Address: Cableway Town, Shexian County, Handan, Hebei.
Brief introduction of Wafangdian scenic spots:
Tile Palace, commonly known as Grandma Ding, is a historic site located in Fenghuang Mountain (ancient Huangshan Mountain) in Shexian County, southern Hebei Province. It depends on the mountain and makes good use of nature. The predecessors called it a natural place. The architecture here is not only magnificent and unique, but also preserves the rare cliff stone carvings in China. It is a rare natural and cultural landscape and is listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Shexian tile palace is the largest and earliest ancient building in China, dedicated to the ancient goddess Nu Wa. It is another detached palace built in Levin, Wen Xuandi, Northern Qi Dynasty, which belongs to provincial key cultural relics protection units. Three stone chambers were first opened in the Wa Palace and several statues were carved. After renovation and continuous construction, there are 35 existing buildings/kloc-0, covering an area of 760,000 square meters, which are divided into two groups of buildings: the mountain and the mountain. Yamashita related to the definition of the Palace, Guangsheng Palace and Monument Square. You can reach the highest palace by walking up eighteen stone roads.
Wa people's palaces are used to worship Nuwa, a famous fairy tale in ancient China. According to ancient books such as Huai Nan Zi, Lu Zhi and Du Yizhi, Nu Wa once made people from earth, sent children as a career, and refined five-color stones to make up the sky, which was enough to set up four poles. Since then, human beings and all things have survived and multiplied, winning the respect and memory of the world. For the Han nationality under the rule of feudal culture with ethics as the core, they regard Nu Wa as the most accomplished saint in the world, so they build palaces and temples for it and enjoy the worship of the world forever.
Wagong site was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, with a history of 1400 years. It was built during the reign of Emperor Gao Yang (550,560 AD). According to the inscription here, the monuments here were first established during the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, but at first they were very small, with only three temples. According to the records of Shexian County, Levin in the Northern Qi Dynasty took Ye as its capital (Ye, now Ye Town, southwest of Linzhang County, Hebei Province), Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi Province) as its capital, and Levin went from Ye to Jinyang at the foot of the mountain, so he went out to inspect the palace. Levin is a historian who likes to engrave Buddhist scriptures. Here, he built a palace on a large scale, dug a stone chamber at the foot of the mountain, carved Buddha statues in it, and later put Buddhist scriptures on the rock wall. In the Ming dynasty, many palaces were built one after another, and in the Qing dynasty, they were rebuilt on a large scale. After repeated construction, it has gradually become a building complex covering an area of10.5 million square meters.
The architectural layout of the tile palace makes full use of the original terrain, relying on mountains and rivers, taking advantage of the situation and being ingenious. It consists of four groups of buildings, each with its own charm, which is self-contained and coordinated with the overall pattern. The three buildings at the foot of the mountain are Yuan Chao, Master Kong and Guangsheng from bottom to top. Yuan Chao Palace (Yuan Shifang) was named Yuan Chao because it was the first temple in front of the mountain (/KLOC-0 was burned by the Japanese invaders in 938). Definition Palace (Ma Xie Palace) is a sacred palace for drivers and pilgrims to rest. Every year on March 18 of the Chinese lunar calendar, people hold a ceremony to celebrate the birthday of the gods in this palace. On the gable of this palace (Ma Xie Hall), there is a panoramic view of the palace and a mural: a waiting map. Nu Wa, a dragon pulling a rickshaw in a luxurious chariot, galloped past the sky in Wan Li with the company of fairies and the protection of heavenly soldiers. This is a precious work of art, and Guangsheng Palace (Children's Hall) is a temple and a place to find children in myths and legends. The two palaces, Tingyi and Guangsheng, each have a main hall and an auxiliary hall, which are suspended mountains and hard mountains respectively. From the foot of the mountain around 18 circle, after Guangsheng Palace is grandma's top of the mountain.
Tile Palace is the last tallest major building complex, built on the steep slope of Phoenix Cliff. The Wayu Pavilion (the third attic) is in the center, the dressing building is separated from the guest building, and the bells and drums on the second floor are opposite. There are also hexagonal pavilions, Lingguan pavilions and memorial archways engraved with Wa imperial monuments. , all decorated, all buildings are reasonably laid out.
