When I was in elementary school, I had a dream of becoming a martial arts warrior, punishing the evil and saving the good. By the 1990s, "Wong Fei Hung" series of movies, the influence of after-school meals, the boy will always put out Jet Li's signature style of white cranes and wings, the Golden Cockerel, mouth chanting "Foshan Shadowless Foot", while gesturing two strokes, while imagining that he is the movie in the The movie is about a martial arts master," he said, imagining he was in the movie.
Age a little longer, know the movie kung fu is mostly fake, and then a little older, know that most of the things in life are not solved by martial arts, so the "original dream" has long been thrown out of the sky, but childhood fantasies are still good memories, "the face of 10,000 waves of bravery, hot blood like the red sunlight," he said. The music of the movie still inspires me.
The movie "Foshan shadowless foot", flying kicks in the air, elegant, is not in line with the laws of physics of the art of processing, but the Foshan shadowless foot is the real existence of kung fu, is a kind of sound east to attack the west of the foot, the martial arts master Wong Fei Hung founded the stunts.
Foshan is the hometown of Huang Feihong, but also a generation of master Ip Man's hometown, there are a lot of martial artists (such as Bruce Lee, Leung Tsan, etc.) and Foshan quite a connection. Foshan is the birthplace of China's southern school of martial arts, and therefore known as the "hometown of martial arts".
(Foshan streets of martial arts and lion dance sculpture )
Today's article, let us go into Foshan, feel the charm of martial arts, in addition to Shunde's famous food and the beauty of the Lingnan gardens.
Foshan is close to Guangzhou, less than 30 kilometers from Guangzhou by car (metro Guangzhou-Foshan line), came to Foshan. Although not as prosperous and fashionable as Guangzhou City, Foshan is historically known as one of the "Four Gatherings of the World" (i.e., four important commercial centers in China during the Qing Dynasty, the other three being Beijing, Suzhou, and Wuhan), and in addition to martial arts, it is also the hometown of ceramics and Cantonese Opera, the birthplace of the Guangfu culture, the city of the Dragon Boat and Southern Lion culture, and still the most developed private economy in the country. is one of the most developed regions in the country in terms of private economy.
To understand the martial arts and history of Foshan, the Foshan Ancestral Temple in Chancheng District must not be missed.
The Ancestral Temple of Foshan was built during the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1078-1085), was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, and rebuilt in the fifth year of the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (1372), and was dedicated to the God of the North Zhenwu Xuantian, who is a revered believer in Taoism. The Ancestral Temple is the first of all the temples in Foshan, integrating the power, clan power and divine power, and is closely related to the historical development of Foshan.
In addition, the Ancestral Temple now exists in the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as Wanfutai, Lingying Pavilion, Jinxiang Pond, the three gates, the front hall, the main hall, the Qingzhen Building, etc., most of which are representative of the Lingnan architecture, decorated with brick carvings, wood carvings, stone carvings, ceramic molding, gray molding, and the Song arch of the architectural art of the Lingnan essence of the Ancestral Temple, which is also known as the "Oriental Palace of Folk Art!
The Ancestral Temple is also known as the "Palace of Oriental Folk Art".
In the square outside the Ancestral Temple, there are sculptures reacting to the folklore of Foshan:
(Wedding Vacation - Marrying a New Husband)
(Autumn Colors - Dance of the Huarong Dragon)
The first thing to be seen when you enter from the west gate is the double-dragons pictured below. wall.
This wall is a ceramic wall, the wall of two giant dragons roaming in the blue sky and blue water, two dragons fighting for the pearl of the situation, glaze thick, jumping spirit, auspicious clouds and waves, spilling the magnificent.
Foshan ceramics industry in the Ming and Qing dynasties flourished, before the introduction of the "Guangdong Provincial Museum" in the Shiwan pottery is its representative, there is a "Shiwan Tile, A world" reputation, so far Foshan Shiwan is still crowned with Foshan Shiwan is still known as the "pottery capital of the South". This piece of double-dragon wall is the Shiwan potter's large pottery masterpiece.
