Yongle Palace

Yongle Palace

Yongle Palace, named for its site in Yongle Town, is also known as the grand Chunyang Longevity Palace. Yongle Palace is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It was originally located in Zhaoxian village, Yongle Town, Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province. Now it is located in the east of Longquan Village, 3km north of Ruicheng County. Yongle Palace was built in the Yuan Dynasty, with a construction period of more than 110 years. The walls inside the palace are covered with Yongle Palace murals.

In February 2020, in honor of medical workers, the scenic spot will be open to medical workers from the end of the epidemic to December 31, 2020.

History of scenic spots

Yongle Palace was built in 1247 and completed in 1358, with a construction period of more than 110 years. In the third year of the reign of emperor Zhongtong of the Yuan Dynasty (1261), it was expanded into the "grand Chunyang Longevity Palace".

In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Taoism was used and supported by the rulers, and the construction of Taoist temples also had a certain scale. There are 52 palaces and 70 temples in Dadu of Yuan Dynasty.

From 1959 to 1964, with the construction of Sanmenxia reservoir, Yongle Palace was located in the inundated area of the reservoir area. It was moved to Longquan Village in the northern suburb of Ruicheng County, about 20 km away from the original site. The existing Yongle Palace mainly consists of one gate, three halls, one gate is dragon and tiger hall, that is, Wuji gate, three halls are Sanqing hall, Chunyang hall and Chongyang hall.

geographical environment

Yongle Palace is located in the east of Longquan Village, three kilometers north of Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province. It was built on the site of the capital of the ancient Wei state in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Ruicheng County, where Yongle Palace is located, belongs to Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. Its geographical coordinates are 34 ° 36 ′ - 48 ′ N and 110 ° 36 ′ - 42 ′ E. Shanxi Province is located in the southernmost Shanxi, Qin, Henan provinces at the junction. In the north, it is connected with Zhongtiao Mountain, Yongji city and Salt Lake District. In the southwest, it is bounded by the Yellow River and adjacent to Dali County, Tongguan county and Lingbao City in Henan Province. It belongs to warm temperate semi humid monsoon climate.

Main attractions

Ancient buildings in scenic spots

From south to north, Yongle Palace is lined with palace gate, Wuji gate, Sanqing hall, Chunyang hall and Chongyang hall. In the overall layout of the building, there are no ancillary buildings such as the side hall on the East and west sides. In the architectural structure, the Song Dynasty "construction method" and the Liao and Jin Dynasties "column reduction method" are used.

Sanqing Hall

Sanqing hall, also known as Wuji hall, is the main hall of Yongle Palace. It is a shrine for "Taiqing, Yuzhi and Tianzun". Face wide seven, deep four, eight rafters, single eaves five ridge top. The central five rooms of the front eaves and the open rooms of the back eaves are all partition doors, and the rest are walls. There are three shrines in the north and the middle, on which are dedicated to the taoist founder Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and taishanglaojun, collectively known as Sanqing. The four walls of the hall are covered with murals. The murals are 4.26 meters high, 94.68 meters in length and 403.34 square meters in area. There are 286 characters on the murals.

Chongyang Hall

Chongyang hall is a temple dedicated to Wang Chongyang, the leader of Quanzhen sect of Taoism, and his disciples "seven real people". Inside the hall, the story of Wang Chongyang from his birth to the realization of Tao is described in the form of comic strips.

Chunyang Hall

Chunyang Hall (also known as huncheng hall and luzu Hall) has a width of five rooms, a depth of three rooms, eight rafters and a glazed roof with single beams and nine ridges. There is a four column altar in the north of the hall. The front eaves and the back eaves are separated by doors, and the rest are walls. The original statue of Lu Dongbin on the altar has been destroyed. Behind the fan wall is the painting of Zhong Li Quan Du LV Dongbin, which is 3.7 meters high and covers an area of 16 square meters.

Yongle Palace murals

The murals of Yongle Palace are all over the four halls, with a total area of 960 square meters. The picture of Chaoyuan depicts the scene of a group of immortals paying homage to the God of Yuanshi: the green dragon and the white tiger are the forerunners, and the eight main gods, such as the longevity immortal of Antarctica and the queen mother of the west, are surrounded by Leigong, Dianmu, stars, dragons, snakes, monkeys and other gods. Besides, the generals, powerful men, and jade maids are serving them. Nearly 300 immortals in the picture march in the same direction, forming a pilgrimage The torrent of water. In the use of color, the traditional method of double color filling is used.

