Where is the location of Yulin West Laoye Temple?

Yulin Xilaoye Temple is a cultural tourist attraction.

Xilaoye Temple is located in the west of Beitai Site in Yulin Town. Xilaoye Temple was built in Ming Dynasty. It is 72 meters long from north to south and 38.3 meters long from east to west, covering an area of 2,756 square meters. At first, there was a big yard, with Guan Gong Hall in the middle and a palace in the north, with subsidiary halls in the east, west and south. Guan Gong Dian is a brick-wood structure with one eaves in Xieshan, with a width of 2 1.9m, a depth of 18.4m, and a height of1m. The rolled shed in front of the temple is 6.5 m high, covered with glazed tile animals and painted with murals. There was a glazed nine-dragon wall in the original temple, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the types of folk beliefs in Yulin in northern Shaanxi mainly included landform belief, animal and plant belief, industrial patron saint belief and deified celebrity belief. Among them, Guandi belief is a deified celebrity belief. Although it is similar to Guandi belief in other places, it has obvious regional characteristics.

The belief and worship of Guan Yu in Ming Dynasty can be said to be a link between the past and the future. Guan Yu was the king before the Ming Dynasty and the emperor in the late Ming Dynasty. In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu (1394), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, built a temple in Nanjing. In the third year of Wen Jian's reign (140 1), Judy inherited "providence" in the name of "Jun Qing side", and claimed that it was an "apparition" for Guan Gong to protect him from conquering Nanking and seizing the throne. Since the Jade Emperor at Jinkou said Guan Yu was a god, the princes and nobles and the common people naturally felt more awe. In the fourth year of Zheng De (1509), the Ming Dynasty announced that all Guandi temples in the world were renamed as "Zhongwu Temple", and in the tenth year of Wanli (1582), Guan Yu was named "Emperor Xie Tian". Subsequently, in the twenty-second year of Wanli (1594), Guan Yu was named emperor, "Zhongwu Hall". In the forty-two years of Wanli (16 14), Guan Yu was once again named as "Guan Shengjun, the Buddha of Weiyuan Town, the Great Devil of the Three Realms". In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Guan Yu was named as "Zhen Yuanxian Zhao Yingyi's famous Tian Hanzun". In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652), he was named "Guan Sheng Emperor of Loyalty and Righteousness in SHEN WOO". With the help of emperors such as Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing, Guan Di's belief reached its acme in officialdom.

It is precisely because of the official admiration and Guan Yu's loyalty and courage that Guan Yu has evolved into the "protector of Galand" in Buddhism, the "sage of Guan Di" in Taoism, the "warrior saint" in Confucianism, and the "human god" in folk beliefs. With the evolution of Guan Yu's appellation, the names of temples dedicated to Guan Yu have also evolved in Yulin (taking the urban area as an example), from Sanyi Temple, Wang Guan Temple, Zhongwu Temple to Guandi Temple.

The Ming Dynasty had a long-term confrontation with Mongolian Vala. From the early Ming Dynasty to the middle Ming Dynasty, a famous "Jiubian Town" was set up along the Great Wall, in which Yansui Town was originally located in Suide County and later moved to Yulin City. In the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), he was stationed in Yulin village (that is, in the old city of Yulin), and the belief in Guandi gradually flourished with the presence of border soldiers. In the ninth year of Chenghua (1473), Yansui Town was moved from Suide to Yulin City, and in the fifth year of Hongzhi (1492), Yulin City was expanded and Sanyi Temple and Wang Guan Temple were built. Sanyi Temple, located in the north of Zhunti Temple, was built in Hongzhi for five years. Wang Guan Temple is located on the hillside of Mawang Temple, which was built a little later than Sanyi Temple. In the fifteenth year of Zhengde (15 15), Yulin City was expanded again, and a Wu Temple was built in the west of the city. In the 25th year of Wanli (1597), Guandi Temple was rebuilt at the hump of Dongshan Mountain in Yulin. The temple still exists today, and it is the only ancient Taoist temple complex in Yulin City in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was the core landscape of the eight scenic spots in Yulin, with the wall in the east and Yuxi River in the distance.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the temple name dedicated to Guan Yu in Yulin changed, and at the same time, the space needed for this belief was further expanded. First, the scale of temples, such as Huaiyuan (Hengshan) Wu Temple, was built in the tenth year of Ming Chenghua. In the Qing Dynasty, Huaiyuan County Records described its scale as "three stalls in the main hall, three stalls in the back hall, three stalls in the worship hall, one stall in the music building, one stall in the middle gate and one stall in the bell and drum tower". Secondly, the distribution of Guandi Temple in Yulin is constantly expanding.

Traffic guide

Address of scenic spots: west of Beitai site, Yulin Town, Shaanxi Province

Bus route: You can take No.3 bus in Yulin, 1 1, and get off at Zhenbei Station.