WuMiao, as opposed to the Temple of Literature, offers sacrifices to sages such as Confucius. The Wu Temple is a temple dedicated to good generals, and the Chinese Wu Temple worship was first popular in the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Emperor honored Jiang Taigong as King Wucheng. For this reason, the Wucheng King Temple was set up, the main god was Taigong Wang, and the Ten Zhe of the Wu Temple sat on the left and right. On the left are Bai Qi, Han Xin, Zhuge Liang, Li Jing, and Li Xun, and on the right are Zhang Liang, Tian Hoang Tho, Sun Wu, Wu Qi, and Le Yi. During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, the number of sacrifices in the Wumiao Temple increased to sixty-four, and during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, it increased to seventy-two.
In addition, the Manchu Qing dynasty dedicated to Guan Yu, and the temple dedicated to Guan Yu and Yue Fei in the Republic of China was also called the Wu Temple, but it was not opposed to the Temple of Literature. The only temple that can really be said to be opposed to the Temple of Literature is the Wucheng Wang Temple, but in 1835 (the sixteenth year of the Ming Dynasty), the Ming Ming Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty also built a Wu Temple following the Tang Dynasty's Taigong Temple. Embodying the so-called way of the saints is all-encompassing, there is a literary person, there must be a concept of armament. The significance of this Wumiao Temple is roughly similar to that of the Wucheng Wang Temple in China, with Jiang Taigong as the main deity and Zhang Liang and others as the deserving.
But the worshippers are a little different, and the Vietnamese Wu Temple enshrines a total of eighteen people, twelve of whom are famous Chinese generals, including Jiang Taigong. There are also six famous Vietnamese generals, namely: Chen Guojun of the Chen Dynasty, Li Kui of the Lần Dynasty, Nguyen Nguyen Nguyen Nguyen, Nguyen Huong, Nguyen Van Cheung of the Nguyen Dynasty. Among them, the twelve famous Chinese generals who are enshrined are also different from the Ten Philosophers of the WuMiao Temple of the Chinese Wu Temple, who are they? What kind of glorious past has it been?
The first thing to say is Jiang Taigong, the founding father of the Zhou Dynasty and the founder of military science. At that time, as the military commander of the Zhou State, he assisted King Wu in eliminating Shang, and assisted Zhou Gongdan in promoting the rule of Cheng Kang. Successive Chinese emperors and literary and historical texts have revered him as the originator of the Bing family, the martial saint, and the grandmaster of the Hundred Families, and Tang Taizong claimed to be the embodiment of Jiang Ziya by virtue of his prestige, which led to the later Taigong Temple.
The second Sun Wu, known as the Most Holy of soldiers, wrote his book The Art of War by Sun Tzu, which is known as the Sacred Code of Military Studies. It has an important position in the history of world military and philosophical thought, and can be regarded as a popular military model in the world, so he is also known as the originator of Oriental military science. The third Guan Zhong, Guan Zhong, is also not simple, and is known as the first phase of China and the pioneer of the Fa. It was he who assisted Duke Huan of Qi to become the head of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, making the State of Qi powerful, and posterity called him Guan Zi in honor.
The fourth Sima Yong Tho, after Jiang Taigong, was another famous military figure who inherited the upper and lower levels. He led an army to repel the combined forces of Jin and Yan, but unfortunately, Qi Jinggong later listened to rumors and removed him, which eventually led to Sima Rang Tho's depression and death. Sima Rang Tho's deeds were not many, but his military thinking was very influential, so he was able to enshrine himself in the Wucheng Temple with several famous generals with outstanding military achievements. The fifth Zhang Liang, Zhang Liang's qi was mainly in the plot, he assisted Liu Bang in establishing the Han Dynasty step by step.
In the later period, he also helped Lü Hou's son Liu Ying to become the crown prince, and his ending was among the famous generals, which was also a relatively good ending. Do not love the position of power, follow the red pine seeds to travel around the world, and can end up in peace. The sixth Han Xin, the legendary deed of Han Xin, is a real household name, and is considered to be a representative of the military power strategist. Even many times people say that without Han Xin's military achievements, Liu Bang may not be able to dominate the world.
Han Xin's achievements were very numerous, but his later ending was not good, and he was booby-trapped by Lü Hou in the bell room of Changle Palace. The seventh Zhuge Liang, in the rendition, he was praised as a god, but in fact, there was something difficult to say in the history. But he is also a famous person in history, and he has also made great achievements in all aspects, and is considered to be a representative of loyal subjects and wise men in traditional Chinese culture. The eighth Li Jing, after jinyang raised an army, assisted the Li family in establishing the Tang Dynasty, and destroyed the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop, expanding the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the north of the Yin Mountains and as far as the desert.
The ninth Guo Ziyi, an important general who stabilized the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion, once retreated from the enemy army by himself. The tenth Li Sheng, who once shot an arrow at the Tubo defender, was a thousand enemies. The eleventh Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin general and national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, naturally did not need to say much about his military achievements. If he hadn't died or been degraded, he wouldn't have been able to recover the whole country, but he wouldn't have been forced to that realm by the Jin Army. The twelfth Xu Da, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, followed Zhu Yuanzhang from a difficult time.
He assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in establishing the Ming Dynasty, was good at governing the army, and could be called the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. These twelve are the twelve famous Chinese generals in the Vietnamese Martial Arts Temple, each of which is a household name, do you know how many?
References: "Records of History", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Old Book of Tang", "New Book of Tang"