Wusheng Palace in Enshi, Hubei Province

Wusheng Palace in Enshi, Hubei Province, is located on the terraced fields of Huluping outside the south gate of the city, with its tall and majestic terrain. Walking on the streets of urban and rural areas, you can see the antique gables of Cang Sang in Wusheng Palace through the antique wooden houses. On the slope on the east side of the temple, you can see the majestic arc volcanic wall, which is strewn at random.

Right in front of Wusheng Palace is the confluence of Qingjiang River, Bagongxi River and Gao Qiao River. In the southeast, it faces the Julian Tower across the Qingjiang River. From a distance, you can see Qingjiang turn, Qingjiang cliff of Longshou Mountain and National Highway 209, which are very spectacular.

Vu Thang Palace and Vu Thang Palace face south, solemn, exquisite and majestic. The white powder wall contrasts with the Shimen cave in the middle.

Shimen:1.6m wide and 2.5m high. Above the Shimen, there is a temple forehead engraved with the words "Wusheng Palace". Horsehead walls are criss-crossed, with dark ridge tiles, beautiful top line angle and prominent head angle. On both sides of Shimen, the original couplet "Enshi Wusheng Palace" said: "Confucius is both sacred and supreme, and he was born in Jiyi; Shang Yong, a gentleman, is not worried or afraid, and he is the foundation of human beings. " .

Wusheng Palace: The plane is a rectangular quadrilateral with narrow east and west and long north and south. Along the north-south central axis, there are theater (lower entrance), courtyard, Baoxia and main hall in turn.

Theater: 8.3 meters wide and 8.3 meters deep, with an ear room on each side, 2.7 meters wide and 4.3 meters deep; There used to be a pair of stone horses under the theater, but now there are only a pair of cylindrical rocks, and the stone horses are squatting there.

The theater is divided into a stage and a back room, and the back room is a place for makeup performances. There is a couplet in front of the theater, which reads, "Take history as a mirror, a few feet can be home, country and the world;" Thousands of people, there are sages and fools ",written during the maintenance in 2003. Standing on the stage, you can imagine that the whole building is decorated with lights, cigarettes, gongs and drums, happy events and full of playmates.

Courtyard: width 13.57m, depth 12.3m, width 13.6m and depth of Baoxia, which is connected with the main hall and the foundation is higher than the courtyard1.1m. The courtyard leading to Baoxia has stone steps on both sides and two wooden floors on both sides. The watchtower is17.7m deep, 3.4m wide and 2. 1 m above the ground. The ground and courtyard under the theater floor are inlaid with slate. There is a courtyard on each side of Baoxia, which is 8.3 meters deep and 4. 1 meter wide.

Hall and Baoxia: The water on the inner eaves at the top is discharged from the palace to the patio and drainage ditch through the sewer in the wall. The patio has two doors that turn outwards, forming seven steps in the form of "two in one" to reach the watchtower, which is connected with the theater.

Wusheng Palace Hall: Three rooms are wide and three rooms are deep, with a width of 13.6m and a depth of 14.5m, with tall and majestic wooden columns and squares; Like Baoxia, the ground is paved with concrete, and the stone piers and short columns under Baoxia and Xixia are as high as 1.8 meters.

What is rare is that the temple is thick and the sculptors are almost the same. Behind the main hall, the statues of Guan Di, Guan Ping and Zhou Cang were originally dedicated. At the top of the hall, between the rafters and the treasure chest, there was originally a wooden plaque hanging. When it was restored in 2003, a plaque was written. A painting in Bao Xia reads: "Loyalty, righteousness, courage and the true wisdom of the three religions hang in the sky; Jiuzhou Longting, worshiping Liling Zhaoge God as water to the ground "; There are two paintings in the main hall, one is "The ambition is in the Spring and Autumn Period, and historians intend to mistake tachileik for the past tense;" Later generations are respectful names, and it is Chen Han who dares to talk about the Spring and Autumn Righteousness for the emperor "; Another picture is "when a big country is far away from the earthquake, buyers must think of learning from the people and kowtow to them;" "If you enter this mountain, you should be careful if you want to leave it."

