To visit the Qianwang Ancestral Hall next to the Willow Wave Oriole, you can use the Park Card, and if you don't have a Park Card, the ticket is 15.
After so many years in Hangzhou, this is the first time I have come here. I used to think that the courtyard here was forested, the archway was heavy, or it was charged, so I was not interested.
As my understanding of Hangzhou gradually deepened, I found that Qian Wang III's contribution to Hangzhou was great, and the three generations of five kings of the three generations of grandchildren unswervingly and firmly implemented the protection of the border and the people left by Qian Wei, dredged the West Lake, built the sea pond, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.
The ancients of a thousand years ago actually had such a vision! I was very impressed, and I must come to pay respects.
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Walking into the Qianwang Ancestral Hall, the first thing you see is the small and exquisite dedication hall, which is all copper casting, which is the largest copper hall in China.
The two stele pavilions on the left and right in front of the bronze hall are symmetrically distributed. On the left is the reconstructed inscription; on the right is the inscription of the Qianlong Emperor with four large characters of "Zhongshun Yiyu".
"Yi" is the meaning of circulation, "庥" is the meaning of asylum, and the meaning of the entire inscription is: the merits of king Qian are passed down from generation to generation, protecting future generations.
Two steps further inside, that is, on the two sides behind the Bronze Hall there are the Hall of Meritorious Servants, the Left Table Martial Arts, and the Right Table Wenzhi. Among them, there is a stone stele of Zhongzhongguan in the hall, and the current inscription is re-engraved by Chen Ke, the prefect of Hangzhou during the Ming Jiajing period, although the inscription has been blurred, but from the mottled inscription, you can still feel the ambition of the Wuyue king and the virtuous behavior of benefiting the people.
The most atmospheric building in the Qianwang Ancestral Hall is the main hall, the Hall of the Five Kings, which displays the lifelike statues of the Three Kings and Five Kings. The statue of Qian In the middle is about 5 meters high. Around him were statues of Qian Yuanhuan, Qian Hongzuo, Qian Hongzhuo, and Qian Hongjun. The three generations of five kings have unswervingly implemented the policy of protecting the border and the people, relying on the wealth of Wu Yue's stock in exchange for 70 years of peace.
In the courtyard outside the other halls, there is also a "Po Liu Well". According to legend, Qian was born with a strange and very ominous appearance, his father wanted to throw him into the well, thanks to a kind mother-in-law to persuade him to save this little life, so Qian's nickname "Boliu", this well is also preserved to this day.
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Among them, this piece of "Epithet Zhongguan Stele" is the treasure of the town hall in the temple of The Qianwang Temple, and the calligraphy art of the "Epizhongguan Stele" is quite distinctive. Manifests as:
The first is to make a big deal out of it and melt into the monument. Its character diameter is 10 centimeters, and the glyph shape is so large that it is rare in ancient inscriptions in China. Looking at the whole monument, with the pen to be healthy and strong, the painting is flying and stretching, the vertical hook is thick and vigorous, the curved hook is round and beautiful, the knotted character square is slightly flattened, the posture is ups and downs and the oblique coexist, and the rhyme between the words is coherent, and the overall feeling gives people a feeling of qi YuXuan, dignified and handsome. It fully shows Su Shi's creative spirit of not only out of the Tang Dynasty's Kai law, inheriting the Tang Monument Yuxu, but also not limited to the Tang People's Law, and has both momentum outside the Law, and also integrates the momentum into the monument with the white cloth of the post.
The second is to convey God with freehand writing, and the words contain emotion. The wonderful solution of this stele is that the pen end has more emotional meaning, the word is created by the intention, the situation is born from the heart, the inscription is top to bottom, the meaning is inclined to the word, the god enters the line, the more innocent and messy it is written, the heart and hand are connected, the emotion and handwriting are the same as the stele, and the poetry and talent are cast together in the stele. The whole calligraphy is bold and strong through the back of the paper, arbitrarily sprinkled into the wood three points, short and long fat and thin posture, black and white dense natural nature. The new meaning is in addition to the law, the mysterious reason is in the boldness, and the realm of unintentional work and work, unintentional and good and good, has opened up the book style of "Song Ren Shangyi".
Su Shi is famous for his poetry, and he didn't expect Su Shi's calligraphy to be so good!
In his early years, he studied the father and son of the second king, and in middle age, he devoted himself to the Yan body, and absorbed Xu Hao and Yang Ningshi, and boldly participated in his own wishes and carried forward the spirit of innovation. He also traced the humble and simple calligraphy of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and was greatly influenced by Wang Shengqian, and in his later years he explored Li Yong's calligraphy. Su Shi was in Hangzhou, and he also left a lot of ink treasures.
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Qian Wei was a warrior, but he was also a man who was willing to put down his sword, which was quite rare among the kings of the past.
He was born poor, started by selling salt, and later because of his bravery in battle, he repeatedly made military achievements and rose to the rank of emissary. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the various envoys of the festival occupied the land as kings, forming a situation of division, and Qian also built a Wuyue state. After the Tang Dynasty, there are five dynasties and ten kingdoms, five dynasties in the north, and ten regimes in the south, taking turns to fight, and you sing and I appear.
Although this period was less than a hundred years old, there was constant war and chaos, and the people were miserable. Only Wu Yueguo did not move in the smoke everywhere, and after several decades of relative peace and prosperity, it was all thanks to the Wuyue King Qian Wei's policy of protecting the border and the republic of China.
In addition, this warrior also has a lot of affection, the love poem "Strange flowers blossom, can slowly return", which has been circulated for thousands of years, is written by Qian Wei to his wife who is visiting relatives in Lin'an, and the money is affectionate so that the majestic and righteous Qian is soft a lot, and these historical relics can be seen in the QianWang Ancestral Hall.
In addition, Qian Wei can be said to be the first planning designer of Hangzhou City, although Wu Yueguo only has a short period of seventy-eight years, qian wang built Hangzhou City three times, forming the basic pattern of Hangzhou city today.
He built "Sub-City" under the Phoenix Mountain, and then built "Luocheng" outside the Sub-City, the city wall is seventy miles long, the east of the city is bordered by the Qiantang River, the west is leaning on the West Lake, the south is Liuhe Pagoda, the north Dagen Mountain Gate, the east and west are narrow and the north and south are long, shaped like a waist drum, commonly known as "waist drum city", which is the prototype of Hangzhou City.
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The Qianwang Ancestral Hall is a ancestral temple built by the Northern Song Dynasty court to honor the submission of the Qian clan to Natu, and its original name was Express Zhongguan. It was first built in the south of Jade Emperor Mountain.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Zhongguan was moved to the Yongjin Gate and the statues of the five kings of Wuyue were also sculpted. In the Qing Dynasty, the repair of the Qiantang River and Haitang was a national project, and when the project was completed, I remembered the pioneer Qian Wang, who repaired the Haitang, so I solemnly rebuilt the Expression Loyalty Temple, expanded the pattern, and changed its name to the Qianwang Ancestral Hall.
The Taiping Army captured Hangzhou, and all the four main hall buildings of the Qianwang Ancestral Hall were destroyed in the war. The Qianwang Ancestral Hall of the Republic of China was once rebuilt, but it was quite simple. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Qianwang Ancestral Hall was occupied as a stable by the Japanese army.
In 2002, the South Line of Xihu Lake was comprehensively reconstructed and the Qianwang Ancestral Hall was rebuilt.
Transportation: Take bus 4, 4, 12, 12, 42, 102, y2 and walk about 100 meters from Qianwangci Station
Entrance fee: 15 (park card available)
Opening Hours:07:30-17:00 (All Year)