Jiucheng Palace Site

Jiucheng Palace Site

Jiucheng Palace site is located in Xincheng District, Linyou County, Shaanxi Province. It was originally Renshou palace of Sui Dynasty. It was built in 593, the 13th year of kaihuang Dynasty. It has a forbidden court, a armory and a temple.

brief introduction

Jiucheng palace was built in 593, the 13th year of emperor kaihuang. It was supervised by Yang Su, a right servant. Yu Wenkai, a famous architect, was a great craftsman who was responsible for the design and supervision. It was completed in March of the 15th year of emperor kaihuang. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came here six times for summer. In 631, Emperor Taizong renovated and expanded the palace and renamed it Jiucheng palace.

After that, Taizong came here five times, each time for about half a year. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, it was renamed Wannian palace and later renamed Jiucheng palace. "Jiucheng" means "jiuzhong" or "jiuceng", which means it is tall. After Empress Wu Zetian, Jiucheng palace was gradually deserted and destroyed by floods in the late Tang Dynasty. Since 1978, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has carried out many explorations and excavations on the site. In June 1991, a well preserved Palace site of the Tang Dynasty, jiuchenggong No. 37 Palace site, was excavated.

Jiucheng Palace

Jiucheng palace is built with forbidden court, military storehouse and temple. Zhouyuan has 1800 steps, covering the current northeast ditch, dressing table, shuimanling, Tiantai temple and northwest ditch. There is Tiantai Mountain between the East and West gullies. On the mountain, there is the original Jiulong hall, namely paiyun hall, with the remains of column foundation, stone, remnant brick, tile and two earthen pagodas. On the cliff walls of the East and west sides of Jiulong hall, we can see traces of rammed earth layer and stone column foundation of the building of that day. His highness flat, there is an 18 square meters of rammed earth platform, named dressing table. In the west, there is Tang Dynasty Fuchang courtyard, also known as Tianshan temple. On the northern slope of the temple, there is a stele of "Jiucheng palace Liquan inscription" written by Wei Zheng and Ouyang Xun, and "Wannian palace inscription" written by Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty.

Guanping village, near the jiuchenggong site, is said to be the location of baiguanfu yamen of Tang Palace, including Mafang, Nanfang, Xifang and Beifang, which may be the camp and horse herding place of the imperial army.

Stone wells of Tang Dynasty were found in the site. The well platform is rectangular and engraved with patterns. Stone canals and gates were also found.

Site No.7 is located in the post and telecommunications office in the center of today's county. It faces south. It is five wide on the face and two deep in the depth. The interior of the site has fewer columns. The careful room is a little wider. There are doors in the front and back. There are 14 bluestone covered basin column foundations, which are arranged orderly and complete. There are traces of wooden columns on the surface of the basin. On the west side of the south gate and the west side of the north gate are two pieces of white marble door pillow stones. The brick groove of wall base and part of wall foundation strip are in the original position. One is located in the center of the Palace site, and the other is beside the column foundation of the northwest corner column. About five meters away from the four corner pillars, there are four pillar bases with four eaves pillars. This kind of palace architecture layout with overhanging eaves pillars was first found in Tang Dynasty architecture.

Historical evolution

In the early years of Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong suffered from chronic fatigue due to the war in the South and the north. Taizong decided to renovate Renshou palace in Sui Dynasty and renamed it Jiucheng palace. From the sixth year of Zhenguan to the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang came to Jiucheng palace five times to spend more time.

Jiuchenggong liquanming stele is the representative work of Ouyang Xun, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, which is known as the master of regular script. The inscription is written by Wei Zheng, the famous Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty. It records the story of Emperor Taizong's search for water in Jiucheng palace. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty went to Jiucheng palace for summer. Because of the lack of water in the palace, Taizong personally looked for water. One day, Taizong took a walk to the front of the West back of the city. He saw that the soil there was a little moist. He dredged it with his walking stick, and then a clear and sweet spring came out of the ground. So it was named Liquan. Stone railings were built around it and stone canals were dug to lead water into the palace. "Li Quan Ming of Jiucheng Palace" describes Jiucheng Palace: "Guanshan Kangdian, Juehe is a pool, crossing the water to set up a Ying, divided into rock song Pavilion, high pavilion built Zhou, corridor four, Dong Zi Jiao Ge, terrace Pavilion uneven, looking up, it will fall down a hundred search, next to the towering thousand Ren. The walls of the Pearl River reflect each other, and the golden and green light shine on the clouds and cover the sun and the moon. " Li sixun, a famous painter of Tang Dynasty, once wrote the painting of Wanfan in Jiucheng palace of Tang Dynasty, which vividly and directly depicts the scene of Jiucheng palace.

Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne and renamed Jiucheng Palace "Wannian Palace". He and Empress Wu Zetian came to the palace eight times.

In addition to the emperors of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and important civil and military officials, some scholars also set foot in the Jiucheng palace. Wang Bo wrote "Ode to the table of Jiucheng Palace" here, Lu Zhaolin wrote "Ode to the sick pear tree" here, Wang Wei, Du Fu, Li Shangyin, Wu Rong and other famous poets of Tang Dynasty all wrote immortal poems praising the mountains and rivers of Linyou here, and Sun Simiao, a medical scientist, also collected medicine in Shijiu mountain. It's really "treasure of nature, outstanding people!" After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the magnificent Jiucheng palace was gradually deserted because it was uninhabited and managed, and was finally destroyed by floods in the late Tang Dynasty.

geographical position

Linyou county is 163 km from Xi'an in the East and 133 km from Baoji in the south. When the Guanzhong Plain is hot and hot, Linyou is still cool and pleasant. According to the test, the average temperature in July is only 21.8 degrees. In the further excavation of jiuchenggong, more and more tourists will come to Linyou for summer vacation.

Contemporary progress

Jiucheng palace has been destroyed for a long time. Today, only the site remains, and many cultural relics remain on the site. The existing cultural relics mainly include Wei Zheng, a famous Minister of the Tang Dynasty, who was Secretary of the Tang Dynasty in 632 ad. Ouyang Xun, a famous calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the inscription of Li Quan in Jiucheng palace. The inscription is a tribute to the emperor. It is now located in the Northwest corner of the new urban area of Linyou county. It is one of the most precious stone tablets in our country. It is listed as the first batch of famous calligraphic steles in China It is of great artistic value, and it is also a model for calligraphy lovers in the past dynasties after the Tang Dynasty. Another stone tablet is the inscription of Wannian palace written by Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty in 654 ad. It is now located in the northwest corner of the new urban area of the county. On the side of the stele, there are the names that Tang Gaozong ordered them to write when he met with the ministers of culture and military above grade three and the bachelor. The characters on the stele are Xian Lian and the calligraphy is graceful. It enjoys a high reputation in the art of calligraphy and is one of the most precious steles.

In May 1980, a Tang Dynasty palace drinking well was also found in the site (south of the main street in the new town of the present county). The well was built in a square shape. The upper part of the well was made of square plain stone slabs with a side length of 52 cm and rectangular stone strips. The mouth of the well is round, about 106CM in diameter, with eight sunflower shaped patterns carved around it. There are four plinths at the wellhead, each 300 cm apart. The diameter of the stone is 28 cm, with round holes in it. The whole well platform is well preserved, with exquisite flower pattern carving, and well platform stone masonry, well head and pillar base stone grinding. In order to let people see its original appearance, the well pavilion has been restored on the original site. In addition to the Jiucheng Palace site, there are still many places of interest between the mountains and rivers. 2.5km southeast of the county seat, there are two Grottoes between the cliffs on the West Bank of xuyujia River, which is the location of the imperial temple of CI Chan temple in Sui and Tang Dynasties. The stone sculptures in the cave of cichan temple are as high as 4 meters in height, with exquisite shapes, comparable to those of Tang Dynasty in Longmen, Luoyang. Yutang gorge is located 15 Li south of the county. The water is as clear as a mirror, also known as "jade pond". When Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty came here for summer vacation, Wu Zetian bathed here and left a beautiful poem of "visiting the jade girl at the mountain window, and facing qiongfeng at the door". Qianfo temple is located 30 miles west of Jiucheng palace and halfway up lamamao mountain. There are 1020 large and small Buddha statues in the niches.

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Address: Xincheng District, Linyou County, Baoji City

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