The Longwang Temple complex in Zaohe River is located on the side of the ancient Grand Canal, with Roman Lake in the north, abandoned Yellow River in the south, Maling Mountain in the east and provincial forest parks in the east. Its geographical location is adjacent to lakes and rivers, with convenient transportation, distinct seasons and pleasant climate. For more than 300 years, Zaohe Longwang Temple Palace has attracted many Chinese and foreign tourists, experts and scholars to study and discuss with its long history and beautiful legends. At the same time, she showed its unique charm to people with its unique palace architectural style and rich cultural connotation.
Palace architecture, neat layout, grand scale, clear axis, left and right symmetry, resplendent. The whole is rectangular and double-walled. The primary and secondary buildings on the central axis are clear and patchy. From south to north, the whole building complex is divided into six parts. At the southernmost tip is the ancient theater, with a flat gold plaque on its forehead, and Yangchun and Baixue gold plaques on the upper and lower doors. This theater is mainly used for the temple fair on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month and the theater when the Qing emperor visited it. /kloc-0 was demolished in 976, and now only 1.4 meter high stone foundation remains. The ancient theater building faces north and is a wide square paved with blue bricks. There are two wooden poles (commonly known as flagpoles) 60 feet high on both sides of the square, and there are corresponding Heqing Haiyan archways on both sides of the poles. Emperor Qianlong stayed in Longwang Temple five times in Qing Dynasty, all from the entrance of Haiyan archway in Heqing. On the north side of the square is the mountain gate, also known as Zen Hall. On both sides of the gate of the Zen Hall, there are two royal stone lions in the middle and early Qing Dynasty. The male lion weighs 2.8 tons and the female lion weighs 2.76 tons. The shape of the stone lion is upright in the front foot, curled in the back foot, and strong and powerful, symbolizing the inviolability of the Qing Empire and the Chinese nation. The whole stone lion is vivid in shape and exquisite in materials, which is unique in the province and few in the country. Just above the main entrance of the mountain gate, the blue brick is inlaid with seven gold-plated characters inscribed by Qianlong Imperial Pen, which is used to build the Longwang Temple in An Lan and one side of Qianlong Imperial Pen seal. On both sides of the Zen Gate, there are two opposite bright and dark corner gates, which are the passages for the emperor and civil and military officials to enter and leave the palace.
After passing the Zen Gate, I entered the first courtyard, the center of which was built by the order of Emperor Qianlong. The plane is hexagonal, with an area of 53 square meters. Twelve scarlet pillars support the umbrella-shaped yellow glazed tile roof of the pyramid roof with hexagonal double eaves. Because it is a royal building, decorated with yellow tiles and shaped like an umbrella, people also call it an imperial umbrella. A 5-meter-high imperial monument stands in the center of the exhibition hall. The front of the monument cap is engraved with the word imperial edict, and the front of the monument body is engraved with the full text of the imperial edict. The main content describes the reasons and construction process of the temple built by Emperor Kang Yong. When Beibei Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River for the second time in 22 years, he stayed here for the first time and wrote down a royal poem: The emperor went to court with the people, the Dragon Palace built a soap river, the tower surrounded the dam, Guiwo in Yujun Town, Chongcheng and Youyong Pavilion in An Lan. Peng Cheng will read it, stay here for a long time, defend one side and make great contributions. On both sides of the monument body and on the cover of the monument, there are royal poems carved by Qianlong who lived here for 27 years, 30 years, 45 years and 49 years respectively. The beast on the pedestal squatted and squatted, solid and powerful. There is a lifelike golden dragon with five claws carved on the upper edge of the monument cap and around the monument body, which is flowing, auspicious and smart, and beautifully shaped. The whole memorial tablet is engraved with the imperial edict and poems of Emperor Qianlong, which is elegant, free and easy, correct and delicate, extremely rare in China and of high cultural value. In particular, the design of the royal pavilion is generous, dignified and dignified, decorated with internal and external columns and yellow tiles, which fully shows the characteristics, style and unique noble temperament of the royal architecture. Especially the pyramid-shaped roof, the royal umbrella, has an inverted lotus basin at the lower end, eighteen arhats carved on the hexagonal cylinder in the middle, and a luminous sphere symbolizing the emperor's supremacy at the top, which makes the whole royal monument pavilion dazzling and resplendent in the first courtyard.
