History of Jiulong Temple

The age of this temple is unknown. According to the available data, the Zhenwu Temple was built in the Arctic in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, which was unprecedented at that time, so it is speculated that it was built at the latest in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and Kangxi, Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty were rebuilt or added. 198 1 year, Hejin city carried out rescue maintenance on it, which made the temple look brand-new. Jiu Feng is shaped like a dragon, commonly known as Nine Dragons. Because of its beautiful purple rhyme, it was known as "Wollongong" long before Qingganlong. In the 11th year of Xianfeng (186 1), when Chongwen Shewang and others created Chongwen Pavilion and Chunyang Cave, the title was "Lindao". It is located above Miaohou Forest Road in Kowloon, covering an area of over 654.38+200,000 square meters. There are 160 steps at the foot of the piedmont temple. Climb it, enter the mountain gate, cross the stage, pass through the east-west cloister of the temple, climb more than 20 steps, and reach the Xiangting (rebuilt during the Qianlong period). A gold plaque on the front reads "Megatron Black River". Behind the incense pavilion is the Hall of Sacrifice, which faces north and south, with three rooms wide and two deep, and one room across the monastery from east to west. The more you cross the corridor, the more you enter the main hall. There are eight clay sculptures around, which are the guards of Zhenwu. From the main hall to the harem is Zhenwu Shen Ge. From the Fairy Hall to the northwest, there are Lv Zu Chunyang Cave, Fairy Pavilion, Wang Yao Temple, Chongwen Pavilion, Cloisters and Quzhu. After the Jade Emperor Pavilion, Wei Zi Dadi, Sangong, Huang San Cave and Laojun Hall, cross the worse gate, climb the plank road and reach the (destroyed) peak of Chaotian Palace. Jiulong Temple, with its abrupt living conditions and strewn at random, is incomparable to the location of general ancient buildings.

There are different opinions about the origin of Kowloon Temple. According to county records, Hejin was called Pishi County in the Qin Dynasty, and the county seat was located in the southeast of Suncun, facing Longmen (Yumenkou) in the north. Mr. Feng Shui said that the dragon is the symbol of the emperor, the Longmen symbolizes the emperor's gate, and the county gate cannot face the emperor's gate. Therefore, Pishi County is not allowed to open the north gate. As soon as the north gate opens, there will be rebellion, or the real dragon prince.

Since then, generations have followed, Longmen County and Hejin County have no north gate, but only two gates can be opened on the wall of Dongcheng, and the county is still four gates. In the seventh year of Taiping Zhenjun in the Northern Wei Dynasty (446), Pishi County was submerged by sand pressure, so it moved eastward to 1.5km and changed Pishi County to Longmen County. Later, in order to ward off evil spirits, temples were built one after another in Jiulong Mountain, such as Wang Yu Temple, Leigong Temple, Wang Yao Temple, Shansi Temple, Dijun Temple, Huang San Temple and Tianshen Temple. In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty (690), Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty changed her country name to Zhou and officially became the queen. This autumn, she returned to her hometown (Taiyuan) Wenshui County to worship her ancestors. She started from Chang 'an, passed through Hancheng, passed Yumenkou and rested in Longmen County. At night, she found thousands of roads in the north of Longmen County, and she didn't understand why. The magistrate replied, "These are several small temples in the north of the city. It is auspicious to put a strange lamp to welcome the holy drive at night. " Wu Zetian was very happy. She believed in Buddhism, so she renamed the Middle Temple Longque Temple and asked the state treasury to allocate funds to expand the temple.

In the second year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 120), Song Wu, a hero of Liang Shanbo, and the time when he moved his capital, set fire to the Longque Temple, and the Longmen magistrate reported it to the court. Believing in Taoism, Song Huizong, who claimed to be "Emperor Daojun and founder of Taoism", learned that Longque Temple was related to Liang Shanbo and was afraid that Longmen would give birth to the real Dragon Emperor, so he changed Longmen County to Hejin County and Longque Temple to Zhenwu Temple (namely Xuanwu Temple). Xuanwu is one of the four northern gods in ancient China mythology (called Zuo Qinglong, You Baihu, South Suzaku and North Xuanwu in ancient times), which was later believed by Taoism. According to legend, he was originally the prince of Jinggu Jingle King. He was born with an evil spirit and traveled in the East China Sea. When he was given this sword by the gods, he went to Wudang Mountain in Hubei Province to practice. After forty-two years of hard work, he rose during the day and became the Xuanwu king of Weizhen North.

During the Northern Song Dynasty (1008- 10 16), Xuanwu was changed to Zhenwu because of taboo. When he was in Song Zhenzong, he was honored as the "True Naive Wuling Yingsheng Emperor", referred to as "Zhenwu Emperor" for short, and was called "Zhenwu Emperor" in history. Because Zhenwu Emperor's birthday is on the third day of the third lunar month, and his ascension to immortality is on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, a grand temple fair is held in Zhenwu Temple on March 3rd and September 3rd every year, and residents around Hejin burn incense in Kowloon Temple to commemorate Zhenwu. Later, in the Yuan and Qing Dynasties (13 12), Hejin County was flooded by Fenshui again, and then moved to Gao Tai, Yili (now the old city) in the north. Some Taoists followed Yongle Palace to worship Lv Dongbin, and successively donated money to build Chongwen Pavilion, Chunyang Cave (that is, to commemorate Lv Zu Cave in Lv Dongbin and Chunyangzi Cave in Lv Dongbin), Huangsandong Cave and Chunyangzi Cave. Zhenwu Emperor is called the "boundless ancestor" and Lv Dongbin is called the "ancestor of Chunyang", so Jiulong Temple is also called the ancestral temple.

There is no clear record of the gods in Kowloon Temple in the old local chronicles and inscriptions, but there are different opinions in folk rumors. It is said that Notre Dame de Kowloon is the ninth sister of Notre Dame de Jinci. She was lazy when she was young, and her sister was angry. She said, "If you become a climate in the future, I will look back at you ..." The Kowloon Temple Fair is held on the eleventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. In ancient times, it was customary to carry Notre Dame de Jinci to Kowloon Temple, as if it were a sorority. At that time, we must let Notre Dame Cathedral behind Jinci advance to Kowloon Temple. It is said that if not, the sedan chair will be broken. The Kowloon Temple and the Notre Dame Temple in Jinci were built in the early Song Dynasty, so the two gods are said to be sisters. Some people say that it is the daughter of Emperor Huang of Dongyue. Look at the layout of the gods in Kowloon Temple. In the middle is Notre Dame de Kowloon, Yuan Jun, and on both sides are Notre Dame de Guangsisun and Notre Dame de Acne. It should be a Taoist figure. Huang's daughter, Queen Taishan, was called "the virgin of the fairy" and prevailed all over the country from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasties. Someone has built this temple all over the country to worship it, saying that it is a Huang Zhi girl, so it can be prepared. There is also a saying that Notre Dame de Kowloon is Lou Zhaojun after SHEN WOO, the wife of Gao Huan in Northern Qi Dynasty. Generations of kings in the Northern Qi Dynasty traveled between Jinyang and Yecheng (the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty, southwest of Linzhang, Hebei Province) all the year round, so they set up shrines to worship Lou Zhaojun. According to the Biography of SHEN WOO Building in the Northern Qi Dynasty, when Lou Zhaojun was born, there was a nursery rhyme called "Mother Kowloon"; The old local chronicles record: "Shibao Temple is the Empress Dowager Cixi of Wuming Building in the Northern Qi Dynasty ... Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Jinyang for a long time and felt that living there benefited a lot, so this temple was established."