Town God's Temple, Hancheng

Town God's Temple, Hancheng

Town God's Temple, Hancheng, located in the northeast corner of Jincheng District, Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, covers an area of 15 thousand and 600 square meters with a floor area of 1576 square meters. The City God is one of the most important deities in Chinese religious culture. Most of them are heroes who have made contributions to the local people. They are the deities that Chinese folk and Taoism believe in guarding the city. The temple was first built in the fifth year of Longqing (1571) of the Ming Dynasty, expanded in the fifth year of Wanli (1577) of the Ming Dynasty, and then rebuilt many times.

Town God's Temple, Hancheng, faces the south, and the plane is divided into four families. It has a "ten" shape. It is composed of the mountain gate, the political teaching house, Wilmingmen, the Guang recommendation hall, the Dexin hall, the spirit hall, the hall containing light, and so on. All the architectural structures in the temple are made from the top of the temple. The beams are still forked. The front and rear eaves are mostly "large", and the mountain surface is covered with lane and Pu Paifang.

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Brief introduction of ancient temple

Town God's Temple, Hancheng, located in the northeast corner of Jincheng District, Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, covers an area of 15 thousand and 600 square meters with a floor area of 1576 square meters. The temple was first built in the fifth year of Longqing (1571) of the Ming Dynasty, expanded in the fifth year of Wanli (1577) of the Ming Dynasty, and then rebuilt many times.

Town God's Temple, Hancheng, faces the south, and the plane is divided into four families. It has a "ten" shape. It is composed of the mountain gate, the political teaching house, Wilmingmen, the Guang recommendation hall, the Dexin hall, the spirit hall, the hall containing light, and so on. All the architectural structures in the temple are made from the top of the temple. The beams are still forked. The front and rear eaves are mostly "large", and the mountain surface is covered with lane and Pu Paifang. Xieshan mountain has a large closing range and a simple shape, which reflects the characteristics of local architecture in the early Ming Dynasty.

Architectural features

Hancheng Town God's Temple opera stage is west to East. It used to be the East and the west, but now the West and the East have been destroyed. Founded in 1616, Wanli of Ming Dynasty, it has been rebuilt in all dynasties. Now it has the architectural features of Ming Dynasty, and some of its structures have been changed to the French style of Qing Dynasty. The stage is a platform based building with five beam roof truss structure. Double eaves cross Xie peak, gray plate, tube tile cover, glass peony ridge.

The flowers of the mountain pass through the air, and there are wooden hanging fish. The platform is divided into front and back rooms (i.e. front and back fields) by a wooden screen. The Huaxin book on the upper part of the partition fan has the word "Song stage". The platform is rectangular, with a width of 9.3 meters, a total depth of 4.8 meters, and a base 1.29 meters above the ground.

Layout structure

In Town God's Temple, Hancheng, the upper stage of the stage is covered with octagonal covered bucket shaped cavern, with spherical top panorons on top, and algal painting around. In front of the eaves, there are two square wooden columns, which are supported by large square square, flat square and hurdle square. There are five Dougong on the flat Fang, the middle one is Ruyi Dougong, and the other one is shuang'u, wu'tread and four auxiliary works. On the top of the Fang, there are two auxiliary works, double ang five step Dougong, and double ang five step Bujian Dougong. They support the upper and lower cornice Fang and the beam Fang, and support the eaves of four sides. The four corners are juxtaposed, the vertical column is connected with the bucket arch, and the corner eaves are raised. The main stage is a three-dimensional view with auricles on both sides.

Every year, August 20 of the lunar calendar is the date of the temple fair. Local people have to invite two big operas to perform here.

It was built in the Ming Dynasty

Located in the northeast corner of Jincheng District, Hancheng, Town God's Temple, Hancheng, was built in the five year of Ming Longqing (AD 1571). The Ming Wanli was extended in five (AD 1577). Since then, it has been rebuilt many times, and has become a Taoist Taoist temple of four Taoist Gardens in the south of Hancheng. Among them, the main buildings are jiulongzhaobi, dongxipaifang, Shanmen, zhengjiaofang, weimingmen, Guangjian hall, Dexin hall, Lingyou hall and Hanguang hall.

Temple facilities

The glazed nine dragon wall is located in front of the temple, and the archway is located in the East and west of the branch gate. The eastern archway reads "monitoring Youming" and the Western archway reads "Bao'an Lishu".

All the architectural structures in the temple are made from the top of the mountain. The beams are kept with forked hands. The front and rear eaves are mostly "large", and the mountain surface is covered with lane and Pu Bai Fang. The top of Xieshan mountain is large and the shape is simple, which has the architectural characteristics of the Ming Dynasty in Hancheng. Temple gate is the three parallel front gate and branch door. The front gate is written in Town God's Temple, with each side of each door being modeled with a diamond God. The four wall brick is carved with four words: "good and evil". At the end of the mountain gate, the ridge eyebrow is on the top, and the tail of the bird is made of colored glass, with carved dragons, animals, lions, etc. There are three political and religious halls, in front of the gate of the instrument, with single eaves hanging on the mountain and rolling shed roof. It is a place for merchants to buy goods.

The gate of Town God's Temple is the two gate of Wei Ming men. The gatehouse hangs the top of the mountain with a single eaves, and has 3 sides. Guangjian hall has five rooms, with six Ying, single eaves hanging mountain style. There is a theater in front of the hall, double eaves, cross and rest on the top of the mountain. It is a magnificent place for people to offer sacrifices. Dexin hall is a three room hall with a single eaves and a mountain structure. It has four couplets, hanging flowers in the corner, two verandas on both sides of the front of the hall, each with 12 rooms. It is a place for county magistrate, gentry and scholar officials to visit.

The hall of Ling you five, with a single eaves and a hill style, and a pendant with a corner ornament, are adjacent to the two hall, forming an intriguing trend. It is the main hall of Town God's Temple. It is the hall of the hall of the City God. Hanguang hall is also known as bedchamber hall. In Hongwu Period, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty granted Jixin of the former Han Dynasty as Cheng Huang Ye. Therefore, the bronze statue of Jixin Cheng Huang Ye is worshipped inside. It is said that Cheng Huang is a God who "cuts off evil, eliminates evil, protects the country, supervises the nether world, and guards Li Shu".

Cultural relics protection

With the successful transfer of Hancheng Town God's Temple, a key cultural relic protection unit, to the management of local cultural relics departments, Town God's Temple has finally been able to recreate its charm for more than half a century. Town God's Temple, Hancheng, is the largest city in our province. The ancient temple of the City God Temple occupies an area of 15500 square meters, with a large scale and four central axes.

Due to historical reasons, Town God's Temple has been occupied for a long time since the founding of the people's Republic of China, because it is located in Town God's Temple, a key cultural relic protection unit, which limits the development of schools.

At the same time, due to various reasons such as capital, Town God's Temple is also out of repair and has many hidden dangers, which are very harmful to the protection of cultural relics.

With the transfer of Town God's Temple to the management of the local cultural relics department, the Confucious'temple, Dongying temple and Town God's Temple ancient buildings, which are distributed from the south to the north of the ancient city in the eastern part of the national historical and cultural city, will be protected more effectively and effectively, so that the Confucious' temple, Dongying temple and Town God's Temple three temple through works implemented by the Hancheng museum will be developed smoothly. "Dongying"

Address: Town God's Temple lane, Jincheng District, Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province

Longitude: 110.44155258662

Latitude: 35.462743239921

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