Huangyuting (three-story attic), located on the east and west sides, is the main building of Huang Yu Palace. In ancient times, it was known as leaning on a cliff to cut risks. It stood in mid-air and was 23 meters high. It was the sulfur glass tile roof of the inclined mountain bucket arch. The pavilion was built on the ceiling of the Northern Qi grottoes. Based on a stone arch coupon, it is built in three layers, which are named "Clearing Deficiency", "Nature" and "Filling Heaven" respectively. There are corridors on three sides of each floor, backed by cliffs, and the pavilion body is connected with eight tied horse noses cut by cliffs with iron ropes. If tourists crowd the building, the iron rope will stretch like a bowstring and the building will lean forward. Therefore, it is also called hanging temple and living building, which is a masterpiece of dynamic and static combination in the history of architecture. Looking at Huangyuting from afar, it is embedded in the precipice, carved with beams and painted with buildings, and overlooking the building. Taihang Mountain is green and watery. It can be called a world made in heaven.
For thousands of years, the Forbidden City has been burned down for several generations. Today's buildings are mostly Ming and Qing dynasties, while the remains of the Northern Qi Dynasty only leave grottoes and cliff stone carvings. In addition to the grottoes at the bottom of Huangyuting, there are three grottoes left on the cliff, and there are two grottoes on the right side of the grottoes, namely Eye and Silkworm Aunt. The stone statues in the grottoes have been damaged and incomplete, but the scriptures carved on the inner wall are relatively complete. Among the cultural relics of Huang Yu Monument, the cliff stone carving is the most precious, which is the essence of this monument. Cliff carvings are divided into five places, with a total area of 165 square meters. The largest one, with an area of 54.137,400 words, with an area of 54. 18 square meters and a word count of more than 4 100 words. The fonts are all Weibei calligraphy and silver hook iron paintings, which are unparalleled in the world and can be called art treasures. The contents of the engraved scriptures are all Mahayana Buddhist classics, which provide very precious historical specimens and materials for the study of Buddhism and Northern Qi culture, and are rare in China. Judging from the existing Northern Qi stone carvings in China, most of them are related to Buddhism. There was a strong trend of carving Buddha statues at that time. However, it is still rare to learn from cliff stone carvings with huge projects. It can be said that the Wagong Cliff Stone Carvings have high historical and artistic value in terms of stone carving architecture, artistic value and the contents of Tibetan scriptures, and they are also a microcosm of Northern Qi culture. At the same time, it can be seen that the site of the ancient Wadi started from worshipping Buddha and carving scriptures, and then built a temple to worship the gods, which also reflected the cultural and psychological characteristics of the Han nationality, that is, worshipping Buddha and worshipping gods at the same time. Therefore, carving scriptures on the cliff to the ancient building of Wadi is also an image witness of the combination of local culture and foreign culture in China.
The Royal Pavilion, also known as the Three Attics, sits east to west and is built on the ceiling of the Beiqi Grottoes. It is named "Qing Xu", "Nature" and "Tianbu" from bottom to top, and it is 23 meters high. The architectural style is the rest of the mountain, with a dragon-shaped head. It is a typical Qing dynasty building and the main building of the palace. It hangs in the air, with magnificent buildings, steep rocks at the top and deep valleys at the bottom, just like the Gui Dian Lan Palace embedded in the precipice, so it has the reputation of "leaning on the cliff and chiseling risks, magnificent and magnificent, sitting like Xia Wei". Its unique natural terrain is wonderful, and its ingenious architectural style is amazing. There are corridors on three sides of each floor, with the back facing the cliff, and the building is tied to the cliff wall with nine iron cables. It is said that when tourists make profits, iron chains clank, so they are called "talking buildings" and "hanging temples".
Among the cultural relics of the Wa emperor's monuments, the cliff stone carvings are the most precious. There are six * * * inscriptions on the cliff, which are carved on five cliff walls, with a total area of 165 square meters, stone carvings 1 187 lines, * * inscriptions 137400 characters, and the font is Weibei, "Silver Hook Iron Painting, chinese odyssey".