming contemporaries hailed him as the great scholar of the "Nanming Qidian". Hai Rui's unyielding integrity and incorruptibility made him the prototype of the folk-worshipped "Hai Qingtian" (Clear-Sky Hai). Both former residences lie in Fucheng's old lanes, plainly furnished and free to enter. The Hai Rui Tomb Park on Qiuhai Avenue was expanded from the original Ming tomb, its spirit way lined with stately, complete stone statues; that one city produced two such emblematic figures, Qiu and Hai, is the most condensed footnote to Hainan's cultural history.
Getting there: Fucheng area
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