During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu hung up the seal and sealed gold, and after bidding farewell to Cao Cao at Xuchang Baling Bridge, the first pass arrived at Dongling Pass. He beheaded the guard general Kong Xiu, kicking off the prelude to slashing six generals through five levels. In order to commemorate this, the local people built a temple nearby.
Less well known is that Dongling Pass is located near Baibei Village in Huashi Town, Yuzhou City. That temple still exists today, and there is a famous hall inside, the Great Hall of the Righteous Courage Wu'an King. Because the temple worships the five tiger generals Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, the local villagers commonly call it the "Five Tiger Temple".
More than 20 kilometers northwest of Yuzhou city, there is a historic central famous town - Huashi Town. Here, the white sand reservoir with turquoise waves and floating light leaping gold is embedded like a mirror, and the crystal clear and sparkling Yinghe and Baisha rivers pass through the border like jade belts.
In front of the Baisha Reservoir, there is a famous Baisha Village. The Baisha River divides the village into two, called Baibei Village in the north and Bainan Village in the south.
According to the information provided by the Yuzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Administration Office, the famous Wu'an Wang Grand Hall is located in Baibei Village, which is an antique temple.
Yang Changgen, who was chatting and playing cards in front of the temple, and several other elderly people said that this was the "Five Tiger Temple." Several stone tablets in front of the door clearly show that this is the location of the great hall of the provincial cultural relics protection unit, the Yiyong Wu'an King. Why does a place have two names?
Yang Changgen and other elderly people explained, "The government calls the Great Hall of the King of Wu'an, because it enshrines the five tiger generals Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Ma Chao, and is commonly known as the 'Five Tiger Temple' by the locals."
Baisha Village, formerly known as Baisha Town, has a history of thousands of years, and was the economic and cultural center of the northwest of Yingchuan during the Qin and Han dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, the official government once founded Baisha Academy here. In the Qing Dynasty, the official government set up a post here, but after the Republic of China, it was defeated by soldiers and bandits.
During the Three Kingdoms period, after Guan Yu received the news that Liu Bei was in Yuan Shao's office in Hebei, he immediately hung up the seal and sealed the gold and began to ride alone for thousands of miles. The first pass that Guan Yu and his party reached was Dongling Pass, and he took the guard general Kong Xiu to "open the knife", kicking off the prelude to the five levels and cutting the six generals.
Later, in order to commemorate this event, the local people built a temple. At first, the temple was only dedicated to Guan Yu, so it was called "Guan Ye Temple", and later, it was also enshrined with Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Ma Chao, so it was called "Five Tiger Temple". The temple sits north and faces south and is a well-known cultural relic.
Wang Hao, secretary of the branch of the Yuzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Administration Office, introduced that the Great Hall of the Righteous Hero Wu'an King was originally built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1349 AD), and was rebuilt twice during the years of Ming Hongwu and Xuande.
There are seven existing buildings in the complex, including the Theater Building, the Mountain Gate, the Main Hall, the East Wing, the West Wing, and the East Wing. The theater floor is three rooms wide and two deep, and the front is the theater stage, which is across the Baisha River from the mountain gate of the main hall. The mountain façade is three wide, one deep, the rear of the bright room is opened, and there are four compartments.
The Great Hall of the Righteous Warrior Wu'an King was built on a straight-walled pedestal, with three rooms of 9.7 meters wide and 9.62 meters deep, with a single eaves on the top of the mountain, a gray barrel tile roof, and a green glazed ridge. Its structure is three beams with four columns for the front and rear double-step beams; the ridged melon column stands on the three beams, and the three-step single lower arch is used, and the Mingjian flat body is a circular melon ridge bucket, and the other is a square bucket. The layout of the main hall, the structure of the pillars and beams, and the shape of the bucket all follow the style of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and have important protection value.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Henan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau allocated funds three times around 1953, 1963 and 1977 to repair the back slope of the Wu'an King's Hall and some eaves, purlins and components, and announced it as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units in 1963.
Yuan Dynasty architecture chengjin dynasty architecture, because the Mongolian yuan rulers backward construction engineering technology, so rely on Han craftsmen to build. The architecture of the Yuan Dynasty is characterized by extensive and uninhibited, on the basis of the jin dynasty's use of moving columns and subtracting columns, more boldly reducing the wooden frame structure. The wooden structure of the Yuan Dynasty mostly used logs as beams, so the appearance was extensive. Because the Mongols are white, the architecture of the Yuan Dynasty mostly uses white glazed tiles and forms characteristics. The existing Great Hall of the Righteous Courage Wu'an King does not have this feature, which shows the fact that it has been repaired many times by later generations.
Due to various reasons, very few Yuan Dynasty buildings have been preserved, so the Great Hall of the Righteous Courage Wu'an King has high historical value, cultural value and archaeological value.
Because of his loyalty and courage, Guan Yu was highly respected by officials and people in later generations, and the emperors of various dynasties regarded Guan Yu as the embodiment of loyalty and righteousness, and regarded him as "Hou and Wang, Wang and Emperor, Emperor and Saint, Holy and Heaven".
Since the Song Dynasty, Guan Yu was made the Duke of Zhonghui and the King of Wu'an by Emperor Huizong of Song, and in the fifth year of Xuanhe (1123 AD), he was also named the Prince of Wu'an. Therefore, from the name of the Great Hall of the Righteous Courage Wu'an King, it can be judged that the Great Hall was built or named after the Song Dynasty.
Later, Guan Yu was also named the Three Realms Voldemort Emperor Shen Wei Yuan Zhen Tianzun Guan Sheng Emperor Jun, Zhenyuan Xianying Ying Ming Yi Han Tianzun, Zhongyi God WuLing You Ren Yong Wei Xian Guan Sheng Emperor, until he reached the peak of the Qing Dynasty, and was named the Zhongyi God Wu Ling You Ren Yong Wei Xianwei Protecting the Country and Protecting the People Sincere appeasement Yi Praise Xuande Guan Sheng Emperor. After this, guandi temples appeared all over the country. However, in the folk, Guan Yu is generally revered as "Guan Gong".
In the classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, luo Guanzhong, an author who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, usually referred to Guan Yu as "YunChang" or "Guan Gong" when narrating from the perspective of narration, and rarely called him by his first name. In addition to calling the emperor emperor in the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", only Guan Yu, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang have this "treatment".