Introduction to Chishen Temple

Chishen Temple is located in the southern suburbs of Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, next to the oldest salt pond in China. It is the only pool temple in my country and a must-visit place for emperors of all dynasties to worship the pool god. It was originally a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Shanxi Province. In 2013, it was included in the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The reason why Yuncheng is famous is that it is a city of salt. The oldest and largest pool salt production area in my country is the advanced Yuncheng Salt Pool. It once produced the vast majority of the country's table salt and has been an important place under official jurisdiction in the past dynasties. Salt is an indispensable and important resource for people's daily lives. It is easy to imagine the position that Chishen Temple occupies in the security of the country and in the hearts of the people. Therefore, later there was the Royal Imperial Pool Temple.

Chishen Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty and is a majestic ancient building complex. The entire building complex has about a thousand rooms, with a very strict central axis plan. In the center, there are three main halls, a three-stage theater, Haiguang Tower, Wanghu Pavilion and other major buildings, as well as dozens of east and west wing rooms.

The Chi Temple is the only Chi Temple in the history of our country. It is an important symbol in the history of my country's salt industry and salt transportation. It is also the origin of Yuncheng, Shanxi, and has extremely important historical research value. It was rated as a key cultural relic protection unit in Shanxi Province in 1996. The Chishen Temple building was first built in the Tang Dynasty, and was rebuilt and renovated in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. It brings together the essence of architecture from all generations and has very important architectural cultural relic research and archaeological value. The temple contains important cultural relics such as inscriptions and inscriptions from past dynasties, which are extremely rare and important materials today. Today's Chishen Temple has become an important tourist resource in Yuncheng.

The existing Chishen Temple building was restored in 1985 by Shanxi Hejin Ancient Garden Construction Company. During the restoration process, Hejin Ancient Garden Construction Company organized a large number of construction teams composed of veteran folk artists and engineering technicians, strictly controlled every detail of the project, and completed the construction well despite the lack of materials. Work. After the construction and completion of the project, it has received unanimous praise from experts and scholars from all walks of life, as well as domestic and foreign tourists. The construction work of Chishen Temple has also received the attention of many national leaders. Hua Guofeng, Wang Dongxing, Gu Mu, Li Tieying and many other leaders have personally visited the construction site of Chishen Temple and expressed their recognition of the workers' hard work and superb skills. However, since it was the period of national economic system reform at that time, the original Yuncheng Salt Chemical Bureau of Party A had been restructured into an enterprise before the project was completed. The settlement work of the Chishen Temple project has been put on hold. To this day, despite the After repeated visits, no solution was found.