From the beginning of the year went viral Henan Spring Festival dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet", to the TV series "wind up Nishang", "Changgehang" hot broadcast, "Tang style fashion" has once again become the topic of netizens enjoy talking about.
When talking about the Great Tang, many people think of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Chang'an, the western capital, was the political, economic and cultural center of the Tang Dynasty, witnessing the most glorious history of the Tang Dynasty. Luoyang, the "Eastern Capital", was not only one of the starting points of the Silk Road in the East, but also witnessed the legendary life of a generation of female emperors, Wu Zetian. Shanxi Taiyuan (ancient name of Jinyang) is the Tang Dynasty's "Dragon Rising Land", where Li Yuan, Li Shimin and his father and son rose up to establish a strong and prosperous Tang Dynasty ......
For those who like the Tang Dynasty's legacy, "Tang Powder" is the most important place to visit.
Xi'an, Shaanxi
Daming Palace National Heritage Park
Daming Palace is the Tang Chang'an City, "the three big inside" (Taiji Palace, Daming Palace, Xingqing Palace) in the most brilliant and magnificent complex, was built in the Tang Dynasty. Built in the Tang Emperor Zhenguan eight years (634 years), covers an area of up to 3.5 square kilometers, equivalent to 3 Versailles, 4.5 the Forbidden City, 12 Kremlin, 13 Louvre, 15 Buckingham Palace, fully demonstrated the majestic Tang Dynasty Palace architecture.
The Daming Palace miniature landscape is located on the east side of the Daming Palace Ruins Museum, which is a 1:15 ratio realistically restored to the heyday of the entire Tang Daming Palace Palace complex. The official website of the Daming Palace Museum
Since Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, 17 emperors of the Tang Dynasty dealt with the government here for more than 200 years, and it was the political center of the Tang Empire, but with the years and wars, the majestic architectural complexes have long since ceased to exist. Currently the ground artifacts in the garden retain the palace foundations, piers and other buildings that remained from that year. In addition, on the basis of the site, the restoration of the Hall of Hanyuan, Xuanzheng Hall and Zichen Hall abutments, as well as the Royal Garden Taiyi Pond.
Danfengmen Ruins Museum Daming Palace Ruins Museum official website
In the Ruins Park Axis Landscape Center underground, there is an area of nearly 10,000 square meters of the Daming Palace Ruins Museum, where a large number of excavated artifacts from the Daming Palace Ruins, related materials, as well as utensils and vessels used by the Tang Dynasty Royal Family. The original Danfengmen site as the theme to create the Danfengmen site museum and archaeological exploration center domain, free for tourists to visit, first-hand experience of the mysterious fun of archaeological work.
Daming Palace Ruins Museum Daming Palace Ruins Museum official website
Big Wild Goose Pagoda
When you come to Xi'an, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is definitely not to be missed. With a height of 64.5 meters and seven floors, the tower has always been regarded as the symbol of the ancient capital of Xi'an.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was originally known as "Ci'en Temple West Yard Fudu" (Fudu means tower) because it is located in the west yard of Ci'en Temple in the southern part of the city. Ci'en Temple is also a royal temple in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty, built in the twenty-second year of Emperor Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty (648 years), was built by the Crown Prince Li Zhi in memory of his mother, Empress Wende. After the completion of the temple, the courtesy of the return of Xuanzang, who traveled to the west to obtain the sutra as the "first presiding officer". Tang Dynasty Yong Hui three years (652 AD), Xuanzang for the preservation of the scriptures brought back to Chang'an from the Dharma and built the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Over the centuries, countless literati have visited the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to express their feelings in poetry, leaving behind the cultural tradition of the "Wild Goose Pagoda Poetry Festival". The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the most precious witness to the history of the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road. One of the most noteworthy cultural relics is the Bay Leaf Sutra, which is written on the leaves of the Bedrock tree. Because there is no paper in ancient India, writing often replaced by leaves, Xuanzang along the Silk Road to retrieve the 657 parts of the scriptures are Bay Leaf Scriptures. Big Wild Goose Pagoda four tower room is enshrined in two pieces of about 40 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide Bay Leaf Scripture, which is inscribed with a dense Sanskrit, very rare.
