Dai County Confucian Temple

Daizhou Confucian temple was first built in Tang Dynasty. It covers an area of 14400 square meters and has four courtyards. The general layout adopts the palace style of central axis symmetry, and there is a white marble statue of Confucius in front of the main building Dacheng hall. Daixian Confucian temple is the largest and best preserved Confucian architectural complex in Shanxi Province.

Confucious'Temple

synonym

Dai County Confucian temple generally refers to Confucian Temple (Dai County Confucian temple in Shanxi Province)

The Confucian temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and restored in the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was originally a Confucian Academy and was located in the Dai County. There are three courtyards in the temple. The main buildings in the front yard are Lingxing gate, halberd gate, panchi, etc.

The central courtyard is the main building of the Confucian temple. There is the Dacheng hall, which worships Confucius. It is resplendent and has a sparse layout. The houses on both sides of the Dacheng hall were originally places for students to study.

The Confucian temple and the backyard are places for worshiping the great Confucians.

Historical origin

Daixian Confucian temple, located in Daixian City, Shanxi Province, was founded in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in 1367. From 1983 to 1986, the state allocated funds for maintenance. To the south, the temple is divided into three courtyards: the front, the middle and the back. The back yard is Chongsheng temple.

The main building of the Confucian temple is Dacheng hall in the north of the central courtyard, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain. It has seven rooms in width and five rooms in depth. The hall and each square are covered with green glazed tiles. It is a magnificent and magnificent classical building. In the north of the front yard is the halberd gate. On both sides of the halberd gate, there are two East-West gates to connect the middle yard. Panchi is located in front of the halberd gate, in front of which there are two acacia trees. In front of the pagoda tree of the Tang Dynasty is the star gate on the fifth floor with six pillars.

Precious cultural relics

There are "Wanren" square in front of the Confucian temple, and "Yangsheng" and "Yuxian" square on both sides. There is a confrontation between the East and the west, and "xingjuchi" is dug in the middle, which is about several Mu wide. There are Zhongyi temple and Wenchang Pavilion in the East and Minglun hall and Jiexiao temple in the West. Around the Zhongyi temple, there were two offices of Xuezheng and xunzhuo in the Qing Dynasty, which formed a huge group of Confucian buildings. Moreover, it has collected more than 2000 precious cultural relics, reflecting the splendid civilization history of ancient Zhou from different aspects.

The scale

Daixian Confucian temple is the largest and most complete ancient architectural complex in Daixian, and the largest state Confucian temple in North China.

Scenic Spots and Historical Sites

Confucious'Temple

It is divided into the front, middle and rear three courtyards. Along the central axis, there are wanrenfang, lingxingmen, Jimen, Dacheng hall and chongshengci. When you enter the Confucian temple, you first pass through Wanren square and Lingxing gate. Wanren square is composed of four columns and three floors, with five Dougong in the main building and three Dougong in the second building. Lingxing gate is composed of six pillars and five floors. The six pillars soar to the sky, with glass Panlong cloud pot on the top, and the top of the strange beast station. The middle is the Ming building, the two sides are the secondary building, and the alternate is the sandwich building.

Go through the Lingxing gate and enter the front yard. There are two ancient locust trees in Tang Dynasty, which are still luxuriant after many vicissitudes. Especially in the north, the heart of the ancient locust tree is empty, and it is still full of vitality. For thousands of years, it has been regarded by the folk as the spiritual place of Dai Zhou culture, attracting many ancient and modern examinees to make red wishes on the trees. Pan pool was built in the center of the hospital. It was a stone semicircle and a Pan Bridge was built on it. In the east of panchi, there is a memorial temple for famous officials, with the original memorial tablet dedicated to 50 famous officials, including Li Mu, Meng Tian, Li Guang, Zhi Du, Xue Rengui, Yang Ye and Lu Heng; in the west, there is a memorial temple for local sages, with the original memorial tablet dedicated to 50 local sages, including Wang Ba, Zhou Dang, Zhou Xuzhi, Guo Chongtao, Hu Yanke, Shi Jiantang, sun chuanting, Zhang Fengyi and Zhou Dai. Now the two temples have been changed into the picture and text exhibition rooms of Dai County.

Layout structure

Through the halberd gate into the courtyard, due north for the Dacheng hall, face wide seven, deep five. There are seven kinds of carving, such as three twisted lamp balls and six bowls, five twisted four bowls with rugby pattern, and four twisted two bowls with ancient money. There are eight trigrams on the top of the hall. It is said that there are "dust avoiding beads" hidden on the top, which are bright in color and do not fall dust. Its wood carving art and bucket arch structure are rare in China. In the center of the hall is the painted sculpture of Confucius, and on the left and right are the painted sculptures of Zengzi, Mencius, Yanzi and Zisi. In front of the hall, there are terraces and carved hurdles, and the corridor is carved with five clawed dragon stone.

There are 13 rooms in the East and west of the central courtyard, 39 of which were dedicated to the sages and 31 to the Confucians. At present, the East Gallery is set up as a historical relics exhibition room, displaying more than 1000 cultural relics in Daixian Museum, such as relics unearthed from Li Keyong's Mausoleum; the West Gallery is set up as a modern revolutionary history exhibition room, displaying the important events and figures of Daixian during the Anti Japanese War and the liberation war.

The surface is wide and the depth is deep

The ancestral hall of Chongsheng was built in the backyard, with three rooms wide and three rooms deep. It was originally dedicated to the ancestors of Confucius in the Five Dynasties.

Address: Daixian

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