Shanxi Guangling Water God Hall, a small Penglai and a small square pot outside the Great Wall!

Most of the famous mountains and holy waters are hidden in inaccessible places. To appreciate its elegance, you often have to go through some hardships. Guangling Water God Hall is different. Located in the southeast of Guangling County, Shanxi Province, it takes a few minutes to get there from the center of the county. According to local legend, the Water God Hall was built after Judy, the prince of Ming Dynasty, and Canyuan won the battle to sweep the north. Why did Judy build the water temple in those days? Is this a wish or a blessing? Across the distant time and space, we might as well boldly guess that Judy swept across the north, and after a year of "tug-of-war" between the two sides, it brought great pain to the people. Coupled with the drought in Guangling for ten years and nine years, Judy found her conscience and prayed to God for good weather and abundant crops, so she built the Water Temple. The earliest record of Guangling Water God Hall can be found in "Big Comrade" in Zheng De period of Ming Dynasty: "Hushan, a mile southeast of Guangling County. There is a mountain on the flat ground, and chaotic spring water gushes from it. Its water blends with the river flowing in the pot like a pot, hence the name. Build a' Feng Shui Holy Land'. According to this calculation, the known history of Shuishentang is at least 500 years. In the fifth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1526), the ancient bell inscription recorded "Water God Hall in Guangling County", which is the earliest record of the name of "Water God Hall". Guangling Water God Hall is not only Yamazaki, but also inextricably linked with the economic and cultural development in the history of Guangling County. It can be said that Shuishentang is a "natural book of gods" in Guangling County. To understand Guangling County, we must start with reading Water God Hall. In the architectural history of Bahe River source, it is rare that lakes and mountains are shaded by trees and surrounded by water. From a distance, it looks like a green island floating in the water. A jade belt-like stone arch bridge in Shannan leads to the gate of Shuishen Hall. Just above the mountain gate, there is a vertical plaque, which reads the "small square pot" in Xiu Zhu, Guangling County during the reign of Qing Qianlong. This plaque is intended to make the finishing point and tell people that the scenery here can be compared with the "big pot" in Penglai fairyland, Shandong Province. There is a round hill at the top of Hushan, where the Shuishentang is located, which is formed by magma accumulation after volcanic eruption, and looks like Mount Fuji in Japan from a distance. Shuishentang complex was built in Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in Qing Dynasty. The overall plane is octagonal, each side is 13.4 meters long, and the construction area is only 900 square meters. However, this tiny place has a unique architectural layout, and more than 40 complete temples are accommodated in one building: the north-south central axis, the second floor of the mountain gate, the bell and drum, the Guanyin Hall, Notre Dame de Jiujiang and Wenchang Pavilion are all available. In addition to the middle body, the door, corridor, hall and room are surrounded on all sides, which is compact and integrated. The typical features of Bahe Garden are rare in the history of architecture, and it is a masterpiece of ancient architectural gardens integrating natural landscape and human landscape. In 2006, it was identified as a national key cultural relics protection unit. The water god hall is built with small pots surrounded by mountains, and all the springs are like boiling water, as clear as spray. Kangxi's "Guangling County Records" contains: "There is no foothill beside the lake and mountain, but there is a Datu Temple on it. There is a stone well inside, and its water overflows from the lion's mouth under the seat. If you throw it with fruit, it will flow out from the foot of the mountain. Its ethereal magic is shocking. Moreover, the mountains are surrounded by springs, such as boiling water, like thousands of pearls ... "According to legend, the Water Temple is a combination of' Feng Shui Temple' and' Dadu Temple'. It turns out that the main spring eye of the water temple is in the big picture and the Notre Dame Hall. Spring water gushes from the lion's mouth all the year round, but I don't know which year, the main spring eye in the lion's mouth on the top of the mountain disappeared. In the well in the pavilion, although there is the main spring eye of the water temple, there is no surge of spring water at the bottom of the well. A few steps away, there is another world: at the junction of mountains and water, the spring water as thin as a pen tube keeps surging. Roughly counted, there are more than 20 Koizumi eyes in one square meter! About 500 meters around the water temple. How many springs are there? No one has counted it, and it can only be described by thousands. The magic of water in Shuishentang is far more than that. It is said that the water here is pure natural mineral water, which can be used to treat and prevent eye diseases. People living in Guangling County, after morning exercise every day, face the rising sun and bathe their eyes in the cool spring. Hundreds of people surround a levee, which is spectacular. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Qing Dynasty During the Northern Song Dynasty, the painter Zhang Zeduan described the urban life of China in the12nd century with a famous Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which was famous at home and abroad. There is a strange building in Guangling Water Temple called "Hundred Trade Unions", and there are two murals on the east and west walls called "Hundred Works". In recent years, folklore experts believe that these two murals, which show handicrafts and people's lifestyles in the Qing Dynasty, are meticulous and can be called the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. East wall painting, * * * four floors, five paintings on each floor. The content of the first painting reflects the private school, which is the reflection of the ancient people's idea that "everything is low and reading is high" in the mural. Further down, there are pictures of doctors treating patients, scenes of hotels selling wine, and scenes of masons, oilers, hemp rope workers, wicker workers, reed mat workers and other craftsmen working, as if they were in an environment where "fire is everywhere and red stars are everywhere", and the jingle of hammers seemed to come from a distance. The paintings on the west wall of Shiqiao are also four floors, with five paintings on each floor. The first picture reflects the scene of bricklayers building walls, and the second picture shows carpenters putting beams on them. The rest of the murals are divided into fragrance rooms, dyeing rooms and cake shops. " Baigong Society is dedicated to ancestors from all walks of life. In the middle is Laozi, the ancestor of the stove maker; On the right is the bus class, that is, Lu Ban, the founder of civil construction craftsmen; On the left is Fan Li, the prime minister of China during the Warring States Period. Later, he abandoned his official position and went into business. He was called the God of Wealth and was regarded as the founder of businessmen. It is said that the "Hundred Workers' Club" in Guangling Water God Hall is the only place in China where Shang gods are worshipped. Before liberation, Luban was the most lively place in the temple. Every year on the fifteenth day of February and the seventh day of May in the lunar calendar, craftsmen from Guangling County gather in the Water God Hall to offer sacrifices to Luban. Nowadays, Guangling's paper-cutting has gone abroad, and Guangling Oriental bright millet, thrush donkey and dried bean curd are quite famous all over the country. Baigong Society is the source of handicraft industry and commercial development in Guangling County. Stone Carvings I remember that people in Zhengguangling County of Zhu Gongde said that on the hillside around the Water Temple, if you stare at a stone for a while, there will be faint handwriting on it and some poems will pop up. Although this is a bit exaggerated, it shows from one side that there are many stone carvings on the hillside of Guangling Water God Hall. Speaking of the lake and mountain stone carvings in Guangling Water Temple, one person has to mention that it is Xiu Zhu in Guangling County in Qing Dynasty. Xiu Zhu was born in a scholarly family, and he was the nephew of Zhu Yizun IV, a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty. Ganlong was recommended as the magistrate of Guangling County, Shanxi Province in fifty-four years, and went to work due to illness in the autumn of the first year of Jiaqing. He is the only celebrity in Guangling County in Qing Dynasty who entered the Biography of the Draft of Qing History. "Treat people honestly, people don't have the heart to be bullied. Knowing the people's feelings, complaining about meritorious deeds, and punishing a few words, the people are convinced. "Xiu Zhu loves poetry and prose. In his spare time, he wandered between mountains and rivers, and the Water God Hall was his frequent place. In the autumn of the first year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, Xiu Zhu wrote to the imperial court and asked for abdication. The court granted his request. When he left, Guangling people begged him to stay in Guangling, but Xiu Zhu made up his mind. Later, the local people asked the craftsman to draw a "Fishing Map of Huquan" and carve it on the stone wall where he often fished. This painting has been weathered for hundreds of years, and now it doesn't exist. Shuishentang brick tower Shuishentang brick tower, namely Lingying Tower, is located in the southeast corner of Hushan Shuishentang in the southeast of Guangling County, Datong City. The sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units water temple buildings. The tower was built in June in the 60th year of Qing Qianlong (1795) and rebuilt and maintained in the 25th year of Guangxu (1899). The tower is a solid brick tower with six sides and seven floors, and its height is 17.5 meters. Wood-like carving of bucket arches, doors and windows, and ridge towers, with moderate proportion and superb carving skills, has a tower body of more than four feet. Look at the brick tower of Shuishentang again. Its sculpture art is exquisite and there is no roughness. 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