Su Gong Temple

Su Gong Temple

Located in the east of Wugong temple in Qiongshan District of Haikou, Hainan Province, Su Gong temple was built in memory of Su Shi, a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are the remains of Shuangquan and dongxie Pavilion left by Su Shi.

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Overview of ancestral hall

Su Gong ancestral hall is a garden style courtyard, ancestral hall, green trees, fresh, scattered, streams and winding paths, springs stay Dong.

On the left side of the Su Gong temple is the Qiongyuan garden, which covers an area of nearly 10 mu. In the garden, there are relics of the east slope, such as Fushu spring, Suquan Pavilion and Xixin Pavilion.

There is a stone tablet embedded in a powder wall beside the Fushu spring, on which the three characters of "Fushu spring" are engraved. The cool spring water in front of the tablet fills the upper and lower square wells. It is said that Su Dongpo found it here.

The spring water is pure, clear and refreshing.

Spring water in midsummer has not seen scale for more than ten years. Making tea with it is mellow and incomparable. It is known as "the first spring in Hainan". Now the spring in the well is still clear, but there is no spring gushing.

Above the floating Suquan, there are Suquan Pavilion and xixinxuan. It is said that they were built by Weng Ruyu of Ming Dynasty and ye Rulan of Qing Dynasty respectively because of a solemn poem by Su Dongpo.

Located in the east of wobeiting, the pavilion is built in xuanting. The pavilion is written by Shu Tong, a famous calligrapher. The temple was originally built before Penglai castration, and the time of its construction is unknown. According to the records of rebuilding Penglai Pavilion in Yushan, the current one was moved and built in Qing Dynasty.

Su Shi knew that Dengzhou was only five days old, that is to say, he went to the state of begging for salt in Denglai. Because of Su Gong's request, the system of Denglai people not eating official salt was extended to the end of Qing Dynasty.

It is recorded in the inscriptions of salt administration in the Qing Dynasty: "in the Song Dynasty, Duke Su Wenzhong went to discuss the book of salt five days after he was appointed. He wanted to have a rest for the people. So far, the local people have not written about it, but have made achievements." There are stone rubbings of Su Shi's portrait in the poem (developed in Liuliu temple in Guangzhou).

The inner and outer walls are inlaid with more than 20 ancient stone inscriptions, among which Su Shu's Hai Shi Shi and Wang Hai, Xue Zhi's Guan Hai and Weng Fanggang's Hai Shi Shi are the most precious. The stone inscription of Guanhai is embedded in the east wall of Su Gong's Ci, which was written by Xue Zhi in Ming Dynasty.

Xue Guan, the right Minister of the Ministry of rites and academician of the Imperial Academy, entered Yan to take part in the secret. His posthumous title was Wenqing, and he was one of the first Confucians in the Confucian temple.

Cai Shukui, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, compared it with Su SWA: "in the past, Wen Zhong was the Duke of Su, and Wen Qing Xue was the Duke of Xue. He traveled here one after another to recite poems.

The article of Fu and ER Gong is a rogue in the scenery of Penglai, and the scenery of Penglai is actually increased in the world by the two gongs. Therefore, Fu Jing's recitation of poems is called the two unique. "

historical origin

Su Gong temple was built in 1617, the 45th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty. It was built to worship Su Shi and his son Su Guo. During the reign of emperor Shunzhi, Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty, it was rebuilt many times. The memorial tablets of Su Shi, his son Su Guo and his student Qiang Tang Zuo (Jinshi, Qiongshan people) were placed in the main hall of Su Gong ancestral temple. There is a couplet hanging on the column in the hall: "this place can open your eyes, who can match Meishan." this couplet was originally written by Zhu Chao when he was in charge of the renovation in 1915. It was smashed in the cultural revolution and was restored by Professor Mai Hua Sanchong of Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts in recent years.

Personage introduction

Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zhan, the name of Dongpo. Han nationality, Sichuan people.

He had a bumpy career, learned a lot, had a high talent, and was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting.

His writing is unrestrained, clear and open-minded, and he is called Ou Su together with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "eight masters of Tang and Song Dynasties"; his poems are fresh and vigorous, and he is good at exaggeration and metaphor, and his artistic expression is unique, so he is called Su Huang together with Huang Tingjian; his Ci is bold and unrestrained, which has a great influence on later generations, and he is also called Su Xin together with Xin Qiji; his calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and he can create new ideas by himself, and his pen is plump and full of ups and downs, which is naive and rotten Manzhiqu, together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang, is known as the four schools of Song Dynasty.

His works include complete works of Su Dongpo and Yuefu of Dongpo.

Su Shi has been relegated since he was 36 years old.

For opposing Wang Anshi's reform, he was sentenced to Hangzhou for the first time and demoted to Huangzhou at the age of 44. In 1085, Sima Guang was the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty.

When Zhang Dun was Prime Minister, Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, Guangdong Province for insisting on his views. In the fourth year of Shaosheng (1097), Emperor zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty was demoted to changhuajun of Hainan Island (now Zhonghe Town, Danzhou City).

Huizong of the Song Dynasty was in place. In 1100, he called back Su Shi. The next year, he passed through Changzhou and died of illness.

When Su Shi was demoted to Changhua army, he brought his young son Su Guo.

He crossed the sea from dijiaochang in Xuwen. He borrowed the guest room of JinSu nunnery for more than 10 days. Three years later, when he returned to the north, he passed by and stayed here for a few days. Before and after that, he lived for more than 20 days.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, in memory of his living here, the title was "Dongpo reading place". "Dongpo academy" was set up here in Yuan Dynasty. After hundreds of years of changes, the remains are still there. Now there is a horizontal plaque of "Dongpo academy" on the east gate of the Su Gong temple.

Today's Su Gong temple is located in the former site of Dongpo Academy. In the main hall of Su Gong ancestral hall, there is also a stone sculpture of Su Wenzhong Gong, as well as two Ci Poems of Xingxiangzi and linjiangxian written by Su Shi.

Address: wugongci tourist area, 169 Haifu Road, Qiongshan District, Haikou City

Longitude: 110.359791

Latitude: 20.007856

Tel: 0898-65855653; 0898-6

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the ticket of Wugong Temple

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