There is a door at the back of the hall. According to legend, there is a smaller Kannonji at Pingba in the back. rise

Wusheng Palace was built in the first year of Li Yong in Nanming (the fourth year of Qing Shunzhi 1647) by He Tengjiao, the general of Nanming. "Enshi County Records and Arts" (Tongzhi Edition of Qing Dynasty) and He Tengjiao's "Guan Sheng Temple Inscription" contain: "... Yu Xiezhong was in Zhu Xun Town and was ordered to supervise ... Wei Huai, the lieutenant of the battalion, which is suitable for building Shizhou. In the period of striving for economic benefits, I envy the appearance of the new temple, but I have never had a good land since Yuan 'an, and I have been unable to compete with Mercedes-Benz. Today, between the ancient temples of Yelang Nanguo, Kaiyuan and Siwen, the mountains are only martial and beautiful, with the snow-capped mountains of Mount Everest, water, iron ditches and Lijiang River ... "

He Tengjiao (1592- 1649), Minister of Nanming, was born in Liping, Guizhou. At that time, he was the magistrate of Nanyang during the Chongzhen period. In order to suppress the peasant uprising, he moved to Youdu as the suggestion and governor of Huguang. In the first year of Hong Guang (1645), he was appointed Governor of Huguang. In the first year of Li Yong (1647), the Qing army fell into Hunan, and he retreated to Guangxi. The following year, Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong took advantage of the situation to fight against the Qing Dynasty and recovered most of Xiangtan. Later, he was defeated and captured in Xiangtan.

A record of events carved on a stone tablet

The stone tablet of Guan Sheng Temple no longer exists. It is said that its stone tablet is very strange. In September of the 6th year of the Republic of China (19 17), Zheng Yongxi, the magistrate of Enshi County, wrote an inscription: "What's strange about Guan Miao Du Shi Bei?" ..... According to this monument, it is still intact, and the calligraphy is vigorous. It is quite conceivable that the history of giving people is mostly for supernatural purposes. Huang has a postscript in "Continued County Records": "The stone tablet in the Guanmiao outside the Chaoyang Gate in the south of the city is as bright as a mirror, and you can see landscape figures from miles away. Guangxu five years, you can give it to others, but ask the author of the inscription not to give a name. If you look at it in one day, Shi Yi looks like a person. Examining his essays, there are 250 words (a few words) at the end of the department, saying: In September, in Dinghai, the first year of Ming Taizu's General Political Department, the inspector was ordered to restore the military affairs of Jiang Yu, Chu Shu and Yunnan Gui, and the python jade was given a low price, acting as the minister of the Ministry of War and the monarch, and loyal to Wei Huai, Fan, and Zhao Tiren, the deputy commanders. Guerrillas Fan Qilin, Cheng Shouchan, Shang Denglong, Guo Wenchang, Wang Futu, Wang Guotai, Zhang Cunxiao, Qin Jide, Ma, Yan Minrui stood together ...' He Gongwen was saved from slapping because of his love for stones, but he Gongwen was lucky enough to live on stones, and the early popular words were indelible, so he was born.

Do textual research

To sum up, according to the notes in Ci Hai: Wu Temple, as opposed to the Confucian Temple, was called Wu Temple in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Zhao Yi's Jade Cong Kao (Volume 35) was published in the 22nd year of Wanli (1595), and was promoted to the title of Emperor, and the temple was called Hero ... and then he was promoted to Wu Temple.

Repair and replacement

In Wusheng Palace, there are 24 ancient monuments, such as Qingganlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, which are embedded in the back wall of the courtyard, the watchtower on the right side and the walls on both sides of the main hall. They are all important inscriptions, which are rare in number and rich in content. From June, 5438 to February, 2003, the inscription of Wusheng Palace was copied, which mainly recorded the history of the constitution, sacrifice, temple property and maintenance of the Sanying public gang of Nanhui, which was of great historical research value.

In the first year of Qianlong reign in Qing dynasty (1736), Shinan House began to set up Shinan Hui, a military organization with the rank of "Xie". Vu Thang Palace is a special place for the army to offer sacrifices to Guan Yu and other military-related activities, and it is also a temple for Shinan County to exercise defense and sacrifice. Therefore, there are many inscriptions or the most important records of the articles of association of the Third Battalion of Nanhui. * * * There are nine years of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (18 14), nineteen years of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty (1839), twenty-six years of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty (1846), nine years of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1859), etc.