Night view of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Qujiang Ruins Park
"The morning returns to the daytime canonical spring clothes, and every day the head of the river is drunkenly returned." The famous poet Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty referred to the Qu River as the place to get drunk.
The Qujiang River is located in the southeast corner of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, named for the winding water, and has been the site of royal gardens since the Qin and Han dynasties, and became a famous scenic spot in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Xuanzong twice a year in this banquet group of ministers, those who passed the examination and after the first, groups of people to the Qujiang River feast, drinking and fun, "Qujiang River drinking" is one of the eight scenic spots in Changan.
"Qujiang River" is one of the eight scenic spots in Chang'an. Visual China
The current Qujiang Pond Ruins Park covers an area of 1,500 acres, connecting the Datang Hibiscus Garden in the north with the ruins of the Second Qin Dynasty Mausoleum in the south. The park recreates historical and cultural landscapes such as the Qujiang River, Hanwu Spring, Yichunyuan, Phoenix Pond, etc., recreating the Qujiang River landscape and humanistic scenery of "green forests repeated, green water filled".
Full of Qujiang landscape and humanistic scenery. Visual China
Tang Huaqing Palace
Tang Huaqing Palace, built in the early Tang Dynasty, was the palace of the feudal emperors of the Tang Dynasty. It is located in Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, with Mount Li to the south and the Wei River to the north.
Huaqing Palace Visual China
When it comes to Huaqing Palace, many people will think of "Huaqing Pond", where Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty went with Yang Guifei to take a winter bath and enjoy the scenery every year. Lu Guimeng in the "hot springs" poem, but also wrote: "the warmth of the temple flow soup dozens of rooms, jade canal incense fine waves back." Visible at that time to the hot springs as the center of the temple is how comfortable and luxurious, and Bai Juyi "Song of Long Hate" in the sentence "hot spring water slippery wash grease", but also let people think of.
It is said that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong came here every year with Yang Guifei to bathe in the winter and enjoy the scenery. Visual China Figure
Today, Huaqing Palace is concentrated in the Tang Royal Soup Site Museum, the former site of the Xi'an Incident - five halls, Jiulong Lake and Furong Lake Scenic Area, the Tang Liyuan Site Museum and other cultural areas and the Flying Frost Hall, Hall of Wanshou, the Hall of Eternal Life and other iconic architectural complexes. On Mount Li, there are also the Hall of the Old Mother, the Hall of the Old Lord, the Beacon Tower, the Bridge of Immortality and other attractions are scattered, and the "Evening Light of Mount Li" is one of the famous "Eight Scenes of Guanzhong".
Ancient Guanyin Temple
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism was prevalent in Xi'an and there were many monasteries. At that time, monks gathered in Fanchuan, and there were "eight temples in Fanchuan".
Compared to the Xiangji Temple, Xingjiao Temple and other famous temples, the ancient Guanyin Zen Temple may be a little less well-known in ancient times, but its popularity in the present is no less than the former. Because the temple has a thousand-year-old ginkgo, which is said to have been planted by Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, almost every ginkgo biloba season, this place will become a social media "favorite", attracting a large number of tourists to visit.
The temple has a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, which is rumored to have been planted by Tang Emperor Li Shimin. Visual China Photo
The Ancient Guanyin Zen Temple is located in Luohan Cave Village, East Street Office, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, about 30 kilometers away from Xi'an City, was built in the second year of the Tang Zhenguan (628 AD), about 1,400 years of history, one of the 1,000-year-old temples of the Zhanshan Mountain. It is said that there is an ancient spring under the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, which is clear and refreshing and never stops, regardless of sunny days and rainy days, the water level is always the same, and it is known as the "Guanyin Divine Spring".
