Temple Terrace

Yangtai palace is located at the south foot of Huagai peak of Wangwu mountain, 30km northwest of the city. It is named for its location on the balcony. In the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727 AD), Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji ordered Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist priest, to establish a Taoist temple in Wangwu mountain. In 735 ad, the Taoist temple was completed. There are three pavilions on the fifth floor, named balcony view. Xuanzong wrote the plaque of "Liaoyang Palace" and ordered his sister princess Yuzhen to go to the mountain to learn Taoism. The court and the field were shocked and the Taoism became prosperous.

Temple Terrace

The Supreme Master said: the ten caves are located between the famous mountains of the earth, and are the places where the gods are sent to rule. Yangtai palace is located at the south foot of Huagai peak of Wangwu mountain, the largest Taoist cave, 30 kilometers northwest of Jiyuan City, Henan Province. It is named after its balcony.

Yangtai palace is one of the three palaces of Wangwushan (Yangtai palace, Ziwei palace and Qingxu Palace). It is called "Longevity Palace with big balcony". It faces south and is built on the mountain. In the north of the temple of heaven, it stands high and looks like the head of a Phoenix. Facing the open jiuzhiling, it looks like the tail of a Phoenix. The Yangtai palace is just above the back of the Phoenix. It is regarded as a "Danfeng Chaoyang" geomantic treasure land.

Construction history

In 724, Emperor Xuanzong called Sima Chengzhen to Beijing and ordered him to choose his own style and live in Wangwushan. Yuan 23 years (AD 735) Taoist temple was completed, named balcony view.

Balcony view facing south, built on the mountain, step by step up, high and low Pavilion. The main buildings are massive and magnificent. Inside, there is a statue of five immortals. In front of the hall, there is a statue altar and a bell tower called the meteorological tower. There are hotels in the East, Baiyun Taoist temple and Chengzhen alchemy furnace in the West. Xuanzong wrote the plaque of "Liaoyang Palace" and ordered his sister princess Yuzhen to go to the mountain to learn Taoism. The court and the field were shocked and the Taoism became prosperous. Later Jin Dynasty was the habitat of yanzhenyanluozi.

After the Five Dynasties and the later Jin Dynasty, most of the temples were destroyed in the war, but the three border Hall of Daluo was spared. In the Northern Song Dynasty, some temples were restored. Jin Zhenhu three years (1215) changed into a palace, known as the "balcony Longevity Palace.".

In the fourth year of Jin Zhengda (1227), the Yangtai palace was rebuilt. It was a great success for a time. The grand hall was built, and the porch was built. The position of Funing officer was ranked second, followed by the kitchen, the hotel and the Taoist temple.

In 1340, the Jade Emperor hall was rebuilt. In the tenth year of Zhengde of Ming Dynasty (1515), the hall of three realms of Daluo was overhauled.

In the 24th year of Wanli (1596), the Yuhuangge was newly built, and the Bianzhu of Daluo Sanjing hall was replaced with square relief stone columns.

In 1801, the Jade Emperor pavilion was rebuilt.

In 1963, Yuhuang pavilion was rebuilt.

In 1980, Sanqing hall was repaired and Yuhuang pavilion was repaired.

In 1981, eight East corridor rooms were rebuilt and courtyard walls were built.

In November 1986, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province.

On May 25, 2006, Yangtai palace, as an ancient building from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In 2013, it was opened as a place for Taoist activities.

Brief introduction to the palace

Yangtai palace in accordance with the sun, strict layout, high and low scattered, for three into the courtyard. The main hall of Sanqing is in front of the hall, behind the Jade Emperor Pavilion, beside the veranda, and there is a Taoist temple in the west, covering an area of 6165 square meters. Sanqing Hall (also known as Daluo Sanjing Hall) has five rooms in width and four rooms in depth. It is a single eaves Xieshan Jiuji hall with five steps of Dou Gong. It is the largest existing Ming Dynasty wooden structure building in Henan Province, and retains the style and style of Tang and Song dynasties. The square columns in the hall are carved with Taoist fairy tales, which are beautiful and lifelike. In the hall, the ceiling, the caisson and the bucket arches are stacked. They are magnificent and exquisitely made. They are all art treasures of the Ming Dynasty. The three eaves and three-story glazed Jade Emperor Pavilion on the five meter high platform behind the hall is the largest ancient pavilion in Henan Province, with a height of nearly 20 meters. The five step cloud dragons and their brackets are staggered and overlapped, and the cloud belt is winding, with a grand scale. The 20 small octagonal stone pillars on the platform and the eight 11 meter high skyrocketing pillars in the pavilion bear the weight of the whole pavilion and are relics of the Ming Dynasty. The stone pillars are carved with the stories of clouds, dragons, Danfeng, flowers, birds, animals and immortals, reflecting the exquisite artistic style of the Ming Dynasty. There are ten stone tablets of yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in the palace, which record the historical materials of Taoism, the rise and fall of the palace, and the information of peasant uprising army passing through the place in the late Ming Dynasty.

