The temple in the ancient temple
The temple formerly known as "Yunlongan", is located in Zunyi City, Huichuan District, Banqiao Town, the village of Tanjiawan Tanjiwan group, was once a Guizhou provincial cultural relics protection units, is now destroyed, the temple in the twelfth year of the Daoguang monument, "Yong Sankia Yunlongan built since the Ming Dynasty ", the front hall, the hall of the stone column right published in the ancient poem: "the scale of the road to grow large view, Ming Zhaojin and reissued, which has a place of leisure, such as caressing a long qin under the moon to talk about." Zunyi Province, "Zunyi Fu Zhi" Yunlongan in the city of eighty miles north of Yongan Mountain, also known as the temple. In the temple Yunlongan built in the late Ming Dynasty, perfect in the early Qing Dynasty. After the liberation, used as a school, township government, communes, hospitals, etc., failed to properly protect. 1978, the authorities moved out one after another, the temple is uninhabited. 1976 to build a potter's jar factory, exacerbated the damage to the temple. Now only the ruins.
The temple in the temple was selected in the mountain basin surrounded by mountains on the slopes in front of the mountain and built, the momentum is majestic and spectacular, before the early years around the ancient trees in the sky, bushes, bamboo thick, across the distance from each other, the temple in front of the sea of green bamboos, there are still a hundred years of ancient cedar standing. After the temple Cangshan towering, the ancient temple hidden in a green wave, the environment is very quiet.
Temple front stone ladder is located in the current temple elementary school opposite the foot of the mountain, a 4-meter-wide stone ladder 72 winding up to the mountain before the small stone can, and then by 11 stairs to the door, the front temple after the temple stone ladder *** 23, four *** 106, plus a small stone dam and the front temple dam stacked number of stone ladder, *** 108 steps.The mountain door for the pendant eaves hysterical hilltop wooden building, through the face of 3 rooms wide 14.6 meters, because the terrain layout is not in the temple axis, 20 degrees south by east. The upper four arches carved four members of the gods and generals, the lower eight arches carved birds and animals, floral patterns. Upper Jade Emperor Pavilion, Jade Emperor sitting in the pavilion, standing on both sides of the hum, ha two generals, downstairs Lingguan whip guarding the door, the left corner of the Chuanzu, the right corner of the Black God. Pavilion around the edge of the carving of various patterns and their designs.
Enter the forecourt, the front hall of the left and right symmetrically towering bell tower and drum tower. All are hanging eaves four walls, pointed roof type structure. The upper floor has a small window with a curved ring through the flower corridor, can live. The lower floor of the drum tower, under the wing corner of 16 wood carving lion-shaped arch, carving skills are very exquisite. The bell and drum tower is divided under the Daoguang twelve years (1832) and Daoguang sixteen years (1836) two fund-raising to raise funds to repair the temple stone tablets.
The front hall, built on a stone foundation, 54 rooms wide, 32.55 meters long, left and right sides of the depth of 10.6 meters 4 rooms. 10 meters high, before and after the corridor through, for the hermitage-style wooden hall, the eaves of the appendage, there are large "two dragons grab treasure" scroll wood carving, for the translucent carving, expert appraisal for the unavailability of treasures, after the Hall of the bright corridor beams, wood carving with scrolls of "offensive map", carving Phi Jian Zhi Rui warriors 35 people, 8 horses, walls, pavilions. Hall before and after the corridor columns with animal-shaped support arch, before and after the hall between the patio, all paved with green slate, the front of the hall against the door arranged several statues, facing the back of the hall Buddha, the seat is the northern Zhentian Zhenwu ancestor.
The patio in the middle and on both sides of the 3-way belt treadway to the back of the hall, the patio on both sides of the north and south sides of the hall, hanging mountain style and the front hall, the hall corridor with relief patterns 6, the back of the hall for the heavy eaves hermitage style, 32 meters wide, 14 meters deep. Two columns in front of the temple appendage, there is a large "Eight Immortals across the sea, the water is full of San Francisco" scroll woodcut, for the fine quality of translucent carving. In front of the gable columns there are 4 support arch (woodcut), the left side of the translucent carving for the "Li Cun Shatuo moving troops", the right side of the translucent carving for the "Guan Yunchang single sword to the meeting", the center of the two translucent carvings for the "Golden Girls", and other carvings are also very fine.
There are other carvings which are also very exquisite.
The back of the hall, the front of the hall, in front of the door on the stone fence are exquisite stone carving works, the number of large, and large, but also more concentrated, can be a rare moment in the province boutique.
The foot of the mountain and on the 72nd level on both sides of the stone stairs, there are stone male and female elephants on both sides of the mountain gate in front of the small stone dam with a length of 16 meters high 1.1 meters of stone fences, on the head of the 12 watchtower columns, respectively, there are lions, monkeys, elephants, unicorns, the four non-imaginative, rhinoceros and other round carving images, stone niches with relief patterns. Among them is a rhinoceros looking at the moon, which has its pattern and various animal heads facing the mountain gate.
The front of the stone fence in the shape of Sumeru, the upper and lower parts of the carving all over the Nendoroid continuous pattern of ten thousand characters, in the middle of the lotus flower, vivid and rich. The stone fence bundled waist part of the "fishing, woodcutting, farming, reading, drinking and banqueting, battlefield" and so on 6 large openwork relief, lapis lazuli carving, skillful, for the Ming Dynasty masterpieces. There are also six square pillars, the front of each pillar are carved with poems, couplets, pictures of "wild deer banging bells", "butterfly peony", "magpies haunted by the plum", "Monster Hoof".
The back of the abutment stone fence, there is a row of total plant 14 meters high 1.1 meters of horizontal carving, 10 columns were Luohan, unicorn, lions and monkeys, four non-imaginary and other round stone carvings, columns in front of the ancient poems and couplets carved in stone. This column *** 10 niches, the stone wall is carved with "Linfeng Chaori, golden lion moon worship, white horse crossing the river (also known as Liu Bei horse jumping Tanxi), brocade chicken and deer, Pudu all beings" (also known as Han Xiangzi crossing the Wen Gong) and other large-scale mural, and the Tang Dynasty poem, "the title of the broken mountain temple after the Chanyuan Yuan" one. In front of the hall on both sides of the stone railings in the middle of the treadway there are two carved stone carvings look at the sky, pouncing on the ground lions climbing on a stone drum.
The north side of the patio display has a stone water tank, cylinder engraved with "long live a monument building". Zunyi government records: "monks and make a stone disk, as carp jump Dragon Gate shape, exquisite, the dragon mouth open mouth beads, with the person than from Zhu in the world." Stone tank on the dragon gnarled hovering in the clouds, scales and claws within the emergence of the dragon's head in the middle, under the rapids, carp in the river curved body jumping for leaping Dragon Gate-like, riverside Zhenjiang seven-level pagoda standing, for the openwork carving.
Legendary temple there is a living stone dragon, because there is no place to put, put in the bamboo bushes next to the temple, over the years, I do not know where it is buried.
After the collapse of the temple, Zunyi County will be before and after the temple on the stone fence stone carving boutique carried to Zunyi City, Honghuagang District, Deep Creek Town, Huangfen Mouth Yang Chun base for preservation, the present Huangfen door in the left and right columns of the stone carvings are. In the temple ancient temple now only temple building foundation well preserved and a hundred years old cedar standing.
In November 2012, the local villagers in order to protect the ancient temple relics, spontaneous obligation will be in the temple temple site excavated, expect the ability to have the financial resources of the units, departments or individuals to invest in the restoration of the ancient temple, so as to protect the cultural heritage at the same time the development of rural tourism, drive the local economy.