The ginkgo season is spectacular. Visual China
Today's ancient Guanyin Temple is repaired and rebuilt on the original site, but the gate, hall, bells and drums, and other buildings still retain the ancient flavor, retaining a transcendent tranquility.
The ancient Guanyin Zen retains its ancient flavor.
Luoyang, Henan Province
Ding Dingmen Ruins Museum
Ding Dingmen is the main gate of the outer city of Luoyang in the Sui and Tang dynasties, which was named Jianguo Men in the beginning of the Sui Dynasty and was renamed Ding Dingmen in the Tang Dynasty. "Ding Ding Gate", is the Sui and Tang Dynasty Luoyang city axis complex on the famous "seven days building" one. It is understood that the Ding Ding Gate as the main door of the south wall of Guo Cheng for as long as 530 years, is the longest used in ancient China's capital city gate.
Ding Dingmen Ruins Museum Visual China Figure
Today's Ding Dingmen Ruins Museum appearance for the imitation of the Tang Dynasty city gate, by the city gate, city wall, city tower and Que Lou composition. Among them, the city platform, city wall, que platform for the protection of the site and the display area, archaeological excavations unearthed Ding Dingmen site doorway, pillar foundation stone, etc. here to get the protection of the original site display, in order to facilitate the visit, the floor is designed as a transparent glass, to increase the interest of visiting. Citadel, Que Lou internal space for the exhibition area, mainly showing the evolution of the Ding Dingmen site history and unearthed part of the cultural relics, so that tourists can appreciate the Tang Empire's urban architectural landscape and the degree of development of material civilization.
Inside the museum Visual China
It is worth mentioning that the archaeologists also found camel hoofprints on the south side of the Ding Ding Gate site, which is a unique physical evidence of trade and commerce along the Silk Road with the camel as the main means of transportation, which confirms the close communication between the Western region and the Central Plains.
Shangqing Palace
Shangqing Palace is a famous Taoist temple, located in Henan Luoyang City, north of Mangshan Cuiyun Peak. Legend has it that it is the place where Lord Tai Shang Laojun made the elixir, and it is the first famous Taoist temple in China with the name of "Shangqing Palace".
Luoyang Shangqing Palace was built in 666 AD, the first year of Qianfeng year of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, who honored Laozi (Li Er) as Emperor Xuan Yuan, and thus Shangqing Palace was also called Emperor Xuan Yuan Temple. Later generations honored Laozi as the Supreme Lord Lao, so it is also called Laojun Temple.
It is said to be the place where Lord Laozi made pills. Visual China
Shangqing Palace is a magnificent palace with a majestic hall, stone lions and horses outside the door, and the murals "Wu Sheng Tu" and "Laozi Hujing" by Wu Daozi inside. It is said that the Tang Xuanzong took over, fascinated by Taoism to the point that there were three times, "Edicts" Shangqing Palace, see the status of Shangqing Palace.
Interestingly, not far from the Shangqing Palace, there is a "lower Qing Palace". According to legend, when Laozi was living in seclusion, he used to keep a green ox here, so it is also known as "Green Ox View", and Shangqing Palace is a sister palace. At present, it is well preserved and after renovation, it is still a majestic temple with a fairy atmosphere.
Not far from the Shangqing Palace, there is a "lower Qing Palace". It is said that Laozi used to keep green oxen here when he lived in seclusion. Visual China
Sui and Tang Dynasty Luoyang City National Heritage Park
"The sky has a Ziwei Palace, is the residence of God also. The king set up the palace, and the image was made." Because the emperor's residence is Ziwei Palace, Emperor Yang moved the capital to Luoyang, the palace named "Ziwei City". Zhenguan six years (632 years), Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty changed the eastern capital for the Luoyang Palace, along with its old palace Ziwei City.
However, Ziwei City really embarked on a "glorious moment", without the achievements of a generation of female emperors. Tang Ruizong light house in the first year (684 years), the Empress Wu Zetian dynasty claimed the system, change Luoyang "East" for "God", and Ziwei City, the number of the "Taichu Palace". With the Tang Dynasty political, economic and cultural center of the comprehensive east, Ziwei City has been expanded and renovated, the magnificent peak.
