Monument refers to the specific heritage or site of ancestors in history, culture, architecture, art and other aspects, including ancient buildings, traditional settlements, ancient streets, archaeological sites and other historical and cultural relics, covering politics, national defense, religion, sacrifice, residence, life, entertainment, labor, society, economy, education and other fields, making up for the lack of written and historical records.

1. Also called "historic site". 1. Ancient ruins. Of a building or its remains. Tang Li Bai's poem "Climbing the Xie 'an Pier in the Northwest of Jinling Metallurgical City" says: "Yecheng visits historical sites, and there are still Xie 'an Pier." Trace, a "trace". In Wu Wang's Pinghua volume: "Ji Chang looked at the northwest Zhaishan and stole the road day and night. Today's monument is Jichang Temple on the south bank of the Yellow River. " Xu Wei's Book of Rites in the Ming Dynasty: "Aim at historical sites and never forget the virtue of sages." Tian Wenjing, Yongzheng of Qing Dynasty, revised the Annals of Henan Historic Sites: "Yuan Shangshu can be buried in Donglisan, south Suizhou". Lu Xun's letter to Li Liewen: "We want to preserve the Qing Palace, but we don't regard it as a palace, but as a historical monument."

2. It refers to the ink used in ancient calligraphy. Biography of Wang Sengqian in Southern Qi Dynasty: "Taizu" showed that the monk had been in the ancient site for eleven days, so he sought his name. "Jing Ji Zhi Yi": "Set famous paintings of Wei places of interest, set up two stations behind the temple, called Taiwan in the east, and hide places of interest; In the west, there is a memorial platform and ancient paintings. " Yuan Lu's friend Yanbei Magazine: "The people of the Tang Dynasty approached the model historic site, gained its shape and lost its rhyme. "In the Qing Dynasty, Duke Liang of Zhou wrote" Xiang Gong with Ni ":"The calligrapher "got several lines of monuments, such as the military symbol Pei Xuan Nv's bugle."