Double Dragon Wall on the north side of the lion platform, the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, and the lion is a symbol of solemnity and might, bring good luck to the beast. The stone lions displayed on the lion stage, all the local ancient architecture of the decorative components, the red sandstone stone used to build the platform, is the local Cheng Feng Li Qing Dynasty architectural relics. "Wake up the lion" is a kind of lion dance, belonging to the southern lion, ancestral temple every day regularly wake up the lion show.
The lion dance stage behind a Qing Dynasty Lingnan style antique building is quite striking, the plaque in front of the door reads "Ip Man Hall". In recent years, and Ip Man related film and television works are endless, especially Donnie Yen starred in four "Ip Man", so that this image is y rooted in people's hearts, but the history of Ip Man exactly how, Ip Man Hall in the "Ip Man and Wing Chun cultural display" to help us outline a contour.
Ip Man is a martial artist, but also a generation of masters, a generation of martial spirit; Wing Chun is a kind of boxing, but also a spirit, a kind of culture. His life is to promote the Chinese nation's martial arts thought of life, he is in the process of recognizing, developing and promoting Wing Chun, adhere to the valuable spirit of continuous exploration, independent thinking, not only committed to self-defense and enemy control to win the dissemination of the art of combat, but also the spirit of the Chinese martial arts will be carried forward. The Wing Chun taught by Ip Man has been developed and promoted by Ip Man's disciples and disciples of Ip Man's lineage, so that it has evolved with the times and gone global, forming a more open and tolerant character, and forming a unique Wing Chun culture in the Chinese martial arts world.
Ip Man (1893-1972), formerly known as Ip Jee Man, a native of the Ip family in Mulberry Park, Foshan, was born in Foshan, where he learned Wing Chun from Chan Wah Shun, the first disciple of Foshan's Wing Chun Grandmaster Leung Tsan, and then practiced martial arts with Wu Chung So and Leung Bik, the son of Leung Tsan, and became more and more proficient in the art.
(Hong Kong), he came to settle in Hong Kong in 1949, and set up a pavilion to teach his pupils, and has always been committed to the popularization and popularization of Wing Chun.
(Restoration of Ip Man's former residence in Hong Kong)
In the movie, we see that Ip Man is a very elegant person, Ip Man was born in Foshan, Foshan, and received a rigorous traditional Confucian education in private schools, and then studied in Hong Kong's famous school St. Stephen's College, received a modern scientific education, which can be said to be both military and civilized. Throughout his life, Ip Man has taken the motto of "Silence is golden, capable of yielding and stretching, keeping his mouth shut and waiting for changes" as his motto for dealing with the world. He has always adhered to the noble martial arts virtues and temperament of "practicing martial arts is the first step to build up one's character" and "emphasizing integrity rather than profit", and he has been known to be a "good fighter" with his "good character" and "good manners". With his charisma of "modest gentleman, following the Confucian", he has become a model of traditional Chinese martial artists.
Ip Man teaches the fist pays great attention to the teaching and basic skills training, and pay attention to constantly absorbing the principles of mechanics, geometry to explain the law of Wing Chun, abandoned the traditional martial arts involving the five elements, bagua and other obscure words, so that the boxing theory is more concise and easy to understand, and at the same time a series of reforms to the training equipment, popular with the students, and has become a generation of masters of the martial arts world. His direct and re-transmitted disciples are distributed all over the world, founded thousands of Wing Chun martial arts organizations and cultural institutions, such as the Wing Chun Sports Association in Hong Kong, the Yip Man Wing Chun Museum in the United States, the Wing Chun Kung Fu Gym in the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia and other countries, etc. In the light of the spirit of Yip Man's martial arts, Wing Chun has widely spread its branches and leaves overseas, and has gone from the ancient town of Foshan to the world.
Among the many disciples of Ip Man, the most famous is Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was 15 years old in Hong Kong with Ip Man to learn the arts, practiced a strong Wing Chun boxing skills, in addition, he has also learned Jingwu, Praying Mantis, Hung Gar, White Crane, Shaolin boxing and other traditional Chinese kung fu, hostage of a variety of martial arts skills in one.