It is said that Wu Zetian's administration built during the period of the Hall, heaven, is the entire eastern capital of Luoyang Palace City, the two largest buildings, they changed the main palace axis for the single-storey tradition, so that the three-dimensional profile of the palace of Luoyang Palace City and the momentum of the style appears more brilliant.
Wu Zetian changed Luoyang "Dongdu" for the "Shendu", and Ziwei City number for the "Palace of the beginning". Visual China
Mingtang, is the main hall of Ziwei City's great dynasty. The whole building up to 98 meters high, covers an area of 12,000 square meters, because of the towering sky, have swallowed the sky and spit out the earth, encompassing the gas, Wu Zetian so to the Hall of a domineering name - "Wanxiang Palace of God". Ming Hall is both the Palace of Bushido, but also the place of God, for Wu Zetian "supreme residence", is a symbol of imperial power.
It is said that the height of heaven should be at least 150 meters. Visual China
Tiantang, also known as "Tongtian Fudu", is Wu Zetian's ceremonial Buddha Hall. The hall is already more than 90 meters high, so how high is heaven? "Ziji Tongjian" gives a specific description: heaven is five layers high, and the third layer has been higher than the Hall. Based on this calculation, the height of heaven should be at least 150 meters.
Unfortunately, however, in 695 A.D., the fifth year after Wu Zetian became emperor, Xue Huaiyi, Wu Zetian's chief of face, set fire to Heaven after he fell out of favor. Because the Hall of Fame was too close to heaven, "the first month of the first year of Zheng Sheng (695) C Shen night, heaven fire, extended to the Hall of Fame, to the morning, the two halls with the destruction". From built to burned, such a huge building life of only seven years poor.
Inside the paradise Visual China
Today's Sui and Tang Dynasty Luoyang City National Heritage Park in the original site based on the restoration of the Tang Dynasty Ming Hall, paradise and Jiuzhou pool and other buildings. As a "Tang fan", you can't miss it if you want to experience the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.
Shanxi
Baiyun Temple
Baiyun Temple, located in the southeast of Taiyuan City, is associated with Direnjie, the famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Dee was also a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.
Direnjie built the Guanyin Hall on the site where Baiyun stopped to pay back his mother's wish, hence the name of Baiyun Temple. Visual China
It is said that once, Dee returned to his hometown to visit his relatives in the middle of summer, and when he was walking on the road, there was suddenly a white cloud following him to shade him from the sun. White clouds with the prime minister all the way to the red ditch and stop, just heard that his mother worshiped the Goddess of Mercy, so Dee Renjie will be in the place where the white clouds stopped to build the Goddess of Mercy Hall for the mother to return the wish, the White Cloud Temple is also so named.
Inside the temple Visual China
Baiyun Temple is located in the north to the south, before and after the three courtyards, from the early Tang Dynasty to the present through the war and destruction, several times rebuilt. Most of the existing buildings were rebuilt by Li Zicheng's military doctor, the monk Tianze, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1663), and some statues and scriptures from the Ming Dynasty are still treasured in the temple. The Monk Tianze Stele, written and handwritten by Mr. Fu Shan, a famous scholar from Taiyuan, was created here, and the original is now housed in the Pure Yang Palace in Wuyi Square. In addition, the ancient trees outside the temple, the environment is deep, is also one of the best places to avoid the summer heat.
Wutai Mountain Foguang Temple
Today there are still more than a hundred Tang Dynasty buildings in China, masonry buildings account for the vast majority of the remaining four Tang Dynasty wooden buildings, all in Shanxi Province, respectively, Wutai Mountain Foguang Temple East Hall, Wutai County, Nanchansi Temple Hall, Tiantai Temple, Pingshun, and Ruicheng, the main hall of the Guangren Temple.
