Cai Zhonghui Temple

Cai Zhonghui Temple

Cai Zhonghui ancestral hall, a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province, is located at 150 xiateng Road, Cangshan District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. Cai Xiang, the word Junmo, Xinghua army Xianyou (now Xianyou County Fengting Chihu Jiaoxi Village) people. He was a calligrapher, statesman, litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, and an official to Duanming palace. He presided over the construction of Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, one of the four famous bridges in China, which is the earliest existing cross sea beam bridge in China. He served as the magistrate of Fuzhou for the second time, and later moved to tenglu in Cangshan. He built a memorial temple in the early years of Ming Dynasty and rebuilt it in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The ancestral hall faces south from south to North on the central axis. It has a gate tower, a worship Pavilion and a main hall, covering an area of 585 square meters. The regular script "Cai Zhonghui ancestral hall" is embedded on the main gate, and there are small gate squares on the left and right sides with clear inscriptions. The main hall is 3 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain, carrying beams and fighting. Now the monument has been erected for protection. It is now the Museum of Cangshan District in Fuzhou and the CAI Xiang Memorial Hall in Fuzhou.

Life of CAI Xiang

Cai Xiang (1012-1067), also known as Junmo, was born in Xianyou (now Jiaoxi village, Chihu, Fengting county) of Xinghua army. Song Tiansheng eight years (1030), 19-year-old Jinshi a division, awarded Zhangzhou military magistrate, official to Duanming palace bachelor. He was a politician and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In 1036, Cai Xiang wrote the poem "four sages and one unworthy". He praised Fan Zhongyan, Yu Jing, Yin Zhu and Ouyang Xiu for their uprightness and uprightness. The people in Kyoto argued for the copy and circulation of the poem, so it was very popular all over the world. Cai Xiang advocated eliminating evil and promoting talents, and supported the implementation of "Qingli New Deal".

In 1044, Cai Xiang went out to Fuzhou to the right of Zhengyan and zhishiguan; in 1047, he was transferred to Fujian road. During his term of office, he repaired the water conservancy works of guqiutang in Putian and wupitang in Fuzhou, benefiting a large area of farmland; let the people of Fujian cook and sell sea salt by themselves, sharing the benefits of salt; curbed the tax reduction of Dingkou, reducing the burden of the people; advocated medical knowledge, curbed the unhealthy trend of witch doctors; reformed the bad customs, and established a good atmosphere. Cai Xiang ordered that pine trees (banyan trees) be planted all over the ancient roads in 12 counties of Fuzhou. On both sides of the 700 mile road from Dayi ferry in Fuzhou to Quanjian and Zhangjian, pine trees are planted. Folk songs spread: "Jiadao pine, Jiadao pine, who planted it? I'm Cai Gong. Pedestrians don't know the heat in June, and shake the breeze forever

In 1051, Cai Xiangzhi and others lived in Kaifeng. In the first year of Jiayou (1056), Cai Xiang knew Fuzhou again. The next year, he ordered Houguan, Min county and Huai'an county to build water conservancy. Min county expanded the East moat (now Jin'an River). Cai Xiang was a courteous and virtuous corporal, who encouraged learning to prosper goodness. In order to correct the long-standing defects of the Confucian students' indulgence in carving, they invited the old Confucian scholars Zhou Ximeng, Zheng Mu and Chen lie to teach the Daoism of "understanding reason and nature", and they also went to the school to teach in person. Cai Xiang advocated the policy of "paying equal attention to articles and etiquette", which made the culture and education popular, the people of Zhou knew books and etiquette, promoted the people's moral integrity, social stability and unity, and made the people live and work in peace and contentment.

In 1058, Cai Xiangzhi was born in Quanzhou. In Quanzhou, he supported the construction of Luoyang Bridge (also known as Wan'an bridge), and personally wrote the book Wan'an bridge. In the autumn of 1060, Cai Xiang was a Bachelor of Hanlin academy and an envoy of Quan San. Zhiping two years (1065) out of Hangzhou. After Ding mother worry back home, died of illness at home, gift Li minister. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the posthumous title was Zhonghui.

Cai Xiang is as famous as Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu in calligraphy and is one of the great calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty. Lingyuan cave and Taiquan in the north suburb of Gushan in Fuzhou have his inscription. Li Chi Pu is the earliest monograph on fruit cultivation in the world. Cha Lu is a famous book on tea culture in Song Dynasty, which was translated into English and French and spread abroad. In addition, Duan Ming Ji (also known as Cai Zhonghui Ji) was handed down.

architectural composition

The ancestral hall is a wooden structure with three entrances. The first entrance is the ancestral hall, the second entrance is the sacrificial hall, the worship Pavilion is in front of the hall, the third entrance is the main hall, and the conference hall is behind the main hall. Entering the gate, a bronze cauldron with a height of more than two meters is displayed in the court. The bronze tripod is exquisitely and exquisitely cast, and is engraved with four Inscriptions: "famous officials of Qingli", "upright and honest", "slander evil and dispel evil" and "loyalty to the country and benefit the people". On the walls of the corridors on both sides of the hall are the inscriptions of CAI Xiang's official script, line and grass. The font is full of beautiful and gentle atmosphere, and it is full of dragon and phoenix dance.

The inscription of Wen Tianxiang, the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty, the grandson of Fujiyama boqigong sect, is hung in front of the eaves of the hall. Two gilded plaques are hung in front of the four pillars of the hall. They are "loyal to the future generations and just established the Central Plains". The main hall is dedicated to the throne of Duke Cai Xiang, and has a bronze statue of Duke Cai Xiang, which is solemn and dignified, and a screen is erected at the back. On the front of the screen is a picture of "Lihu waterfall" in Caixiang's hometown, Xianyou scenic spot, and on the back is Cai Xiang's poem "looking at the west mountain at night by crossing the stone bridge outside the gate of Fuzhou". A gold plaque of "loyalty to the country and benefit the people" was hung on the upper beam of the screen. The red pillars in the front and back halls are covered with gold couplets presented by Cai's descendants. On the left and right wooden walls of the main hall, there are four scroll paintings depicting Cai Xiang's life achievements, and displaying Cai Xiang's works, ink and cultural relics. Behind the main hall is the conference hall, in which a huge color portrait of CAI Xianggong is hung.

Tourism information

Address: No.150 xiateng Road, Cangshan District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province

Post code: 350007

Address: 147 Qiaonan street, Luojiang District, Quanzhou City

Longitude: 118.67648200612

Latitude: 24.946574471916

Ticket information: free.

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