FangYu Wen Temple Junxiang Chu
According to the calculation, the Lizhou Confucian Temple has experienced more than a thousand years of history, and it is also a precious cultural relic that has experienced more than 600 years of vicissitudes. It is quaint, deep and elegant, worthy of the classics that the years have given to the world.
The Temple of Literature is a place of worship for Confucius, and has always been a temple for the hearts of the students of Xinxin who have studied hard with green lanterns. The Lizhou Confucian Temple coldly looks at the hurried visitors, it is enduring, spectacular and majestic, it is a special carrier of the profound Confucian culture, containing a deep history and a thick culture.
Because of the fame of Chengtou Mountain, the Lizhou Confucian Temple, which has been silent for a long time, has once again boiled up. Several handsome elites who went out from this land generously donated nearly two million yuan to let the Temple of Literature carry out new renovations. The craftsmen got busy, restored the head gate of the Temple of Literature, built a new antique gate tower, repaired the palace wall, and greened the empty plain... Next, it undertook the unprecedented exhibition of Cultural Relics of Chengtou Mountain: the West Wing House exhibited the Paleolithic and Pengtou Mountain and the Eighty Yuan Cultural Relics, the East Wing House exhibited the cultural relics of Qujialing and Shijiahe, and the apse exhibited the cultural relics of Chengtou Mountain. The Lizhou Confucian Temple interprets the magic and splendor of the vast Liyang Plain, allowing visitors to come from ancient times step by step.
All things have a spirit. The ancient cultural sites of Chengtou Mountain and the Lizhou Confucian Temple are in the same vein, complementing each other in the dark and spreading their reputation!
Lucky, Lizhou Confucian Temple.
The Lizhou Confucian Temple was originally built during the Song Dynasty, initially built 0.5 kilometers outside the south gate of the county seat, and moved to the current site in the first year of Ming Hongwu. The temple of literature building from south to north, there are the head gate, the stone masonry bridge on the half-moon pond, the star gate, the Dacheng gate, the Dacheng hall, and the Chongsheng Shrine, a total of six entrances. Surrounded by a wall of scarlet wind and fire that has symbolized sacrifices since the Ming Dynasty. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, although the temple has been rebuilt, expanded and repaired more than 10 times, it is still difficult to resist the erosion and destruction of the years, and the head gate and the star gate have finally fallen out of people's vision. However, this does not hinder the cultural value contained in the Lizhou Confucian Temple, which has become the premier state-level Confucian Temple in Hunan Province, which is admired and worshipped. The Lizhou Confucian Temple undoubtedly adds cultural taste and historical heaviness to the ancient city of Lizhou.
The Lizhou Confucian Temple is adjacent to the lizhou ancient city wall, and the repaired head gate, a three-room two-story antique gate tower, is in the left and right arches of the ancient city wall. On the east side of the wall, there is a "dismount monument" and the warning that "officials and people are waiting to get off their horses here" is impressive, which makes people admire. On both sides of the head gate are a pair of large stone lions, which are said to be relics of the Huayang Royal Palace. The King of Huayang was the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the grandson of Ming Taizu, and in 221 he inherited the Eleventh King.
The renovated Temple of Literature still maintains the classical style of carved beams and paintings, stone bridges and flowing water, and pavilions. The old locust camphor, which has some rings of old rings, is full of wind and wind, covering the sky and the sun, giving people a sense of solemnity and solemnity. The Zhuangyuan Bridge on the Half Moon Pond can only be stepped on by the Middle-ranking Champions, and both the dignitaries and the magnates have to take a detour to avoid the road. Hao Xixian, the head of the Yuan Dynasty, once honored his ancestors, and whether he could wear red and hang a color to walk on such a sacred stone bridge in the attention ceremony of the crowd is now unknown. Since the Temple of Literature was relocated to its current site in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the bridge has obviously not been blessed to carry the new branch. However, in the early 1990s, a middle school student named Zhou Biao won the International Olympiad Chemistry Gold Medal, and the county government organized a grand "Zhuangyuan" bridge stepping ceremony, which made the Temple of Literature, which had been cold for hundreds of years, addicted. Although the hilarity belonged to others, at that time, I was really envious of the students who studied hard in the cold window. In fact, all the sounds, all the colors, all the glory, whether because of the doomed appeal of the Temple of Literature or the long-term psychological connection with it, have awakened an emotion that is difficult to define and clear to each reader, and impressively crosses the swamp country of thought and returns to the spiritual homeland.
