On March 8th, the first launch of the Chinese Ancient Architecture Enlightenment Tour In depth Rese

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-03

For researchers and enthusiasts of ancient Chinese architecture, Shanxi is like a "king bomb", with a large number of ancient architectural relics embedded in the urban countryside here. From the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, there were 518 wooden buildings in Shanxi, accounting for 82% of the country. The architectural essence of the Liao, Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties is in Shanxi, and the architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties is ...... everywhere

Shanxi is known as the "treasure house of ancient Chinese architecture" because of its long historical span, complete era sequence, numerous categories, complete shapes, and wide distribution.

Come to Shanxi and see the ancient buildings. Now it has become a must-check item for fans of ancient architecture, but for many enthusiasts, in the face of a huge number ......of ancient buildings, if they don't know the essentials, it is like seeing flowers in the fogTherefore, we have invited expert lecturers to help in this issue, Duan Bin: Ph.D. in History from Nanjing University, Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Japan, and is currently a lecturer at the School of History and Culture of Shanxi University. His research interests include the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chinese history and human geography, and Shanxi local history. He has participated in the compilation of six books and written more than 10 academic articles, and has a unique understanding of the humanistic context of mountains and rivers.

This itinerary].

day1: Gather in Taiyuan all day and stay in Taiyuan in all seasons or similar day2: Jin Temple - Guanwang Temple - Hongfu Temple in Wutai Vienna or similar.

Day3 : Nanchan Temple - Foguang Temple Sutai, Wutai Vienna or similar.

Day4 : Guangji Temple - Cixiang Temple Yanqing Temple Su, Pingyao Hanting or similar.

Day5 : Shuanglin Temple - Zhenguo Temple Return to Taiyuan for dissolution.

Each group is limited to 25 people, which can be customized for the group).

Registration consultation] private message.

You need to know before you register].

1. Meeting place: Taiyuan, Shanxi

2. Return location: Taiyuan, Shanxi (you can also stay in Pingyao if you want to).

3. Activity time: 32-3.6/3.8-3.12/3.15-3.19

4. Research fee: 3980 yuan per person, 600 people in a single room

Inclusions] 1. Transportation: The whole process is air-conditioned and comfortable, and the professional lecturer will explain and interact with each other.

2. Accommodation: double standard room in a star-rated hotel, if you need a single room, please make up the difference in the single room.

3. Tickets: Tickets for the scenic spots listed throughout the whole process, half price for students and the elderly, 1Free for military personnel under 2 meters.

4. Catering: 4 breakfasts + 8 meals throughout the whole process, with sufficient mineral water**.

5. Insurance: Personal accident insurance for domestic travel, about refund: due to the need to pay for the organization of activities in advance, so the activity is cancelled 8 days before, and the bank fee of 6/1000 will be charged when the refund is made; Cancellation within one week, half of the refund will be given; Cancellation on the day of the event, 20% refund;

7. About shopping: There is no shopping on the way, and there are no other charges.

8. Return tips: The time of each group is around 18:00, and it is recommended to buy a return ticket after that period of time for high-speed rail tickets; For air tickets, it is recommended to purchase a return ticket after 19:00.

Excludes

1. The transportation cost to and from Taiyuan in various places.

2. Food and beverage consumption other than meals during the itinerary.

3. Other personal expenses and consumption.

Itinerary Stops].

1- Jin Temple (Song Dynasty).

Jin Ancestral Hall, formerly known as Jin King Ancestral Hall, originally known as Tang Shuyu Ancestral Hall, was built to commemorate Tang Shuyu, the founding prince of the Jin Kingdom and his mother, Yi Jiang, and set the only and precious historical and cultural heritage integrating ancient Chinese sacrificial buildings, gardens, sculptures, murals, and inscription art, and it is also the world's architecture, garden, and sculpture art center.

2- Guanwang Temple (Jin Dynasty).

Dingxiang Guanwang Temple, also known as Guandi Temple, is located in the north of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province, was built in the Song Dynasty Huizong Xuanhe five years, was originally the west hall of Zhaohui Lingxian Temple complex, Jin Zhang Zongtai and eight years of plastic Guan Yu statue restructured into a martial temple. At present, only the main hall of Guanwang Temple remains, which is the original structure of the Jin Dynasty.

3- Hongfu Temple (Jin Dynasty).

