Located in the northern part of Tianjin, China, Jizhou District, formerly known as Jixian County, is a city with a profound historical heritage and rich cultural heritage. It not only has beautiful natural scenery, but also is famous for its many ancient buildings, which are like a three-dimensional history textbook, showing the world the outstanding architectural art and profound cultural accumulation of ancient China.
The first is the Dule Temple, which stands on the land of Jizhou for thousands of years, is one of the oldest existing wooden structure pavilion-style buildings in China, which was built in the Tang Dynasty, after the vicissitudes of wind and rain, still stands majestically, witnessing the changes of history. The core building of Dule Temple, Guanyin Pavilion, enshrines a 16-meter-high eleven-faced Guanyin Bodhisattva statue, which can be called a national treasure-level cultural relic, the shape is lifelike, the craftsmanship is exquisite, it is the treasure of ancient sculpture art in our country, attracting countless tourists and scholars to come to pay respect.
Although the Great Wall of Huangyaguan is not an ancient building in the traditional sense in the strict sense, it is an important pass of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and also has extremely high historical value and ornamental value. The Great Wall of Huangyaguan is winding, majestic and magnificent, like a giant dragon lying on the ridge, which is distributed with many military defense facilities such as enemy towers and battle platforms, vividly showing the rigor and completeness of the border defense system of the Ming Dynasty, and people can't help but sigh at the wisdom and courage of the ancient working people of our country.
Baita Temple, also known as Yuyang White Tower, is a precious architectural heritage left by the Liao Dynasty, with its unique white tower body is eye-catching, the tower body of about 30 meters high has smooth lines, elegant shape, like a bright pearl inlaid in the land of Jizhou, is listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Tianjin. It is not only a physical carrier of Buddhist culture, but also an important material material for the study of architectural art and historical culture of the Liao Dynasty.
Moreover, the Jizhou Confucian Temple, also known as the Xue Palace, is an important place for the people of Jizhou in the Ming and Qing dynasties to worship Confucius and promote Confucian culture. The whole building complex is large in scale and majestic, including the solemn and solemn Dacheng Hall, the Chongsheng Shrine and the Minglun Hall used for teaching and reasoning, etc., all of which reflect the importance of education and the admiration of Confucian culture by the ancients.
Finally, the Eight Immortals Mountain Bao'en Temple, which began in the Tang Dynasty and was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, is lined up with buildings such as the Tianwang Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, and the Tibetan Scripture Building in the temple, which contains a profound Buddhist cultural heritage. Every brick and tile, every mural, and every Buddha statue embodies the painstaking efforts and wisdom of craftsmen of the past generations, silently telling the story of thousands of years.
To sum up, these representative ancient buildings in Jizhou District, whether it is the uniqueness of architectural art, or the historical stories and cultural connotations they carry, have made them an indispensable part of the cultural treasure house of the Chinese nation. They are waiting for every tourist who loves history and culture to explore and understand, so that those historical memories that sleep in the years will shine more brightly in the new era.