On both sides of the Imperial Monument Pavilion, there are two layers of bells and drums. The bell tower is in the east and the drum tower is in the west. The shape, layout and scale of the buildings are the same, each building covers an area of 103 square meters, and the roof is covered with tiles. Hanging from the bell tower is an octagonal iron clock cast by Ma Shikui in Jiaqing 18, weighing more than 2,000 kilograms. Eight diagrams and pictures are cast on each corner of the iron bell, and eight characters of Taiping country, Taipingmin and good weather are cast on the upper edge of the bell body, with dignified handwriting and vigorous strength. There is a big drum with a diameter of 1.4m in the Drum Tower, which is equipped with a dragon bell and a tiger bell, and the drum sound is rich. When Emperor Qianlong stayed in this temple, he beat gongs and drums, played music in the hatchback, and greeted the emperor with the highest etiquette. On weekdays, the wind chimes hanging on the eaves of the temples make a pleasant sound under the breeze, which sets off the morning bells and evening drums in the temples, and the sound of birds is loud and clear, echoing among the temples and spreading beyond the clouds, making the Longwang Temple in An Lan more majestic, solemn and sacred. Legend has it that whenever the flood comes, the bells and drums in Longwang Temple ring and the sound vibrates for several miles, so as to wake people up in time to evacuate the danger and save the people in the flood.
To the north of the imperial monument pavilion is. Located at the intersection of the first courtyard and the second courtyard on the central axis, it covers an area of 66 square meters, with four rooms wide and three rooms deep. There is a big plaque of Fayu Ciyun hanging at the main entrance of Yitang. There are statues of Yang, Liu, Du and Meng donkey kong in the hall, holding swords, holding umbrellas, playing pipa and drawing pythons respectively, symbolizing good weather. The Buddha statues are lifelike in shape, different in expression and bold and heroic.
The second courtyard is the central courtyard of the whole building. The main building on the Imperial Road is the Dragon King Hall, also known as the Qingwa Hall. The two sides of the Dragon King Hall correspond to the East Hall and the West Hall respectively. The East Hall is dedicated to the Five Lakes God, and the West Hall is dedicated to the four seas-the Well God. The ten gods are all holding water boards and serving the Dragon King in turn. Longwang Temple is one of the most distinctive main buildings in the temple. It rested on the mountain with double eaves and kissed the dragon in Qing style. Six-color glazed tiles, mainly yellow, green and blue, are seven rooms wide and four rooms deep, covering an area of 435 square meters. White stone platform in front of the temple, jade railing. A gold-plated plaque on the Ronghe River in Fu You hangs high in the hall, and there is a treasure house on the left and right sides of the platform for burning paper. In the middle of the platform is the dragon boat platform, in which there is a big iron tripod weighing more than tons. The whole Dragon King Hall, with carved beams and painted buildings and arched cornices, is well-structured, luxuriously decorated, resplendent and charming. In the center of the hall, the Dragon King of the East China Sea is enshrined. It is a golden statue, dignified and awe-inspiring. The left and right sides are divided into eight water gods (commonly known as generals of the Eighth World War). Behind the statue of the Dragon King, there is a colorful mural. There is an elephant in the picture, and a boy stands with a pot of evergreen, which symbolizes the evergreen of Vientiane. All the buildings in this courtyard are the main places for daily Buddhist activities of monks in this temple. Emperor Qianlong stayed in Longwang Temple five times, where he also discussed politics and offered sacrifices to his ancestors.
The third entrance of the courtyard is the last entrance of Longwang Temple Palace, and it is also the bedroom of Emperor Qianlong. The buildings on the horizontal axis where the second and third courtyards cross are the Palace Bell and the East and West Hall. The Temple of Heaven is a place where monks in the temple study, write poems and learn Buddhism. It is also a place where the emperor comes, civil and military officials handle government affairs and have fun. Wang Lingguan on the east wall of Gong Ling Palace holds seven whips, and Wei Tuo on the west wall holds a magic pestle. Above the main entrance hangs a horizontal plaque of Fu Jeer Ling Bo. When Emperor Qianlong came, this hall was also called Fengong Hall. After the imperial concubine entered the harem, all other civil and military officials were forbidden to enter.
