Guandi temple in Dongshan

Guan Yu Temple

synonym

Guandi temple in Dongshan generally refers to Guandi Temple (Guandi temple in Dongshan County, Fujian Province)

Dongshan Guandi temple is located in Dongshan County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province. It has a subtropical monsoon climate and covers an area of more than 680 square meters. It is a beam lifting wooden frame building.

Cultural relics protection

Guandi temple in Dongshan is a national key cultural relic protection unit and cultural protection resource. It is located at the foot of Hulu mountain, Tongling Town, Dongshan County, Fujian Province. It is a famous temple at home and abroad, and has the artistic value of Ming ancient architecture.

The origin of history

In the third year of the general chapter of Tang Dynasty, Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang were ordered to develop southern Fujian, bringing the incense of Guan Yu's statue worshipped by their hometown to Fujian as the spiritual support of the soldiers. Later, in order to praise Guan Yu's loyalty and righteousness, emperors of all dynasties continued to add seals, from marquis to Duke and king to Emperor. At that time, four shops were set up in Dongshan, where soldiers were stationed and worshipped Guan Gong. The great ancestor of Ming Dynasty also ordered the prefectures and counties in the world to build martial arts temples for worship and to offer sacrifices in spring and autumn.

In 1387, when the Tongshan city was built in Hongwu of Ming Dynasty, it was carved with statues to protect officers and soldiers against Japanese pirates. It was expanded in 1508 and completed in 1512. The stone pillars in the main hall of the temple are engraved with the words "Ming Zhengde Wu Zi Yue Jing Song".

Architectural features

The wood structure of the temple is partly Ming Dynasty, partly Qing Dynasty and modern architecture. The temple is a beam lifting wooden structure with three wide faces and six deep rooms. The total length is 40 meters, the width is 17 meters, and the area is more than 680 square meters. On top of the mountain, green tiles. Most of them are stone pillars with drum shaped bases.

In front of the temple, there is a large square with stone railings. In the middle of the lotus pool, the green water waves against the ancient temple. There are four pairs of stone lions carved in Ming and Qing Dynasties in front of the temple. They hold their heads high and have different looks. The temple gate is built with six round stone pillars supporting hundreds of crisscross and evenly loaded Dou arches. On the arch, there is a palace style pavilion, which is called "Prince Pavilion". On the front of the pavilion are "Eight Immortals crossing the sea" and "animals" (unicorn, elephant, lion, tiger, deer, sheep, mule and jackal). The back sculpture of 120 figures in the story of Tang and Song Dynasties is vivid, colorful and majestic. The "Prince Pavilion" is not only excellent in architectural art, but also has high value in architectural science. It has survived the great earthquake and typhoon in the past 500 years and won the sigh of ancient architecture experts at home and abroad.

The roof ridges of the main hall and the front hall are carved with porcelain carvings of "two dragons snatching pearls" and "phoenix flying".

The gold and wood carvings in the temple are even more exquisite and resplendent. His Highness's Shuimo blue stone is carved with a rare dragon, flying clouds, spitting pearls, and towering horns. These gold and stone carvings are all of the best treasures of the past dynasties. In the middle of the main hall are the statues and shrines of Guan Gong, with four generals on both sides and Zhou Cang on the right. There are many stone and wood couplets and plaques in the temple. Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty wrote "the extreme of human beings" on the top.

On the east side of the main hall, a bronze bell, 1.2 meters high, 2.15 meters long at the bottom and weighing more than 400 Jin, is hung. The sound is loud, and the layout of the whole temple is orderly and magnificent.

historical origin

According to the investigation, Dongshan Guandi temple is the ancestral temple of many Guandi temples in Taiwan, which has a long history.

In 1663, Zheng Jing, the son of Zheng Chenggong, left Tongshan to return to Taiwan. Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing, specially built the Guandi temple in the palace, which passed through Taiwan from the Guandi Temple of Tongling. The temple was built in the form of the Guandi Temple of Tongling. On the shrine hung a couplet written by Huang Daozhou, the great scholar of the Wuying Temple of the Ming Dynasty, which was written by Yang yanlixian, the governor of the government in 1289 Mr. Wang Jingfang, the Management Committee of Guandi temple in hongmaocheng, Penghu, introduced that as early as Ming Dynasty, Guandi temple in hongmaocheng entered Penghu from Tongling Guandi temple, then from Penghu to Taiwan, and spread in southern Taiwan, known as "Wenheng emperor".

In 1683, after Shi Lang, the commander of the Navy, led his division to Taiwan, the officers and soldiers distributed incense in the Guandi Temple of Tongling in Taiwan.

During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Feng, a native of Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, went back to his hometown from Guandi temple in Dongshan and carved the statue of Guandi. Later, Lin Yingshi, a descendant of Lin Feng, went to the Guandi temple in Tongling to build a temple called Xietian temple in garmalan (today's Ilan), which became the earliest temple in Northern Taiwan and spread to all parts of Taiwan.

Pilgrimage donation

Many of the Guandi temples in Taiwan were built by Dongshan people. For example, from the 52nd to 54th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, you Chonggong, a native of Tongshan, served as a guerrilla of Zuoying, a navy in Taiwan, built Guandi temple in the northeast corner of Zhuluo county. In the Qing Dynasty, master Lamu of Dongshan built some Guandi temples in Penghu, Taiwan. In 1933, Lin Jinjin, Lin Jintian and Lin Baozong, the architects of Kangmei village in Dongshan County, applied to live in Magong, Chijian, Xiaojuan and Taipei in Penghu for three years, and built four Guandi temples with the same style as Tongling Guandi temple.

Taiwan compatriots have great respect for the Guandi temple in Dongshan and often come to make pilgrimages to donate money. The stele of rebuilding Wu Temple in Guandi Temple of Dongshan recorded the names and amount of donations made by more than 40 people from military, political, commercial and fishing circles in Anping, Penghu and Lukang of Taiwan.

cultural exchange

In recent years, believers from all over the province, such as Ilan, Kaohsiung, Hualien, Hsinchu, Taipei, Taichung, Taitung, Taoyuan, Keelung and Penghu, have come to Tongling Guandi temple to pay homage to their ancestors. They have also carried out cultural exchange activities with Guandi, presenting plaques and a statue of Mrs. Guan to Taiwan.

Address: 234 Park Street, Tongling town

Longitude: 117.820554

Latitude: 24.447175

Tel: 0596-5620293; 0596-56

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