Taiqing Palace, also known as Taiqing Jungle, is the first jungle in Northeast China, where there are ten Taoists. Located at No.6/KLOC-0, Chengxishun Street, Shenhe District, Shenyang City, it is the largest Quanzhen Taoist temple in kanto region and the center of Taoist activities in three northeastern provinces. Taiqing Palace, why should it be named "Taiqing Palace"? This is because Taoism believes that "Taiqing" is the place where immortals live, so Taoism often names its palace view after it.
This Taiqing Palace was built by Guo Shouzhen, the eighth generation descendant of Quanzhen Longmen Taoist School, in the second year of Kangxi (1663). It integrates Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, and is called "Three Religions" based on the tenet of "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are interlinked, and the three religions have always been one ancestor".
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In those days, the three churches embodied the spirit of the unity of the three religions. In the center of the main hall is the moral Buddha of Taiqing (the old gentleman, that is, Laozi), surrounded by Confucius and Siddhartha Gautama, flanked by Wang Lingguan of Zuo Li and Wei Tuo on the right. This layout and setting of the three main halls is extremely rare among many Taoist temples.
In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong (1779), when Zhao Yichen was in charge, the 88-year-old temple was rebuilt and expanded and renamed Taiqing Palace. Since then, during the Jiaqing and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, during the Republic of China and at present, the Taiqing Palace has been expanded and rebuilt many times. With the development of the times, Taiqing Palace shows the brilliance of traditional culture more and more. After the founding of New China, Taiqing Palace became a national key Taoist temple.
Taiqing Palace faces south in a trapezoidal shape, wide in the south and narrow in the north. It adopts the symmetrical architectural mode of quadrangle. It has four courtyards, covering an area of 5,250 square meters and a building area of more than 2,000 square meters, with 102 halls.
There is a Lingguan Hall in the front yard, which is a two-story hard mountain front and back corridor with three rooms wide. There are halls on both sides. On the east side of the courtyard, there are Tang Shifang, the gate and the mountain gate. To the west is Yunshui Hall, and to the north is Guandi Hall.
Second, enter the courtyard, with a living room and Anxin Temple on the east side; There is a deacon's office and a lecture hall on the west side; In the middle of the north is the Laojun Hall.
Sanjin Courtyard, with Zhaitang and Lvzulou on the east side; There are Gong Shan Temple and Qiuzulou on the west side; In the middle of the north is the Jade Emperor Pavilion.
Four into the courtyard, the original Guozu Tower, stone tablet building, etc. Built-in "Guo Zhenren Monument", "Taiqing Palace special lineage Chengzhi Monument" and "Jade Emperor Pavilion Monument". These inscriptions record the establishment of Taiqing Palace and the inheritance history of the former and latter prisons. This group of buildings and stone tablets no longer exist today.
Taiqing Palace is a famous Taoist temple in Qing Dynasty, with solemn modeling and exquisite craftsmanship. Its architectural style has both distinctive national traditional style and Taoist style. It has important historical and artistic value and has become a famous cultural tourism landscape in Shenyang.