(Ip Man and Bruce Lee practicing sticky hands)
In 1962, Bruce Lee went to the United States to study, and after graduation, he set up the "Zhenfan Kung Fu Academy" in Seattle to teach Chinese kung fu. During his stay in the United States, he studied the essence of Chinese and foreign martial arts and created his own "Jeet Kune Do". 1971, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong to engage in film and television work, and made a number of sensational movies, making Chinese kung fu famous all over the world. The Foshan Wing Chun, which he practiced in his early years, gradually became popular around the world.
(Shiwan ceramic sculpture of Bruce Lee)
Ip Man and Bruce Lee as the representative of the Ip Sect group of heroes to develop and promote Wing Chun, based on the martial arts, keep up with the times, and face the world, is not only a boxing, but also an open, tolerant, enterprising, patriotic spirit, is the cultural essence of the world's national forest. I think, "Ip Man" series and "Bruce Lee" series of film and television popularity, in addition to the wonderful fighting, touching our martial arts spirit.
(The eight chopping knives used by the cast and crew of "The Prequel of Ip Man")
(Early Bruce Lee movies and Ip Man movies)
When you go out of the Ip Man Hall to the east, you will see a majestic plaque surrounded by monumental corridors - the Prayer for Favor Plaque.
Built in the 16th year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1521), Bergdorf's Pavilion was originally built as the Pavilion of Ma Liang Ancestral Hall in the former county of Datang, Xianchongpu, Foshan, and was moved to this place in 1972. This is a four-pillar, three-doorway stone pagoda, decorated with a large number of brick carvings, rich in content, birds and animals, flowers, stories and characters, quite ingenious. Square front stone "praise and favor" two words, is the Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao Royal Decree, in order to commemorate the county horse Liang family Liang Zhuo's achievements and set up. Liang Zhuo is the Ming Zhengde Xu year (1514), awarded the Ministry of Rites, the master, uprightness, loyalty, Jiajing seven years (1528 years) died.
There are two iron cannons under the plaque, respectively, in 1975 and 1974 unearthed in Guangzhou Shamian and Dongguan Humen, the body of the cannon inscription shows that they are the Qing dynasty during the Daoguang years by the casting of Foshan casting, which was at the time of the first Opium War, the British soldiers besieged the city of Guangzhou, the provincial officials had commissioned the Foshan gentry to supervise the manufacture of cannons to assist in the defense. Foshan is an important smelting and casting base in the Lingnan region during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, during the Opium War, Foshan casting a lot of guns, so far in Dongguan, such as Humen Fort site still preserves a lot of Foshan casting guns.
Along the monument gallery to the north, and saw a plaque - filial piety and Liu Fang plaque. This plaque for the Qing Dynasty Qianlong 25 years (1760) for the flag Yin Liao's filial piety built, the Qing Dynasty along the generations of practice, all women after the loss of their husbands to the end of the festival, can be given by the emperor to build the chastity plaque, although this is out of date with the feudal culture, but the decorative complexity of the building is exquisite, ingenious, extraordinary spirit, with a high historical and artistic value.
Passing through the pagoda, you come to the Lion Dance Ground, where there are regular martial arts and lion dance performances in the morning and afternoon every day. Martial arts have punches and kicks and weapons, punches and kicks, swords and spears wind, attracted the audience bursts of applause. The most wonderful thing is the lion dance, before in Enshi and Xiangyang have also seen the southern lion show, but are not as wonderful as the lion dance here. Not to mention the jumping up and down, the difficult movements, alone "lion climbing the mountain" in the high trembling, are interpreted in a wonderful way, let a person call out. (I uploaded the video in the "black and white touch" headlines and other platforms, interested in searching to see)
The west side of the lion arena is the martial arts hall, which is another martial arts master in Foshan - Huang Feihong's memorial hall, the following we enter the museum to learn about the hero of my childhood. was my childhood heart hero's biography.
