Where is Tianqi Temple in Pingxiang County?

Dongyue Tianqi Temple is located in Donghe Ancient Temple Village in the southeast of Pingxiang County. Legend has it that it was built in the Warring States Period of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. At that time, a Taoist priest in Mount Tai went to Huashan to preach in the west, passing through this place, and saw that there were nine roads meeting here, which looked very much like nine dragons meeting here, so it was called "Jiulong Kou". Looking at its landform, it was really a treasure trove of feng shui for building temples and cultivating oneself. After careful consideration, Laodao decided to build a grand temple here to promote Taoism. At that time, due to sparsely populated and scarce land and food, it was far from enough to rely on charity from all directions. The old man allocated funds from his own concept, personally designed and supervised the work, and the temple was finally built. Therefore, the temple was related to Mount Tai, so it was named Dongyue Tianqi Temple.

2. Qin Shihuang and Dongyue Tianqi Temple

After the completion of Dongyue Tianqi Temple, many good men and women came to learn Taoism and practice, and the temple was very famous at that time. After Qin Shihuang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the world was divided into 36 counties, and Tianqi Temple in Dongyue was under the jurisdiction of Julu County. During Qin Shihuang's reign, he often went out of the palace and visited the people to observe the people's feelings. When inspecting Julu County, I heard eunuch Zhao Gao say that there is a big clock in Dongyue Tianqi Temple. After the bell rang, I could listen to Wuzhou (referring to the five surrounding Sanzhou villages), four counties (Pingxiang, Guangzong, Qiuxian and Quzhou) and two provincial heads (the south of Dongyue Tianqi Temple belongs to Shandong Province). Qin Shihuang wanted to witness this bell, so he came to Tianqi Temple in Dongyue. One was to smell incense, and the other was to understand why its bell sounded so loud. When we arrived, the then Julu county magistrate and the Taoist priest and his entourage of Dongyue Tianqi Temple knelt down to meet each other, and the Taoist priest learned about the clock. Qin Shihuang looked at the very humble clock and regretted it. Later, every time he thought about it, he felt ashamed. At that time, the first emperor was already sick because he couldn't stand the wind and frost fatigue all the way. Coupled with this anger, he stayed up all night, and his condition worsened day by day. The doctor who accompanied him could do nothing. Qin Shihuang died in Wanggu Village of our county today. In the history of Shaqiu coup, it was on the way to escort Qin Shihuang's spiritual pivot back to Beijing. As important officials in charge of the real power of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Gao and Reese performed a shocking fake testamentary edict to intimidate the world for their own purposes or the same interests, and added the death of Qin Shihuang to the head of Dongyue Tianqi Temple to destroy it on a large scale.

3. Yu Ji, Zhang Jiao and Dongyue Tianqi Temple

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dongyue Tianqi Temple was presided over by Yu Ji, a Taoist Taoist priest. After he fell ill, Zhang Jiao, a famous local doctor, treated him and recovered. During the treatment, Yu Ji infiltrated the teachings of Tao into Zhang Jiao's mind, accepted Zhang Jiao as a disciple, and personally passed on the book of Taiping Ching to Zhang Jiao. According to Yu Ji's instructions, Zhang Jiao thoroughly studied the connotation of "Taipingqing Scholarship", took advantage of practicing medicine, collected believers and taught the disciples the content of "Taipingqing Scholarship". In more than ten years, he developed hundreds of thousands of believers, covering eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Jing, Yang, Zhou and Yu, connecting the county mouth and Zhang Jiao Institute.

Zhang Jiao calls himself a "great virtuous teacher", and his life is called "Taiping Road". He serves Huang Laodao, Yin and Yang, and the five elements. He takes spells as the basic teaching method, firmly believes in the way of "the Yellow River is too one", holds nine-knot whip, recites spells, and educates people who come to seek medical treatment to kowtow and think about it, and then drinks it with water and soup. Those who get sick gradually will know that this person is a believer. After successfully preaching in Jizhou, where the disaster was particularly serious, he sent eight capable disciples to preach everywhere.

