Da Shang Qing Palace

Da Shang Qing Palace

Dashangqing palace is located in the east of Shangqing town in Longhushan scenic area, with Xiangshan on the left, Luxi on the left, Yunlin on the face and Taishi on the pillow. It is the place where the heavenly masters of all dynasties offered sacrifices to gods, so it is called "the city of fairies" and "the place where all gods were appointed". Longhushan is considered to be the birthplace of Taoism in China. From its completion to the Qing Dynasty, it was valued by all dynasties. Since the establishment of the altar in the Northern Song Dynasty, dashangqing palace has experienced song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a religious place for the orthodox master of heaven to expound religious practices and subdue demons and demons. It is the ancestral court of Chinese Taoism. Emperor Kangxi once personally inscribed the inscription "dashangqing Palace".

The upper Qing palace has the same central axis layout as the Forbidden City in Beijing. From south to north, the central axis is longhumen, Yuhuang hall, Houtu hall and Sanqing Pavilion. On both sides of the East and the West are the auxiliary halls corresponding to the main hall, which are connected by corridors and wing rooms.

On January 23, 2018, the archaeological excavation progress and phased achievements of the Da Shang Qing Palace site in Longhushan were released to the public. The Da Shang Qing Palace site is the largest, the highest level, the most clearly revealed stratigraphic relationship, and the most abundant unearthed relics with the characteristics of royal palace in China.

On April 10, 2018, the Qing Palace site was selected as the "top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2017".

Da Shang Qing Palace

Dashangqing palace is located in the east of Shangqing Town, with Xiangshan on the left, Luxi on the left, Yunlin on the face, and Taishi on the pillow. The Shangqing palace was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was originally the place where Zhang Daoling practiced Taoism. It was called "Tianshi thatched cottage" at that time. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the fourth generation of Tianshi Zhangsheng moved back to Longhushan from the middle of the Han Dynasty, and changed "Tianshi thatched cottage" into "zhuanlutan"; during the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty, Zhenzong granted zhuanlutan an an the amount of "Zhenxian Temple". During the reign of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial edict of Zhenzong changed the concept of Shangqing. Zhenghe three years (AD 1118), the name of the palace, referred to as the palace of the Qing Dynasty, the palace of the Qing Dynasty. "There are thousands of Taoists in Shigong", which has become the "Yuren kingdom of constant brightness day and night".

As the feudal dynasties built and destroyed many buildings here, the palaces built in Shangqing palace include: Sanqing palace, Yuhuang palace, Ziwei palace, Tianhuang palace, Houshi palace, Doumu palace, Leizu palace, liaotang palace, Nandou palace, Beidou palace, Fumo palace, Sangong palace, Sansheng palace, Wenchang palace, Sisheng palace, Wuyue Shengdi hall, Sidu hall, Zhenfeng hall, liuhou hall, and shierzhenjun hall Kuige, Xujing temple, Cangshi, Gulou, fudimen, longhumen, Lingxing gate, Xiama Pavilion, etc. there are 36 Taoist temples and various ancillary buildings nearby. It used to be one of the largest and oldest Taoist palaces in China. Compared with the palace of the emperor, it is only one foot shorter, which shows that it is different from the palace. Chinese classic outlaws of the marsh has made a wonderful description of the Xiandu style of Shangqing palace, which makes the shilaodao palace more magical and fascinating.

The whole building of Shangqing palace takes Sanqing hall and Yuhuang hall as the center, which is divided into eight doors and four directions. Most of the existing buildings were destroyed (the last time was in 1930, when several beggars lived in the palace and burned). By the time of liberation, only the gate tower, bell tower, Wu Chao gate and Xiama Pavilion of the Da Shang Qing palace remained intact. However, this ancient Taoist palace is still famous and well-known. The existing Dongyin courtyard, the well of good and evil, the dream bed, the sacred tree and the legendary Zhenyao well are still strongly attracting tourists from home and abroad. Dongyin temple is located in the east of Shangqing palace. It is a famous Taoist temple in Shangqing Palace on Longhu Mountain, and it is also the only remaining Taoist temple in Shangqing palace. It was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, because Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, attached great importance to Zhang liusun, the Taoist priest of the Yuan Dynasty, the Dongyin courtyard was renovated and became famous. Now dongyinyuan is a building built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. It has a gate room, three main halls, four left and right danfang rooms, three back halls, and one left and one right ear room. The architectural style is simple, and there are "good and evil dividing well" and "sacred tree" outside the courtyard wall. Although the comparison between the present and the past is beyond recognition, but surrounded by mountains, clouds and mists, the immortal trace is ethereal, and the immortal spirit still exists. Standing here, you can still enjoy the style of the immortal capital.

