Wuxian Temple is built on the mountain, with a head gate, a back hall, an East Zhai and a West Zhai. Wuxian Temple is a green glazed tile, which rests on the top of the mountain with double eaves. The wooden frame is well preserved and exquisitely made. On the east side of the back hall, there are huge footprints and caves on a piece of red sandstone. The ancients always thought it was a "fairy's thumb print", mainly for protection. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "Sui Dong Tian" and "Wuxia Cave" were listed as eight scenic spots in Yangcheng.
Chinese name: Wuxian Temple Location: Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province Ticket price: free opening hours: 9: 00- 17: 00 Famous scenic spots: Houdian and the first floor of Lingnan. Construction time: Ten years famous scenic spots in Ming Hongwu: Houdian, the first floor of Lingnan and Wuyang Xianbei. Country: China. City: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Suggested playing time: 1-2 hours. Suitable for playing season: must-read before going all the year round, scenic spot dynamics, scenic spot introduction, key information, scenic spot beautiful picture, development history, main scenic spots, Houdian, the first floor of Lingnan, Wuyang immortal archway, tourism information, related legends, version 1, version 2, version 3, religious track, development history. Wuxian Temple has been built and abandoned repeatedly in history, and its current site has undergone many changes. According to relevant historical records, there was a temple dedicated to five immortals in Guangzhou during the Northern Song Dynasty. During the period of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (1208 ~ 1224), the temple was moved to Chi Pan, a jade liquid in the West Lake, which is now near Xihu Road, and was named Fengzhen Temple. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, it moved to Renguang Road. In the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1368), Wuxian Temple was destroyed by a fire. Until the tenth year of Hongwu (1377), it moved to Poshan Lane, Huifu West Road, which was built by Zhao Sijian, the deployment envoy of Guangdong Province. Wuxian Temple During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scale of Wuxian Temple was quite grand, with more than a dozen halls. The original zhaobi, archway, mountain gate, middle hall and back hall are flanked by Dongxizhai, Sanyuan Taoist Temple and porch. Zhaobi, Archway, Central Hall, Sanyuan Hall and Gallery have all disappeared, and only some old buildings such as Yimen, Houdian, East House, West House and "Lingnan First Building" can be visited by tourists. The appearance of Wuxian Temple is three rooms wide and two rooms deep, with green glazed tiles resting on the top of the mountain and blue masonry feet. The ancient view of five immortals on the forehead of Shimen was written by Rui Lin, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the decade of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (187 1). Yimen also preserves a pair of stone unicorns carved with volcanic rocks in Shuzhugang, which are very rare and precious cultural relics in China. On the east side of Yimen, there is an annular hurdle pool in the original Huifu West Road Primary School, which contains ten natural red sand stones and is about 4 meters wide. This is a rare primary stone, that is, the "otolith" in the eight scenic spots of the old Yangcheng. On closer inspection, the "immortal thumb mark" is in the depression on the stone surface, which looks like a big footprint. Into the instrument door, that is, the ruins of the middle hall, and then the back hall. The width of the back hall is12m, the depth is10m, and the height of the hall is 7m. It is located on the top of the mountain, with double eaves and covered with green glazed tiles. The two ends of the spine are decorated with back stripes, the middle is two inverted claws, and the middle spine brake is a jewel. The main truss of the temple is engraved with the words "December 12th, 16th year of Daming Jiajing". The inner eaves are paved with 6 storeys of 3-story bucket arches, which are exquisitely arranged and separated by four walls. Originally square doors and windows, smart and transparent. The whole Houdian has the characteristics of ancient buildings in Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most complete preserved Ming Dynasty building in Guangzhou. Before liberation, "Wudang Five Immortals Temple" was located in the inner street of Huifu West Road, which was the historical symbol of Guangzhou's founding in 2000. It is said that there were five immortals riding five-colored sheep in ancient times, and the five sheep came to the vicinity of the original Wuxianmen Power Plant in Haizhu Square, Guangzhou (the original site of the power plant was Wuxianmen Street). The arrival of the Five Immortals has brought good weather, abundant crops and peace to Guangzhou. To commemorate the happiness of the Five Immortals, Guangzhou is called "Yangcheng". "Five Immortals Temple" is the "Poshan Ancient Crossing" of the Pearl River in the Jin Dynasty in 265 AD, with a river surface of 1.500 meters. Now, the sea has become a mulberry field, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was included in the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng as an "ear cave". At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Guangzhou demolished the city wall and expanded the road. The Five Immortals Temple is named "welfare road" because it is the blessing of Yangcheng. In 2000, nearly 10,000 square meters of houses around the Five Immortals Temple were demolished, and in 2004, the Five Immortals Temple was restored to its original appearance. The section of Huifu West Road near Jiefang Road is the famous Lantern Street in Hong