Baigong Temple

Baigong Temple

Baigong temple is located along the Yangtze River in the west of Baigong street, Zhongxian County, Chongqing. It was built in memory of the great poet Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty. It was built in Song Dynasty and rebuilt in Qing Dynasty. It is a famous tourist attraction along the Yangtze River. It is one of the two Bai Juyi temples as famous as "Tang Shaochuan Baigong tomb Temple" in Xiangshan, Luoyang. It was built in the third year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty and expanded in the tenth year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty.

Introduction

Baigong temple in Zhongxian is located on the North Bank of the Yangtze River in the west of Zhongxian city. It was built in the third year of Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty to commemorate Bai Juyi, a great poet of Tang Dynasty, who was appointed governor of Zhongzhou.

Baigong temple now covers an area of 24 mu. There are exhibition rooms of Bai Juyi's life, historical relics exhibition hall, sculpture hall, Xiangshan tea house, Batai moon pool, gallery path and other scenic spots.

Baigong temple is one of the only two BaiJuyi temples in China as well as the "Baigong tomb Temple of Tang Shaofu" in Xiangshan, Luoyang. It is a unique historical and cultural resource in Chongqing.

It was built in the Song Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. It is a famous tourist attraction along the Yangtze River.

geographical position

Zhongxian Baigong temple is located on the North Bank of the Yangtze River in the west of Zhongxian City, No. 24, Baigong Road, Zhongzhou town.

Historical evolution

In 818 ad, Bai Juyi was demoted to be the governor of Zhongzhou. He was a famous and far-reaching poet and writer of Tang Dynasty in the history of Chinese literature. He was known as "the devil of poetry" and "the king of poetry".

With an open-minded political attitude, he sharply exposed and criticized the bureaucrat's obscenity and corruption in his poems. As a result, he was attacked and rejected, and was demoted as the governor of Zhongzhou.

During his tenure in Zhongzhou, he cared for the common people, led the people to build mountains and roads, plant trees and flowers, and shared the joys and sorrows with the people. During his tenure in Zhongzhou, he wrote more than 100 masterpieces that had a great influence on that time and later generations.

Zhongzhou people respected him and called him Si Xian together with Liu Yan, Lu Zhi and Li Jifu. In Song Dynasty, Si Xian pavilion was built to commemorate him.

In the third year of Chongzhen reign of Ming Dynasty, Ma Yi, the governor of Zhongzhou, respected Bai Juyi and knew that Bai Juyi was deeply loved by the people when he was an official of Zhongzhou. So he proposed to build a memorial temple for sacrifice. In this way, "zhumaopi, Japanese supervisors, craftsmen, and the three Ying hall and the two Ye buildings of zuiying Pavilion in autumn" were built. When Ma Yicong advocated the construction of Baigong temple, he hoped that "the later gentleman would restore it and grow with Bashan and SHUSHUI.".

In the 10th year of Daoguang reign of Qing Dynasty, Baigong temple was expanded.

Introduction to scenic spots

Entering the gate, you will see a half round lotus pond, full of green water and full of vitality, which is in contrast with the flowers and plants in the garden. When Bai Juyi visited this pond, he wrote "lotus pond in Longchang Temple": "cold and green autumn water, half broken red lotus.

It's not like this pool. " The little lotus pond adds some scenery to Baigong temple. Entering the west end of Baigong Ci, there is a rare forest of Manglietia. Manglietia trees grow in the valleys, and Bamin also call them huangxinshu.

The big one is five Zhang tall and does not wither in winter. He is as green as a poplar, with white characters, leaves like osmanthus, thick without ridges, and flowers like lotus. He began to bloom in early April and began to wither. Only 20 days later, he was the most favorite tree species when he was an official in Zhongzhou.

In the park, there is a wash ink pool and a bronze statue of Baigong. The East and west sides are separated by flower walls. The terrain is high in the East and low in the West. In the south, the house is built according to the slope. It is a ship building.

Among them, the exhibition room of Bai Juyi's life displays his genealogy, chronology of his life and his achievements when he was an official in Zhongzhou.

Zuiyin pavilion has four columns and three floors. Visitors can rent a column to view it from afar. It is a complex pavilion with 16 columns supporting one main building and four gatehouses. Visitors can go in and out from all directions and have a high view.

Layout structure

Baigong ancestral hall is divided into two terraces. It is built along the river and mountain. It is magnificent. There is a big stone ladder in front of the gate. On the left is a towering tree, and on the right is a towering stack tower. Climbing the ladder, the gate of Baigong ancestral hall is three buildings with four columns and three plaques. The plaque is written horizontally in Baigong ancestral hall .

When you enter the gate tower and turn right, you will find "Bai Yuan". The couplet "floating cloud is not the name of Juyi, but heaven is the word of Yuetian" is cleverly embedded in the name and number of Bai Gong. This couplet is two lines in the Elegy Written by Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty when Bai Gong died.

Brief introduction to Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (772-846), a great realistic poet of Tang Dynasty, was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province. His ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the new Yuefu movement, known as "Yuanbai" in the world, and together with Liu Yuxi, "Liubai".

In the first month of 772, the seventh year of zongdali in Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was born in dongguozhai, Xinzheng City, Henan Province. His ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Bai Juyi's great grandfather moved to Xiaying (now Weinan, Shaanxi Province). Bai Juyi's grandfather Baihuang was a magistrate of Gongxian County (now Gongyi City, Henan Province). He was a good friend of his neighbor, Xinzheng County Magistrate at that time. Seeing the qingshuixiu of Xinzheng mountain, he moved to Henan Province Xinzheng.

Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms, and plain and popular language, which is known as "the devil of poetry" and "the king of poetry". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo zanshan doctor. Bai's Changqing collection has been handed down from generation to generation, and his representative poems include song of everlasting regret, selling charcoal man, Pipa line, etc.

Bai Juyi died in Luoyang in 846 and was buried in Xiangshan, Luoyang.

Representative works: Bai's Changqing collection, song of everlasting regret, Pipa line, selling charcoal man, etc.

Address: Baigong temple, Zhongxian County, Chongqing

Longitude: 108.05673

Latitude: 30.279007

Chinese PinYin : Bai Gong Ci