What we need a special book here is Shi Naian's description of the Zhenyao well in Fumo hall with thick ink and heavy color at the beginning of Shuihu Zhuan. The hall of subduing demons has long disappeared, but there is a well still at the entrance of the hall, the stone fence is still there, the mouth is like a valley, the bottom of the well is deep, and there is moss and green grass around the well circle, so nothing can be seen. Visitors standing at the bottom of the entrance of the cave "opened in case of flood" can't help but feel chilly, for fear that, as the "Water Margin" wrote: "I saw a black gas rushing out of the cave and damaging half the corner of the hall. The black air rushed into the sky for half a day, and there were a hundred golden lights scattered in the air, which made it "unstable at night, forgetting to eat in the daytime". Of course, visitors know that outlaws of the marsh is a novel and Shi Naian's masterstroke. However, his description of the overall environment and momentum of Shangqing palace turns the 30th generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Jixian into a shepherd boy's masterstroke, which is somewhat true. Therefore, tourists have to come to the wellhead to see how the 36 Tiangang and 72 Disha rush out of the cave and turn them into the one hundred heroes on Liangshan Eight will disturb the whole world.

There are many cultural and natural landscapes around Shangqing palace. Along the Luxi river is the forest area of Shangqing forest farm, which can be turned into a forest park in the future. A forest of camphors on the other side was where the 10th Red Army and the Central Red Army met. Guizhou, across the river from the south of the palace, is the hometown of Xia Yan, the chief college student of Wuying hall in the Ming Dynasty. Yan Song, a treacherous minister and Prime Minister of the imperial court in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, was killed by Yan Song for supporting the idea of recovering Hetao. The tomb of his father Xia Ding is located in the South Er li of the palace of the upper Qing Dynasty. In addition, around the Qing Palace on the dragon and tiger mountain, there are 18 Taoist palaces, 81 Taoist temples, 36 Taoist courtyard sites, and Tianshi tomb, etc.

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Shangqing palace is located at the east end of Shangqing town in Guixi. The palace, built in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a place for worshiping the gods of Taoism. It is one of the architectural communities formed on the basis of worshiping heaven and ancestors in ancient China. Its scale and grade are different and spread all over the country. Shangqing palace not only occupies the first place in Jiangnan, but also is unparalleled in the whole country. It is known as "the city of fairies" and "the place where all gods are appointed". Shangqing palace is the main place where the great religious activities were held. It originated from the "Tianshi thatched cottage" where the ancestor Zhang Daoling lived when he was alchemy in Longhu Mountain. At the end of Han Dynasty, Zhang Sheng, the fourth Tianshi, built "Zhuanlu altar" on the site, which was later relocated, expanded and rebuilt. In the Huichang period of Tang Dynasty (841-846 AD), the "true immortal Temple" was granted. In 1012, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty changed the concept of Shangqing. Renzong moved to the south of Longhu Mountain in Yuansheng period, and Zhang Dun, the master of heaven of the later twenty-eight dynasties, rebuilt it, but there was no investigation. During the reign of Chongning in Song Dynasty, it was moved from the south of Longhu Mountain to zhaobinli (the current site) in Niya town. In 1113, it was upgraded to the "Zhengyi palace of Shangqing Dynasty". In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1310), it was named "the palace of ten thousand longevity of the Qing Dynasty". During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1687), Emperor Kangxi granted the plaque of "Da Shang Qing palace" (Shangqing palace for short) to the emperor. In the past, Shangqing palace was located in the "Lotus" treasure land of "Jiulong assembly", with Xiangshan on the left and Yixi River on the right. Facing the "cloud forest" and Zhentai mountain, it covers an area of about 150000 square meters. It has a huge scale and magnificent momentum. It imitates the architectural pattern of the Imperial Palace, and its magnificent buildings are unique in the history of Chinese national highway education. According to relevant statistics, in Tang, song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, Longhushan had 12 palaces, 81 Taoist temples, 36 Taoist courtyards and 12 main halls. As for the religious activities in the palace of the upper Qing Dynasty, the famous ancient Chinese literary work "outlaws of the marsh" has a detailed description for the first time. According to the relevant information, there are hundreds of statues of heaven and earth, Nanxing Beidou, 36tianjiang, 28suxing, 60jiazi and so on in Shangqing palace, forming a huge highest leading organization of the world of gods - "the place where hundreds of gods are appointed", which is actually the center of Taoist activities in the whole country. "The Yuren kingdom is always bright day and night", which is the paradise of Taoists. The layout of the whole building is in the shape of "eight trigrams", with double eaves, red sills and red walls, which shows the unique style of Taoist temple architecture. Private buildings are particularly luxurious, carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent and resplendent. It is a palace style building, and also one of the "grand mansions" of China's existing feudal dynasties. Its status, reputation and spectacular are like "prime ministers in the mountains of dragon and tiger". There are many cultural relics in the palace, such as Zhenyao well, ancient bell, ancient stele, etc., especially the thousand year old Luosong and lush green, which are rare in the world. It can be called "the first place in Xijiang in the South". The palace of the Qing Dynasty is a reflection of the ruling class and the feudal emperors' strengthened rule. In order to consolidate their position with the help of God, the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build and expand the Shang Qing palace again and again. From the 22nd year of Kublai Khan to the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty to the 2nd year of Emperor Shun, there were 51 years in which the Shang Qing palace was built and expanded. From 1367 to 1610, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming dynasty built and expanded the Shang Qing Palace on a large scale seven times. After the ninth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, there was no record of construction. After generations of construction and expansion, Shangqing palace is worthy of being known as "the first Taoist palace in China" for its architectural scale and floor area, its overall grandeur, its local delicacy, the amount of money allocated by the ruling class and its architectural level.

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