Gaoping City is the hometown of Shennong Yandi, there are more than 100 large and small Yandi Temples shennong temples in the territory, and there are Yandi mausoleums erected during the Ming Dynasty in Zhuangli Village under The Yangtou Mountain. According to legend, there are 10,000-year-old lamps in the mausoleum, and every year the court sacrifices the Shennongyan Emperor, he must fill the lamp base with lamp oil, so that the oil lamp will not be extinguished all year round. From Yangtou Mountain to Gaoping County, there are Yandi Upper Temple, Yandi Middle Temple, Yandi Lower Temple, Yandi Xinggong, and Yandi Sleeping Palace. The mountain remains cultural relics such as wu grain qi, Shennong black and white two springs, and Northern Wei grottoes. Another figure who is sacrificed in Gaoping City is Emperor Guan, that is, Guan Yunchang and Guan Yu. Almost all villages are related to the Imperial Temple, or related to Guan Yunchang's shanxi people.
In the past, the people in the village had no culture, and for the temples officially included in the worship of ghosts and gods, they did not know what kind of holy spirit in the temple was, and they were all honored as lords. Every year at the beginning of the year or on the day of the temple fair, incense is burned for the lord. Take the Yandi Mausoleum discovered in 1978, it has long been recorded in the historical records of the past dynasties, and there is a Yandi Mausoleum forty miles north of the county. And the people of Zhuangli Village under the Sheep's Head Mountain have known for generations that there is an imperial tomb in the village, and that there have been sacrifices in successive dynasties, but they do not know what kind of figure the emperor is. The elderly Zhang Genchang, the generational guardian of the YanDi Mausoleum, has guarded the imperial tomb for generations, and he does not know who the old man in the imperial tomb is. Until one day, under the leadership of Tuanchi Township, Zhuangli Village guided the work, and accidentally found the Stone Stele of Yandi Tomb embedded in the back wall of the house. Through interviews and reports by provincial television stations and CCTV, the hometown of Emperor Yan in Gaoping City was made public.
Therefore, cultural relics and monuments are ancient and exist, remaining in the countryside, but they have not been officially discovered and certified.
Zhao Lie Emperor Liu Bei Temple
The discovery of the Liu Bei Temple of the Zhao Lie Emperor was also accidental. Fenghe Village, near my home, formerly known as Chengbei (gao square dialect called Chengbo Pagoda), has bordered the city. I used to play in Fenghe Village, where my high school classmate Yang Zhihong's family was located, and after moving to a new house near Fenghe, I even went into the village to walk and play on holidays. Ancient buildings in the village such as the public courtyard and the west pavilion have all been seen. This morning I went into the village for a leisurely walk, bought some pork chops at the fresh butcher shop, and wanted to go around the village at will.
A public courtyard with European-style architecture
Passing by the public yard. Stop in front of this European-style building built in the Qing Dynasty, the arched gate, on which the plaque has a stone carving of the An Zhai is the four large characters of Ju, and the fall is the Gong Deming inscription. It indicates that the owner of the courtyard is Gong Deming, a large merchant. There are walls on the left and right of the doors, but the exquisite brick carvings on them do not exist. The bronze medal of the headquarters of the 344th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, a revolutionary relic, was hung in Gaoping City. On both sides of the wall there are exquisite carvings of fish, birds and flowers. The main house and the east and west houses in the courtyard are no different from the common Qing Dynasty houses in the countryside.
Exquisitely carved peony brick carvings on the walls of the public courtyard
Walk through the long alley, see a building at the top of the alley, antique. There are three main houses, two on each side. At the top of the hill, eaves grow, carved windows, and there are stone strips on the windowsill with stone carvings of flying dragons soaring into the sea. It is a carving of a dragon and a beast on the roof ridge, also known as a ridge beast. At the north and south ends of the roof ridge are the dragon heads, and in the middle is the tower. I couldn't figure out if this was an ancient temple or an ancient dwelling. To say that the general temples and houses, the official residences rarely use dragons as decorations. Looking at the bricks of the façade, it seems to be new, at least the repaired building.
