Zi Zu Temple

Zi Zu Temple

Zi Zu temple is a temple built in memory of Cangjie and Jusong, the founders of characters. In some places, it is also called cangju Pavilion. Cangjie and Jusheng were the left and right historiographers before the emperor's reign, both of whom were prime ministers. It is said that the Chinese characters we used were created by Cang Jie and Ju song. Later generations generally only said that Cangjie created characters, but ignored Ju recitation. Duan Yucai, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, said: "in Wei Heng's Si Ti Shu Shi," in the past, the Yellow Emperor created things. Some of them, Jusheng and Cangjie, began to make a contract to tie a rope instead of a rope. They were both the history of the Yellow Emperor. Many books speak of Cangjie, but few of them speak of Ju Words are the symbols of recording and disseminating Chinese culture. The construction of Zi Zu Temple shows the reverence for the originator of Chinese characters, and also expresses the ardent expectation of the local people and culture. Zizu temple in Bobai County, Guangxi is a well preserved zizu temple. It is one of the seven ancient temples in Guangxi. Its couplet says "six books are handed down from ancient times, and the four seas look up to the same culture.".

In Lingnan area, in order to commemorate Cangjie, there are tombstones and pagodas of zizu in many places, but the temple of zizu is rare. Zizu temple in Bobai County, Guangxi Province and Xiqiao Town, Foshan City, Guangdong Province are rare in China.

Zizu temple in Bobai County, Guangxi Province, was built in 1889 by Gu siren, the magistrate of Bobai County, Lin Jiashu, Liu Sheng and the local people. It was built in memory of Cangjie and Jusong, the founders of ancient Chinese characters. Zizu temple is square in plane, covering an area of 133.17 square meters, with internal walls and external walls, and the corridor is a circular corridor. The main building is of brick and wood structure, which looks like a round sky, with a square plane, two-story eaves, a round gourd at the top, four ridges, relief lions and dragon heads, and a ring corridor with internal and external walls, 7 feet wide. The overall shape is simple and grand. On the top of the main entrance of the building, there are three characters of "Zi Zu Miao" and the couplet of the door: "the six books are handed down to the ancient times, and the four seas look up to the same text.". There are inscriptions in front of the temple. The top of the roof is decorated with a big red bronze ceramic gourd. There are lion and dragon heads on the four ridges. The end of the gourd is tilted up like a wing. It extends from the bottom of the gourd to the four eaves. The top of the gourd forms a large streamline triangle with a steep slope and is covered with glazed tiles. The whole building is simple and magnificent. The portrait and handwriting of the founder of ancient Chinese characters are hung on the walls of the ancestral temple of Chinese characters. It also shows the legend of Chinese character making, the method of Chinese character making and the evolution of Chinese characters. Located in the Middle School of Bobai County, Bobai County, Yulin City, Guangxi Province, the ancestral temple of Bobai character has become the treasure of Bobai middle school and the key cultural relic of Bobai County.

On the right side of baiyun temple in Xiqiao Town, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, Foshan zizu temple was founded in 1777 by twenty-seven literati associations of Jiancun fort. It was rebuilt in 1839 and worshiped as "zizu Temple" (Cangjie was passed down as the historian of the Yellow Emperor and the creator of Chinese characters, so it was called "zizu"). The academy is a two courtyard quadrangle layout, with a total area of 496 square meters. It is of brick and wood structure. The front hall is built on a hard hilltop with beams. The glazed tile surface is three rooms wide and one room deep. The tile eaves are decorated with brick figures, flowers and plants, and the ground is paved with generous bricks. The column is engraved with official script couplets: "it belongs to the right line, it belongs to the left line, it belongs to the downward culture, it belongs to the same flow nest, Suiyi Huanyu kaishu contract Wenzhi, it refers to the Qin Li, it refers to the Han Li, it refers to the Jin Li, it changes gradually at any time, there are many feathered and meritorious officials outside.". The back hall is three rooms wide and three rooms deep, with a platform and a hard top. There is a square square square Pavilion in the courtyard. The column is engraved with a couplet: "the head of clay presents a red pillow, a wisp of heart fragrance passes through the emperor's slaughter, the chest of Luo condenses ink, and the pulse of thousands of years consecrates the immortal.". Porch column couplet clerical script: the descendants of Zhen Zhuan, Li Cao, Zeng yuan, were born in hongjiaoze day by day, Xi painted birds in the sky, observed the earth, and the wind would show off Yinghua. "

Address: Baiyun Cave Scenic Spot, Xiqiao Mountain scenic spot, Shannan Road, Xiqiao Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City

Longitude: 112.96582882163

Latitude: 22.932578529021

Tel: 400-111-9288; 0757-86

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the ticket of Xiqiao Mountain Scenic Spot

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