Town God's Temple, Ningbo

Ningbo Town God's Temple, also known as the Ningbo county temple, has a history of more than 200 years. The tile yellow wall, the dragon dragon's corner, the lucky gourd, and the long, long windows of the lattice show the ancient atmosphere, the smoke curling, and the solemn and magnificent spectacle. Among them, the "bucket arch stage", "wood crossbeam" and "Central Hall painting axis" (now abandoned) are called "three treasures" of Town God's Temple, which are very rare.

Town God's Temple is one of the largest existing Town God's Temple in China. Town God's Temple is one of the most important gods in the religious culture of ancient Han people. It is mostly played by heroes of the local people. It is the God of Han nationality's folk and Taoist belief in guarding the city.

Today, Town God's Temple has become the largest shopping center in Ningbo, with shops and snacks all over the place. It is a great place to understand the folk customs of Ningbo Han people.

Town God Temple

synonym

Town God's Temple, Ningbo generally refers to Town God's Temple (Town God's Temple, Ningbo, Zhejiang).

The Taoist temples in Ningbo, Town God's Temple, also known as Ningbo county temple, are located at 22 County learning street, Haishu. City God, also known as City God, City God God. It is one of the most important gods worshipped in Chinese national religious culture. It is played by famous officials and heroes who have made contributions to the local people. It is the God that Chinese folk and Taoism believe in guarding the city. The main hall of Town God's Temple, Ningbo, is dedicated to the Ningbo government. It is the two product inspection department, the city god Wei Ling Gong Xin Ji, who was named "Ningbo government Town God's Temple" during Ming Hongwu years. Ningbo Town God's Temple palace building is a large southern style building with red walls and clay tiles. Now the main building in the temple is composed of the wall, the gate, the front courtyard, the instrument gate, the stage, the middle courtyard, the main hall, the back courtyard, the rear hall, the East West Hall and the left and right wing rooms.

Town God's Temple, Ningbo, located in the downtown area of Zhejiang Ningbo, is an important Taoist temple in Ningbo. It was built in Liang Zhen Ming two years ago (916). Ningbo and Town God's Temple also experienced ups and downs.

historical origin

Town God's Temple, Ningbo, another county temple. The county temple is located at No. 22 learning street, Haishu district. It was built in two years (916) by Liang Zhen Ming (916). Ming Hongwu was fourteen years (1381). Ming Zhou was renamed Ningbo. The God of the City God was named "the God of Ningbo City God".

Town God's Temple, the entire building occupies an area of about 4700 square meters, with a gross floor area of about 4200 square meters. Along the North-South longitudinal axis, there are Zhaobi, gate, front patio, Yimen, stage, middle patio, main hall, back patio, back hall, east-west side hall, left and right wing rooms.

After the completion of the construction of Town God's Temple, the temple was rebuilt in ten years (1884). The county temple is composed of Zhaobi, Toumen, Ermen, stage, main hall, back hall, east-west side hall and left and right wing rooms. The building is complete and magnificent. The stage is especially exquisitely built, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain. The caisson is shaped like a chicken cage, carved dragons and painted phoenixes, and decorated with vermilion and gold. From a distance, it is shining. There are more than 30 inscriptions and song wells in the temple.

Related allusions

Jixin, a loyal Marquis, a general of the Han Dynasty, was born in Zhao Dynasty. He once participated in Hongmen banquet and fought against Qin with Liu Bang. He pretended to be Liu Bang when Xingyang city was in danger. He pretended to surrender to Western Chu and was captured. Xiang Yu sees Ji's loyalty and intends to surrender, but Ji Xin refuses. Finally, Xiang Yu is executed by fire.

After Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and built his capital Chang'an, he thought of Jixin's contribution at the celebration meeting and said to the Minister of culture and military of the Manchu Dynasty: "Jixin's contribution is high and moral. Without his advice, how can I be Liu Bang today? I named him governor of the City God, and changed his hometown to my previous title - King of the Han Dynasty. I sent his ashes to his hometown for burial, built temples and statues, and enjoyed incense forever. " Later Liu Bang also ordered the cities and counties of the whole country to build Town God's Temple.

Therefore, the latter called Jixin temple as "Town God's Temple", and the statue of Ji Xin was "the master of the City God". The earliest record of Ningbo fengjixin as a city god can be found in bin tuilu written by Zhao Fangshi in Song Dynasty: "the names of gods are Zhenjiang, Qingyuan (Ningbo), Ningguo, Taiping, Xiangyang, Xingyuan, Fuzhou and Nan'an counties. Huating and Wuhu are all called Jixin." Ningbo people also think that Jixin is extremely powerful and powerful, so they regard this stranger who was born in Longxi and made great contributions to Henan and has no relationship with Ningbo as their patron saint.

