Sun Wu Temple

Sunwu temple is a group of ancient buildings imitating Song Dynasty style, with grey brick and green tile, flying pond and corner, painted caisson, elegant style and grand momentum. Its layout is the combination of the typical axisymmetric style and quadrangle in ancient China.

Sun Wu Temple

Sunwu temple is located in the northwest corner of Guangrao County, covering an area of 80000 square meters. It is adjacent to the main hall of Guangrao Guandi temple and consists of four interconnected song style buildings. There is a wall engraved in the courtyard. There are records and textual research on historical documents such as Shiji and Zizhitongjian, which confirm that Sun Wu's hometown, Le'an of Qi State, is Guangrao. In the middle of the courtyard is a 3-meter-high stone statue of Sun Wu with a bamboo slip in one hand and a sword in the other. In the main hall is a bronze statue of Sun Wu writing at his desk. Behind him is a large mural showing the wonderful scene of the art of war.

Regional profile

Guangrao County is located in the Yellow River Delta and the south of Dongying City. It governs 6 towns, 4 townships, 2 offices and 1 Economic Development Zone, with a total area of 1138 square kilometers and a population of 480000. Guangrao County has a long history and splendid culture. The profound Sunwu culture, Guqi culture and Lvju culture have a long history here. Guangrao County has made great efforts to build the brand of Sun Tzu culture, and constantly increased the research on the application of Sun Tzu's military thought, which has promoted the scientific, all-round and harmonious development of the county's economy and society. In 2005, the county's GDP was 15.5 billion yuan, and its domestic fiscal revenue was 1 billion yuan, including 570 million yuan of local fiscal revenue, 10 billion yuan of fixed asset investment, 200 million US dollars of foreign exchange earned by export, 11178 yuan of per capita disposable income of urban residents, 4820 yuan of per capita net income of farmers, ranking 80th among the top 100 in China and 25th among the top 30 in the province.

building structure

Sunwu temple is a group of song style architectural groups, covering an area of about 14000 square meters. Relying on the military temple, it has four courtyards on its axis and a courtyard on the right. The whole building is simple, elegant and magnificent. In April 1993, it was officially opened to the outside world. Hong Xuezhi, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), cut the ribbon for the completion of Sunwu temple. Chi Haotian, vice chairman of the Military Commission and Minister of national defense, inscribed a plaque.

The main body of Sun Wu Temple is the military temple. Built in 1128, the hall is 10.38 meters high, 12.63 meters long and 10.70 meters deep. It is the only existing wooden hall of Song Dynasty in Shandong Province. There is a statue of soldier Saint Sun Wu in the hall. On the central axis of the military temple, there are the main gate, the second gate, the holy trace hall, the library and the north gate from south to north.

Sunwu temple is located in the northwest of Guangrao County, Shandong Province, covering an area of more than 7000 square meters. The main body of the temple is the main hall of Guandi temple in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It contains four imitation song style quadrangles integrating ancient and modern architectural styles.

The main hall of the Southern Song Dynasty is located in the northwest corner of Guangrao County. It was built in the second year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty and is called "Guandi Temple". The original Temple site is 130 meters long from north to South and 76 meters wide from east to west. There are buildings such as Chunqiu Pavilion, Sanyi hall, theater and east-west wing rooms. Now there is only one main hall, which is the main part of Guandi temple. This hall maintains the unique style of Song Dynasty architecture, and is a valuable material for the study of China's medieval wooden architecture. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, this hall has been repaired twice, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Sun Wu Temple is a typical classical courtyard in the north. The city hall is built in strict order. The main gate seat faces south in the north. It is a veranda style building. Inside the gate is the South courtyard of Sunwu temple. There is a wall inscription in the cave. It is written by Zhou Weiyan, a famous historical geographer in China. According to historical records, Zizhi Tongjian, Taiping Guangji and other ancient books, as well as the investigation and research of experts and scholars, it is determined that Sunwu's hometown is in ancient Le'an of Qi state The city is Guangrao County today, "the art of war for thousands of years, glorious village".

In the middle of the courtyard stands a white jade statue of Sun Wu, 3 meters high, with a sword and a Book of war in hand. The wing rooms on both sides are of roll shed style. The South courtyard and the north courtyard are connected by a Xieshan style imitation Song court. From September 6 to September 8, 2005, the first Sun Tzu International Cultural Festival was successfully held in Guangrao County, Dongying City. More than 1300 people from all walks of life, including overseas Chinese, famous entrepreneurs, Chinese military, historical and social science scholars, attended the opening ceremony.

Shengji hall is located in the back of Bingsheng hall, which contains Sun Wu's sand table and 36 plans.

In the north of the military temple is the library, which displays more than 2000 books, such as various military books and historical records. To the west is a 35 meter long corridor with 27 inscriptions by Party and state leaders and famous experts and scholars in the academic circle.

In addition, there are 10 exhibitions in the temple, including sun wusheng's exhibition, Sun Wu's painting and calligraphy exhibition, art of war exhibition, Guangrao's generals exhibition, Sun Tzu's research achievements exhibition and ancient weapons exhibition.