Huang Feihong is the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China's Hong Quan masters, Lingnan martial arts masters, but also a doctor to save lives and heal the wounded, he is still martial arts and have a benevolent heart, benevolence and forgiveness and narrow section, but also a righteous man with a sense of family and country.
Huang Fei-hung since childhood from his father Huang Qiying martial arts, 12 years old in Foshan, Guangzhou and other places to sell martial arts selling medicine, at the age of 13 from the first disciple of Tieqiao three Lin Fucheng learn martial arts, get its true heritage, at the age of 16, in Guangzhou Xiguan seventh Fu Shui foot to open martial arts hall, the door under the disciples of a large number of people, to become famous for a while of martial arts, the development of the Southern School of martial arts has had an important impact.
(Huang Feihong statue)
The movie "Kung Fu" in the "sissy" tailor's kung fu is called "wire fist", in reality, the wire fist belongs to the Shaolin external boxing internal techniques, designed to exercise the bridge hand, is the "Guangdong Ten Tigers". The first of the "Ten Tigers of Guangdong", Tie Qiao San's technique was later taught to Wong Fei Hung by his disciple Lin Fucheng.
In addition to martial arts, Huang Feihong's lion art is also renowned in Guangzhou. There are a lot of movies show Huang Feihong lion dance bridge, and even one called "Lion King", history, Huang Feihong to perform lion out of the hole, roll columns, picking Ganoderma lucidum, on the platform, spit the ball, etc., which is known as "flying thallium picking green" is more known as a masterpiece, a hundred shots, the fire is perfect. Huang Fei-hung also created the first female lion dance, his wife Mo Guilan and female disciple Deng Xiuqiong lion art performance out of the ordinary, for the people of the time.
(Huang Feihong wife - Mo Guilan)
Huang Feihong in Guangzhou also set up a medical clinic, help in emergencies, and later should Liu Yongfu (late Qing dynasty general, in the "Guangzhou" a text appearance, Baiyunshan Nengren Temple of the "Tiger" character, "Tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger" and "tiger". "Tiger" word cliff stone carving that he wrote) invited to hire, as the chief coach of the Guangdong militia, in the anti-Japanese war to protect Taiwan and made meritorious achievements. 1925, Wong Fei-hung died in Guangzhou.
The picture below shows the restored scene of "Po Chi Lam", which is not unfamiliar to those who have watched the "Wong Fei Hung" movie series.
The following picture is the painting "Huang Fei-hong training black flag army": in 1888, Huang Fei-hong Liu Yongfu black flag army chief instructor, in 1894, Huang Fei-hong Liu Yongfu rate of the Fuzi army stationed in Tainan, led the Black Flag Army and Taiwan volunteers with the invasion of Japanese troops launched a life-and-death struggle against the Japanese army in the war of resistance for several months to eliminate the Japanese tens of thousands of people in the war of resistance against the Japanese to protect Taiwan and established a monumental achievement.
Most of us for the understanding of Huang Feihong from film and television, in fact, because Huang Feihong's life is full of legend, before the popularity of film and television, there are about his novels and Cantonese opera in the form of broadcasting widely, a chivalrous and righteousness, help the poor and needy artistic image - Foshan Huang Feihong, has long been y rooted in people's hearts.
As early as 1933, Huang Feihong's disciple Zhu Yuzhai (Lin Shirong's disciple) wrote the first introduction to Huang Feihong's novel "Huang Feihong Farewell Biography", and since then, in the 1940s, novels based on Huang Feihong reached its heyday, and the success of the novels prompted the image of Huang Feihong appeared on the stage, movies, radio, television, and has become a household name of martial arts characters.
(The movie "Huang Feihong the lion of the West" in the props)
Huang Feihong Memorial Museum in the exhibition called "heaven and earth, a Feihong", indeed, Huang Feihong to all the righteousness of the spirit of chivalry and patriotism to protect the family and the country, became the Chinese martial arts a cultural symbol, formed a huge impact of the martial arts Culture, it can be said that "Feihong tread snow mud, Hong Fei left Hong chapter".
