Shenyang Taoist Fortune Telling _ How does a Taoist see things in Shenyang?

Taiqing Palace, a Taoist monument in Shenyang, Liaoning Province

Shenyang Taiqing Palace is located at No.6/KLOC-0, Chengxishun Street, Shenhe District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. It is one of the largest Taoist ten-square jungles in Northeast China. It was founded in the second year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1663) by Guo Shouzhen, the eighth descendant of Quanzhen Longmen School.

Guo Shouzhen, the word is empty, and the road number is Jing Yoko. When there was a drought in Shengjing (now Shenyang), the court welcomed Guo Shouzhen, who was practicing in the Babao Guang Yun Cave in Tieshan Mountain, Benxi, to pray for rain, and then asked him to build three churches here. In the center of the hall is a statue of Taoist Laozi, and on both sides are statues of Confucian Confucius and Buddhist Sakyamuni, which embodies the original teaching purpose of Taoist Quanzhen School. Later, Guo Shouzhen's 14 disciples went to Qian Shan, Yiwulu Mountain and other places in the northeast to preach, so that Taoism was spread in the northeast. After three churches were flooded, the halls collapsed. Zhao Yichen, a high road in the temple, tried his best to raise funds, renovated it in turn and renamed it Taiqingguan.

Taiqing Palace, which faces south, has four courtyards and adopts quadrangle architecture pattern, which has both distinctive national architectural style and Taoist characteristics. There are eight halls, including Gongling Palace, Guandi Hall, Laojun Hall, Jade Emperor Hall, Sanguan Hall, Lvzu Hall, Guozu Hall and Qiuzu Hall.

There is a Lingguan Hall in the front yard, which was originally the gate of Taiqing Palace, and later it was changed to two floors and three rooms wide, with gray tiles. The temple is dedicated to Wang Lingguan and Zhao Lingguan. There was a pair of couplets in the Lingguan Temple: "Because you are eccentric, it is useless to burn incense. Why not worship me?" The east of the courtyard is Tang Shifang, and now the north of Tang Shifang has become a doorway, which serves as the Dongshan Gate of Taiqing Palace. On the west side of the hospital is Yunshuitang.

To the north of Lingguan Hall is Guandi Hall, which is located on the stone platform, with three rooms wide and three deep, and grey walls and tiles. The couplet on the doorpost reads: "Be loyal to the sun, the moon and the clouds." The wood carving warm pavilion in the temple is dedicated to Guan, with Guan Ping on the left and Zhou Cang holding a knife on the right.

Just north of the second courtyard is Laojun Hall, which is one of the main buildings of Taiqing Palace. It is three rooms wide and two rooms deep, with gray walls and tiles. There is a gold plaque of "Laojuntang" hanging on his forehead. Outside, on the colonnade, there is a pair of couplets written in Taoist difficult characters: jade furnace burns medicine to prolong life, and the right way repairs longevity pills. The couplet on the colonnade inside is: "One hundred and twenty rivers greet the purple gas, and five thousand virtues reveal the mystery." There is a hanging wooden pavilion in the hall, and I sit in it as a statue. On both sides are Wei Tuo and Wang Lingguan.

There is Lv Zulou on the east side of Sanjin Hospital. The floor is three rooms wide, two floors, covered with gray tiles. Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism, is enshrined in the temple, with Liu Zu on the left and Ji Zu on the right. Lu zu, the legend is that the Millennium willow tree transformed by Lu zu became immortal. Ji Zu, a native of Tieling, Liaoning Province in the Ming Dynasty, was brilliant. Because of being blocked by Yan Song, the imperial examination failed. He was inspired by Lv Zu and became a fairy. He is one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism. Lv Zu has a long history of architecture, and people are asking questions in an endless stream.

There is a Qiuzu Building on the west side of the courtyard, with the same architectural form as that on the east side, and a statue of Qiu Chuji is enshrined in the building.

In the middle of the north is the Jade Emperor Pavilion, with two floors, three rooms wide and two rooms deep, and grey walls and tiles. The upper inner roof is decorated with smallpox and painted with dragons and phoenixes. Nuange is dedicated to the statue of the Jade Emperor, with the land god on the left and Wang Lingguan on the right.