Wangcong temple in Pixian County

Wangcong Temple

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Wangcong temple in Pixian County

Wangcong temple is located in Pidu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Southwest, 23 kilometers away from Chengdu. It is a memorial temple built to commemorate Du Yu, the earliest king of Shu, and his successor Cong di. It is also the largest imperial mausoleum in Southwest China, which is the only one Memorial temple dedicated to two masters and pays homage to the sages of Shu people. The main tourist spots are wangcong temple, including "journey to the West Art Palace", "laser gun battlefield", "shuipoliang mountain" and other tourism projects.

In 1985, wangcong temple was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Chengdu. In 1991, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province. In 1993, it was awarded "Pixian youth patriotism education base".

Historical evolution

King Du Yu taught the people to work in agriculture. He initiated the farming system according to the farming season in Shu, and was regarded as the God of agriculture by later generations. Emperor Cong was the first governor of Minjiang River basin before Li Bing. The love of the two emperors lies in the people, and they have been worshipped by later generations. "The Dragon Boat Festival is dedicated to Qu Yuan, and the minyang Dynasty is devoted to Du Zhu". When Shu people hear the cuckoo, they think about the emperor. The wangcong song contest, which is held every year on May 15 of the lunar calendar to commemorate the second wangcong emperor, is the only form of song contest preserved by the Han nationality and is now a provincial intangible cultural heritage.

In the past, the two emperors had separate ancestral halls, but today's wangcong ancestral hall is a combined ancestral hall built by the Southern Qi Dynasty in the 5th century.

According to the chronicles of the two minyang Emperors: "after the death of Cong Di, he was buried in PI. There was an old temple, and Gu Yi went to Guo Yi Li in the south.

According to the records of Pixian County, the "Chongde Temple" for worshiping Wangdi was originally located at the Erwang temple in Guanxian county. During the reign of Emperor Ming of Qi in the Southern Dynasty (494-498 A.D.), Liu Jilian, the governor, moved it from Guankou to Pixian. Later, it merged with Cong Di temple and became the "wangcong Temple" for worshiping Wang and Cong di.

In the second year of emperor renzongkangding (1041) of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kedu was ordered to sacrifice Wangdi and congdi together and expand wangcong ancestral temple. It was rebuilt in 1052.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, wangcong ancestral hall was destroyed by war, and only two mausoleums, Du Yu and bieling, were left. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong suffered serious damage during his uprising.

In 1747, Li Xin, the magistrate of Qianlong County of the Qing Dynasty, protected the two mausoleums. In 1835, wangcong temple was restored and planted with cypress trees (207 trees remained in 1981). In 1908, "tingjuan building" was built in the east of the temple.

In 1925, a park was built in the ancestral temple, and then it became deserted. In 1929, Xiong Kewu, the governor of Sichuan Province, was stationed in PI. He once allocated funds for the construction of ancestral temples and erected stone tablets in front of the mausoleums of the two emperors, namely, the mausoleum of the ancient Wangdi and the mausoleum of the ancient congdi. The stele is more than Zhang high, and the next inscription is "Xiong Kewu, but Mao Xinshu".

In 1969, the stele was demolished and only remains. Today, the stele is a duplicate.

In 1984, the people's Government of Pixian County expanded the wangcong temple from 22 Mu to 88 mu.

architectural composition

Wangcong temple is located in the west to the East, and its architectural style is different from that of other temples. The original temple was built according to the plan of Yuling mausoleum in Huiji mountain, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. Because it is a temple offering sacrifices to two masters, the gate of the temple is not opened in one direction, but symmetrically in the north and south. Behind the gate is Zhaobi, with opposite courtyard doors on the north and south sides leading to the two parks. Zigui garden in the South and Lianyi garden in the north. There are some pavilions such as "daosun tower" and "tingjuan tower" near the water. The two gates behind Zhaobi pass through the interior. Behind the gate is the memorial hall of Wangdi congdi, and in the middle is the bronze statue of Wangdi congdi. In Berlin behind the memorial, there is the emperor's mausoleum, which is 15 meters high. To the west of Wangdi mausoleum is Pixian Museum. To the south of Wangdi congdi memorial hall is tingjuan building, wangcong Dahua jade Museum, and to the south is congdi mausoleum. Wangcong temple, North and south through a large area of water, this is bieling lake.

