What does the word "Chen Chang" mean at the entrance of Yuji Palace?

Yuji Palace (Yugong Palace), located in Yugongji at the foot of Guidong Mountain in Hanyang, is a place where Dayu was worshipped in Wuhan for generations, and it is also a famous historical and cultural building in Wuhan.

On March 20 13, the State Council announced the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, adding Yuji Palace as a new national key cultural relics protection unit. [2]

Wang Yu Temple in Southern Song Dynasty

Wang Yu Temple was built in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Dayu, who is familiar to the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, is recognized as the originator of water conservancy in past dynasties. In 2 10 BC, Qin Shihuang once "went to the meeting to worship Dayu and sat in the South China Sea, and set up a stone sculpture to praise Qin De", which was the first emperor's sacrifice. Since then, the activities of official and folk sacrifices to Yu have lasted for a long time.

According to the records of Wan Guo Tong Zhi in Jingtai, Ming Dynasty, the original temple was located at the foot of Dabie Mountain (that is, Guishan Mountain), between Song and Song Dynasties (1190-194), and Sinon and Tieren took Jianghan as the place of their religious meeting, and built a temple to worship Dayu for the benefit of Ji. However, in the Records of Dabie Mountains, Chao Ren Hu said that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131162), Si Nong and Zhang Tiren supervised the renovation of Wang Yu Temple in Dabie Mountain.

In the two versions, the Wang Yu Temple was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. Although it was separated by several decades, it has been more than 800 years since.

Yuji Palace in Ming Dynasty

The following year (1621-1627), the Wang Yu Temple was changed into the Yuji Palace, and eight legendary sages such as Hou Ji, Ba Yuan and Ba Kai were sacrificed to Dayu. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Hu Guang's political envoy, MP Zhang Yuanfang, wrote an inscription for the Yuji Palace, whose name has been used ever since.

Yuji Palace in Qing Dynasty

In the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1864), Yuji Palace was rebuilt again and changed into a brick-wood structure with strong local style and exquisite folk crafts. This "palace" consists of the main hall, the front hall, the left and right cloisters and the patio, covering an area of 380 square meters. After more than a hundred years of wind and rain and disrepair, by the early 1980s, the cultural relics in the "Palace" were completely lost, the roof leaked, the wood was rotten, and the walls were tilted, which was in jeopardy.

maintenance and repair

1983 to 1984, Wuhan cultural relics administrative department follows the original principle of "maintaining the status quo and restoring the original state"

Then, the Yuji Palace was overhauled. The Yuji Palace has been carefully renovated, painted with red paint, carved with beams and painted with buildings, and it is antique. In the center of the hall, there is a statue of Dayu made of glass fiber reinforced plastic, with a huge plaque of "Depei Tiandi" hanging on it, and various materials commemorating Dayu's water control are also displayed. On both sides of the main hall porch, there are water-saving iron cows and sacrificial iron bells, and there are iron ding in the courtyard; Above the gallery is a plaque inscribed by Mr. Sha Menghai, a modern calligrapher: "Stone Bay Mengze". The pillars are engraved with couplets inscribed by Liu Haisu, a master of calligraphy and painting:

Going in the door three times is a waste of time.

In eight years, Waiping [1] became Hehan Jianghuai.