The old house nearly collapsed on the south side of the Zhao Lie Temple
In front of it is a low-lying open space with no courtyard wall. I went down the stone ladder and looked for the stele and didn't see it, so I couldn't figure out what the building was. I asked the villagers nearby, what kind of temple is this? Or what building? They all said they didn't know. When I turned my head and saw that there was an old house on the south side that was almost collapsed, the original window was sealed with bricks, there were old window pressed stone strips on the window, and there was a barrier on the old decaying wooden door, and it was determined that the old house was at least a building before the Ming and Qing dynasties, otherwise it would not have been preserved so far. Therefore, I also judged that what I saw was an ancient temple.
Reconstruction of the zhaolie emperor temple inscription
When I saw that the doors of the three main halls in the middle were unlocked, I had the audacity to push the doors in. The house is covered with large red lanterns, no shrines and idols. All four walls are ancient bricks. I saw a stone tablet on the south wall, embedded in the wall as a whole, at the same level as the wall. I read the content of the inscription, the title of the first text shocked me, rebuilt the Zhaolie Emperor Monument! I look at the drop again, it is kangxi fifteen years of nonzi August Ji. Shi Jinshi was born to write an article by Li Tangfu of Hanqing, the right attendant of the General Assembly Doctor's Army.
From the beginning and end of the inscription, I learned that this is the temple of the Zhaolie Emperor who was rebuilt during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and as for the founding date of the temple, it is impossible to verify, it is probably a long time ago, otherwise it would not have been rebuilt. But I am not sure which dynasty and generation of emperors emperors in China, nor why the emperor's temple was built in this small village. It is an ancient custom that the name of the deceased cannot be directly called out because of the writing of the sacrifice text. The author of the inscription, Li Tangfu, the right attendant of the Great Qing Army, was also a Gaoping man, but what was his relationship with this Zhaolie Emperor? I read the altar text carefully to find out what it was.
The first article said that the fire of the Red Emperor had been blazing for four hundred years, and the heavens were tired of it. To Emperor Xian, Cao Pi usurped the Han Society as a ruin. Zhao Lie, a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, booed Liu Yulu and rekindled him to the throne.
The meaning of this passage is that the social fire of Liu Bang, the Ancestor of the Red Emperor Han Dynasty, burned for four hundred years, and the heavens could not suppress its fierce inflammation. By the time of Emperor Xian of Han, Cao Pi usurped the throne and seized the Han Dynasty. Emperor Zhaolie was originally a descendant of King Jing of Han Zhongshan, who inherited the incense of the Liu clan and plotted the revival of the Han Dynasty.
Carved windows of Liu Bei Temple
The middle of the inscription introduces the life of Liu Bei, the Emperor of Zhaolie, starting from a small county order, and the Jin Ge iron horse conquest. It is said that Liu Bei has a generous temperament, knows people and is good at duty, and the world's haojie gathers under his banner. During this period, he defected to the Han Dynasty, and later married Guan Yu and Zhang Fei Taoyuan. Sangu Maolu asked Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain. Establish the State of Shu. Later, Guan Yu was killed by Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, and Liu Bei, despite the strong advice of his courtiers, vowed to avenge Guan Yu, and as a result, he was defeated. Liu Bei was seriously ill, and on the sickbed he gave his son Liu Chan an explanation for the future life, do not be kind and small, but appoint a virtuous person, entrust jiangshan to the custody of the chancellor, and so on.
There are peony stone carvings on the window press
After reading the inscription, I determined that this temple was the temple of Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period. The main hall is hung with red lanterns, and it is thought that the people of the village have come to the temple for sacrifice on behalf of them. Several rows of copper nails are neatly arranged on the door of the newly installed main hall, and it is thought that the large temple has been repaired according to the principle of repairing the old and restoring the old, but the main structure of the large temple has not moved. There is no plaque of Liu Bei Temple on the lintel.
I don't know if the villagers know that this is the temple of Liu Bei, the king of the Shu kingdom, but Liu Bei's temple is indeed rare in Shanxi and even in the northern region. I wondered if this ZhaoLie Emperor Liu Bei Temple was a new discovery, but as a result, I went through the "Gaoping JinshiZhi" published in 2004, and there was no record.
Therefore, I boldly used the title of the article "Shanxi Gaoping Discovered the Temple of Liu Bei of the Zhaolie Emperor".