[Source: Yuncheng Evening News]
Editor's note
Every ancient building and every cultural relic quietly tells the change and evolution of history. Know the past and learn from the future, respect tradition and seek innovation. Recently, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism launched the "Yuncheng National Treasure Parade Check-in Activity", which will invite 12 Xiaohongshu high-quality content bloggers to visit 11 tourist attractions in our city from May 20th to 25th to explore national treasures, appreciate ancient buildings, and taste food, so as to continue to empower the high-quality development of Yuncheng cultural tourism. And these 11 places with their own characteristics and rich connotations have been waiting for you for a long time.
Gwangin Temple
One of the four intact wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty in the mainland, the existing building hall is the remains of the fifth year of Tang Dynasty (831 AD), and the temple is located on the earthen wall in the north of Zhonglongquan Village, which is 4 kilometers north of Ruicheng County.
Guangrenwang Temple, also known as the "Five Dragons Temple", is named after the five dragons used to pray for rain in ancient times, and the dragons sacrificed matched with the five elements. The temple sits in the north and faces south, and now there are Longquan Pond, the courtyard gate, the stage, the Dragon King Palace, and the stele of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Among them, two Tang steles are particularly precious, namely the Longquan Monument of King Guangren and the Longquan Monument.
Yongle Palace
Yongle Palace, formerly known as "Da Chunyang Wanshou Palace", was built to commemorate Lu Dongbin, the patriarch of Quanzhen Sect, and is the most complete Yuan Dynasty official-style building complex in mainland China.
Yongle Palace's four Yuan Dynasty official-style buildings are ingenious, and the Dragon and Tiger Palace, the Sanqing Palace, the Chunyang Palace and the Chongyang Palace are arranged on the 500-meter-long central axis in turn. The murals of the Yuan Dynasty in the four halls are the masterpieces in the history of world art in the 13th century, especially the murals in the Sanqing Palace, "Chao Yuan Tu" are the most exciting. The 430-square-meter work depicts 290 figures, the image is vivid and lifelike, and it is the hand-me-down work of the traditional Chinese Gongbi heavy color figure painting collection of the past dynasties.
Jiwang Temple
Jiwang Temple in Jishan County, is the largest in the history of the mainland, the highest grade, the most complete preservation of a temple dedicated to the ancestor of farming, Houji, its most fascinating is the architectural decoration, the wood carving, stone carving and glaze three kinds of art into one, can be called the ancient building "three unique".
The king of millet holding the ears of grain, the farmer who ploughs and sows seeds, the cattle and horses who work silently, and the fan cart that raises the grain, are vividly displayed, which is the first eye-catching wood carving. The second must be the exquisite and beautiful stone carving, which paints a historical picture that can be seen and touched with the art of ghostly craftsmanship. The third must be the gorgeous and magnificent glazed colored tiles. As soon as you enter the Jiwang Temple, you can look up at the top of each building, and you will see that it is like a colorful art world, which makes people dizzy and forgetful.
Houtu Ancestral Hall
The crown of the ancestral temple in Hainei, the source of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, is located 40 kilometers southwest of Wanrong County. From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, 9 emperors visited 24 times in person. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to the sacrifice 6 times and left the eternal swan song "Autumn Wind Speech". The main building Qiufeng Building is located at the end of the ancestral hall, standing by the river, lofty and magnificent, the existing building is 32.6 meters high, it is an excellent wooden building that has survived in the Qing Dynasty. Below the Qiufeng Tower, there is the famous Zhangyi Ancient Road, which was the main road of the Qin and Jin Dynasties in ancient times.
The "product" character stage in the ancestral hall is famous at home and abroad, the three plays are on the stage, the form is peculiar, the structure is ingenious, the three-layer hollow wood carving is scattered and complex, not only plays the role of bearing load, but also brings the embellishment and beauty to the extreme.
Feiyun Tower
As the saying goes: "There is a flying cloud building in Vaeng, half of which is inserted in the clouds." "Feiyun Tower is known as the first wooden building in the world and is located in the Dongyue Temple in Vang Vieng County. The overall building of Feiyun Tower has a total of 5 floors and 32 eaves, and the thickness of the rafters under the eaves is different, and the closer to the wing corners, the finer the components. Dougong is as many as 345 groups, the number of each layer of dougong stepping and the form of angqiao are not the same, such as clouds embracing, flowers are clustered in general, each eaves warped angle gives people a feeling of volleying to fly.
Feiyun Tower's majestic and magnificent momentum crowns the whole temple, reflecting the superb level of ancient Chinese architectural skills.
Big Buddha Temple
The Big Buddha Temple is located 1 km northeast of Jishan County, is an ancient temple built by the cliff, and is famous for its temple to enshrine a seated statue of Maitreya sculpted by the cliff.
Sculpture of a naturally formed earthen cliff, the Buddha is 20 meters high and 6.8 meters wide. The Buddha statue sculpture has been eroded by wind and rain for more than 880 years, and it has not fallen.
