What are the legends about Xinjin laojunmiao, the holy land of the Three Ancestors?

Laojunmiao, Xinjin, Sichuan, is located on Laojun Mountain in the south of the city. It is the best preserved place in the "Twenty-four Governance" built by Zhang Daoling, and is honored as the "Three Ancestors" Holy Land.

Laojun Mountain is 600 meters above sea level and stands between Minjiang River systems. Woniu Mountain, Xuanhuang Taishan Mountain, Songzi Mountain, Chaqi Mountain and Laojun Mountain in the center of the square are integrated, which means stars.

According to legend, Xuanyuan Huangdi cultivated immortals in Xuanhuangtai and soared in the sky in Dinghu Lapras. Therefore, later generations set up an altar to worship the Yellow Emperor in Xuanhuangtai Temple, so Xuanhuangtai is also called "Tian She".

He also said that after I successfully transformed Yin into Qingyang Temple in Sichuan, I lived in seclusion in the mountain, and the cow he rode became a green mountain, which is the Woniu Mountain in front of Laojun Mountain.

This is depicted in the historical evolution diagram of Laozi in Daozang. Laojundong has couplets:

Cow control letter, 120 miles of rivers and mountains have no hiding place;

Can Cong came to Shu Road, and five thousand words were handed down.

In Taoist culture, Huangdi, Laozi and Zhang Daoling are called "the founders", "the Taoists" and "the Godfathers". According to Travel Notes of Xinjin, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, there has been a historic laojunmiao on Tian She Mountain. It refers to the Sanzu Holy Land, namely Xinjin laojunmiao.

There are many temples in laojunmiao of Xinjin during the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, which were severely damaged in the war at the end of Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Yang Gongyi, a city official, and Liu Zeng, a scholar, were rebuilt, but after all, people were weak and the reconstruction was limited. Xinjin laojunmiao sits east to west and is built on the mountain. Its structural layout is very strict, mainly including Lingzu Building, Hunyuan Hall and Sanqing Hall.

Lingzu Building is a building built on the mountain, dedicated to the Taoist protector Wang Lingguan. Wang Lingguan's eyes are wide open, and he is wearing golden armor. He holds Lingguan's tactic in his left hand and a golden whip in his right hand. He is in charge of all disputes between heaven and earth under his feet, and the people praise him as: three eyes can see clearly what is going on in the world, and a whip can wake people up.

Next to Wang Lingguan's real body, there are statues of four heavenly kings and Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth. There are 64 stone stairs behind Lingzu Building, symbolizing sixty-four hexagrams, which can reach Hunyuan Hall directly.

The Hall of the Mixed Yuan Dynasty is a hard mountain building with a single eaves, which enshrines the founding emperors Sun and Taiyin of the Mixed Yuan Dynasty. The founder of the mixed yuan is what we often call the old gentleman. When Song Zhenzong called him the Emperor of the Mixed Yuan Dynasty, he was also called the Grandfather.

The mixed-yuan Gankun circle and the sun, the moon and the stars symbolize that the world was originally a chaotic place, and everything in the world came into being after the creation of the world by the mixed-yuan ancestor.

The things in Hunyuan Temple are Laojun Cave and Cihang Hall respectively. Legend has it that the Laojun Cave is the place where the Taishang Laojun refined Dan medicine, and the couplet on the door is:

Like a hole, not a hole, the stone room is a hole;

There is a door but no door, the door of morality.

It seems to reveal to the world the reason why Laozi rode a green cow to live in seclusion in Laojun Mountain.

The Hall of Cihang is the shrine of the real person, Guanyin Bodhisattva, who is the goddess who saves people from suffering.

There is a steep 36-step staircase behind Hunyuan Temple, symbolizing 36 days. As long as you climb the 36 steps, it means that you have reached the highest realm of Taoism.

At the end of the 36 steps is Sanqing Hall, the main hall. There is a gossip pavilion in front of the courtyard, built in 1926, dedicated to the statue of the old man riding a green cow.

Sanqing Hall was built in 193 1, which is a hard mountain building with a single eaves. Sitting in the center of the hall is Jade Qing Yuan Zun, with empty hands, symbolizing the "infinite" state of chaos between heaven and earth, living in the jade Qing realm of heaven.

To the south of Jade Qing Yuan Buddha is Qing Lingbao Buddha, also known as Lingbaojun. He lives in the upper reaches of the sky with a "Tai Chi" diagram symbolizing the beginning of heaven and earth and the beginning of yin and yang. On the north side is Taiqing moral Buddha, that is, Taishang Laojun. Too old gentleman shook too Fan Chi, sat in danger, overlooking everything in the world, and lived in Tai Chi.

The Doulao Building built on the mountain is dedicated to the innate Brahma Doulao. Doulao, also known as Beanstalk, is the mother of the Big Dipper and is honored as "the mother of Ming Dow" by Taoism.

Sanyuan Temple is dedicated to Emperor Wei Zi, who blessed the people, Emperor Qingling, who was pardoned by the local officials of the Central Plains, and Emperor Emei, who was disarmed by Xia Yuanshui. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the fifteenth day of July, they will come to the world to reward and punish the sins of the world and eliminate disasters for others.

When Zhang Daoling founded Shi Tiandao, he had already offered sacrifices to heaven, earth and water. The books held by the three officials are the way for Taoist priests to pray for treatment. Taoism takes the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October as the birthdays of the three officials of heaven, earth and water. Laojunmiao inherited the tradition of Taoism in Shi Tian, and built the Jindaochang and Huangdaochang during this period, in order to pray and eliminate disasters.

Laojunmiao in Xinjin is surrounded by more than 200 ancient cypresses in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with towering foliage and vigorous green. There is quite a real artistic conception of "Ming refers to the fairy cave, which is quite ancient".

Fasting is the most important ceremony in laojunmiao, Xinjin. On this day, people offer sacrifices to the gods, set up altars to pray for them, communicate with them, pray for their shelter and bless them to eliminate disasters.

Fasting has two parts: fasting and fasting. "Shili", named Yang Fashi, commonly known as "Prayer Meeting", is a prayer meeting for good men and women. "Fasting", also known as "Yin Fa", is a dharma meeting set up by Taoists in order to transcend those unjust relatives, creditors and ghosts, and at the same time pray for believers and pray for eternal peace.

Laojunshan Shanmen memorial archway