Anshun Wu Temple

Anshun Wu Temple, with a history of more than 600 years, is a group of ancient buildings with symmetrical central axis and rigorous layout. It is located in the northeast corner of the eldest cross in Anshun City, Guizhou Province. It was built in 1382, the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was originally named shouting Hou Temple and later renamed Guandi temple. Qing Kangxi five years (AD 1666) rebuilt as a temple. In the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919), Guan Yu and Yue Fei were worshipped together, also known as Guan Yue Temple. But Anshun people have always called it "Anshun Temple". The overall layout of the temple is rectangular, which is a stone wall enclosure three in four courtyard stone wood structure building group. There are 36 art beats nature. The main stone pillars are the main frame, the highest stone pillar is 14 meters, and the difficulty of obtaining materials and the essence of architectural technology are the essence of ancient people's wonderful work. It used to be one of the four stone temples in the ancient city of Anshun and the crown of the stone pillar hall. Guanyin Pavilion is a wood structure pavilion with three stories of double eaves and four corners, which has high architectural art value. 　　

Anshun Wu Temple

Anshun Wu Temple was rebuilt by Li Benshen, governor of Guizhou Province in 1666 to offer sacrifices to the emperor in the spring and Autumn period. In 1792, the Guanyin tower was built. In 1905, Xu Yinchuan, governor of Guizhou Province, demolished the palace walls and rebuilt five halls. In 1919, Tang Xize, governor of Guizhou Province, changed the Wu Temple into guanyue temple and built it.

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Historical situation

Anshun Wu Temple is a provincial cultural relic protection unit with a history of more than 600 years. It is located in the northeast corner of the inner city boss cross in Anshun City, Guizhou Province. It was built in 1382, the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was originally named shouting Hou Temple, later renamed Guandi temple. Qing Kangxi five years (AD 1666) rebuilt as a temple. In the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919), Guan Yu and Yue Fei were worshipped together, also known as Guan Yue Temple. But Anshun people have always called it "Anshun Temple". The formal opening of Anshun Wu Temple has added new highlights to the famous historical and cultural city in Central Guizhou! Anshun Wu Temple is a group of ancient buildings with axial symmetry and strict layout. The overall layout of the temple is rectangular. It is a stone wall enclosed three in four courtyard stone wood structure building group. There are 36 art beats nature. The main stone pillars are the main frame, the highest stone pillar is 14 meters, and the difficulty of obtaining materials and the essence of architectural technology are the essence of ancient people's wonderful work. It used to be one of the four stone temples in the ancient city of Anshun and the crown of the stone pillar hall. Guanyin Pavilion is a wood structure pavilion with three stories of double eaves and four corners, which has high architectural art value.

The stone pillars of the temple, where the ancients mined, how to transport, how to build, is still a big mystery, but also the temple fascinating place.

Due to historical reasons, Anshun Wu Temple has been damaged to varying degrees. Around 2000, there were only Guanyin tower, main hall and two chambers in Anshun temple, and the buildings of the temple were damaged and incomplete. With the great attention of the former Anshun prefectural Party committee and administrative office, the Anshun municipal Party committee and municipal government after the land was removed and the strong support of the Provincial Department of culture and the Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, and through the hard and unremitting efforts of our city's cultural relics workers,

With the help of relevant municipal departments and people of insight from all walks of life, the original Anshun post and telecommunications building was successfully removed, and more than 10 households of the original regional hospital were moved out. Due to the limited local financial funds, in order to restore the original appearance of Anshun Wu Temple, the cultural and cultural relics department of Anshun City spent more than ten years continuously striving for special funds for the repair from the cultural and cultural relics department at a higher level, openly introducing private funds to the society, the Guanyin building, the main hall and the rear two chambers of the main hall were fully repaired, and the whole Anshun Wu Temple was restored.

Current situation

Today, the Anshun Wu Temple is as old as before. Although it shows the vicissitudes and simplicity of history, it is magnificent during the day and brilliant at night. Although the temple covers less than 4000 square meters, it has complete regulations, exquisite layout, complementary buildings, and distinctive corridors, halls and chambers. Within a straight-line distance of less than 600 meters in the urban area, Anshun Wu Temple and Yuantong Temple (one of the earliest two groups of ground cultural relics and ancient buildings in Guizhou Province), Xixiu white tower (ancient landmark building in Anshun City) and the former residence of Wang Ruofei, a national classic red tourism scenic spot, are cleverly inlaid on a central axis. In the wumiao temple, along the central axis from front to back, there is an exquisite and spectacular archway gate in front of it. Behind the gate, there are palace walls and juechi (the juechi in the wumiao temple is an eight diamond shape, which looks like eight trigrams. It is different from other ancient buildings and can be regarded as a unique Chinese juechi building). In the middle of it, there is a grand hall supported by 36 monolithic stone pillars with a height of 14 meters He erected it), followed by the towering Guanyin tower. There are two chambers between the main hall and Guanyin building, and there are more than ten related buildings around them, which make up the whole picture of Anshun Wu Temple today.

In the main hall of Anshun Wu Temple, there is a majestic sitting statue of Guan Gong, which is made of large utensils. On both sides, there are guards of Guan Ping and Zhou Cang. There are also various plaques, couplets, hanging curtains, etc. In particular, the two batik drawings of "praying for peace" and "Attracting Wealth" in the main hall are all made of Anshun batik, a national intangible cultural heritage. Its exquisite production and majestic momentum make Anshun Temple different from other temples in the country. Behind the statue is a brief introduction of Guan Gong's life. Especially in the back of Guanyin building, there are three huge Anshun Dixi masks made by the inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage, namely Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and two precious batik masterpieces made by Anshun batik on the two side walls: one is an example written by Yue Fei in Song Dynasty, and the other is an ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms in guansuoling during Zhuge Liang's southern expedition . In the Guandi culture of Wu Temple, the elements of Anshun local traditional culture are skillfully integrated to fully demonstrate the charm of Anshun traditional culture, which has become a major feature of Anshun Wu Temple.

In the process of repairing the temple, the culture and cultural relics department also collected several pieces of exquisite stone carvings scattered among the people. Together with some stone tablets collected originally and found in the renovation, they were stored in the temple for tourists to enjoy and experts to study, which has become a major feature of the temple.

The secret of Architecture

According to folk legend, there are 99 temples and 99 wells in Anshun. From the preserved Confucian temple, Wu Temple, Donglin temple, Huo temple, Zhuer temple and so on, the pillars are all made of whole white cotton stone, among which the 14 meter stone in the main hall of Wu Temple is the longest. Director Hu also said that Anshun has always produced white cotton stone, that is, there are still several stone factories around the city. It can be seen that these temples were built with local materials at that time, but it is not known how these heavy stones were transported at that time.

Address: Zhonghua North Road, Xixiu District, Anshun City

Longitude: 105.9330574

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