Kong and Macao. There are many paper shops that produce lifelike lights, figures, animals and ancient houses, and are also places where arched artists (scaffolding workers) gather. After liberation, due to superstition, Lantern Street disappeared and artists jumped ship. According to the * * * plan of Yuexiu District, the future Wuxian Scenic Area will focus on the first floor of Wudang Five Immortals Temple and Lingnan, and combine the square construction and surrounding environment improvement to carry out folk art performances and customs display. The plan also plans to build three residential scenic spots, namely Sweet Water Lane, Jincheng Lane and Yileli, to show the unique customs of local traditional architectural groups through the transformation and development of a number of characteristic buildings. Sweet Water Lane is mostly a traditional bamboo tube house in Guangzhou. Ventilation, lighting and drainage mainly depend on patio. From front to back, the patio is divided into multiple rooms, and more attics are built inside. The bungalow in Jincheng Lane is a two-or three-story building with western architectural style in the 1920s and 1930s, and the materials are mainly red brick buildings prevailing in modern times. The buildings of Yileyi are mostly in the classical style of western architecture, and some of them are two or three-story buildings in the traditional form of China, with gardens in front. There are three back halls in the main scenic spot, with a width of 12.4m and a depth of 10m and a height of 8m. Green glazed tiles rest on the top of the mountain, double eaves, ridges decorated with glazed dragon patterns and glazed fishing beads. There are eight rafters in the inner groove, six bunkers and three vaults, and two vaults in the outer eaves support cornice trusses, spindle-shaped columns, and flat beams and four rafters form moon beams, humps, forks and braces. The style is simple and retains the architectural techniques of the early Ming Dynasty. At the bottom of the ridge purlin are the words "Longji Dingyou was built in the 16th year of Jiajing in Daming, and Ji Dan in Shen Bing was built on November 21st". The material of the bucket arch is slightly thinner, with a height of 18 cm and a thickness of 8 cm. There are dark pages in the bucket, which is simple to decorate. The facade of the temple has a moderate proportion, which not only retains the architectural style of the early Ming Dynasty, but also has local characteristics. It is a well-preserved Ming Dynasty wooden structure building in Guangzhou. On the original red sandstone on the east side of the back hall, there is a footprint-shaped cave, next to which is a stone tablet engraved with "immortal thumb print". This is the trace of water erosion in the ancient Pearl River flood period, and folklore is the footprint left by the gods. The Jin Dynasty called it "the ancient mountain crossing". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wuxian Temple successively listed "Sui Dong Tian" and "Wuxian Xia Dong" as one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng. 1June, 989, Guangdong Province was declared as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. There are 14 square Song Zhiqing inscriptions and 1 stone Qi Lin in Wuxian Temple, and there is a building behind the first floor of Lingnan, which is an ancient building in the form of a tower. In the seventh year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1374), Governor Wang Guangyang built this building, seven years earlier than zhenhai tower. Its foundation is made of red sandstone, and the building is 7 meters high. It is connected with each other in the form of a city gate, and a huge eaves of a building is built on it, forming a spacious balcony, which looks solemn, majestic and simple. This building and five floors can be called "double walls" of Ming architecture. In the fourth year after the completion of the first floor of Lingnan, a big clock was cast and hung upstairs. This big clock is more than 3 meters high, more than 2 meters in diameter, 3 inches thick and weighs 5 tons. It is the largest iron clock in Guangdong. The clock crashed with a loud noise. "The sound of buckle can be heard ten miles away." This big clock is used to call people to put out the fire when there is a fire and other extraordinary accidents, and it is forbidden that nothing collides; There is also a saying that when this bell rings, there will be a plague in the city-hence the name "Forbidden Bell". This building is also called the Bell Tower. The weight of the forbidden clock is amazing. What's even more amazing is that this clock is hung by only one kudzu vine. Legend has it that this vine is related to Lv Dongbin. In ancient times, a great official passed by in a sedan chair, and the rope that tied the sedan chair bar was broken. He ordered the sedan chair bearer to find the rope to tie the sedan chair bar within half an hour. The sedan chair bearer was anxiously looking for it when he suddenly saw an old man coming from the roadside. The old man pointed to a kudzu vine on the rock and said, "You can use that vine." The sedan chair bearer saw the vines were thin and short, and thought the old man was going to play a trick on him. Suddenly, the old man disappeared, and the sedan chair bearer knew that he had met a fairy, so he quickly tore off kudzu vine to tie the sedan chair. Strangely, kudzu tied longer and longer until he tied the sedan chair bar firmly. When they arrived at the station, the bearers examined it carefully and saw the words "Lv Dongbin" engraved on the vine's tail. Only then did they realize that it was an immortal vine given by Lv Dongbin. Later, the Wuxian Temple and the Big Bell Tower were built in Poshan, and a rope was needed to hang the big clock. The sedan chair bearer gave a fairy