Before the 1990s, there was no such controversy about Laozi’s hometown. In 1992, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued a document "Approval for Woyang County to Accept Donations from Areas Outside Mainland China" and "Agreed to Woyang County to accept donations from Taiwanese compatriot Mr. Ma Bingwen to organize a 'preparatory committee for the reconstruction of Laozi's Taiqing Palace in areas outside mainland China' headed by Mr. Ma Bingwen, a Taiwanese compatriot." Donations for the maintenance and restoration of ancient buildings such as Taiqing Palace in Laozi’s hometown in the county." Since 1989, Mr. Ma Bingwen, a famous professor at Taipei Taoist College, has led Hong Kong wealthy Taoist priest Tan Zhao and Taoist people from Singapore, Malaysia and other places to Woyang County for on-site inspections many times. He determined that Lao Tzu’s birthplace was where the Zhongtai Qing Palace in Woyang was, and determined to In order to do some work to rebuild Laozi's hometown, we actively prepare for the establishment of a preparatory committee for the reconstruction of Laozi's Taiqing Palace in areas outside the mainland, and are specifically responsible for overseas fundraising work. The president of Hong Kong Taoist College and the master of Qingsong Temple in Hong Kong, Taoist Hou Baoyuan, and the director of Hong Kong Tam Zhao Charitable Foundation, Tan Zhao (Jichun), strongly supported it. Nine wells were found successively, and more than ten tablets and a large number of Han bricks, porcelain and other cultural relics were unearthed. In the following years, Ma Bingwen traveled between Guoyang and Luyi, and through comparison, he determined that Guoyang was more suitable for the birthplace of Laozi." , the desperate Luyi could only watch as more than 1 million US dollars were invested in Guoyang, thus kicking off nearly 20 years of disputes.
"Historical Records: Biography of Laozi and Han Fei": "Laozi. , a native of Qurenli, Lixiang, Chuku County. ". Today's Woyang County in Anhui Province was part of the Chu State in Laozi's time. Luyi and Bo County belonged to the Chen State.
Laozi's hometown is in today's Woyang County, Anhui Province. Woyang was formerly called: Zhenyuan, Guyang, and Kuxian are not in Luyi.
1. Zhenyuan and Luyi are two counties that are parallel to each other and are different places. See the History of the Song Dynasty: "History of the Song Dynasty·Biography Fourth". ·Clan 2": "Yuan Chan was frail and sick, and fortunately for the true source, he was already ill at that time, so he begged his followers. When he arrived at Luyi, he was seriously ill and Jianyu returned first. When the driver returned, he was asked about four. (Note: Zhao Yuanxuan was the seventh son of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. The emperor was in Zhenyuan, and Yuanxian also wanted to go, but he only got to Luyi when he became seriously ill and had to return first.)?
2. Guyang It is parallel to Luyi, not the same place. Luyi's "Old Book of Tang Geography": Bozhou, Wang, Sui Qiao County. It covers five counties: Lingqiao, Chengfu, Guyang, Luyi and Fu. Zhenyuan, Ku County in the Han Dynasty, was named Guyang in the Sui Dynasty. It was changed to Zhenyuan in the first year of Qianfeng, to Xianyuan in the first year of Zaichu, and to Zhenyuan in the first year of Shenlong. There is Laozi Temple. ?
3. Zhenyuan and Luyi are juxtaposed, not the same place. "New Book of Tang·Zhi·Volume 28": Luyi, Part 1. In the thirteenth year of Daye's reign, the gangsters in the county's land stole the land and took the name Wozhou. Wude was demoted in the past three years and restored to county status. ?The true source, hope. This Guyang was renamed in the first year of Qianfeng's reign. In the first year of Dai Chu, it was called Xianyuan, and in the first year of Shenlong, it was called Zhenyuan. There is Laozi Temple, which was built in the second year of Tianbao's reign as Taiqing Palace.
4. In 2015, "The Legend of Laozi" in Guoyang, Anhui Province was included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. It has Lingbao but not Luyi, Henan Province. In 2021, Guoyang Hu Zhi is the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects "The Legend of Laozi". As a consolation, the list of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Henan Luyi Laozi Festival 2021, please note that the keyword is only festival.
5. Ancient poems cannot be faked. Wen Tingyun's "Laojun Temple": The purple air holds half of the rock, and the lotus peak and the craggy palm are craggy. In front of the temple, the scenery is cold and cold at night, and the setting sun brings a distant sail to the Baierguan Mountain to support the jade seat. The geographical feature of "the vortex of water is its Yang" is consistent with the geographical feature of the Laozi Temple in Woyang. There is a river in front of the building, which is also in line with Feng Shui. The two words in front of the temple also prove everything: Luyi built the Laojun Temple on the south bank of the swirling water---it would be terrible without culture. Five professors, including Professor Chen Qiaoyi, director of the Historical Geography Research Center of Hangzhou University and an authority on the "Shui Jing Zhu" in my country, and Qian Linshu from the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University in Shanghai, visited Henan and Anhui along the Wohe River and agreed that the Wohe River The river is a natural river and has never been diverted. Therefore, it is impossible for Laozi's birthplace to change from the north bank of the Wohe River to the south bank of the Wohe River.
6. Xue Daoheng's "Ode to Laojun Hall": Laixiang Old Town, the ruins of Wuchuan River. Throughout the ages, times have changed. The temples are ruined and the ancestral altars are empty. There is a temple with nine wells and two stone tablets. . The Nine Dragon Well is surrounded by the Meteor Garden and is the birthplace of Lao Tzu. The picture below is: The stone plaque of the ancient Meteor Garden.
7. The country has already determined this.
In 1992, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued a document "Approval for Woyang County to Accept Donations from Areas Outside Mainland China" and "Agreed to Woyang County to accept donations from Taiwanese compatriot Mr. Ma Bingwen to organize a 'preparatory committee for the reconstruction of Laozi's Taiqing Palace in areas outside mainland China' headed by Mr. Ma Bingwen, a Taiwanese compatriot." Donations for the maintenance and restoration of ancient buildings such as Taiqing Palace in Laozi’s hometown in the county."
8. Ma Bingwen, the famous professor of Taipei Taoist College, led the Hong Kong rich Taoist priest Tan Zhao and Taoist people from Singapore, Malaysia and other places to Woyang County for field inspections many times, and they determined that Lao Tzu was born in Woyang Central Taiqing Palace. The results of this field trip to the location. There are only three places in Luyi related to Laozi, and eleven in Guoyang. Preliminary information on the situation:
A: Luyi County includes:
1. Laojun Terrace; 2. West Taiqing Palace (720 acres of temple land); 3. , the monument of Our Lady; the place where Confucius asked questions.
B: Part of Woyang County (Note: Woyang County is a new county. A hundred years ago, most of it was formed from Hao County.)
1. Wuyouwei ; 2. Zhongtai Qing Palace; (The county annals indicate that there are 3,000 acres of temple land, and there were more than 2,000 Taoist priests.) 3. Laojun’s alchemy place 4. Jiulong Well (after Laojun was born, nine dragons gush out from the ground and spit water 5. Bailin (the cemetery of the Virgin Mary’s family); 6. Yin Xi’s tomb: 7. The recently unearthed ancient stele: 8. There are still two elderly Taoist priests in the Zhongtai Qing Palace who dictate the genealogy of hundreds of generations, saying that it has been passed down from ancient times. --Laojun was born in Wuyouwei (next to the Central Taiqing Palace); 9. East Taiqing Palace; 10. Confucius asked for rites; 11. Wujia River (ancient valley water).