Is the temple of the emperors of the past good? I said very good and liked it very much! The Ming Dynasty originally had two imperial temples, but because one in Nanjing had long been abandoned, this one in Beijing became an orphan. The imperial temple in Beijing was built in the ninth year of Jiajing (1530) of the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the seventh year of the Qing Yongzheng (1729), because the Chinese dynasty ended in the Qing Empire, so the imperial temples of the past dynasties have not yet been dedicated to the Qing monarchs. Located on Fuchengmennei Street, this imperial temple is not large, only two courtyards, but the regulation is very high, the Jingde Chongsheng Temple is grand and solemn, with nine wide rooms and five deep rooms, golden silk nanmu pillars, heavy eaves, covered with yellow glazed tiles, and the four stele pavilions on its left and right sides are also covered with yellow glass. However, the temples of the emperors of the past are almost obliterated, and only some ancient buildings and tablet portraits obviously cannot attract tourists. As a lover of historiography, especially as I focus on Chinese history, the temple of the emperors of the past has a great attraction.
The ming and qing dynasties view of history is very different from contemporary ones
The temple of the emperors of the past has been dedicated to a number of monarchs and sages from the three emperors and five emperors down to the Ming Dynasty. But today, the Ming Emperor and Sage in our values have a backsliding meaning in the Historical View of the Qing Dynasty. For example, Qin Shi Huang, Cao Cao, and yang Jian, who was the most highly regarded, were not enshrined at that time, and the tablets of Kublai Khan and others in the Yuan Dynasty were also removed in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing. In addition to personal enmity, the Ming and Qing dynasties were more conservative in their thinking, and the moral concepts such as Cheng Zhu Lixue and Xinxue were deeply rooted and rooted. For example, Cao Cao's people, holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes, obviously do not conform to the Taoist system, and in today's world, the tyrant xiong is very popular, in order to achieve the goal can be unscrupulous, the tolerance of society has increased, and Cao Cao's great cause has obviously been valued. In addition, the difference is obvious is the concept of "Three Emperors and Five Emperors", although there is still a great controversy over the identity of the Three Emperors, but basically maintained in the "Fuxi, Shennong, Nuwa" and "Furen, Fuxi, Shennong" two views, currently the Yellow Emperor is included in the "Five Emperors" at the head. At that time, the sacrifice included the Yellow Emperor among the Three Emperors and Shao Hao into the Five Emperors. It can be seen that historical changes and people's subjective understanding are also changing.
The Dragon Stone Tablet is very interesting
I have two loves for antiquities, stone carvings and bronzes, and the stone carvings are especially fond of the round carved stone stele. Folk customs of the turtle stele, is not uncommon, whether it is an imperial temple or a small temple in the countryside, you can see its figure, there is no clear restriction on the use case. Therefore, the turtle stele has preserved countless things, and I also think that I have read countless turtles. Before the Song Dynasty, the turtle and camel monument was still a genuine "turtle", and until the Ming and Qing dynasties, coupled with Li Dongyang's allusion to "the dragon gave birth to nine sons", the "turtle" became a gantu. I have seen a variety of large and small shapes of the ass, for example, in the Zhuxian Town Yue Temple also saw the "shrunken head turtle". However, the "Gantu" in the two stele pavilions behind the Imperial Temple is really peculiar, and the Gantu does not have a "turtle shell", but the whole body is covered with carapace-like scales, and a long tail is curled to the back of the head. In this example, I only saw it in the Ming Chengzu Changling Tomb, but I did not take my heart at the time, and if I look closely today, this is not a tuna, but a real "fat dragon". Of course, maybe you can call it the Shelled Stone Tablet, but I'd like to call it the Dragon Tablet.