You Zitong Qiqu Mountain Wenchang Pavilion
Guberson, full of temples.
The cultural movement is prosperous and a thousand years old.
The Qiqu Mountain View Area is also the starting point of the ancient Shu Road, according to Mianyang friends, you can enter the "Jianmen Pass" in northern Sichuan and the ancient Shu Road that "Shu Road is difficult, difficult to go to the green sky" out of Sichuan.
When I did the Mianyang travel guide, I didn't know that Mianyang Zitong had such a scenic spot, and after Mianyang friends arranged to visit and watch, I felt that the "Seven Curves Mountain Temple" was a relatively well-preserved and palace audience had more "Temple of Literature", which was worth taking the time to walk and see.
At the end of the tour, go home and read the text introduction, and the history of Shangwen in China began to have the saying "Confucius in the north and Wenchang in the south". The Temple of Qiqushan is the ancestral temple of Wenchang Emperor, the only indigenous religion in China, Taoism, and was built in Jin to worship Zhang Yazi among the people of Shudi. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, after Zhang Yazi was named "Wenchang Emperor", the Taoist palace "Wenchang Palace" was built here. Later, after many expansions in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, a Taoist cultural complex composed of three axes was gradually formed. There are 23 pavilions in the entire temple. Its structure is strict, the layout is orderly, and the corridor is full and tortuous. Its structure is strict, the layout is orderly, the corridor is round, the twists and turns are natural, the carved beams and paintings, and it is a rare ancient building complex in Shu. The main buildings include the Pantuo Stone Hall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Guixiang Hall of the Ming Dynasty, the Hall of Tianzun, and the Hundred Foot Building of the Qing Dynasty, etc., which retain some Song style practices in architectural techniques. The temple shows the architectural styles of various periods from the Yuan to the Qing Dynasty in a relatively complete way, and is an important example for studying the history of ancient architecture. As the birthplace of Chinese Wenchang culture, its value has the concept of "unique".
The article of Emperor Zitong in "Ci Hai" says this: "Emperor Zitong, the god of Taoism's reign and position. Legend has it that the surname Zhang Yazi, who lived in Shu Qiqu Mountain, died in battle, and his descendants built a temple to commemorate it. The Tang and Song dynasties were repeatedly crowned King Yingxian. According to Taoist legend, the Jade Emperor ordered Zitong to be in charge of Wenchang Mansion and the Human Lu Domain, so Emperor Yuan Renzong Yanyou was crowned Emperor Huang of Yuan Kaihua Silu Hongren in the third year of Yanyou (1316 AD). According to legend, Zitong was originally a human and was canonized as a god after his death, which has nothing to do with Wenchang Star in the sky, but it was later made by the altar and sealed in the Yuan Dynasty, and merged with Wenchang Xing, that is, became the Wenchang Emperor. "
The picture above shows the main building of the Qiqushan Temple - the Hundred Foot Tower
In the Ming Dynasty, the 100-foot building titled "Famous Building of Western Shu" was 3 floors high and totaled 100 feet. At that time, this building was said to be comparable to the famous buildings of Jingchu, Yueyang Tower and Yellow Crane Tower, but it was destroyed by fire, and the current building was rebuilt in the tenth year of the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty (1732). The stone steps in front of the hall and the steps are similar to the stone steps in the Forbidden City, dragons and phoenixes are intertwined, and the carvings are exquisite and lifelike, but they are not white jade, which is very precious.
The local residents also agree with this dragon and phoenix stone step, you can see that so many coins on it are placed by people entering the temple to pray for blessings.
The three stone tablets in the picture above are the historical records of the Great Temple of Qiqu Mountain, and are also the records of the local people's participation in the maintenance of the Great Temple.
Statue of Wenchangjun in the main hall. Emperor Wenchang was also known as Zi Tong, Emperor Wenchang, King Jishun, King Yingxian, Zi Tong Fuzi, Emperor Zitong, and Emperor Lei Ying. He is the god in charge of exams, destiny, and helping to read and write articles, and is the most revered god of reading literati and seekers of scientific names. It is worshiped by the people, and since the Zhou Dynasty, successive dynasties have formulated ritual laws and included them in the ceremony.