Main attractions

History and culture

The origin of ancient ancestral temple

Two thousand and seven hundred years ago, at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wang Du Yu established the first written capital of Shu, Dujuan City, in Pixian County. It is said that emperor Wangdi Du Yu taught the people farming and the Ba people farming. Therefore, in ancient times, people in Sichuan regarded Du Yu as the God of agriculture, and they sacrificed him first for spring farming. In his later years, Du Yu suffered from floods in Chengdu Plain. Bieling, the Prime Minister of Du Yu, "decided Yulei mountain to get rid of water disasters" (Yulei mountain is the mountain at baopingkou of Dujiangyan). Du Yu abdicated the throne to bieling and retired from the west mountain. In spring, when the people of Shu missed him, they called Zigui bird cuckoo and the first red flower on the mountain in spring cuckoo, saying that Du Yu was urging people to work in spring. Wangdi temple was originally located in Erwang temple in Dujiangyan. Wangcong temple was built in Pixian County in the northern and Southern Dynasties. Zhao Kuangyin granted Li Bing the title of king in the Northern Song Dynasty. Chongde temple was built at Wangdi Temple site to worship Li Bing. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that Li Bing's father and son were sealed that these two king temples began to follow. According to the book of Shu emperor by Yang Xiong, the second emperor of wangcong, "Du Yu was the king of Yufu, and all his disciples were in PI, that is, the city of cuckoo." About the 6th century BC, Du Yu was the king of Shu, known as Wangdi. At that time, the flood of Minjiang River flooded the Western Sichuan plain. The emperor ordered bieling, the prime minister, to control the flood. Bieling split the Yulei mountain, chiseled out the baopingkou, dredged the water of Minjiang River, changed the flood into water conservancy, and turned the Western sea into farmland, which made the Western Sichuan plain from Yufu era to Nongsang era, and laid the foundation of Dujiang Weir project. After Wang emperor retired to Xishan, chanrang emperor was located in bieling, which was called Cong di. Cong Di was buried in the south of Pixian County after his death. Later, Cong Di temple was built. In the Southern Dynasty, Qi Ming emperor moved Wangdi mausoleum from Guanxian county to congdi temple in Pixian County. There were two mausoleums, which were called wangcong temple.

Festival activities

Wangcong ancestral temple is also rich in folk culture. Every year around the Qingming Festival, there will be singing competitions. The Saige club is large-scale, large in number and ordinary people. And this tradition originated from the story of "cuckoo crowing blood" in ancient China.

The song contest is a large-scale event with a large number of participants. The participants are ordinary people, with a strong local flavor and a warm scene. People throw plums on the girl's daughter-in-law at the singing contest. It is said that whoever gets more will get more. Some mother-in-law this day took her daughter-in-law to wangcong temple to pick plums.

Cultural relics protection

After liberation, the government allocated funds for the maintenance of wangcong temple for many times.

In 1983, the area was expanded to 81 mu, which was funded by the Provincial Department of culture and the county people's government.

At the end of 1985, part of the bieling Lake project and the wall construction project were completed.

In 1985, it was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Chengdu.

In 1991, wangcong temple was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province.

Tourism information

Opening hours: 08:30-17:00

Type of scenic spot: historical sites theme landscape

Admission information: wangcong Temple Museum of Pixian County will be open to the public free of charge from September 30, 2009

Transportation: take the bus from Chengdu bus station to Pixian.

Address: No.5, wangcong Middle Road, southwest of Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan

Address: NO.3-4, wangcong Middle Road, Pidu District, Chengdu

Longitude: 103.874848

Latitude: 30.810228

Tel: 028-64964123

Ticket information: free.

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