vine, and the tiny kudzu vine was firmly hung with a thousand-kilogram copper bell. The story is a story after all, and the legend may not have happened, but it is an indisputable fact that a kudzu vine hangs that heavy clock. In the Ming Dynasty, clocks were forbidden. In addition, the bronze bell and its body are engraved with inscriptions and seals, which were cast in the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378). Under the bell mouth, facing the square wellhead in the center of the building foundation, it can make a * * * sound. As soon as the bell rang, the sound came from the voucher-shaped doorway. The bell rang far and wide and could be heard ten miles away. Legend has it that this kind of clock rings only in case of fire and other disasters, so it is also called "Forbidden Bell" and the building is also called "Forbidden Bell Tower". In the 1960s, Wuxianguan archway in Wuyang County was destroyed. In 2005, we began to plan to restore the archway in the original site, and the restoration design was undertaken by Professor Cheng Jianjun of South China University of Technology and Tuo Shi. The original abutment, bar stone, column foundation and other components were used in the repair. The restored archway is completely in accordance with the traditional style, with three rooms wide and two rooms deep, twelve columns and side angles, rising. Double eaves in the heart and single eaves in the second room are all in the form of temples. The dragon boat ridge on the roof is decorated with grass patterns, with a typical Guangfu water wave shape at the end and pearls and anchovies on the front ridge. Tourism information transportation: Take bus No.3, No.6, No.66, No.74, No.82, 124, No.217, No.227, No.541and get off at Huifu West Road Station. According to legend, in the eighth year of Zhou Yiwang (887 BC), Guangzhou suffered from famine for years and the fields were barren. One day, melodious music suddenly came from the sky in the South China Sea, and five colorful auspicious clouds appeared. There are five immortals in the sky, dressed in colorful clothes, riding goats of different colors and coming to Chuting with a big ear of rice in their mouths. The immortal gave the ear of rice to Guangzhou people and wished that there would never be a famine here. May the gods fly in the air, and the five fairy sheep turn into stones and stay on the hillside of Guangzhou. Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan. This is why Guangzhou is known as "Five Yangcheng", "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou". The situation of the Five Immortals Temple version is similar, except that it was the time when Koko, a native of the South China Sea, became Chu Weiwang, that is, during the Warring States Period in Zhou Xianwang. During the Sanjin period, Wu was the secretariat of Guangzhou, but before he took office, five immortals rode five-color sheep and came to the hall of guangzhou fu with food on their backs. Wu Xiu painted five immortals in the hall to show auspicious commemoration, and called Guangzhou the "Five Immortals City". Wuxian Temple on Huifu West Road in Guangzhou is said to be the place where the Five Immortals came. In order to commemorate the Five Immortals, Guangzhou people specially built the Five Immortals Temple there. There are statues of the Five Immortals and Five Sheep in the main hall. In order to thank the five immortals, the people of Guangzhou built a Wudang Five Immortals Temple where they came from. There is a statue of five immortals in the view, accompanied by a stone statue of five sheep. The five immortals are also called the Valley God. "Five immortals ride sheep and give ears of rice" is a very beautiful story, and the history of building temples according to this story goes back to ancient times. Religious Track Five Immortals Stone Statues During the Han and Jin Dynasties, the most representative relic of Guangzhou's primitive fairy witchcraft belief was the Five Immortals View. According to the records of the Five Immortals in Zhang Li of the Song Dynasty, there are references in Nanwulingbiao and Tujing. During the Han and Jin dynasties, "at the beginning, all the five immortals held ears of grain, and there were six stems and even five sheep." The clothes of the gods are different from those of the sheep, and the colors are like five squares. " Ren Guang is a sacred place because of its geographical location. "This is the predecessor of the Five Immortals concept. Guangzhou, also known as Yangcheng and Guangzhou, also originated from this. Before the Song Dynasty, there were Taoist practices here. Cheng Shimeng said: If you want to lift a canoe, you must have good neighbors. Jiang Shiyun: The mansion is open to the west. I'll worship and burn incense. The statue in the hall can see five immortals riding five sheep. It has been relocated many times in the past dynasties, from Shixianfang (now Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance) in the Song Dynasty to Guxi Lake (now Education Road) in the late Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. In the tenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (AD 1377), the original site was changed to Guangfeng Library, and the temple was moved to the old site of Broken Mountain (now Huifu West Road) and another five immortals were sculpted. In the fifth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1469), it was rebuilt in the first year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1723). In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), it still covers an area of more than 4,600 square meters. That year, Guangzhou City Hall auctioned Wuxian Temple, and prepared to pay for it. Zhongshan would buy the venue and dismiss the monks in the temple. Now it is a cultural relic protection unit in Guangzhou.