Shenggu Temple

Shenggu Temple

It is said that Shenggu temple was built by Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty and is the largest temple building in a hundred Li area. In the 10th year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty (1306 AD), a high platform was built on the east side of the original temple for reconstruction, which was expanded many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to historical records, "although the people of Yanzhao and Qilu are thousands of miles away, those who bring incense are like weaving.". In May 1945, the temple was destroyed in the Anti Japanese war. It was restored in 2012. It is said that Shenggu, also known as nvjun, was born in huiwo village of Anping County at the end of the Zhou Dynasty. With her wisdom, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, and her parents, she was praised as a saint of loyalty and filial piety.

architectural composition

Shenggu Temple consists of six main buildings: archway, stele Pavilion, pedal Road, gate house, I-shaped hall, sleeping palace and Guanjia Pavilion, which are arranged on an obvious central axis. The bell and Drum Tower and the side hall are symmetrical, which is a typical layout of traditional Chinese temples.

According to the survey conducted by the construction society in 1935, the memorial archway was rebuilt in 1932. It is located on a square platform 25 meters south of the temple and faces south. It is a glazed memorial archway with three four pillars on the top of the hill. The four pillars are square pillars, 290 thick gold pillars, 230 thick secondary pillars, and round columns are set in the north and south. There are exquisite reliefs and animal heads on the four Jiagan stones. The archway is designed with 11 steps of bucket arch and painted. Tile yellow glazed tile, anzheng kiss, Chui kiss, is set in the ridge Tasha, Chui ridge Anxian, beasts. Five big characters "Xiaogan Shenggu Temple" are engraved on the horizontal plaque in the middle of the archway.

Through the archway, along the stone Yonglu north 5 meters is the stele Pavilion, and the archway is located on the same platform. The pavilion is a hard Hill building with green bricks and tiles. It is three rooms wide and one room deep. There are four stone steles in the East and west of the pavilion. The stone steles are tall and finely carved. The cap on the stone stele is carved with a sea of dragon clouds. The dragon body is full of flowers, which is very vivid and three-dimensional. There are eight immortals carved on both sides of the stele. The characters protrude from the surface of the stele and are lively.

There is a huge white stone tablet in the East and west of the pavilion. Because of the long history, the surface of the tablet is uneven, and the handwriting can not be seen clearly.

After walking through the stele Pavilion, you will see the tall and magnificent platform of Shenggu temple. The platform is 23 meters wide, 68 meters long and 5.3 meters high. The steps protrude about 10 meters outwards and are made of stone strips, with stone parapets on both sides.

Climbing 30 steps is the gate house of Shenggu temple. There is only one gate house, with a hard hill and a buwa roof. It has a main ridge, a main kiss, a vertical ridge and a vertical beast. In the south of the gate house, there is an auxiliary room on both sides of the East and the west, which covers an area of only 4.6 square meters. The roof is covered with rolling shed and hard mountain cloth tile roof, which is used for land and flea king.

There are bell tower and Drum Tower, which are flush with the gate house, and the size is exactly the same, with a width of 2.9 meters and a depth of 2.8 meters. The exterior of the bell and Drum Tower is two floors. The first floor opens to the north, the first and second floors have brick eaves, and the second floor is surrounded by brick windows for daylighting. The roof is a hard mountain cloth tile roof, with a main ridge, a main kiss, a vertical ridge and a vertical beast, and a Baoding in the middle of the main ridge. However, because the bay of the bell drum tower is very small, it is impossible to set up stairs in the building, so the building is only one floor. In the north of the bell and Drum Tower, there are three side halls on the East and west sides, with a width of 3 and a depth of 1. It is also a hard mountain with a buwa roof, with a main ridge, a main kiss, a vertical ridge and a vertical beast.

To the north of the temple gate is a high sky lamp pole. Behind it is a 2.6-meter-long incense pool. When there are many people going to the temple, pilgrims can't get into the temple, so they put incense into the pool.

Further north is the main hall. The plane of the hall is tied between the front and back halls, and connected by colonnades to form an I-shape. The front and rear halls are three rooms in width and three rooms in depth, with a single eaves on top of the top of the hill. The area and appearance are exactly the same. The colonnade is square in plane and has two rooms in depth, which is commonly known as the hall.

The shape of all the appendages, Pu Pai Fang and angzui in the I-shaped hall is the same as that of Ciyun Pavilion in Dingxing county. The rear scale is extended by the brace. Because the plane of the upper beam adopts I-shape, the structure is more complex. The beam frame has two characteristics. 1、 The beams are varied. 2、 Make full use of natural wood without cutting. As for the latter, for example, the outer end of the climbing beam is placed on the outer eaves of the bucket arch, about half a meter lower than the inner one on the four rafters.

I-shaped hall outside the East and west sides of the temple platform with Dengdao, you can go down to the outside of the temple.

In the north of the I-shaped hall are the sleeping palace and the Guanjia Pavilion. The palace is three rooms wide and three rooms deep, with a rolling shed and a tile roof. On the East and West Gables, there are waist walls and waist doors to separate the front and rear courtyards. Guanjia Pavilion is three rooms wide, two rooms deep, and the front porch is a rolling shed with tile roof.

Articles on Shenggu Temple

Nostalgia of Shenggu Temple

The high platform looms over the sky, and the snow is still deep.

All over the place, there are cold flowers piled up, and a group of clear shadows scattered among Qiongyao.

