How old is the Xuanyuan Temple in Xidian Village, Donghuangshui Town, Yangqu County?

The Xuanyuan Temple in Xidian Village, Donghuangshui Town, Yangqu County, was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of nearly 480 years.

The Xuanyuan Temple located in Xidian Village, Donghuangshui Town, has no date of construction. According to the inscription, it was rebuilt in the 16th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1537). It faces north and faces south, with a double courtyard and a palace-style building. There are 25 palaces such as a stage (below is the mountain gate), passing halls, main halls and wing rooms, covering an area of ??1073 square meters. rice. Under the main hall is the Danchi, which is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. It hangs over the top of the mountain, with glazed ridges and sheared edges. There are one double-ang bracket and one bracket bracket each, lattice doors and mullioned windows. There are 12 seated statues of medicine kings painted on the gable wall, 1.5 meters high; there are more than 10 square meters of colorful sculpture murals in the passage hall. The surviving stele and the remaining stele and stone buildings are county-level cultural relics protection units.

The mountain gate of Xuanyuan Temple is an inverted stage with a brick base and a wooden body. It was built in the Ming Dynasty. There is a mountain gate under the base, and you can go up the steps to pass the hall. A single eaves hangs on the top of the mountain. From the beams in the hall, it seems to be a relic of the Qing Dynasty.

The eaves and corner columns in front of the main hall have side angles, the capitals are not curled, and the horizontal planar beams at the front are all strong and thick. There are seven gongs under the eaves, and slanting beams are used in between, all of which are double-gong and double-gong. There is a false bow at the bottom, but there is a canopy at the back and end of the tween, and the canopy has a peculiar shape: the canopy body is connected to the Hua Gong under the lower flat bar (front wall). However, based on various factors, Xuanyuan Temple seems to be a Ming Dynasty building.

The beam frame structure in the main hall is four rafters, which are used to pull the front brackets and four columns on the rear nipples; the four rafters are extended backwards to the back nipples and also serve as brackets; there are two gold pillars in the back groove of the hall. The column capitals are equipped with railings and flat railings, and seven five-branched columns are juxtaposed to form the pillars. The rear end is transformed into a four-branched structure, which is also a "weird system." However, these rafters are not load-bearing and are only for decoration. Only the "piers" supporting the flat beams on the four rafters were equipped with imperial girders, which were clumsy and dull and were only used in the Qing Dynasty. Maybe the palace underwent "major surgery" in the Qing Dynasty.