At first, Zhang Jiao's activities were still ordinary religious activities. However, during the Xiping period (172-177), with the intensification of the fierce struggle between the eunuch group and the consorts' "Qingyi Group" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they took this opportunity to step up the development of their own power. Many believers abandoned selling their property, moved to the streets, and blocked roads. The officials of counties and counties did not understand what they meant, but only said that they would be good at Taoism. In 81), the time was ripe. According to the military establishment at that time, Zhang Jiao divided the converted Christians into "36" parties, with more than 1, generous people and 67, small parties, each of which set up a commander of Qu Shuai, and also had the title of "God". He and his brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were called "Heaven General" and "Earth General" respectively according to the popular concept of "Three Righteousness" (or "Three Unification") of heaven, earth and man in Han Dynasty. In the form of augury, the believers were taught to spread the word "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian is standing, and the world is good at Jiazi", and the people were encouraged to rebel against the Eastern Han Dynasty with the word "Huang Tian Feng Ping", and they were written in clay at the temple gate of the capital. The state and county officials all wrote the word "Jiazi", which was scheduled to rise at the same time on March 5, Jiazi Year (184) in order to "Jiazi is good"

According to Zhang Jiao's plan, firstly, he attacked Yecheng, and bribed eunuchs to be the internal staff of the capital. When the uprising approached, Zhang Jiao's great disciple "Ji Tang Nan Zhou" wrote a letter to inform against him. After Zhang Jiao got the leaked news, the six states merged in the starry night, and all of them were "marked by the yellow turban insurrectionary, so people called it the Yellow Scarf Army". Wherever he went, he burned the government, robbed the county, and the counties lost their possession. Most of the long officials fled, and the whole China was shocked by the response of the world between the ten-day days. The ruling emperor was also in a panic. He first sent a general Lu Zhi to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to destroy them, and was repelled by Zhang Bao's mobilization of the Yellow Scarf Army in wei county East, Hebei Province. Lu Zhi returned to Beijing and was relegated. Later, Dong Zhuo, the fourth commander of Dong Zhonglang, was sent to encirclement and suppression, and was also beaten out of the water by the Yellow Scarf Army. Soon Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang's Yellow Scarf Army were also suppressed, and the vigorous uprising of the Yellow Scarf Army shook the Eastern Han Dynasty and shocked the ruling and opposition parties. In the whole planning process of developing the "Taipingdao" organization and the "Yellow Scarf Army" uprising, the gathering and arrangement place of various meetings is the Tianqi Temple in Dongyue.

After the failure of this great uprising, the "Taiping Road" changed from public to secret, and the influence of the opening angle at that time left a very deep impression on people's minds. According to the book "Chicken Ribs" and other records, Manichaeans in the Song Dynasty took the opening angle as their ancestor and confessed the word "Jiao". In the Qing Dynasty, the Bailian uprising in five provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi took "Heaven will die, Heaven will live, and the people will be in trouble." Tianqi Temple in Dongyue was also implicated in the opening angle incident and was destroyed by the government at that time. There were few houses left in the temple.

4. Li Shimin and Tianqi Temple in Dongyue

After going through the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, countries rebuilt Tianqi Temple in Dongyue on the basis of ruins in order to expand their power and unite the people. Since then, Taiping Road has been reborn.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, recognized Lao Zi Li Er as his ancestor in order to realize his wish to be a famous ancestor. While allowing other religious activities, he had a unique view of Taoism, ordering the whole country to study the Tao Te Ching, and in the 15th year of Zhenguan (641), he sent powerful generals Wei Chi and Jing De to rebuild the Dongyue Tianqi Temple. The scale of this temple is only a handful to the east of Chang 'an, and Tang Gaozong once sent it to him.

During the Song Dynasty, pilgrims from all over the country and merchants from all over the world raised funds to rebuild the front hall, the east wing and the west wing, and when repairing the temple, because it was spring and vegetables were scarce, it was said that there was an old pagoda tree in the courtyard for many years. During repairing the temple, the tree bore fruit every morning, like beans, which tasted fragrant and delicious. After the temple hall was repaired, the beans never grew long. Some people said that it was the Queen Mother who descended to the South China Sea to help all beings, while others said that it was the South China Sea.

