Source: People's Daily - Shanxi Channel
From the Tielu Village Square in Chen District, Gaoping City, follow a cement road 100 meters east to climb a hill called Siping Mountain. The surrounding area is quiet and pleasant, and the quiet dream view can be seen from all sides.
Qingmeng Temple is a Taoist temple, and the protection signs of the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units stand on the outside of the Qingyou Ancient Temple. According to the Qing "Chronicle of Gaoping County", "Jin Ji Zhizhen, the number of Dong Mingzi, the emperor in the middle of the five yue, Guiyu relatives said 'life is a dream ear, 'the house as a view of the name of the dream', the dream view is named after this.
Qingmeng Temple is 68 meters long from north to south, 35 meters wide from east to west, covers an area of 2380 square meters, and the two-entry courtyard is located north and facing south. The mountain gate, the nave, and the apse extend northward according to the central axis, and the bell and drum towers, side halls, box rooms, and ear halls are built on the left and right. According to the surviving inscription "The Creation of the Qingmeng Guan" in the Guannei, the Qingmengguan was founded in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1261 AD), that is, in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the founder was the Daoist Ji Zhixuan. The 40th year of the Ming Dynasty (1612 AD), the 22nd year of Qing Jiaqing (1817 AD), and the 4th year of Daoguang (1824 AD) were all rebuilt.
As a Yuan Dynasty building, the Sanqing Hall is undoubtedly the most "valuable" building in the Qingmeng Temple, and it is also the magic weapon for the Qingmeng Temple to be shortlisted for the sixth batch of cultural relics and national security units announced by the State Council in 2006.
The four walls of the Sanqing Hall are painted with frescoes. The murals on the east, west and south sides of the wall, each in a square grid, about 40 centimeters long and about 30 centimeters high, are compact and connected. The murals on the north wall are two figure paintings, which are full of images and very expressive. However, due to the long time, it is impossible to find a single intact mural, but looking around the four walls, people can still feel the full and magnificent colors, vivid characters and smooth and flexible lines of the mural. The content of the mural is diverse: there are people traveling, there are banquet scenes, and scenes showing the life of the city, which are realistic and vivid, and wonderful. These murals are special, the story characters and plot are surrounded by squares, from the first to the eighty or so, each with a title, one story after another, like a comic strip today.
The Qingmeng Temple is not only frescoed, but also the paintings on the beams of the Three Qing Halls are also very distinctive. The bottom of the five beams is a fancy brocade painting with green lines on a red background. The tatami used as a support beam under the five beams is based on vermilion throughout, painted with dark green tangled branches, and the flowers are divided into blue and white, and the red flower buds.
The apse to the north of the Sanqing Hall, because the main hall is dedicated to the Jade Emperor, so the villagers are also accustomed to calling it "Jade Emperor Temple". Although the Jade Emperor Hall was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, it can be seen from the existing inscriptions in The Guan Nei that its wooden frame style and wooden component practice still retain the remains of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, the Jade Emperor Hall is an example of the study of the transitional evolution of local architectural styles from the Yuan to the Ming Dynasty. In order to study the physical materials of Ming Dynasty architecture in Gaoping area, it has high historical and artistic value. (Producer/Wang Yanru; Video/Courtesy of Gaoping Rong Media Center)
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