The main hall of Hongfu Temple is the remains of the Jin Dynasty, and the rest is the building of the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are statues in the main hall, the east side hall and the west ear hall. In the temple, there are also gold, Ming Dynasty scriptures and Ming and Qing Dynasty steles. Hongfu Temple preserves the buildings, statues, scriptures, inscriptions and other cultural relics of Jin Zhiqing, and is rich in historical and cultural connotations.

4- The main hall of Nanchan Temple (Tang Dynasty).

The main hall of Nanchan Temple, 3 rooms wide, 4 rafters (3 rooms) deep, single eaves rest on the top of the mountain. Although the main hall is not large, it has an extremely important position in the history of Chinese architecture and sculpture because it is the oldest of the wooden structures of the semi-Tang Dynasty in China, plus the 17 colored sculptures of the Tang Dynasty in the hall.

5- East Hall of Foguang Temple (Tang Dynasty).

Foguang Temple, founded in the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (471 499). In the eleventh year of Tang Dazhong (857), it was rebuilt. The whole temple covers an area of 34,000 square meters, there are more than 120 halls and buildings in the Tang Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, 3 Tang Dynasty scripture buildings, 1 Jin Dynasty scripture building, 4 plaques of the Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, 8 ancient towers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, including 1 Northern Wei Tower, 6 Tang Towers, 1 Jin Dynasty Tower, and 12 stone tablets and more than 330 colored sculptures of the Tang, Jin and Ming dynasties, as well as hundreds of square meters of precious murals in the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, which can be described as a grand view garden of ancient Chinese cultural relics.

6- The main hall of Guangji Temple (Yuan Dynasty).

Guangji Temple now only the main hall of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, located in the north end of the axis of the temple, the main hall is five rooms wide, three rooms deep, for the single eaves hanging mountain type building, the bucket arch is made of huge materials, the column head is made of raspberry type roll brake, the side angle rises obviously, the hall is built with a reduced column, the front groove is not set up with a pillar, the second slightly with a large inner forehead to support the flat beam, the rear groove only uses two thick golden pillars, the main hall building is solemn and elegant, the Yuan wind blows the face, it is the model work of the Yuan Dynasty architecture in the north of the Jin Dynasty.

7- Yanqing Temple (Jin Dynasty).

The main hall of Yanqing Temple is the building of the Jin Dynasty, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain, and the face is three rooms wide. The wall is slanted upwards, and the two mountains and the rear eaves pillars are wrapped in the wall. A bucket arch in the tween. The outer eaves and arches are all made by stealing hearts. The front eaves and the two mountains are 45 degrees oblique arch, and the oblique arch is unique to Liaojin architecture. The eaves column head in the middle is decorated with animal heads, which is not the original of the Jin Dynasty and was added during the Qing Dynasty. The head of the beast is a Tibetan gluttony, and the distribution in Shanxi is basically centered on Wutai Mountain, which is more common in the north of Shanxi and less common in the southeast of Shanxi.

8- Cixiang Temple (Jin Dynasty).

Cixiang Temple is located in Pingyao County, Hongshan Town, Jiguo Village (formerly known as Shengju Temple), Song Renzong Qingli began to build the Lutai Tower, Huangyou three years (1051) changed to Cixiang Temple. At the end of the Song Dynasty, the temple burned the tower and destroyed, and the tower was raised at the site of the old tower during the Jintianhui period. In addition to the main hall and the brick tower are relics of the Jin Dynasty, the rest are rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty.

9- Shuanglin Temple (Northern Qi).

The preciousness of Shuanglin Temple lies in the fact that each hall is basically intact in the preservation of the full hall of colored sculptures, the value of the colored sculptures is extremely high, the fusion of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, folk beliefs, plus all kinds of pavilions, flowers, grasses, fish and insects as decoration, smart and natural, natural.

10- Zhenguo Temple (five generations).

There are 44 buildings of the five dynasties, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in the Zhenguo Temple, 51 colored statues, more than 100 murals, and a big iron bell cast by the Golden Emperor in five years, more than 20 large and small tablets, and a piece of "half section of the tablet" that remains in the Northern Han Dynasty of the five dynasties. Zhenguo Temple is one of the five existing wooden buildings of the Five Dynasties period in China, and it is also the only temple with five generations of statues preserved in the national temple view.

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