The northern end of the central axis is also called guanyin temple. Wang Yu Temple is a masterpiece of a palace, with double eaves and hard mountains. The roof is decorated with yellow glazed tiles and dragon kisses. The main hall is divided into two floors, covering an area of 360 square meters, with seven rooms wide and five rooms deep. It is located on a 1 meter-high platform made of bluestone, with a height of more than 20 meters. It is the highest hall in Longwang Temple. There are vermilion plaques and gold-plated characters on the forehead of the ground floor. Nanhai Guanyin in the bright room of the main hall sits on the lotus seat. The floor on the second floor is composed of 304 wooden boards with colorful pictures of the dragon wind, which dance with the dragon wind in various ways. The darkrooms at the east and west ends belong to the abbot's room and the sutra storage building respectively. You can climb the stairs in the darkroom to enter the top floor. The statue of King Dayu is placed in the center of the top floor. I went to Jiangnan six times and had the honor to spend the night here. It is called the main palace. Corresponding to the main palace are the East Palace and the West Palace on both sides of the main palace, which were the places where the concubines who accompanied the south stayed. There are six kinds of trees planted in the courtyard, such as cypress, persimmon, tung tree, Chinese toon, locust tree and poplar, which symbolize the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty and the generations of the Chinese nation. Despite nearly 300 years of wind and rain erosion, cypress, persimmon, locust and poplar are still vigorous and tall, with lush foliage, among which boxwood (also known as Millennium Dwarf) has entered the collection of world famous flowers and grasses.
East Gallery Courtyard and West Gallery Courtyard, which are matched with Qianlong Palace, are affiliated courtyards of East and West Palace. Located on the horizontal axis of the bedroom. There are more than 20 monk's rooms and den rooms (also called imperial kitchens) in the East Corridor, and more than 20 study rooms and living rooms (also called imperial study rooms) in the West Corridor. Structural symmetry; Same shape. There are royal gardens, pavilions, bridges and flowing water in the south of the two corridors courtyard; There are peony, peony, plum blossom, orchid and exotic flowers and herbs, which are fragrant all year round. Show elegant charm My road twists and turns, through a sheltered valley, branches and flowers, to a Buddhist retreat. Since the Qing Dynasty, the eighth, ninth and tenth days of the first lunar month are the days of the Longwang Temple Fair in An Lan, Zaohe. At that time, many good men and women came to burn incense and worship Buddha and pray for good luck. Businessmen and folk artists from nearby Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces also flocked to Zaohe. At that time, people visited temples, worshipped gods, watched the scenery and went shopping. There are all kinds of wooden knives, wooden swords with red tassels, peach monkeys, jade rabbits, green bamboo pythons, paper-cut carved rattles, and Hua Gun, the mud whistle of Sugar Man. Among them, the most dazzling is the parade around the street and the worship of the Sanxianghui in Zaohe Town. Upright, the float, the dragon dance and the lion dance, all the people who visited the temple fair worshipped the Dragon King together, and there was a sea of people, which was unprecedented and was listed as the first of the 36 th Fragrant Festival in northern Jiangsu. It has been like this for hundreds of years. Even during the Cultural Revolution in 10, the content of religious customs was only interrupted, and other folk activities never stopped, which is a great spectacle in the history of China folk customs.
The Longwang Temple Palace in Zaohe is a precious ancient architectural complex, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, causing immeasurable losses. In the early 1980s, after hundreds of years of wind and rain erosion, war and man-made destruction, An Lan Longwang Temple still attracted the attention of party committees and governments at all levels for its rich historical and cultural heritage and superb ancient architecture skills. Experts from the provincial government and the provincial cultural relics protection department have visited and demonstrated Longwang Temple for many times, and think that Longwang Temple in An Lan is the highest, largest, only well-preserved and most valuable ancient palace complex in northern Qing Dynasty among many Qianlong palaces in China. Protecting this cultural heritage of the Qing Dynasty is of great significance for studying ancient architectural art and developing the history and culture of the Qing Dynasty. 1982, Jiangsu provincial people's government announced it as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. In the past ten years, the people's governments at the provincial, city and county levels and relevant departments have conscientiously implemented the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics in People's Republic of China (PRC), and strengthened protection measures and efforts in line with the principle of giving priority to protection and rescue. 1982, 1988, 1992, 1993, the provincial, municipal and county governments respectively invested1000000 yuan to carry out large-scale renovation of the Dragon King Hall, the Imperial Monument Pavilion and the Bell and Drum Tower. In July of 20001year, Longwangmiao Palace was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and the provincial, municipal and county people's governments and cultural relics management departments re-formulated systematic and meticulous rescue plans and maintenance measures. The cost of the first phase project is 2.5 million yuan, and the cost of the second phase project is 6.5438+0.45 million yuan, which effectively protects this ancient architectural complex. At the same time, people's governments at all levels, in the spirit of being responsible for history, are determined to restore the original historical appearance of Longwang Temple in An Lan, give full play to its due historical and cultural values and social and economic benefits, and promote the healthy development of the two civilizations.