Huang tingguan

Huang tingguan

Huangting Temple belongs to the Taoist temple of China. It is located at the foot of Jixian peak of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue, Hunan Province, China, on the east side of Bailongtan, 1 km away from Nanyue town. It was first built in the first year of Kaide in the early Tang Dynasty (816 AD). It was named Weige in the Five Dynasties. Later, Huizong of the Song Dynasty gave it the name of "Huangting Temple". Now, it is a yuliu Taoist temple in Nanyue ancient town. Huangting temple is formed by folding stones. It has two entrances and three chambers. The pavilion is horizontal in front and the temple is vertical in back. It still retains the appearance of ancient architecture. It is one of the key cultural relics preservation units in Hunan Province.

Name and origin

history

According to the records of Nanyue, Huangting temple was built in the first year of Kaide in the early Tang Dynasty (816 AD). In the Five Dynasties, after Ma Xisheng, king of Chu, was rebuilt, his name was Wei Ge. There is a stone statue of Lady Wei in the pavilion. According to the records of Nanyue, Renzong gave the temple the name of "Zixu Yuanjun's Pavilion" in the period of Jingyou of Song Dynasty, which was named after the title of "Jin Zixu Yuanjun Lingzhen simaming Nanyue Wei Madame Xiantan inscription" written by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher, when he visited Nanyue in the third year of Dali (768 A.D.). Song Weizong advocated Taoism. The most famous Taoist Scripture is Huangting Scripture, so it was named Huangting temple.

history

In the dynasties of Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, many buildings were built. The existing building was rebuilt in 1909. Where three into, one into the Road Pavilion. "The mountain is not high" is engraved on the forehead of the main gate, and the couplet reads: "you want to pay homage to the queen mother in the West pool, and come to Nanyue to worship your wife." This couplet is a high praise of Huang Ting Guan, the most famous female Taoist temple in Nanyue. The south gate is engraved with the word "immortal Temple". Two into the hall. Engraved on the door is the banner of "huangtingguan" with a couplet saying: "huangzhongtong becomes Kunde; Shengxian outside the court remembers the time of Jin Dynasty." The third entrance is the main hall. There are shrines and statues in the hall, with all kinds of magic tools. In the 90's, the whole view was decorated, and the interior and exterior were glowed with a new look, which was very gorgeous. This view is the monastic place of Wei Huacun, wife of Nanyue. She lived in Nanyue for 16 years. She recited Huang Ting Jing all day long. Then she got the Tao and rose by the day. She was 83 years old. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem to send female Taoist Chu Sanqing on the river to visit Nanyue, which says, "if you want to find immortals and go to Nanyue, you should see Mrs. Wei." Du Fu's "Wangyue" poem also said: "Gong Wen Wei lady, the group of immortals flying." There is a huge stone outside the temple, which is said to be the place where Mrs. Wei ascended. The stone is engraved with the word "Feixian stone". On both sides of the stone, it is linked with a cloud: "flying over the misty clouds and suspicious fossils; Xianshen and Xingdou are still in the altar."

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Huang tingguan and Wei Huacun

Huangting temple is very famous in Taoism. The main reason is that in the ninth year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (334 A.D.), the famous female Taoist lady Nanyue Wei rose to immortality in the ritual arena. Wei Fu's name is Huacun, and his name is Xian'an. He was born in Rencheng, Shandong Province, and was the daughter of Wei Shu, the Duke of Kang in Yangwen, a situ drama in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When he was young, he was familiar with "the book of Zhuang Lao" and "the art of seeking immortals" and vowed not to marry. Later, under the duress of his parents, he married Nanyang Liu Youyan at the age of 24 and gave birth to a second son, who was named Pu in the first place and Xia in the second place. According to the biography of Mrs. Wei of Nanyue recorded in the annals of Nanyue, after marriage, Mrs. Hua Cun often "goes to bed at leisure and does not go out for a hundred days" to chant scriptures and practice Taoism every day. It is said that due to her sincerity, four immortals came to her home on the same day, and granted her "taishangbaowen", "basuyinshu" 31 volumes and "huangtingjing". After she got the Scriptures, she read them day and night and devoted herself to practice. After her husband died, the world was in chaos, and she took her two sons to the south of the Yangtze River. Later, he separated from his two sons, and came to Nanyue with his maid Magu in the Daxing period of Jin Dynasty. He lived in a cottage under Jixian peak and meditated. This is the reason of Huang Ting's view.

During her 16 years of practice, it is said that the queen mother of the West invited her to eat linggua together on Zhuling mountain. She also received four volumes of the book of Yu Qingyin, which was given by the queen mother of the West. "She was 80 years old and still looked like a girl.". When she was eighty-three years old, that is, in the ninth year of Xianhe (334 AD), Emperor Cheng of Jin Dynasty, she closed her eyes and slept, drinking instead of eating. "Seven days later, one night, the queen mother of the West sent all the immortals to welcome her to heaven. Legend has it that on the first day of ascension, a group of immortals came to the "ritual battle altar" in front of the temple to greet each other.

This is what Du Fu said in his poem Wangyue: "reverence to Mrs. Wei, flying among the immortals.". After Wei Hua was promoted, he was granted the title of Zixu Yuanjun by the emperor, and was given the title of "Lady Nanyue". Together with the queen mother of the west, he managed the immortal caves in Tiantai Mountain, Goushan mountain, Wangwu mountain, Dahuo mountain and Hengshan Mountain. It is said that after Mrs. Wei ascended to heaven, there were many people in Huangting Temple who went on to become immortals. First of all, her maid Magu was also included in the Tianting immortal class, while her disciple nuyi became the goddess of flowers and took charge of the world's famous flowers. Because of these myths and legends, Huangting temple has become a magical place in the history of Nanyue Taoism.

Monasticism

Chinese women began to practice Taoism from Mrs. Wei, and Huangting Temple set a precedent for Chinese women Taoist practice, so Mrs. Wei and Huangting temple have a high reputation in Taoism. Guanyu covers an area of more than one mu, with three entrances. The first entrance is the rest Pavilion. There are stone inscriptions on the forehead of the main entrance: "the mountain is not high" and "immortal Temple" on the forehead of the South Pavilion. The second entrance is to pass the hall, and the door is engraved with the word "huangtingguan". The couplet is: "Huang Zhongtong becomes Kunde; he rises to immortals outside the court and remembers the time of Jin Dynasty.". The three entrances are the main hall. Now there are no gods. There are 17 stone steps in front of the hall, with overlapping houses and towering ancient trees. On the right side of guanwai, there is a stone about ten feet square. It is said that it is the place where Mrs. Wei rose in the daytime. It used to be the ritual altar where Mrs. Wei worshiped heaven. Later, people called it flying stone, with three big characters "flying immortal stone" engraved on it. The top of the stone is as flat as a platform, and the bottom is sharp, but it stands firmly on the rock. It is said that if a person does not mean to touch it with his fingers, it will shake slightly; if Hu Yi pushes it, people will push it together, but they will not move. Legend has it that the queen mother came here by the cloud, and a white cloud fell down. Around the view, there are grotesque rocks and dense pines and maples; before the view, there is a flat field with crisscross fields. Half a mile away, there is a pool with water waves exciting rocks and sound passing through empty valleys. This is Bailongtan; at the foot of the mountain, there is Longtan Reservoir with clear water. In the eyes of the day, and white clouds in the sky, it presents the same color of water day scene.

Address: Tianzhu Road

Longitude: 112.72161899944

Latitude: 27.24373200609

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