Dacheng Gate was built in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, with a single eaves of hard mountain style, covered with yellow glazed tiles symbolizing honor, and the stone base is the Sumire Seat. The dacheng gate hangs on the left and right of the banners "Virtue and Heaven and Earth" and "Daoguan Ancient and Modern", which makes people feel a kind of ritual music in the saint's house. The central inlay of the front and back steps symbolizes the feudal hierarchy of the Five Dragon Majesty, the emperor of the "Nine-Five-Five" uses the Nine Dragons, the provincial level uses the Seven Dragons, and the direct subordinate Lizhou should naturally use the Five Dragons. Before and after the Dacheng Gate, there are also reliefs and stone carvings of the Five Dragon Play Beads. This kind of dragon majesty seems to freeze the eternity of time, giving people a solemn solemnity, erasing the impetuousness of modern society, tranquility is like a breeze, a bend of the moon, it is very intriguing: throughout the ages, what kind of realm is Dacheng really? Is it to chase after the Golden House, Yan Ruyu, and Qianzhongsu in the book, or to cultivate the insight of the world and the cultivation of human feelings?
The Hall is made up of 48 huge fir pillars, 23 meters high, and the top is a heavy eaves with staggered arches. The yellow glazed tiles shine brightly, and the 9 ridges are composed of glazed cloud dragons. The two sides of the hall are east and west wing rooms, and there are bell towers and drum towers. Wooden walls, beams and pillars, door doors, galleries, and arches, the essence of these most painstaking constructions, as if the old man who has experienced vicissitudes has waited there for thousands of years, witnessing how many glories and disgraces have risen and fallen. The bell and drum towers correspond to each other from east to west, in a hexagonal roof type, with heavy eaves and twelve ridges, eaves decorated with angles, and yellow glazed tiles on the top. The sound of bells and drums and the silk bamboo orchestra, presumably only the head overhanging beam, the cone thorn strand, the sac fluorescent snow, the broken painting porridge, the chiseled wall borrower flow in the gold list title can be most tasted, the crazy Fan Jin, the sloppy Kong Yiji generation is broken to understand the wonderful. Self-cultivation, family unity, governance of the country, and peace in the world, the Dacheng Hall is a great treasure, there are joys and sorrows, there are honors and humiliations.
Through the east-west corridor is the Shrine of the Worship. Confucius had three thousand disciples, and the corridor was dedicated to the well-known "Seventy-Two Sages". The Chongsheng Ancestral Hall was rebuilt in the 21st year of Qing Daoguang and enshrined the Kong family tablets. On the pillars on both sides, hangs a handwritten couplet of Qing Dynasty scholar Ji Xiaolan: "With the State Xian Xiu An Fu Honorable Gongfu Di; the same day and the old article Moral Saint Family." "Looking closely, I found that there was a hidden clue. Ji Gong also played the word game of the literati and scholars: "rich" is missing a "dot" on the top of the word, and a "vertical" under the word "chapter" runs straight through the "day", which means "rich and noble, and the article is all over the sky", presumably to show the ordinary world the true meaning of reading and highlight the dignity of the reader. Inside the temple, a tall seated statue of Confucius was erected, which made people can't help but look up again and again, and then bow their eyebrows and bow their heads, and prayerfully pray with incense, hoping to step on the Bridge in this life or in the next life. The shrine is a stone foundation, the roof is a single eaves hard mountain type, covered with green glazed tiles, and one ear room is built on each side. The east and west wings are hard mountain style, covered with green sulfur tiles and tea ridges, and decorated with fish kisses at both ends. From ancient times to today, this land seems to have such an invisible historical context, inheriting the essence of Confucianism, guangda Zhu Cheng's theory, reproducing the long-standing Chu culture, and integrating into the unique Huxiang culture; a shrine of worship has made Lizhou generation have handsome talents and talents!
In the autumn afternoon, take a closer look at the carved beams of the paintings and feel the golden splendor in the ancient light. Carved into the dragon phoenix unicorn arch, molded into a character allusion to the finches, carved into relief of the cloud pattern of flowers to illuminate the wall pattern, exquisite and transparent, realistic and delicate, indeed some of the situation of the divine stroke. This magnificent building, after years of smoke, still conveys a strong appeal. This kind of teacher's creation, close to nature, makes people's state of mind transcend the square corner, and becomes the best way to return to the plain.
Editor-in-Chief/Yi Zongming | Edit/Huang Jing