Jiangzhou lobby
The Jiangzhou lobby is located on the high wall in the western part of Xinjiang County. The foundation of the Tang Dynasty, the masonry of the Song Dynasty, the ramp of the Yuan Dynasty, and the walls of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the courtyard layout and building structure have been expanded and maintained, which fully shows that since the establishment of the state administration office in the Tang Dynasty, the successive dynasties have been used on the original site.
This was once the place where Zhang Shigui, the leading general of the Tang Left Army, took command, so the lobby was also called "Shuai Zhengtang". There is a stone tablet on the north wall of the lobby on the east and west, which is the famous Wenchen Shichijo and Wuchen Shichijo stele. The "Seven Articles of Wenchen" concisely and concisely made clear provisions on the professional ethics and duties of Wenchen in the Song Dynasty from the seven aspects of pure heart, public service, moral cultivation, responsibility, clear inspection, persuasion, and reform, which can be said to be the standard of clean government for officials in ancient times.
Longxing Temple
Longxing Temple is located on the high fu at the north end of Longxing Road, Xinjiang County. The temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and was originally known as Biluoguan. The symmetrical layout of the central axis of the temple is built along the central axis from south to north: mountain gate, east and west tablet corridor, 108 steps, Biluo tablet pavilion, east and west side hall, Daxiong Treasure Palace, Longxing Pagoda, Song Jin Ancient Tomb, Guipu Garden, etc.
Among them, especially the calligraphy treasure Biluo Monument, the Song gold clay color statue in the Daxiong Treasure Hall and the Longxing Pagoda that is difficult to solve the mystery of smoke are the most famous, and are called "the three treasures of Longxing Temple". Longxing Temple is built according to the topography, because of the uniqueness of its architectural layout, the scientificity of the building structure, the artistry of the inscription and the statue, etc., it has a very high cultural relics protection value.
Jiezhou Guandi Temple
Founded in the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (589 AD), it is the earliest, largest, highest and most complete Guandi temple in mainland China, known as the "ancestor of Guanmiao" and "the crown of Wumiao", with a history of more than 1,400 years.
The whole temple is divided into 3 parts, the south is the Jieyi Garden, the main temple area in the middle, and the Guandi Imperial Garden in the north. Chongning Hall is the main hall of Emperor Guan's ancestral temple in Jiezhou, and the statue of Emperor Guan Gong is enshrined in the hall. The Spring and Autumn Building is the architectural essence of the ancestral temple of Emperor Guan in Jiezhou, because of the image of reading "Spring and Autumn" in the warm pavilion on the second floor of the second floor, this building is 23.41 meters high, the second floor "hanging beam hanging column" structure has nearly a thousand years of history in the history of architecture, each column head is facing down like hanging hanging beams, there are beams and columns under each pillar to hold it up, giving people the feeling of a pavilion in the air; The inverted hanging caisson in the building, presents a rare convex shape, the overall shape is like a stamen, delicate and gorgeous, which can be called a wonder in the history of ancient architecture in the mainland.
Sima Wen Ancestral Hall
Sima Wen Gong Ancestral Hall is the ancestral location of Sima Guang, located in the northwest of Xia County about 13 kilometers on the Mingtiao Gang, sitting northwest and facing southeast, by the tomb area, Zhongqing Cuide Tablet Tower, Wen Gong Ancestral Hall, Yuqing Zen Temple, Shushui Academy 5 major parts.
Among them, the big Buddha hall of Yuqing Temple is the only ancient building of the Northern Song Dynasty official practice in the province. At present, the temple also preserves the colorful statues of the Northern Song Dynasty, as well as a large number of inscriptions of famous artists of the Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Yuncheng Museum
Mulberry and glory embody the memory and prosperity of culture. In the Yuncheng Museum, listen to the legends and stories of the Yellow Emperor's battle against Chiyou, Shun cultivating the mountains, Yu chiseling the dragon gate, and the ancestors raising silkworms, and sort out the context of history and culture; Observe the 45 million-year-old fossil of the "Century Ape" found in Yuanqu County to explore the mystery of human origin; Learn about the Xihoudu ruins on the banks of the Yellow River, and imagine the first sacred flame of human civilization 2.43 million years ago; Gaze at the half of the silkworm cocoon excavated by the Chinese for the first time in 1926, and appreciate the wisdom and diligence of the ancestors of Hedong contained in each spade soil......
The basic exhibition of Yuncheng Museum is divided into three parts, which are "East of the Great River", "Yongle Zhuang Song" and "World Worship". Focusing on unique cultural genes such as "a ray of dawn", "a pile of sacred fire", "half a silkworm cocoon", "a barren curtain", "a pool of snow", "a saint", "a Tang pagoda" and "a pontoon bridge", we will build a platform to carry history and inherit civilization.
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