The fairy man enjoys the silver deer and the goddess loses the jade when she is happy.

For thousands of years, Bo mausoleum shaped resort, towering pavilions in the distance.

This is a sigh from the heart of Geng Xi, a scholar of Ming Dynasty, when he visited Shenggu temple in Anping. "Wei Shu * topographical records" recorded that "Anping has a building, female noble God." Taiping Huanyu Ji recorded that "there is a platform in the north of Anping City, commonly known as the goddess tower." According to the annals of people in the old annals of Anping County, "the saint's aunt's surname is Hao, and her name is nvjun. It is said that at the weekend, the county's festival government was connected with Xuanli village people As for the hairpin, when her parents want to marry her, the empress says, "if you don't have to raise it in the Kunqu season, it will make you worried." I'm not allowed to. His father's even value is gangrenous hair back. The empress is worried. She prays under the North sun every night and sucks her evil again. "If so, I'm afraid it will do harm to you." The empress replied, "may my father recover from his illness and replace him with his body. Would you rather avoid him?" In a few days, the result is better... " "The story of the world" records that "one day, nvjun and her neighbor qiaocai lived in the two rivers of Chuzhou. The neighbor's daughter also said, "when I see the horses and chariots coming out of the water, I welcome my aunt, but she suddenly disappears." People call Gu Xian in Shuifu, and set up a temple to worship it. Guangwu was king Xiao in the revolution of the later Han Dynasty For Wang Lang's embarrassment, he walked through Boling and arrived at huiwo village, where people and horses were thirsty. There are women on the road, shoulder two barrels, with water to the front, the public fight to drink. The woman abandoned the bucket and walked with her staff. More than a hundred attendants ride to drink, and the water is full of water. Drink enough people and horses, endless, as women, do not know where, people think God. Already out of the temple, I saw the statue of Gu and the female Xiao, and the front staff was in Yan. Wang was so surprised that she ascended the throne later. After thinking about Nang RI, the empress Hao helped people and horses with water and gave her the title of "Xiaogan Shenggu", so she set up a temple in the north of the city. "

Although there are traces of the above description, it is not difficult to see that the worship of Shenggu temple in Anping dates back to the weekend. This is rare in China, and the tension across time and space is shocking. The beginning of the vow is not to remember the gods and stars, but to praise the filial piety and good deeds of a kind and young woman. It comes from the affinity and Inspiration of the people, which makes people admire and think about it. As the God of cloth clothes, nvjun has come from ancient times. Her simple power, good character and great virtue of benefiting all people are living in the vast plain of Anping.

The existing shenggutai (Temple) was built in 1306, the tenth year of the reign of emperor Chengzong of the Yuan Dynasty. According to the inscription, "emperor Bingwu of the Yuan Dynasty, commander Zhao Cheng of Nanping Prefecture, cherished the old ancestral hall and built a new temple." In 1224, Emperor Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty in Anping County changed Nanping state. Zhao Cheng became Shuai and repaired Shenggu temple on a large scale. The frescoes of Shenggu temple and the mortise tenon architectural style of the whole temple using natural wood without cutting are a wonder in the history of ancient architecture, which is appreciated by Liang Sicheng, a famous scholar and architect. Unfortunately, all the buildings of the temple were burned by the Japanese invaders in May 1945. Now we can only see some remains in Hebei Museum and Institute of architecture of Tsinghua University. In addition, I think that Cui Wei's High Pavilion can be preserved in this fertile and fertile land for thousands of years. It has survived countless disasters of the Hutuo River and wind, but it can't be immune from man-made disasters

legend

When Wang Lang chased Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu ran for three days and three nights in a row. By the yanhuiwo village in the north of Anping City, the soldiers were thirsty and hard to March. Liu Xiuzheng was so worried that she suddenly saw a dignified and beautiful girl sitting by the well to wash her clothes under the big tree at the head of the village. There was a water carrying jar beside her. She quickly came forward and said, "elder sister, would you like to borrow the jar?"

As soon as the girl looked up, she saw that it was a strange general. She blushed and said, "what do you want to borrow a can for?"

Liu Xiu said: "lifting water makes people and horses quench their thirst!"

The girl pointed to the jar and said, "isn't there half a jar of water? Use it

Liu Xiu was dumbfounded and laughed: "girl! How can this little water be enough for so many people? "

But the girl said, "don't look down on my half pot of water. It's even in the East China Sea. You can't drink it up even if you have thousands of troops and horses!"

Liu Xiu was very thirsty. He had no time to quarrel with the girl, so he began to drink from the pitcher. When he had drunk enough, he saw that the fruit in the jar was not very little. Regardless of his doubts, he called all the soldiers to get the water. He didn't know how many barrels and loads he had poured, but there was still not a little water in the jar. Just then, Wang Lang's men and horses came up. The girl splashed the water in the jar on the ground, and immediately a big white river appeared, blocking Wang Lang's men and horses. Before Liu Xiu wakes up, the girl disappears. In front of her, there is only the surging river and Wang Lang's pursuers across the river.

After Liu Xiu got out of danger, he looked for the girl everywhere, but after asking all the villagers, no one knew who the girl was. As he was wondering, he suddenly looked up and saw a small temple at the crossroad. On the flat forehead of the temple gate, there were three big words "Xiaogan Temple". Check the inscriptions in front of the ancestral temple to find out

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