Scenery

Sanqing Hall

Sanqing hall, also known as Daluo Sanjing hall, is a single wooden structure building of Ming Dynasty with large volume and high artistic value of stone and wood carving. The main hall is a single eaves Xieshan building with five rooms wide and four rooms deep. Its architectural artistic value mainly includes three aspects: first, stone carving. There are 18 square stone pillars inside the hall and 12 exposed stone pillars outside the hall, which are carved with Taoist fairy tales. Second, the wood structure adopts the construction technique of song and Yuan Dynasties, which is magnificent and exquisite. The front eaves are made of five steps with double bottom and the back eaves and the mountain surface are made of five steps with single bottom. The internal beam structure is a nine frame beam house with pingqi ceiling and caisson inside. The caisson Dougong has eleven steps and five warps. It is supported by the Yunlong back plate. The production is fine and the color is bright. According to the custom of "not the residence of princes, no Chonggong Caijing" in Tang Liudian, the shape of Sanqing hall was unusual when it was first built. Third, the large-scale Greyhound and the ridge beast on the ridge of the hall are all made of three color glazed pieces with exquisite workmanship. The Greyhound is as high as 2 meters and there are as many as 28 ridge beasts.

Sanqing hall is dedicated to the Taoist "Sanqing zunshen", namely the Jade Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, the spiritual treasure emperor of the Shang Dynasty, and the moral emperor of the Taiqing Dynasty. According to the Taoist Scripture, Tianzun was the first God among the Taoist gods in the Yuan Dynasty. It existed before the creation of all things in the universe, and its noumenon always existed. Whenever a new heaven and earth came into being, Tianzun came to the world and taught the world the secret way. Lingbao Tianzun, also known as the supreme Taoist, ranks second among the three Qing gods. Taishangdaojun was born in the form of Hongs. He was born on the Western day. He was a high immortal, worshipped by all gods, and served by 300000 Golden Boys and 300000 jade girls. Moral heaven is the third in the three Qing Dynasties, which is evolved from Laozi, a thinker in the pre Qin period, also known as the supreme Laojun.

Relief of stone pillars in Sanqing Hall

Sanqing hall has a huge roof supported by 30 stone pillars. The stone pillars are full of reliefs and fairy tales, which are vivid and vivid. Most of these relief stories are related to Taoist fairy stories and have a profound historical and cultural background. Take the second stone pillar on the left side in front of the main hall as an example: from top to bottom, the images of the gods of thunder, electricity, wind and rain casting rain, and the bottom is a farmer supporting the plow. The whole stone column is like a comic strip, which means that it is precisely because the gods in the sky cast Dharma in the lower world that the weather in the world is smooth and the country is peaceful. If we look for the image of the God of thunder and lightning from ancient culture, we can trace back to the worship of thunder and lightning in ancient times. The classic of mountains and seas is the main book to record ancient Chinese myths and stories, in which there are many records about the God of thunder, which is called "dragon body but head". By the Han Dynasty, Wang Chong described in Lun Heng that the shape of Thunder God was not animal but human.

In the historical records before Tang and Song Dynasties, the responsibility of thunder and lightning was not separated, but was assigned by Leigong. After the song and Yuan Dynasties, there appeared the name of the mother of electricity, which separated the Thor from the God of electricity. Lei company Lei, also known as Lei Shi, Lei Shen. The mother company of lightning, also known as the golden virgin, lightning lady. In addition to being specialized in thunder and lightning, Lei Gong Dianmu also has the divine power of punishing evil and promoting good. In the chapter of Lun Heng Lei Xu written by Wang Chong, there is a description that thunder and lightning are fast in midsummer, breaking trees, destroying houses and committing murder. It is obvious that thunder and lightning have the function of "acting on behalf of heaven". In some large-scale Taoist temple characters, there are often images of Lei Gong and Dianmu: Lei Gong's ancestors are bared chest and abdomen, with wings on the back, face as red as a monkey, with drumsticks in hand, beating on five drums around; Dianmu looks like a woman, holding mirrors in both hands, to show lightning.

Jade Emperor Pavilion

Yuhuangge is a three eaves attic of Xieshan style rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty (most of the components are left over from the Ming Dynasty, and the roof beams were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty). The surface is wide and the depth is three questions. There are cloisters all around, which are majestic and quite spectacular. There are four main architectural features: first, the content of the stone dwelling around the corridor is more rich and vivid than that of the Sanqing exhibition. Second, eight 12m long inner columns are used from the foundation to the top of the building to carry all the weight of the attic, with excellent stability. Third, although the wood components and carvings existed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were coordinated. The internal beam frame is seven rafters, and the four corners are suspended dragon columns. The bucket machine is made with five steps, two moves and three clouds. With exquisite craftsmanship, it is a fine wood carving of Ming Dynasty. Fourth, the three storey attic adopts glazed tile roof, and the whole building is magnificent.

The Jade Emperor's Pavilion is dedicated to the Jade Emperor, whose full name is Haotian Jinque, the supreme supreme Jade Emperor. According to Gao Shang Yu Huang Xing Ji Jing Jing, the Jade Emperor was born on the ninth day of the first month of the first lunar month. When he was born, he was full of Royal glory. Young and wise, long and kind. He put the treasure in the Treasury of the country and gave it to all living beings who were widowed, lonely and helpless. The Jade Emperor was in charge of the earth, the earth, the mountains and rivers, the military revolution between the masters, and sent the earth emperor to take charge of yin and Yang. It is said that December 25 of the lunar calendar is the day for the Jade Emperor to visit the world. In the old days, Taoist temples and the people would burn incense and chant sutras to welcome them.

Relief of pillars in Yuhuangge Pavilion

The column relief of Yuhuangge is the most important one among the relief of Yangtai palace

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