Huang Feihong Memorial Hall south of a row of north-south row of Ming and Qing dynasty ancient buildings, the northernmost ancient building is Qingzhen building.
Qingzhen building was built in the first year of the Qing Jiaqing (1796), for the Northern Emperor's Holy Parents (Mingzhen Emperor, Queen of Good Success) of the temple, also known as the "Parents Hall", is the most recent building in the ancestral temple complex of ancient buildings. The 16.63-meter-high Qingzhen Tower was the tallest building in the ancient town of Foshan during the Qing Dynasty, and you can overlook the panoramic view of Foshan Town from the Qingzhen Tower. It is even higher than the main temple "Zixiao Palace" dedicated to the Northern Emperor, reflecting the meaning of "parents are honored".
The pillar couplet of the shrine inside the temple reads "Virtue nurtures the Holy Parents of XuanTian Heaven, and the achievements of the Great QianKun of Creation", and there is also a Parents' Temple at the Golden Dome of Wudang Mountain, which has the same pillar couplet inside the temple and was written by Mr. Rao Zongyi, the one hundred and eleven year old master of Chinese culture, in the auspicious month of 2016.
Further south comes the Ling Ying Shrine, the main building of the Ancestral Temple of Foshan, which enshrines Pak Tai, the god of the north in ancient Chinese mythology. In the Pearl River Delta region, there are many temples dedicated to Pak Tai, and the Foshan Ancestral Temple tops the list in terms of size. Perhaps you are wondering how a northern deity is enshrined in a southern temple, don't worry, the following will reveal it to you.
For the locals, the Lingying Temple is a sacred place to worship the gods, while for most tourists, it is an art gallery of Lingnan architectural decorations, and many of the furnishings and decorations inside the temple are unique and full of Lingnan characteristics.
The following picture is the front of the temple "lion rolling embroidered ball" gold double-sided hollow wood carving seat screen, luxurious and rich, magnificent atmosphere, smooth lines, showing the rich Foshan traditional wood carving art style.
Another example is the following lion knob cover curved ear animal foot tripod, cast in the Qing dynasty Guangxu 25 years (1899), animal modeling lifelike, the overall stability and solemnity, upright atmosphere, smooth and neat, casting decorative complexity and beauty, the layout of the exquisite, is the spirit should be ancestral temple one of the important ritual ritual ritual ritual Yi, fully embodies the casting of the Qing dynasty in the region of Guangzhou and Buddha level.
Below is the Eight Treasures ceremonial weapon, made in the Qing dynasty Guangxu twenty-four years (1898), was used in the Northern Emperor's tour ceremony, is used to strengthen the ceremonial apparatus. Eight treasures ceremonial weapon *** eight pairs of sixteen pieces, is a Taoist "dark eight immortals" pattern (fan, sword, fish drum, jade plate, gourd, xiao, flower basket, lotus) and Buddhist "eight auspicious" pattern (wheel, screw, building, umbrella, flowers, fish, cans, knots) to match and become, can be seen Foshan This shows the eclecticism of Foshan's belief in the Northern Emperor.
Below is the main god of the ancestral temple - Zhenwu Xiantian God, previously shared on the Wudang Mountain enshrined this deity, "Wudang Mountain" article also introduces the Zhenwu Emperor's first cultivation occurred "! In the article "Wudang Mountain", there is also the story of "Iron Pestle Sharpening Needle". Zhenwu Da Di is a god from the north, how did he come to Lingnan? It turns out that during the Tang and Song dynasties, there were many floods in the Pearl River Delta area, and the Northern Emperor was the legendary northern water god, and all the lobsters and crabs that made waves were under his control, so the people of Chancheng invited the Northern Emperor to Chancheng to sit on the town, and strangely enough, there have been no more floods in the area of Chancheng since then. Guangdong people have the concept of water as wealth, the worship of the Northern Emperor has become the Pearl River Delta's folklore, which implies the good wishes of the wind and rain, the country's prosperity and people's peace.