In the 19th year of Qing Daoguang (1839), a tablet also recorded that "Chen Chang found out that he had written to the police after his relatives who died in Youying asked for help".

In the Qing Dynasty, Long Geng was granted the title of Shen Sui (1740), and in the 11th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1885), two inscriptions also recorded that the land and real estate purchased by Wusheng Palace were used as the capital for offering incense lamps. Qing Qianlong was forty-two years (1777), Qing Daoguang was fifteen years (1835), Qing Daoguang was seventeen years (1837), Qing Daoguang was twenty-two years (1842) and Qing Daoguang was thirty years (1) Buried in the righteous tomb of Guanshanyi in Wufeng Mountain (recorded in Enshi County Records: a righteous tomb of Guanshanyi in Wufeng Mountain) and sacrificed at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and donated the savings of these soldiers or the surplus of conscripts to Wusheng Palace. In the 22nd year of Daoguang (18442), the inscription reads: "Xin Chou (184 1) Spring Original Edition Association.

Regarding the maintenance of Wusheng Palace, there is only one memorial tablet, which is the List of Deacons of Wusheng Palace's Management of Temples (187 1) during the reign of Tongzhi Xinwei in the Qing Dynasty. The inscription records in detail the list of deacons in charge of management, supervision layout, bargaining with contractors, quantity of bricks and iron, etc. It seems that a large-scale maintenance was carried out on the Wusheng Palace.

Sacrificial activities

In Qing Dynasty, Vu Thang Palace was the southern mansion camp, and the troupe was in the camp. First, it sings Kunqu Opera, and every May 13, Guan Gong's birthday, it really sings with a knife and a gun. Vu Thang Palace is also a place where local operas are performed. After the Qing Dynasty's "Returning Home", China culture began to spread, and theaters and stage buildings began to rise. It is understood that the theater and watchtower of Wusheng Palace are well preserved so far, and the existing buildings of Wusheng Palace should be built in the Qing Dynasty. As for the sacrificial ceremony of Wusheng Palace, Enshi County Records Tanmiao made a detailed record: "Guandi Temple, the ceremony: spring, autumn, mid-month, there are three days of sacrifice on May 10th. Government, the judge of the Lord; The county magistrate, the magistrate of a county is responsible for this matter ... "And made a detailed record of the hall, the west stage, the east stage and the display throne in the hall.

During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, some troops of the Kuomintang Sixth Theater and the seriously wounded hospital were stationed here, and the internal facilities were abandoned, but the whole building was well preserved. After liberation, Vu Thang Palace was managed by county and city housing management offices and hexagonal pavilion offices, and more than 10 households were arranged to live in it. On the morning of the seventh day of the first month of 2003, Tang Tao, the new secretary of Enshi Prefecture Committee, and Zhou Xianwang, the governor, saw a mountain of garbage in front of Vu Thang Palace. There are more than ten families living in the palace, littered with firewood, cobweb-like wires, burning stoves and stoves. The magnificent buildings, sculptures, columns and gables of Cang Sang, the only provincial-level cultural relics protection unit on the banks of the 800-mile Qingjiang River, feel very heavy in the face of such embarrassment.

On February 8, at the Quanzhou Conference on Propaganda and Ideological Work, Secretary Tang said: "Culture is the root of the nation, and cultural relics are the carrier of culture. During the Spring Festival, I was heartbroken to see several cultural relics in the city, especially the Wusheng Palace. Immediately, the relevant departments were arranged to remove the garbage in front of the palace, resettle the residents and carry out maintenance and protection. Subsequently, Wu Xining, secretary of Enshi Municipal Party Committee, presided over several special meetings on the maintenance, protection, development and utilization of Vu Thang Palace, and asked the relevant departments directly under the municipal government to seriously implement them. The Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Municipal Housing Management Bureau, the Liujiaoting Sub-district Office and other departments cooperated closely and took measures to raise funds in various ways and intensify their work. On June 30, 2003, the maintenance project of Wusheng Palace was completed and opened to the outside world.