Yuelao Temple

Yuelao Temple

Yuelao temple, also known as "Yuelao Palace", is located in the southwest of Shangqiu ancient city, Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province. It was built in the Tang Dynasty to worship the old man under the moon who was in charge of marriage in the world. "Xuxuanguailu · betrothal shop" in the Tang Dynasty is the earliest document to record the old man under the moon. It records that the old man under the moon lived in Songzhou and Songcheng in the Tang Dynasty

The story of Wei Gu's marriage. When the magistrate of Songcheng County knew this, he named the hotel where Wei Gu lived "engagement Hotel".

geographical position

Yuelao temple is located in the southwest of Shangqiu ancient city, Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province.

Historical evolution

In the second year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty (807 AD), a scholar named Wei Gu passed by Songcheng in Songzhou (now Shangqiu ancient city in Henan Province) and stayed in the inn of Nandian in Songcheng. At night, he met an old man and searched a marriage book in the moonlight. The old man under the moon pointed out the marriage object for Wei Gu by pulling the red rope. Later, Wei Gu married Wang Tai's daughter, the governor of Xiangzhou, according to the old man's words.

When the magistrate of Songcheng County knew this, he named the hotel where Wei Gu lived "engagement Hotel". Because this allusion happened in Nandian of song city (now Shangqiu ancient city), Li Fuyan, a literary scientist of Tang Dynasty, named it "engagement shop" and included it in xuxuangualu (formerly xuyougualu). It has been handed down from generation to generation and is well known by men, women and children.

There is a sitting statue of an old man with white hair and silver beard in Yuelao temple. He is kind-hearted and smiling. He holds a marriage book in one hand and a red rope in the other. There is a couplet in the temple door: "may there be lovers in the world and they all become dependents; it is predestined that we should never miss marriage."

Documentation

Taiping Guangji, Vol.159 "betrothal marriage · betrothal shop" 42 ~ Du Ling, Wei Gu, shaogu, thinks of marrying a woman early, but he has many differences and fails to propose. In the second year of Zhenguan, he will visit the Qinghe River and the South Inn of song city (Shangqiu ancient city). The former Qinghe Sima pan Fang's daughter was the debater, and she came to the door of Longxing Temple in the west of Dian. If you want to do it, you can't do it. When he was more than ten years old, his wife said in tears, "I'm still a princess, not a daughter. In the past, his father once slaughtered the city of Song Dynasty and eventually became an official. When I was a baby, my mother and brother died. The only village is in the south of the Song Dynasty, where she lives with her mother Chen. She goes to the store nearby and provides vegetables for the day and night. Chen's pity is small, can't bear to abandon. When he was three years old, he was stabbed by a crazy thief in Baoxing city. The knife mark is still there, so it is covered with flower seeds. Seven or eight years, uncle engaged in Lulong, so he had to be around, thinking that the woman married jun'er. Gu said, "what about Chen's family? He said, "well, how can we know it? "Gu said," the one you stab is Gu. It's strange. As a result, we respect each other more than we can say. Kun, a young man, was the prefect of Yanmen, and was granted the title of left lady of Taiyuan group. It's also immutable to know the decision of Yin. After hearing about it, Cheng Zai of Song Dynasty called his shop "engagement shop".

"Ming Dynasty unified annals" guide house: "the engagement shop is in the old city of guide house, where Tang Wei Gu meets Yuelao PU."

The 154 volume of the unified annals of the Qing Dynasty goes back to Defu: "the engagement shop, the unified annals of the Ming Dynasty, is in the old city of Defu. Tang Wei meets Yuelao at the place where he marries."

Traffic information

Address: Chongyang Gongjing District, Xinchang County, Shaoxing City

Longitude: 120.81142109325

Latitude: 29.386960415731

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the 40 yuan ticket of Chongyang palace.

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