This Zhenwu sitting statue of full face, eyes and kindly, smiling, Wu mustache beard, very solemn and dignified feeling, is currently the largest sitting statue of the Ming Dynasty Zhenwu, for the national level of cultural relics.
The following picture for the Ming dynasty lacquer wood statues, respectively, displayed in the ancestral temple in front of the temple and the main hall, *** there are twenty-four, they have different facial expressions, dynamic clothing, especially standing statues of the posture slightly forward leaning down, condescending, imposing, combined with the dark light of the temple environment, can give a person a sense of mystery, solemnity and majesty, is very wonderful.
The statues on the wall of the temple are colorful and vivid:
The south side of the Lingying Ancestral Temple is the Jinxiang Pond and Lingying Pavilion. Jinxiang Pond was chiseled in the eighth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1513), and during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, it was surrounded by stones and wrapped around a carved fence, so it has become what it is today. Nowadays, people in Foshan throw coins to the stone sculpture of turtle and snake in the pool, which symbolizes the two generals of turtle and snake under the seat of the Northern Emperor, to pray for good luck. Ling should be built in Ming Jingtai two years, because the Ming Jingtai Emperor will be given the ancestral temple for the Ling should be ancestral temple, so the construction of the construction of extra elaborate, magnificent and unusual, flying eaves stacked cui, floating cloud.
The southernmost building of the ancient architectural complex is Wanfu Terrace, which was built in the 15th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1658), and is the best preserved, the most hallowed decoration and the largest scale of the ancient theater in South China, in which the spacer boards adopt a large number of gold lacquered wood carvings decorations, which appear to be gilded and extremely magnificent. Foshan is the birthplace of Cantonese opera, in the past, the troupe once a year by the red boat out of the four townships performances, in order to pray for the blessing of the Northern Emperor for a safe journey, the first performance after the formation of the troupe must be selected in the Wanfu Terrace, it can be said that the Wanfu Terrace witnessed the history and development of Cantonese opera in Foshan.
After the Wanfu Terrace, turn to the west, past the Zangzhen Pavilion, to the Foshan Ancestral Temple Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall, past a stall displaying the "rice engraved characters" craft, a small grain of rice can be written on the strokes of the Chinese characters, so people marveled.
Here we go into the museum to further understand the history and culture of Foshan.
Few cities have temples as important as the Ancestral Temple to Foshan, the Ancestral Temple is the Ming and Qing Dynasty Foshan people's faith and spiritual home, and so far hanging outside the Ancestral Temple, "twenty-seven store for this ancestor, hundreds of millions of years of only my unique" couplet, is the Ancestral Temple in the status of Foshan's eloquent portrayal.
The main god enshrined in the Ancestral Temple is the Northern Emperor Zhenwu Da Di, also known as Xuanwu Da Di. Xuanwu is initially China's ancient star worship, ancient astronomers selected twenty-eight stars as a symbol of the observation of the four seasons, twenty-eight stars are divided into four groups, each group of seven, respectively, on behalf of the east, south, west and north of the four directions, and named in the image of an animal: the eastern blue dragon, the south of the Vermilion Bird, the west of the White Tiger, the north of the Xuanwu, collectively referred to as the "four elephants".
Xuanwu in the form of a turtle and snake, the town of the north, the main wind and rain. Tang Five Dynasties, Xuanwu development for the town of the tomb of the general, the four sacred gods to honor the North Pole Ziwei Emperor; Song and Yuan dynasties, Zhenwu (Xuanwu) beliefs from the folklore and Taoist deities for the Emperor's Imperial edicts of the national rituals; the Ming Dynasty, from the royal to the folk, the worship of Zhenwu worship reached its peak, Zhenwu has evolved from the martial arts god as the god of the emperor of the culture, from the regional god evolved into a national god.
(Song Dynasty bronze cast Xuanwu statue)
Guangdong bordering the South China Sea, for the water countryside, the Division of the God of the water, the Northern Emperor is fond of. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the worship of Pak Tai became one of the important folk beliefs in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong, and the shrines dedicated to Pak Tai were located all over the country, with the deity being prominent, and the general family also commonly worshiped Pak Tai's deity, thus making Pak Tai temples the incense temples of the Guangdong folk. Ancestral temples in Foshan have a special status because they have played a central role in integrating the community, providing disaster relief, uniting tribes, and democratic self-governance in the course of the city's development.
