Dai Tianfu

The South Kunqu Dynasty Tianfu

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General guide to daitianfu

In Beimen District, the northwest of Tainan City, near the sea, there is also a Dai Tianfu, also known as "Nan Kun Di Tianfu", also known as "Wu Fu Wang Ye Temple", which worships Ming Feng Pavilion and Dancing Dragon Pavilion of Li, Chi, Wu, Zhu and fan. The temple is composed of daitianfu, zhongjunfu and chenghuangya. The temple is built of stone materials from the mainland. It is decorated with beams and painted buildings. It is considered a second-class historic site in Taiwan Province. In the south of the main hall, there is Kun garden with beautiful scenery, which is a place for tourists to rest.

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The Delta on the coast of kunjiangli, Beimen District, Tainan City, is shaped like a big fish, and is known as nankunyu. There is the oldest and most popular Wangye temple in Taiwan, nankundi Tianfu. Among the temples in Taiwan, the Wangye temple is the largest, with nearly a thousand in Taiwan. All of them take the five Wangye in nankunfu's daitianfu as their spiritual leaders. Therefore, nankunfu's daitianfu is also regarded as the general Wangye temple in Taiwan.

history

The belief of Wang Ye in Taiwan comes from Fujian. In ancient times, the custom of "releasing the king's boat" prevailed in Fujian coastal areas. When the plague was prevalent, in order to make the local people pray for peace and happiness, it was necessary to build a king's Jiao and send the king's boat carrying the king to the sea, so that the epidemic and the king's boat could be taken away together. Some royal ships escaped the wave and drifted to Taiwan. Before the development of Taiwan, it was a place of pestilence. At that time, medicine was not yet developed. Together with pestilence, it often killed countless people. People were worried and talked about pestilence. Therefore, after receiving the Royal boat from the mainland, the people of Taiwan donated money to build temples in that place, and the Royal temples in Taiwan appeared one after another. Most of the floating Royal ships were stored in the temple or beside the temple, or for the object of sacrifice, or to build a small model, and worship on the God's table.

It has a history of more than 300 years, and was built in 1661 ad. It is said that more than 300 years ago, Yang Shixiang, a fisherman of Matou in Tainan, found a king's boat floating from the mainland. The statues on the boat were Li, Chi, Wu, Zhu and fan, so he built a caoliniao near Nankun. It is said that it is very effective, and gradually becomes famous far and near, so incense will flourish. Later, it raised money to build the temple, and gradually expanded to the present scale. The original evil god of pestilence has also evolved into the right God of driving away pestilence and preventing pestilence, and even further become the omnipotent God of responding to requests. It is said that the five princes were granted by the Jade Emperor. Their main task is to inspect the good and evil in the world, so they are called "Dai Tian Xun Shou", and their residence is also called "Dai Tian Fu".

Regionalization

Today's nankundi Tianfu covers an area of about 19 hectares, with palace style buildings, exquisite and spectacular. The mountain gate is majestic and magnificent. There are long corridors on both sides. There are exquisite patterns on the top. The deep length gives people the feeling of hidden flowers. On the forehead of the main gate of the temple is engraved with a signboard of "the South Kunqu represents the Tianfu". There are two dragons on both sides to protect the pagoda. The strokes are vigorous and the carving skills are exquisite. There are Longmen and Humen on the left and right sides of the Sanchuan gate. Behind the dragon and Humen, there are hexagonal buildings, with dragon bell tower on the left and tiger Drum Tower on the right. All pilgrims or VIPs entering the temple will be accompanied by a chorus of bells and drums to show respect. The steps of the Sanchuan gate and the dragon and tiger gate are three steps, with five circles of spiral shape on each side, just like an open book, so they are also called Book steps. The red brick pavement with T-shaped pattern means "vigorous people".

detailed

The lintels, stone walls, stone windows and stone blocks on the lintels of Tianfu were all carved with qingdou stone and white stone from the mainland of China. Each column, wall, window, etc. are carved with Chinese ancient story characters or animals, flowers and trees. A pair of octagonal dragon pillars in front of Sanchuan hall are vigorous and thick, which are the spiritual symbols of nankunyu. The walls of the left and right halls are blocked, and the stone and bamboo carvings of Zheng Banqiao, a Jinshi of the Qing Dynasty, are kept, which are quite precious.

The roof of daitianfu is the roof of Xieshan double eaves, which is engraved with phoenix flying dragon, various plant shapes and legends of immortals. It is vivid and magnificent. A bird's-eye view of the top of the temple shows that there are many layers, rich combinations, delicate changes of ridge lines, giving people a colorful, luxurious and rich feeling. The roof on the caisson of the hall of worship is octagonal, shaped like a sedan chair roof, commonly known as "sedan chair roof", which has a unique shape and become a unique architectural landscape of the temple.

structure

The whole temple is divided into front hall and back yard. The front hall of the temple consists of three parts. In the middle of Dai Tianfu, there are five statues of kings. On the top of them, there is a horizontal plaque of "Dai Tianxing Dao", which is solemnly arranged. On the right is zhongjunfu and on the left is Chenghuang Yamen. There is an octagonal caisson in the center of the main hall, which is made by famous artists. It is made of innumerable small pieces of fragrant wood, inlaid layer by layer toward the center, and gathered at the highest point. According to the 64 hexagrams of the Zhouyi, 384 divinatory symbols, combined with the 24 solar terms and 72 solar terms in December of the four seasons of the year. It is one of the precious cultural relics of the temple, with its ingenious overall structure, close folding and beautiful shape, just like a spider web pattern. The four wood carvings of fishing, firewood, ploughing and reading, which were later carved by Taiwan masters, are also very rare artistic works.

The back hall of daitianfu is Qingshan temple dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva. On the wooden forehead, there are two dragons fighting for pearls, and on each side, there is a tiger, elegant and leisurely.

The back wall of the main hall and the wall directly opposite the castle peak temple are the only walls made of coral reefs in Taiwan and made with money patterns. They are called money walls. The money is arranged in the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The pieces are stacked and the pieces are buckled. There are almost no overlapping marks and gaps. The composition of the picture is beautiful, which means to attract wealth and fortune.

Address: 509 Taiwan, Zhanghua County, Shengang Township

Longitude: 120.459091

Latitude: 24.148922

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