Located in Huangzhongshan, Shexian County, Hebei Province, the Tile Palace is the largest existing historical and cultural relic with the earliest construction time and the widest influence in China, and is known as the "Huaxia Ancestral Temple". Founded in the Northern Qi Dynasty, from 550 to 577 AD, it has a history of 1400 years. It is the place where Nu Wa "tried to mend the sky" in myths and legends.
Tile Palace, commonly known as "Grandma Top", is located halfway up Tangmong Kok in the northwest of Shexian County. Here, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, surrounded by flowing water and the scenery is beautiful. It is one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Shexian County and a famous tourist attraction. Tile palace is surrounded by mountains and waters, making good use of nature, and is called "the land of nature". The architecture here is not only magnificent and unique, but also preserves the rare cliff stone carvings in China. It is a rare natural and cultural landscape and is listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Every year from the first day of March to the eighteenth day of March in the lunar calendar, it is a day to sacrifice Nu Wa's birthday. At that time, not only people from Shanxi, Henan, Shandong and Hebei came to worship, but also people from Guangdong and Fujian came to seek their roots. Thousands of guests gathered under the palace, making the sacrificial ceremony very grand. In 20 13 years, the tile palace received tourists1714,000, with 56,000 overseas tourists.
About the construction of the tile palace, there is also a legend that the goddess fills the sky.
Legend has it that after Pangu created the world, there were sun, moon and stars in the sky, mountains, rivers, flowers, birds, animals, fish and insects on the ground, but there was no human being. Nu Wa, the God of Heaven, created human beings in her own image. Because the earth is vast, it is tiring and slow to make people from loess, Nu Wa put a cane in the mire, then lifted the cane covered with mud and threw it on the ground, and the soil splashed on the ground and became a person.
Just as Nu Wa was happy with her invention, a disaster suddenly came. Originally a peaceful universe, suddenly changed, the sky were to fall, the ground was to crack, the forest was ablaze, and the earth became Wang Yang. Nu Wa was very sad to see that the human beings she created suffered such a great disaster. She decided to stand up and save mankind. But how can we make up for the broken sky? After thinking and thinking, Nu Wa suddenly remembered that the Huangshan area in Shexian County was the best place to refine stones to make up the sky, so she quickly came here and began to refine five-color stones to make up the sky. Sure enough, the hole in the sky was soon mended.
However, Nu Wa was afraid that the sky would fall again, so she cut off four feet of a chinemys reevesii and stood around the Phoenix Mountain, firmly supporting the sky. From then on, "Tian Bu, four poles are positive, water is dry, and Jizhou is flat." Later generations built the Nuwa Palace in The goddess patching the sky to commemorate Nuwa.
According to records, Shexian tile palace was built in the 6th century. It has a history of 1400 years. It was built as a resting palace during the reign of Emperor Gao Yang (550-560 AD).
According to the inscription here, the historical sites here were first founded when Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, but at first the scale was very small, with only "three temples" (only three stone chambers and some statues). Later, it was built in all previous dynasties, and its scale continued to expand. According to the Records of Shexian County, Levin City, Wen Xuandi, the Northern Qi Dynasty took Yecheng (now Linzhang County, Handan City, with Tongquetai) as its capital and Jinyang as its capital, and Wen Xuandi Levin went from Yecheng (Linzhang) to Jinyang at the foot of the mountain to "go out of the palace".
Because of the beautiful scenery, Huangzhong (Nuwa Mountain) was the only place for Emperor Levin to travel between Yecheng, the capital of Northern Qi Dynasty (now Linzhang County, Handan City, with Bronze Quetai) and Jinyang. In addition, Emperor Levin was extravagant and loved architecture, especially sculpture, so he chose Phoenix Mountain to build a palace. Levin, Wen Xuandi, "believed in Shi's family and liked to carve Buddhist scriptures", built a tile palace on a large scale here, and carved stone chambers and Buddha statues at the foothills. The later Buddhist sutra was Rock Wall. In the Ming dynasty, many palaces were built one after another, and in the Qing dynasty, they were rebuilt on a large scale. After repeated construction, it has gradually become a building complex covering an area of10.5 million square meters.
For thousands of years, the Forbidden City has been burned down for several generations. Today's buildings are mostly Ming and Qing dynasties, while the remains of the Northern Qi Dynasty only leave grottoes and cliff stone carvings. There are three grottoes left on the cliff, besides the Diji Grottoes in the Jade Emperor Pavilion, there are two grottoes on the right, namely "Eye" and "Silkworm Aunt". The stone statues in the grottoes have been destroyed and incomplete, but the inner wall is engraved with scriptures and is relatively complete.
References:
Shexian county annals
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