Jindian Scenic Area is located in the eastern suburbs of Kunming City, at the foot of Mingfeng Mountain, 8 kilometers away from the city, originally built during the Ming Wanli period, Ming Chongzhen Ten Years (1637) Copper Hall moved to Binchuan Jizu Mountain, Qing Kangxi Decade (1671) Pingxi King Wu Sangui rebuilt the existing heavy eaves Xieshan style Zhenwu Copper Hall, the copper hall weighs 250 tons, is the largest copper building in China.
It is more well preserved than the Golden Hall of The Summer Palace in Beijing; it is larger than the Golden Hall of Wudang Mountain in Hubei Province, and is the largest pure copper casting hall in China, and the copper hall shines brightly and dazzlingly under the sun, so it is called the Golden Temple.
In the seventeenth year of Ming Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, and Chongzhen Coal Mountain (present-day Jingshan) hanged himself. Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty's Shanhaiguan Pass, only because Chen Yuanyuan was plundered by Liu Zongmin, angrily rushed to the crown, refused to surrender Li Zicheng, and lured the Qing soldiers into the customs.
As a result, the Qing court entered the Central Plains and enslaved the Chinese nation for more than 260 years, and Wu Sangui also became a sinner for thousands of years. This is the story of "rushing the crown and turning angry into a red face".
When Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, Wu Sangui's father wrote a letter to Wu Sangui in Beijing to persuade him to surrender, and Wu Sangui, who was far away in Liaoning, originally wanted to surrender, and held a dialogue with the emissary, and his attitude immediately changed.
To the effect: What happened to my father? MESSENGER: Has been arrested. Wu Sangui: I will be released when I go back, what about my property? MESSENGER: It has been confiscated. Wu Sangui: It's okay, I'll pay it back when I get to Beijing.
What about my concubine Chen Yuanyuan? Messenger: Snatched by Prime Minister Liu Zongmin. Wu Sangui was furious and ordered his army to dress the dead emperor Zhu Youjian in mourning clothes, and said passionately: Since my father cannot be a loyal subject, then I cannot be a filial piety.
Wu Sangui knew that he could not fight on both sides, so like yesterday, the Qing soldiers who were still enemies surrendered and led the Qing soldiers into the pass.
The poet Wu Meicun at that time also had a poem about this matter, called "Yuanyuan Qu". One of the famous two sentences is: Weeping six armies are full of susu, rushing the crown and turning red in anger. Later, Wu Sangui sent him a thousand taels of gold to change two sentences, but Wu Meicun did not accept it.
Wu Sangui, who became the king of Yunnan, was very fond of Chen Yuanyuan and wanted to depose the Zhang clan and make Chen Yuanyuan a "concubine". Chen Yuanyuan was well aware of the principle that nobility is extremely dangerous and prosperous is bound to decline, and he did not want to get involved in the whirlpool of right and wrong, and urged Wu Sangui to make Zhang Shi a princess, which made Zhang Yuanyuan look at Chen Yuanyuan with astonishment, and although she was domineering, she did not dare to harm Chen Yuanyuan.
Wu Sangui saw that Chen Yuanyuan was unwilling to accept the title, so he built a golden palace in Kunming, and like Wu Wangfu's treatment of the beautiful woman Xi Shi, he drank and entertained Chen Yuanyuan day and night, and honored Chen Yuanyuan as the Chen Niangniang in the palace of the clan.
Wu Sangui was absurd and shameless, he not only loved Chen Yuanyuan, but also loved the "Eight-Sided Guanyin" and "Four-Sided Guanyin", hiding them in the Li Palace, where there were no less than a thousand beautiful women in the palace, living a life of poverty and luxury.
Chen Yuanyuan did not want to join Wu Sangui, so he used the excuse that he was weak and old, went to Kunming Sansheng Nunnery to become a nun, burned incense and chanted the sutra all day long, and raised his life.
In the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1678), Wu Sangui proclaimed himself emperor in Hengzhou and died of illness shortly after. His grandson Wu Shiyao succeeded to the throne, and in September 1681, Wu Shiyao committed suicide in Kunming, his subordinates abandoned the city and surrendered, and all the men, women and children of the Wu family were killed, but Chen Yuanyuan's whereabouts were unknown. It is said that after 3 years, she died in the Three Holy Nunnery in Kunming.