These exhibitions reflect the glorious life of Sun Wu and the long history of his hometown Guangrao County with full and accurate information, vivid pictures and novel display means.

In the middle of the front yard of Sunwu temple is a white jade statue of Sunwu. The statue was created by Professor Tan Guoxin of Qingdao Institute of Arts and crafts. It is 3.2 meters high. Sunwu is holding a military book, with a sword on his waist. Looking from afar, it looks like a strategist general is commanding thousands of troops to fight in the battlefield.

Exhibition room 1

The first exhibition room is the exhibition of textual research materials of Sun Wu's hometown. This exhibition room mainly shows the textual research materials and historical materials of Sun Wu's hometown in Guangrao and its influence on later generations. About Sun Wu's life, there are records in historical records, new book of Tang Dynasty and dialectics of ancient and modern surname books. The earliest record of Sun Wu in historical materials can be found in Sima Qian's historical records of Han Dynasty, which says: "Sun Tzu, the warrior, the Qi people also..." After that, the stele of Madame Sun in Jin Dynasty, the 1.76 legend of Zhenguan clan in Tang Dynasty, the epitaph of duotong, the genealogical table of the prime minister in New Tang Dynasty by Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty, and the differentiation of ancient and modern surnames by Deng Mingshi all made a systematic textual research and description of Sun Wu's life and Li nationality, which had a great influence on later generations and had a special significance in the history of sun Wuli nationality exploration The status of the government. It is also recorded in sun Xingyan's biography of sun Yong and preface to the art of war. It is also recorded in the annals of Le'an County in the 7th year of the Republic of China and the annals of Guangrao County in the 24th year of the Republic of China.

Exhibition room 2

The second exhibition room is Sun Wu's calligraphy and painting exhibition. More than 80 painting and calligraphy works of many domestic experts, scholars, masters of painting and calligraphy and leaders of the party and government at all levels are gathered in this exhibition room. They show their attention to Sun Wu and his hometown in different forms, from many angles and from many sides.

On both sides of the two doors of the Sun Wu Temple are huge porcelain carvings of the art of war. This porcelain carving is 42.7 meters long and 0.9 meters high. It is divided into 141 panels, inlaid with 423 porcelain panels. The body is inscribed in official script. The binding is simple and elegant, and the whole body is dignified and magnificent. It is really a peerless treasure. It was carved in 1993 by Chang Zonglin, father and son, a farmer's engraver in Wa village, Luocun Town, Zichuan District, Zibo City. It was presented to Sun Wu Temple of Guangrao County for collection and exhibition. Because of its huge volume, magnificent momentum and exquisite craftsmanship, this porcelain carving was awarded the title of "the best of Guinness in the world" in 1995.

The main hall of the Southern Song Dynasty, a national key cultural relic protection unit, is located in the backyard of Sunwu temple. The hall was first built in the second year of Jianyan (1128) of the Southern Song Dynasty. It sits in the north and faces the south. It is full of wood structure. It is 10.38 meters high, 12.63 meters wide from east to west, 10.70 meters deep and 0.73 meters high. It is one of the earliest extant wooden halls of Song Dynasty in Shandong Province. It was announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit in 1977 and a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council in November 1996.

Research on Sun Tzu

The study of Sun Tzu in Guangrao County can be traced back to the early period of last century. In the 1918 edition of the annals of Le'an county (renamed Guangrao County in February 1914 due to its duplicate name with that of Le'an County in Jiangxi Province) and the 1936 edition of the annals of renewed Guangrao County, there are records about the study of Sun Tzu. Since then, there have been amateurs engaged in research and writing books. In the early 1990s, Guangrao County set off a climax of research on Sun Tzu. In June 1991, Guangrao County set up the Sun Tzu Research Center, which has an office (department level institution, with 7 staff). Under the leadership of the county Party committee and government, and the guidance and support of relevant academic groups, university research institutions, experts, scholars and researchers, Guangrao County actively carried out Sun Tzu research, publicity and application, and made a series of remarkable achievements.

symposium

From January 27 to 30, 1991, the national experts and scholars of Sun Tzu research gathered in Guangrao and held a "seminar on Sun Wu's hometown", which revealed the eternal mystery of the main ground of Qi Le'an, Sun Wu's hometown, in Guangrao County. On April 21-24, the "ground investigation and demonstration meeting of pre Qin state of Qi in Le'an" was held, which concluded that "the main body of pre Qin state of Qi in Le'an is now Guangrao County", and preliminarily identified that the old city of Qi'an is today's "Caoqiao site", which promoted the textual research of Sun Wu's hometown. On May 11-16, the "archaeological drilling investigation and demonstration meeting for the ruins of the old city of Qi Le'an" was held. It was once again discussed that Caoqiao site was the ruins of the old city of Le'an in the state of Qi in the spring and Autumn period, which made a breakthrough in the textual research of Sun Wu's hometown. From June 6 to 9, Guangrao County held the "Sun Tzu Symposium", which was attended by Yang Xiangkui, Zhang Zhengzhen, Ren Jiyu

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