Jueshan Temple Tower is located in the east of Lingqiu County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, surrounded by mountains. Take the Lingqiu exit of Wurong Expressway and go south and east along the provincial road s20 1, about12km. The car entered the mountainous area and meandered along the Tanghe Canyon. The steep mountains, difficult roads, beautiful scenery and the grandeur and novelty of Taihang Mountain were frightening.
Jueshan Temple is backed by Jueshan and faces the Tang Valley. The opposite mountain is called coffin mountain, and the mountain four kilometers south is called Taohua mountain, which is a famous tourist attraction. More than a thousand years ago, when farming civilization and grassland civilization interacted and merged, it was obvious how hard people had to pay to build large temples in this harsh natural environment.
The temple was built in the seventh year of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and its full name is Zhao Pu Jueshan Temple, which was built by Emperor Xiaowen to repay his mother's kindness.
Then, why did Emperor Xiaowen of Wei build a temple to thank his mother? This stems from a cruel "ancestral system" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, the death of your mother.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, in order to compete for the Central Plains, Tuoba's family allied with Helan, Dugu and Murong tribes, and it took several generations of marriage to maintain the power order. However, Chu Jun's establishment and accession to the throne often depend on the strength of his mother and clan, which can be described as "the establishment of mother hadron".
Because emperors are generally short-lived, most of them are in their twenties and thirties, and the new king is young, so it is objective and inevitable for the queen and empress dowager to listen to politics. In order to prevent consorts from interfering in government affairs and disrupting political order, after some power struggles, Tuoba GUI, the Emperor of Daowu, constantly strengthened centralization, and "the death of a son and mother" began to become a practice at the turn of generations.
Wei Xiaowen's emperor Tuoba Hong was made a prince at the age of three. His birth mother was killed, and even the Li family was slaughtered. TaBaHong was brought up by his grandmother Feng Taihou. At the age of five, his father was forced to abdicate, TaBaHong succeeded to the throne, and Feng Taihou resigned to death.
At the age of three, my mother died for herself. Tuoba Hong's yearning and gratitude for his mother can be seen, and gratitude for building a temple is also reasonable.
All the existing buildings were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, but this Jueshan Temple Tower was rebuilt in the late Liao Dynasty. Although it has been eroded by earthquakes and wind and rain for nearly a thousand years, it still stands tall. The ancient people's architectural skills and art are amazing.
Jueshan Temple Tower is a 13 octagonal brick tower rebuilt by Liao Daozong in A.D. 1089, especially the mural of Liao Dynasty preserved on the inner wall of the tower on the first floor, which is a treasure handed down from generation to generation.
Tomorrow's earthquake of magnitude 7 in Lingqiu will destroy countless houses, and all temple buildings will collapse, except the brick tower. Now we can see this rare treasure.
Liao Daozong was the eighth emperor of Liao, and one of his deeds was to listen to the slanderous stories of the traitor Ye Luyixin, the prime minister and others who framed the queen and the only official Zhao Youran, and put her to death, which was known as the "Ten Fragrant Words Wrongful Case".
Xiao Guanyin is also a talented woman with both talents and looks. She can recite poems from an early age, including classics and sub-books. As an adult, Xiao Guanyin likes reading and is good at talking. She can also write her own lyrics and is good at playing guzheng, especially pipa. She is recognized as the first among the Khitan poets.
Xiao Guanyin's famous article "Hu Fulin Ying Zhi" says: "Wan Li will overwhelm the south and cross the Yalu River to the east. Ghosts are frightened, but tigers don't surrender. " Frontier poems in Tang Dynasty have a legacy.
This Jueshan Temple is unique because of its "three pagodas", that is, the height of brick pagodas, phoenix pagodas and sumeru pagodas in the Liao Dynasty, and the depth of ancient wells in the temple are all thirteen feet (about 43.33 meters), also known as "tower well and mountain atmosphere", which is one of the "nine views and eighteen depressions" in Lingqiu.
So, what is "nine views and eighteen depressions"?
The so-called nine scenes refer to:
Tajing Mountain Seven Mount Temple, Bai Mapo Spring White Horse Temple, Baisong Luan Bu Dengfeng Temple, Donkey Towing Water Huangtai Temple, Early Planting and Late Harvest Temple, Bell and Drum Hanging Upside Down Dayun Temple, One Tree and Two Shadows Shuangfeng Temple, Drip into Bell Longquan Temple and Blissless Temple.
Eighteen depressions mean: there is no wine to drink in a mess, and there is no cloth to wear in the shuttle; The water reed does not punt, and the door is on the water; Carry water instead of water, the ancient river carries water; The three mountains are not in the mountains, and the Qiao River is in the mountains; There is a Yudong in the west and a West Horse Circle in the east. There is a ditch in the south in the north and a spring in the north in the south. The village is not small, and the earth is inconspicuous; The Great Wall has no city, and Shimonoseki does not pass; There is white mud in Dahuangling, but no charcoal in Yanya.
Looking back at the antiquities, the man of the Millennium condensed in this Guttari in the misty rain.