Brief introduction of Jiezhou Guandi Temple

Jiezhou Guandi Temple, also known as Chongning Palace, is located in Xiguan, Jiezhou Town, 20 kilometers southwest of Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. This is Guan's ancestral hall. Changping Village in Hedong (now Xiezhou Town, Yuncheng City) is the birthplace of Guan Yu, the general of Shu in the Three Kingdoms, so the Guandi Temple in Xiezhou is the ancestor of Wu Temple. It was built in the ninth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (589), rebuilt in the seventh year of Song Xiangfu (1kloc-0/4), destroyed by an earthquake in the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing of Ming Dynasty (1555), rebuilt by Zhao Zuyuan, and destroyed in the forty-first year of Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1702).

Guandi Temple is large in scale and divided into two parts: North and South. To the south, Jieyi Garden consists of memorial archway, gentleman pavilion, Sanyi pavilion, rockery and Taoyuan. To the north is the main temple, which is divided into two halls. The front yard takes Duanmen, Pheasant Gate, Wumen Gate, Shanhaifang, Yushu Building and Chongning Hall as the central axis, and there are Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Wenjing Gate, Wuwei Gate, Fangmu, Shifang, Zhong Ting and Beiting on both sides. The backyard is centered on the "Suki Money Ball" Square and the Spring and Autumn Building, with the knife building and the seal building on both sides. There are cloisters outside the front and back houses, and things have their own courtyards. There are Chongsheng Temple, Sanqing Hall, Zhu Gong Temple and Dongyuan in the east, Changshou Palace, Yongshou Palace, Qing Yu Palace and Xiyuan in the west.

The main hall of Guandi Temple is Chongning Hall. In the third year of worshipping Ning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 104), Emperor Huizong named Guan Yu the real king of worshipping Ning, so he dedicated Guan Di's main hall as the hall of worshipping Ning. The main hall was rebuilt in the 57th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (17 18), with seven rooms wide and six rooms deep. This is a building with a blue glazed tile roof. The platform in front of the hall is spacious, the front yard and the arch under the eaves are rich and exquisite, the roof of the hall is beautifully decorated, and there are cloisters and 26 Panlong stone pillars around the hall. The statue of Guan Di, which is dedicated to the emperor's costume in the wood carving shrine in the temple, has a dignified shape, smooth lines, waiters and military commanders on both sides, and a beautiful shape.

Another unique building of Guandi Temple is the Spring and Autumn Building, also known as Lin Jing Pavilion, which is the sleeping hall. It was built in the ninth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1870). The emperor sitting in the golden statue downstairs and the emperor reading Spring and Autumn Annals sideways upstairs are excellent sculptures of the Qing Dynasty. The structure of this building is ingenious and unique. The colonnade column of the upper cloister stands on the lotus hanging column below, which is suspended with braces and braces inside. Seen from the outside, the pavilion seems to be suspended in the air. This architectural structure is very unique in the architectural history of our country, and it is one of the largest palace-style Taoist buildings in China. The temple was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1988.

China Taoist Dictionary (Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 1995), p.1651-kloc-0/652. Editor-in-Chief of China Taoist Association: Dictionary of Taoism, 965-966 pages, Jiezhou Guandi Temple and Statues of Jiezhou Guandi Temple, Huaxia Publishing House, 1999 edition.