5. Hegu Temple Village and Dongyue Tianqi Temple

During the Ming Dynasty, this place was already a place where merchants gathered. Every month, they came here to do business on the fourth and ninth episodes, and they were busy in all directions, and they were as close to the temple as a hundred miles away, and they came here to buy and sell. At that time, Dongyue Tianqi Temple was accompanied by the development of market trade, with cigarettes lingering and the fire always on. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Yao moved from Hongdong, Shanxi Province, under the call of the holy people. Because it is adjacent to Zhanghe in the west and Tianqi Temple in Dongyue in the east, it was named Hegu Temple, and the Tianqi Temple in Dongyue was rebuilt. Duan Zili, the 11th generation Taoist of Wudang Langmei School, and his disciples Li Keke and Dong Lijing developed Taoists here, and the village of Hegu Temple had the most Taoists, which was a famous Taoist village at that time.

In the Qing Dynasty, with the increasing prosperity of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue, the market trade of Hegu Temple also expanded rapidly, and the economy developed unprecedentedly. The second hall and theater of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue were rebuilt. At that time, there were 28 houses in the temple.

Today, Hegu Temple has become a famous bicycle parts city at home and abroad. In recent years, the market has invested more than 53 million yuan, covering an area of 587 mu, with a building area of 16, square meters, 3,784 building-style fixed stores and 1,823 sales desks, with a business area of 34, square meters. The daily passenger flow is generally 6, to 7,, reaching 1, at the climax, with a daily turnover of 1.6 million yuan and an annual turnover of more than 6 million yuan. It mainly distributes bicycle parts and some finished cars. The products are sold to 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, and some parts are also exported to Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Russia, Spain and other countries. The Tianqi Temple in Dongyue is full of incense, and with the prosperity of the ancient temple market, it is also showing a vibrant situation. It changed from April 9th to February 4th, 7th and 9th, and now it is a daily market. In 1997, this market was named as a "well-known market" by the People's Government of Hebei Province.

5. Tianqi Temple in Pang Bingxun and Dongyue

In 1923, the bandit leader Pang Bingxun led the Seventh Middle School to be stationed in this temple. For the convenience of his army's accommodation, this temple was demolished on a large scale, and all other houses were demolished except the main hall. When Pang Bingxun was stationed here, the quartet robbed and committed all kinds of crimes. After Pang Bingxun left, the Japanese aggressors built a watchtower here again, culling party member, sabotaging the revolution, looting property, seizing the commoners, and doing all the bad things. The Tianqi Temple in Dongyue suffered the biggest destruction in history.

II. Reconstruction and Development of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue

Since 1995, the Taoist Association was established in Hebei Province. Under the guidance of the party's religious policy, Tianqi Temple in Dongyue was approved as a place for Taoist activities, and under the leadership of the management committee headed by Yao Baoliang, the reconstruction project of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue began.

in may, 1997, five former halls were rebuilt and 13 statues were created.

In p>1998, Sanqing Hall, Yuhuang Hall, Guandi Hall, Yaowang Hall, Jiuku Hall, Yanwang Hall, Shanmen, Cihang Palace and Wang Ling Palace were built, with 51 statues, four halls, Dongsanqing Hall, Yuhuang Hall, Guandi Hall, Yaowang Hall, Jiuku Hall, Shanmen Hall and Yanwang Hall.

In p>1999, the Great Hall, the Xidoumu Hall, the Yuanjun Hall, the East Room, the North Room, the Westinghouse (Sanxiao Hall and Dragon Mother Hall), the Cihang Hall, 21 houses and 18 statues were built.

In p>2, Tianqi Temple in Dongyue responded to the national call for afforestation, afforested the temple production, planted hundreds of trees, planted flowers and plants, planted willows in pits, developed tourism and added landscape.

in p>21, five back halls were built, which were tall and majestic, with a wide reading platform, bluestone railings, water spraying by Ssangyong, two lions holding railings, 22 statues of gods built in, three south rooms on the east side of the mountain gate, and five statues of Samsung built in.

In p>22, the second floor of the Bell and Drum was rebuilt, with four rooms on the upper and lower floors. The bells rang far and the drums shook the sky, and four rooms were rebuilt on the rear right side, in which there were four statues of Xuan Nv, the living grandmother and the sleeping mother.

In p>23, a Bagua Furnace, a Fire Temple and a Tianshi House were built, and two statues were sculpted.

In p>24, the Jade Emperor Pavilion in Sanqing was built with six upper and lower buildings, nine east guest rooms and six statues.

in p>25, a theater building, three bathing rooms and nine statues were built.