Layout structure

The gate is a symbol of architectural momentum. The gate of the three lacquer on the first floor of Town God's Temple's Town God's Temple is full of dignity and majesty. The gate is not only solemn and solemn, but also very exquisite. Triple Ruyi Dougong holds up the eaves of the door and "steps out" nearly two meters across the sky. The appearance of the bucket arch outside the gate is different from the pattern of crisscross and overlapping, but it is a beautiful pattern composed of diagonal grids.

According to Mr. Yang Gucheng, a social and cultural scholar, this form of Dougong is called "Huagong". Huagong is a different kind of Dougong, which is very precious and rare. It is a unique architectural craft in eastern Zhejiang in ancient times. However, even in eastern Zhejiang, it is rare at present.

Only a few ancient buildings in Ningbo, Ninghai and Fenghua have remains. Over the past hundred years, the flower arch outside the gate of Town God's Temple is still the same. Flower arch of Ruyi cloud head, Dou Jiao gold, a hundred years of wind and rain, Zhu Luo gold pin. After the overhaul in 1983, the original gilded horns were painted chestnut. Today, only in the corners on both sides can we still find the residual gold foil, so that future generations can imagine the magnificent style of the whole gate.

The middle of the gate is a golden tablet with a width of 3 meters and a height of 1.7 meters, "Town God's Temple of Ningbo Prefecture". The six gilded characters were written by Qian Han, a great calligrapher in modern times. During the "Cultural Revolution", the staff of Tianyi Pavilion quietly hid the plaque in the pavilion, and then retaliated with big characters to make it escape.

Town God's Temple repair, plaque return to its origin owner. Because of its rarity, the county temple construction team at that time approved three lines of gold foil to the head office of the people's Bank of China in Beijing through complicated procedures, and invited famous teachers to decorate and paste it, so that the old appearance of this cultural relic was renewed and the lintel was again glorified. A huge stone lion was left behind the gate of Town God's Temple, and disappear without a trace.

When he repaired Town God's Temple in 1983, he found a pair of abandoned stone lions from the scrap heap of the steel saw factory outside the south gate. At present, although the stone lions we see outside the gate are small and bony, they look up and stare at each other.

Temple site

The hacksaw factory used to be the site of "Kang general temple". The two lions were also considered to be "born in a famous family" with extraordinary qualifications. Although the left lion's forelimb is disabled, it is still powerful. There is still a large amount of rust under its abdomen, which brings people some feelings of historical vicissitudes.

There are still many exquisite wood, brick and stone carvings on the lintel and the walls on both sides of the gate. On the left and right gates, there are two exquisite wood carvings of Yunlong and double lions playing with pearls. Among them, Yunlong has always been regarded as one of the best wood carvings, but now it is covered by a plaque, and only one corner is exposed.

On both sides of the brick walls, there are brick carvings, such as the plum branch of magpie, the butterfly in love with flowers, and other works of flowers and birds, scenery and characters. These brick carvings have smooth lines, fine carving and different shapes. They are all masterpieces left by predecessors. Unfortunately, in recent years, the builders only seek form and make a fool of themselves by smearing exquisite brick carvings with soot slurry, which makes it difficult for people to see the original simple and exquisite style of the works any more.

Cultural relics protection

On both sides of the left and right gates, there is a small stone tablet. On the right is the notice board that the county temple has been designated as a key cultural relic protection unit in Ningbo, with the signature of "Ningbo Revolutionary Committee, announced and established on December 5, 1981". On the left is the memorial tablet for rebuilding the Jun Temple: "the Jun temple was rebuilt in November 1982 and completed in November 1983. More than 26000 workers have been invested, totaling 550000 yuan. " The signature is "Ningbo Zhenming District People's government, 1985." Although these two stone tablets are not noticeable, they are actually very important and worthy of attention. They witness and express the end of a period of history and the beginning of a new era.

Under the west wall of the gate, there is also a small granite stele, the stele of song jingfulu Temple site, inscribed by Japanese friend Hiroyo Murakami. Murakami is an eminent monk and scholar in Japan. He is also an envoy of Japan China friendship. From 1979 to 2005, he visited China 100 times and Ningbo 60 times. He has done a lot of practical work for Japan China friendship and promoted many major cultural exchanges.

Cultural Studies

For Ningbo's history and culture, especially the eastern Zhejiang Buddhist culture research, has a deep attainments. According to his research, Ningbo has always been one of the most important channels for the communication between Japan and China from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Especially after Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ningbo became a necessary gateway for Japan to go to China.

Song Jingfu's temple, once built on the site of Town God's Temple, is a must for Japanese in Ningbo. It played a very important and special role in promoting and Promoting Sino Japanese exchanges at that time.

In the front door of the gate, there are two ancient steles in the East and the West. In the west, it was erected in the second year of Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty. The inscriptions are seriously damaged and unclear. The inscription on the Town God's Temple of Ningbo, built by the eleven Ming orthodox institutions in the East, is the oldest and most abundant stone tablet in Town God's Temple. The inscription details the history of Ningbo city and the reasons for its construction.

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