Fortune-telling in Daizong Temple _ Significance of Daizong Temple

What does Dai Temple in Shandong mean?

The "Dai" of Daimiao in Shandong Province refers to Mount Tai.

Dai is another name for Mount Tai, also known as Dai Zong and Dai Yue. Dai Temple is located at the southern foot of Taishan Mountain in Tai 'an City, Shandong Province, commonly known as "Dongyue Temple". Founded in the Han Dynasty, it is the place where emperors held closed-door meditation ceremonies and worshipped Mount Tai. Tanmiao architecture is a building where Han people worship the world, the sun, the moon, mountains and rivers and the motherland, which embodies the characteristics of Han people as an agricultural national culture. The layout and construction of temple buildings are the same as those of palace buildings, and the architectural system is slightly simplified.

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Architectural composition

Dai Temple adopts the style of imperial palace, surrounded by 1500 meters, with more than 50 ancient buildings in the temple 150. The overall layout is built according to the highest standard of memorial buildings since the Tang and Song Dynasties, and adopts a balanced and symmetrical group layout form extending in both vertical and horizontal directions, with three vertical axes as the main and two horizontal axes as the auxiliary. Daimiao starts from the south gate of Jiutai City in the south and ends at the central axis of Nantianmen in the north.

Dai Temple shows the Confucian concept of etiquette with its internal architectural layout. The whole building complex is centered on a north-south longitudinal axis and extends horizontally in a balanced way. The main buildings located on the central axis are: Medicine Canting Hall, Daimiao Square, Zhengyangmen, Peitianmen, Ren 'anmen, Tianyige, Zhongshu and Houzai Gate. There is an east-west corridor between Ren 'anmen and Tianzhu Hall, which constitutes the central closed courtyard of Dai Temple.