岐山周公庙。 (摄影：虞鹰)
Huaxia Jingwei.com, April 5: (Yu Ying) "The broad and profound Zhou culture is the source of the Chinese national culture, it is the root of our Chinese national culture, and it is a rope that maintains our nation. Yang Huimin, director of the Qishan County Bureau of Culture and Tourism, said on the 3rd at the Zhougong Temple in Qishan.
The delegation visited Qishan Zhougong Temple. (Photo: Yu Ying)
On April 3, 2024, the overseas media concentrated interview group of "Worship the First Ancestor with the Same Root and Build Dreams with One Heart" came to Fengming Town, Qishan County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, to visit Zhougong Temple, learn about the historical allusions of "Zhou Gong Tufu, the world returns to the heart", and feel the depth and charm of Zhouli culture; Visit Zhaoting Village and learn about the Zhou cultural allusions of "Gantang Bereavement".
岐山周公庙。 (摄影：虞鹰)
Statue of Zhou Gong. (Photo: Yu Ying)
Qishan Zhougongmiao Scenic Area, located at the southern foot of Fenghuang Mountain, 6.5 kilometers northwest of Qishan County, covers an area of more than 1,000 acres (including the ancient buildings of Zhougongmiao and Fenghuangshan Scenic Area), is a national 4A-level tourist attraction and a national key cultural relics protection unit. Here by the mountains and rivers, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the scenery is beautiful, the east, west and north are surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the south side is connected with the flat land, the shape is like a dustpan. The earliest collection of poetry in the mainland, "The Book of Songs, Daya, and Juan", describes this place as "those who have scrolls, and the wind is from the south". Therefore, later generations called this place "Ancient Scroll". Qishan Zhougong Temple is the largest and most complete Zhougong Temple of its kind in China.
Yang Huimin, director of the Qishan County Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced Zhou Gong's allusions to the interview group. (Photo: Yu Ying)
According to the research of archaeological experts, as early as more than 6,000 years ago, there were ancestors living near the mountains and springs in the area of Juan'a. Many famous events occurred in the vicinity of Juan A, the phoenix is the sacred bird worshiped by the Zhou people surnamed Ji, and there are many place names and sites related to the phoenix near the ancient Juan A, such as Phoenix Mountain, Feng Ming Gang and "Danxue Phoenix Traces" and so on. Zhou Gongdan retired in his later years, and after his death, he built an ancestral hall to worship, and Zhou Gongmiao began from this. The ancient scroll building of the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, and it was rebuilt after the Qin and Han dynasties. In the first year of Tang Wude (618), Tang Gaozu Li Yuan commemorated Zhou Gongdan, who had helped King Wu destroy Shang and establish a country, and assisted King Cheng to quell the rebellion against Anbang, and issued an edict to create the Zhou Gong Temple in the "Juan A" where he made ceremonies and music. After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties repaired and expanded, formed the ancient building complex with the palace of the three dukes (Zhou Gong, Zhao Gong, Taigong) as the main body, Jiang Yan and Houji Hall as the supplement, and the pavilions, platforms and pavilions are embellished.
Jiang Taigong and Zhou Gong discuss the political map. (Photo: Yu Ying)
"The broad and profound Zhou culture is the source of the Chinese national culture, and the founder of the Zhou culture is our ancient sages, after the ancient father, that is, the King of Zhou, to the later King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou after the destruction of Shang, to the regency of the Duke of Zhou, our Zhou culture was fully formed. Yang Huimin told the interview group.
Yang Huimin said: "Zhou Gong's great contribution to our Chinese nation in terms of Zhou culture can be summed up in three sentences. First, the Duke of Zhou was the main founder of the great unification of China, mainly because of the Eastern Expedition of the Duke of Zhou, which made our scattered Chinese nation become the great unification of China after being divided. Second, Zhou Gong is a chief architect of the spirit of the Chinese nation, because our Chinese nation has become a state of etiquette, and our civilization is called the civilization of etiquette and music, and its founder and originator is our great Zhou Gong. Third, Zhou Gong is the ancestor of the hundred schools of thought with Confucianism as the core, and the doctrines of the hundred schools of thought are separated from the Zhou culture and the thoughts of the Zhou Gong, so we have a sentence that says 'Zhou culture takes Zhou rites as the essence, Zhou rites take Zhou Gong thought as the core, and Zhou Gong thought takes Zhou Yi as the foundation. That's what it means. ”
Yang Huimin said: "In the past two years, friends from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have come to Qishan to worship their ancestors and seek their roots, and everyone is grateful and reverent to Zhou culture and Zhou Gong, and comes to this place with a sense of reverence. ”
The 3,000-year-old Gantang tree in Liujiayuan in Qishan. (Photo: Yu Ying)
It is reported that when Zhou became the king, he summoned the public to serve as the Taibao and the secretary, in addition to the guardianship of the king, he was also in charge of education and justice. He has always pursued the virtue and benevolence of King Wen, King Wu, and Duke Zhou, and worked tirelessly, touring the township, listening to the government between Qianmo, and deciding lawsuits on the bank of Longmu, working his own body without working the people, and was deeply loved by Li Shu. Because Zhao Gong often handled lawsuits under a Gantang tree in his caiyi to mediate civil disputes, after his death, people were reluctant to cut down his tree, and wrote the poem "The Book of Songs, National Style, Zhaonan, Gantang" to praise him. Guangxu 26 (1900) to 28 (1902), the Qing government allocated silver in Qishan County Zhaoting Village Gantang tree next to the construction of Zhaogong Ancestral Hall, Guangxu 29 years (1903), the royal gift "Gantang Love" plaque. Today, Gantang has become a symbol of China's culture of clean government. The idea of advocating virtue and morality, the concept of people-oriented, and the style of diligence and frugality have been passed down from generation to generation, and are known as the "ancestor of clean government" in China.