(Scene of rice distribution from the Fozhen Chest: The Fozhen Chest is the relief organization of Foshan, located in the Kirin Society of the Ancestral Temple Shop, which opens its storehouse to provide relief in years of disaster)
The Ancestral Temple of Foshan was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was known as the "Dragon Soar Ancestral Temple" in the early days. Foshan predecessor consists of fifteen natural villages, the villagers worship five grain altar *** there are nine, commonly known as the "nine societies". Long Soar Shrine is nine social villagers *** with the sacrificial center.
Foshan Ancestral Temple ceremonies both official Spring and Autumn Oracle, there are also folk rituals, which "North Emperor out of the patrol" is the largest scale of the ritual activities, in the first six North Emperor sat in the Ancestral Temple in the first month of the sixth North Emperor in the early third of March, the North Emperor Christmas and the early ninth of September, the North Emperor Chongsheng have the North Emperor out of the patrol, when the "! Drums blowing dozens of parts, noisy more than ten miles", the scene is quite lively.
(Beidi patrol scene)
In addition to the history and customs, the museum also collects a large number of exquisite Ming and Qing Dynasty Lingnan arts and crafts masterpieces, copper and iron casting, lacquer pouncing on the statue of God, gold lacquer and wood carving of God, rituals, etc., a wide range of glittering, so that the so-called "Oriental Folk Art Palace" of the ancestral temple! The name of the ancestral temple called "Palace of Oriental Folk Art" is true.
(gray plastic three blessings auspicious)
(gray plastic fan landscape)
(Iron toad in the Qing Dynasty)
(Lacquer pouncing on the statue of God)
(five offerings: incense burner, a pair of vases, a pair of candlesticks for the sacrificial vessels)
Ancestral temple history and culture display on the see this, the following go to see the temple's other attractions.
In front of the exhibition hall, there is an iron tower of the ancient temple, cast in the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng nine years (1731), for the Ashoka-style tower, which hides the relics and Buddhist relics, originally stored in the ancient temple tower in the slope, the temple was destroyed due to war, the iron tower was restored and moved to the ancestral temple.
West of the Pagoda is the Confucius Sacred Garden, which was built in 1911 by a group of local Confucius-respecting gentry, and is an important place for Confucius-respecting activities in Foshan.
The first thing you see after entering the garden is the ancient Luo Zhilan pagoda, four-pillar, three-doorway stone pagoda with stone arch support, small and exquisite, very Lingnan ancient features. The front of the square is entitled "Ancient Luo Zhilan", the back of the title "Jihua stay fragrant", are words of praise for Foshan.
There is a pair of copper cast three-headed crane incense burner on the stone platform opposite the stone arch, which is modeled on the three-headed crane incense burner in the Palace of Beijing Yangxin Temple, is a symbol of good luck and longevity.
Deep in the garden is the Confucius Temple, for the single-eave hermit roof building, face width, depth of three rooms, through the bucket structure, the temple is placed in the stone statue of Confucius, Confucius under the statue of the above mentioned "five offerings", the east and west walls embedded in the "Confucius Temple Hall Tablet" topography engraved stone.
In the garden, there are Sanyuan Pavilion, Wenkui Pavilion and other buildings, is a new century of new antique buildings, flying eaves and corners, pavilions and corridors are connected, the ancient meaning is full of.
In addition to the humanities of the thick, the garden rockery jagged, brightly colored pool fish, flowers and trees, elegant pavilions, the scenery is also very beautiful.
Foshan Ancestral Temple less than three kilometers south of another monument - Tongji Bridge, this bridge was built in the Ming Dynasty, across the Luoshui River, Foshan is the first large wooden bridge built. However, it has been rebuilt repeatedly, and the surrounding river environment has changed a lot, we are now seeing the new Tongji Bridge after 2000.