In p>26, six rooms were built in the West Building, in order to adapt religion to the socialist society and reshape the "whole temple". The statues are hung and sculpted, and all of you are sacred and complete, with a total of more than 6 statues.

In 27, the forest of steles and the Taoist Classic Wall were built. The forest of steles collected 32 works by celebrity calligraphy, and the Taoist Classic Wall was more than 2 square meters. The full text of Laozi's Taoist Classic was burned, which added artistic charm to Dongyue Tianqi Temple.

Through the struggle of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue for more than ten years, * * * has sculpted 715 statues, with a total building of 18 rooms. * * * has spent nearly 2 million yuan, covering an area of 28 mu. From a distance, we can see the red walls and tiles, and from a close look at the carved beams and painted columns, and the statues are lifelike. It is a rare grand temple in the North China Plain, where incense is always burning and the fire is always bright. The completion of Dongyue Tianqi Temple was mainly funded by the vast number of believers from all directions in Dongyue Tianqi Temple. The CMC conscientiously implements the party's religious policy and adheres to the principle of independence and self-management of the church. Today, Tianqi Temple in Dongyue has become a unique temple in Pingxiang County, and Xingtai City ranks among the best and is a key temple in Hebei Province.

iii. Taoists and activities of Tianqi Temple in Dongyue

Yao Jiaowen, a Taoist in Dongyue Temple, is the 27th generation disciple of Langmei School in Wudang, and has been a Taoist for three generations. His grandfather Yao Jiumiao is the 25th generation disciple of Wudang, his father Yao Zongshan is the 26th generation disciple of Wudang, and his master Yao Zongli has studied the ancient Taoist culture all his life.

Yao Jiaowen, an assistant director of Hebei Provincial Road in 1995, served as executive director, deputy head of music group and director of Pingxiang County Road Association after the establishment of Xingtai Road Association in 1997, acting as the educational agent of Dongba County. He has led many delegations to Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Cangzhou, Tangshan, Beijing, Chengde, Shahe, Zhuozhou, Shanxi and other places for Taoist music benefit performances. On February 15th, 1998, I went to Singapore for an exchange of Taoist culture and art, that is, Lao Zi's Christmas. This activity was organized by China Daoism in cooperation with Hebei Daoism Association. * * * Nine countries participated, and China participated in 24 Taoist priests, including four from Dongyue Tianqi Temple. Every charity performance and cultural exchange in the activity were attended by Taoist priests from Tianqi Temple in Dongyue. Since 1998, Taoist priests in Tianqi Temple in Dongyue have held auspicious Dojo on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, wishing the country and the people peace and the world peace. Taoism does homework in the morning and evening.

Since the establishment of the Taoist Association in Pingxiang County in 1997, many Taoist trainings and the study of the Party's religious policies have been conducted, and most of the Taoist studies have been conducted in Tianqi Temple in Dongyue. On May 12th, 21, Xingtai City held the first training course on Jing Yun in Tianqi Temple in Dongyue, and received many party and government leaders from provinces, cities and counties and leaders from neighboring counties in recent years. In 1998, Huang Xinyang, Vice President of China Daoist Association and President of Provincial Provincial Provincial Association, in April 25, the former director of the Provincial People's Religious Affairs Department is now the director of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, and Li Qingwen, director of the Provincial People's Religious Affairs Department, visited the temple in September 26, and Zhu Yueli, a doctoral supervisor at the deputy department level of the Central United Front Work Department, visited the temple in person. Mo Daoren, the president of China Taoist Painting and Calligraphy Institute, has lived in Tianqi Temple for three times. His plum blossoms are a must, and he has written inscriptions for Tianqi Temple for many times. In October, 23, Tianqi Temple received a sightseeing visit from Taiwan Province compatriots, made a video and took a group photo with the faithful of Dongyue Tianqi Temple Management Committee. They said that in the future, tourists from Taiwan Province would be kind enough to lead them to Dongyue Tianqi Temple. In October, 26, Tianqi Temple in Dongyue, jointly organized by relevant units, successfully held the "Ancient Temple Cup" Old People's Calligraphy and Painting Grand Prix, which was enthusiastically attended by calligraphy lovers in surrounding counties and cities, with good results and wide influence. It embodies social harmony and stability and promotes the adaptation and integration of religion and socialism.