Wutai Mountain Foguang Temple is one of the only four remaining Tang Dynasty wooden buildings in China. Visual China
By chance, Liang Sicheng found a Tang dynasty mural "Wutai Mountain Map" in Cave 117 at Dunhuang, which depicted a panoramic view of the Wutai Mountain, a sacred place of Buddhism, and labeled the name of each temple, including a building called the "Great Buddha Temple", which made him realize that the temple was the only remaining wooden building in China. One of the temples was called "Great Buddha Light Temple", which gave him the hope of discovering the architecture of the Tang Dynasty. So Liang Sicheng and his wife, Lin Huiyin, according to the map, opened the search for the ancient wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty journey, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi, Foguang Temple has become the first discovered wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty "living fossil".
Wutai Mountain Foguang Temple is the first discovered wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty "living fossil". Visual China
Foguang Temple is located in Wutai County, Doucun Town, East Hall is the main hall, built in the 11th year of the Tang Dynasty Dazhong (857 AD). The East Main Hall is the main hall of the temple built in the 11th year of Dazhong (857 AD). The East Main Hall reflects the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty's wooden architecture, which is characterized by "majestic arches and far-reaching eaves", and the huge roof has a wooden structure with a very strict design of the pavement layer, and the arches, which are arranged in two circles inside and outside, are not only used to receive the weight of the roof, but also to support the internal structure of the roof's elegant shape. Therefore, it is also an example of the existing ancient Chinese architecture with the largest number of layers and the farthest distance.
Under the roof, there is an extremely well-designed wooden pavement. Visual China
The Tang Dynasty statues and Tang Dynasty murals in the hall are also extremely valuable, preserving 35 Tang Dynasty statues and 296 Ming Dynasty statues, with vivid and majestic forms. The walls of the East Hall are also painted with more than ten square meters of Tang Dynasty murals, the content of the Buddhist story, the solemn Buddha, the Bodhisattva of charity, the mighty King of Heaven, the colorful flying sky reflects the charm of the Tang Dynasty paintings.
Tang Dynasty Mural Painting Visual China Photo
Nanchan Temple in Wutai County
Nanchan Temple is located in Lijiazhuang, Yangbai Township, Wutai County, Shanxi Province, covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters, sitting in the north and facing the south. Except for its main building, the Great Buddha Hall, which is an original from the Tang Dynasty, the rest of the remaining buildings are from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Wutai County Nanchan Temple
The Great Buddha Hall is beautiful in appearance and handsome in form. Single-eaved gray tile hysterical roof, the whole hall is composed of three parts: pedestal, roof frame and roof, *** with 12 eaves columns. There is no ceiling in the hall, there is no column, the wall does not carry the weight, only play the role of the partition, the roof weight is mainly through the beams by the eave wall of the column support. It is said that a large flat beam above, also preserved some vague ink, written: "due to the old name (when) the big Tang Jianzhong three years ...... reconstruction of the temple Fa Xian, etc. respectfully Zhi", so that projected, the South Temple than the Buddha's Light Temple also 75 years earlier than the present day has been more than 1,200 years ago, is the China's oldest surviving wooden buildings of the Tang Dynasty, but also Asia's oldest wooden buildings.
Nanchan Temple is more than 1,200 years old, is China's oldest surviving Tang Dynasty wooden buildings, but also Asia's oldest wooden buildings. Visual China
Nanchan Temple is also home to 17 statues of the Tang Dynasty Buddha, all of which are treasures of the Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, some of these statues were unfortunately stolen and destroyed in 1999, which is known as the "Nanchan Robbery". Nanzen Temple, there are three stone lions and a stone tower, are also relics of the Tang Dynasty.
Inside the temple are 17 statues of Buddha, all treasures of the Tang Dynasty. Visual China Photo
In 2011, the Di Gong Ancestral Hall, modeled after the hall of the Nanchan Temple in Taishan, was officially completed in Taiyuan's Tanghuai Park, with the entire building covering an area of more than 210 square meters, recreating the level of architectural artistry that existed during the flourishing Tang Dynasty.
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