Scenic culture

Relocation and reconstruction

The original site of Yongle Palace is Caixia village, Yongle Town, Ruicheng County, on the North Bank of the Yellow River southwest of Ruicheng. In 1959, as Yongle Palace was located in the impoundment area of the planned Sanmenxia reservoir, craftsmen carefully studied how to remove and reconstruct the murals of nearly 1000 square meters. The final relocation plan is to demolish the roofs of several palaces first, and then use a special human sawing method to saw off the mural walls one by one with a saw blade. In the process of relocation, more than 550 pieces were sawed out, and each piece was marked. Then, with the same sawing method, the murals firmly attached to the wall are separated from the wall, and all of them are marked and put into a wooden box filled with thick cotton tires. The walls, thin sections of murals and other components were gradually transported to the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain. First, the palace was re inlaid, and a new layer of wood was laid on the inner wall of the wall. Then the murals were pasted one by one, and finally the murals were carefully decorated by the painter. The project took five years to complete.

Records of Jianguan

Yongle Palace was originally a Chunyang temple, which was rebuilt on the basis of the ancestral hall of Lu Zu in Song Dynasty. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the local Taoist temple and Tianzun hall had been built. There is a stone lampstand on the site of Yongle Palace in Yongji, which is inscribed with the following words: "because of the migration of officials in the early Dynasty, the river bend of the family. Today, it is regarded as Kaiyuan Tianbao Shengwen Shenwu emperor, the common people in the legal world, the people from Heyi, the parents who died in the first place, and a desk lamp in front of Tianzun hall in the village temple On the 30th of the first month of the third lunar month of the third lunar month of the third lunar month of the third lunar month of the fifth lunar year of Tianbao, it was built at noon. In this paper, the village view "Hequ" is located in the south of Puban County in Hedong, which is Yongle Town by the Yellow River. Tianzun hall in Tang Dynasty pushed forward the history of building Taoist temple in Yongle Town for nearly a thousand years.

Tourism reference

Traffic routes

Taiyuan direction

① Train: take the train from Taiyuan to Yuncheng and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

② Automobile: Taiyuan direction - Dayun Expressway - Yuncheng - yunbao Expressway - Ruicheng

③ Plane: take a plane from Taiyuan Wusu International Airport to Yuncheng Guangong airport, and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

Beijing direction

① Train: take a train from Beijing to Yuncheng, and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

② Automobile: Beijing direction - Beijing Shijiazhuang Expressway - Shijiazhuang Taiyuan Expressway - Dayun Expressway - Yuncheng - yunbao Expressway - Ruicheng

③ Plane: take a plane from Beijing Capital International Airport to Yuncheng Guangong airport, and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

Zhengzhou direction

① Train: take the train to Sanmenxia and transfer to Yuncheng, then transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

② Automobile: Zhengzhou direction Lianhuo Expressway Yunsan Expressway Yuncheng yunbao Expressway Ruicheng

③ Plane: take a plane from Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport to Yuncheng Guangong airport, and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

Xi'an direction

① Train: take the train from Xi'an to Yuncheng, and transfer to bus at Yuncheng central passenger station

② Automobile: Xi'an direction - Xitong Expressway - Yunfeng Expressway - Ruicheng

Opening Hours

08:00—18:00

Ticket information

1. Ticket price: ￥ 50

2. Pick up place: ticket office of scenic spot

3. Preferential policy

A. Free policy: the certificate of the elderly above 70 is free of charge; the officer's certificate is free of charge.

B. Preferential policies: half price tickets for children over 1.2 meters, students with student ID card and elderly people aged 60-70.

(preferential policies need to be purchased in scenic spots)

Free policy

In February 2020, in honor of medical workers, the scenic spot will be open to medical workers from the end of the epidemic to December 31, 2020. Medical workers can enter the scenic spot free of charge after going through relevant procedures at the ticket office with their ID card, doctor's license, doctor's qualification certificate, nurse / nurse's qualification certificate and other valid certificates.

Address: No.78, Yongle North Street, Ruicheng County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 110.6936635601

Latitude: 34.718968430199

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