Walking through the twenty-four stone steps embedded with the Nine Dragons Stone Wall in the middle, is the main hall of Wenchang Palace, also known as Zhenqing Palace, which was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. This is the main hall dedicated to the Wenchang Emperor, and the kind and kind cast iron statue in the middle of the hall wearing a crown and wearing a nine-dragon robe is Zhang Yazi, the Wenchang Emperor.
The Guixiang Hall is behind the main hall of Wenchang and is named for the four laurel trees in front of the hall. This tree was planted during the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1241-1252 AD) and has a history of nearly 800 years. Since ancient times, people have regarded the laurel tree as a symbol of good luck and nobility. In China, the imperial examination and the first are called "toad palace folding gui". The Qing Dynasty imperial examination was set in the golden autumn when the osmanthus bloomed, which has the meaning of "folding gui". Because of this, the Guixiang Hall of Wenchang Palace was extremely valued by the students of Guangxiang University, and before the imperial examination, people came to pray for the blessing of Emperor Wenchang so that they could win the crown of the Toad Palace.
There is always a desire to pray. During the tour, we saw many tourists who came to worship the Buddha and pray for blessings, some kneeling in front of the Buddha statue and saying nicknames, some burning candles and praying devotionally, and some asking for a red cloth strip in line with their wishes to hang on the tree at the temple. Listening to friends in Mianyang, every year during the high school entrance examination, young students and parents who come here to worship the Buddha and pray for blessings are in an endless stream.
The upper and lower pictures are "Zhang Xianzhong Family Temple". Zhang Xianzhong, familiar to everyone, was the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, and during the Chongzhen period, he organized the uprising, Kefengyang, burned the imperial tomb, broke the county, and trapped Xiangyang. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), he conquered Wuchang and proclaimed himself King of Daxi. The following year, he invaded Sichuan and established the Daxi regime in Chengdu, with the year name Dashun. Later, he led troops to resist the Qing army, and was shot dead by Haoge, the Prince of Qing and Shuosu, at Phoenix Mountain in Xichong.
Baidu learned that the family temple of Zhang Xianzhong was demolished by the government many times in the Qing Dynasty, but the local people were repeatedly demolished and built, so it has been preserved to this day, and the Zhang Xianzhong family temple has been preserved to this day, indicating that the historical statement about Zhang Xianzhong's "Tu Chuan" may not be true.
In my memory, the bodhisattvas in the temple are either clay sculptures or wood carvings, as the saying goes, "Namud Bodhisattva lives in a big house", I found in the Wenchang Temple that the bodhisattvas have words on the back, really puzzled, at this time a middle-aged manager in the hall came to introduce that the 10 bodhisattvas in this hall are iron statues of the Ming Dynasty, the largest statue of the Wenchang Emperor is 4.7 meters tall and weighs 30 tons, and the 8 accompanying statues are 6 feet tall, each weighing 10,000 catties. With this, I repeatedly watched these casts, which, like the clay sculpture and wood carved bodhisattvas, have a well-proportioned body, clear lines, and a single-minded demeanor, which is really exquisite craftsmanship, which is rare in China, and shows the superb casting technology and modeling level of the ancient mainland.
Although it is not long to visit the attractions of the Great Temple of Qiqu Mountain, it is full of harvest. The mainland is an ancient country with 5,000 years of cultural inheritance, there are brilliant records of Chinese culture everywhere, on a hill in the northwest of Sichuan there is the emperor of Chinese Shangwen - Wenchang Emperor, we must not only visit the famous rivers and mountains during the journey, but also mainly scattered in various places in the humanities and historical records, then you will definitely have new discoveries, new feelings!
Walk, the beauty and story are at your feet, the more you walk, the more you discover, the farther you go, the stronger you feel!