(Shan Hai Jing Tu)
The world is like a chicken. Pangu was born in it. Eight thousand years old. Heaven and earth opened. Yang Qing is the sky. Cloudy is the ground. Pangu is among them. Nine changes a day. God is in heaven. Holy land. The sky is ten feet high. The earth is ten feet thick every day. Pangu grows ten feet a day. So 8,000 years. The sky is extremely high. The land is extremely deep. Pangu is extremely long. So I went to Wan Li that day, and then to Huang San.
Mr. Pangu. The embodiment of dying. Qi turned into a storm. The sound is like thunder. The left eye is the sun. The right eye is the moon. Five limbs are four poles and five mountains. Blood is a river. Tendons are underground. Muscles are dirt. Hair is like a star. Skin is a plant. Tooth bones are stones. The essence is pearl jade. Sweat turned into rain. Insects in the body. Feel the wind. Become Li Wei.
The Three Kingdoms, the State of Wu and Xú Zhēng wrote the calendar years of 35 and 5.
In ancient times, there was no sky and no land, and there was chaos and darkness everywhere, but after 18 thousand years in this darkness, a god with infinite power was born. His name was Pangu.
When Pangu woke up and opened his eyes, he couldn't see anything, so he picked up a magic axe, shouted and slammed around. Everything that is light and clear floats upward, forming a sky, while things that are heavy and turbid sink downward, forming a land. Pangu stood in the middle of heaven and earth so as not to let them overlap. Every day, the land is getting taller and thicker, and Pangu is getting taller and taller. In this way, after another 18 thousand years, the sky became extremely high and the ground became extremely thick, but Pangu was tired and never got up again.
Pangu's head turned into a mountain, his limbs into pillars of the sky, his eyes into the sun and the moon, his blood into a river, his hair and skin into flowers and plants, his breath into the wind, his cries into thunder, his tears into showers and rain to nourish the earth.
Pangu created heaven and earth, dedicated everything to heaven and earth, made the world rich and colorful, and Pangu became the greatest god. The origin and development of Pangu Temple;
In the May 3rd Calendar, it is recorded that Dayu cooperated with Boyi people to control water, which was built when the river was moved.
Build a temple to commemorate Pangu. "Seven Cases of Yuan Qu" records: In the 15th year of Sai-zu, in the summer of April, Yi Mao offered sacrifices in the "Pangu King Temple" in Xiuhui County. Yongle was rebuilt in the fourth year of Ming Dynasty, and Liu Su, the magistrate of a county, was rebuilt in the first year of Chenghua (it collapsed twenty years later). In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, it took four years to finish the work, which was easy to use stones, clay and gold and iron. In the twenty-seventh year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, the temple was destroyed by the river, so it moved south to Hexi. There is a legend that "Pangu's tomb is in the water and the sarcophagus is tied with iron locks". However, the scale of the newly-built Pangu Temple has been greatly reduced. In the fifth year of the Republic of China, Pangu was destroyed by a heavenly fire. The host monk believed in bitterness (two iron wires were put between the bones and muscles of the heel and chained together to show guilt and put on shackles), and moved to Tianjin to go to Zhai Hua. Tianjin tycoon Ning Shifu and other eight families gave alms, so it was rebuilt in eight years in the Republic of China and lasted for ten years. Not only is the hall much smaller than before, but also some processes have not been completed as expected due to lack of funds. On September 1937 and 18, several Japanese troops occupied the top of Pangu Temple, shot at the people, and then stationed in the puppet troops to establish a stronghold. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/946, Qingxian People's Armed Forces captured Pangu stronghold, and the whole Pangu Temple was destroyed. It can be described as "built in war, destroyed in war." 1in the autumn of 987, Pangu people spontaneously established the "Pangu Temple Preparatory Committee". Borrow a villager and turn it into "Pangu Temple". 1992, Pangu Tomb was rebuilt and Pangu Tombstone Pavilion was built. In 2005, it was painted and trimmed again.
(After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the three halls of Pangu Temple were demolished, and the timber was used to build the county government theater. The rest of the house became the office of the newly established Pangu People's Commune. In 2008, during the road widening, the remaining houses were also demolished. ) Pangu Temple
Before it was destroyed, Pangu Temple looked like the three halls of the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is covered with stones, bricks, wooden structures and yellow glazed tiles. It is so spectacular that you can see it clearly from 20 miles away.
The front hall is Pangu Hall, also known as the main hall. It was built on a high platform made of blue stones and surrounded by white marble railings. Covering an area of one acre and three points, there are eighteen steps. It's called eighteen layers of hell. The hall is three feet six feet high, symbolizing 360 weeks, with 108 eaves and rafters. Covering 72 places in 36 days, counting the rafters from the front, back, left and right of the temple every day. Each rafter is hung with bronze bells, which are arranged according to the five tones of work, commerce, horn, sign and feather. It has the reputation of "the wind is ringing, the sky is moving freely", and the roof of the temple is yellow with tiles, which is called "the roof of the light hall". Colorful dragons, phoenixes, lions, hippos and other animals are placed on four inclined ridges, with different shapes and spirits. The four corners of the arch extend out, and if the young swallow is in the air, it is like the heavenly palace and the Qiongge falling on the dust, which often shows the opposite trend.
There is a statue of Pangu in the temple, which is 10 foot 8 inch high (it is said that Pangu is 8000 years old). Painting with iron, the forehead is covered with leaves (ten leaves on the neck are heavenly stems and twelve leaves on the waist are earthly branches). Dragon eyebrows and tiger eyes are clear, aiming at Haikou, with big ears and big wheels. Looking at it, like a delicate look, not only conveys the great power of the pioneers, but also shows kindness and gentleness. A broad mind can accommodate heaven and earth, and milk can nourish life, which can be described as perfect in form and spirit and wonderful in the world.
According to the Records of the Dynasty, in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi, an imperial monument was built for Pangu Temple. Note above: The statue of Jin Pangu, cast and painted by Mingtie, was built in Hongzhi in 470. Its shape and appearance are intact and there is no corrosion inside.
The middle temple, also known as Jieyin Temple. Blue bricks and tiles, simple and solemn. There is a statue of "Sakyamuni" on the front of the main hall, with eighteen arhats on both sides and a jade pavilion painted on the four walls, which is like a cloud. There is a wall behind the Buddha, and one hall is divided into two palaces. Behind the harem are Nanlianchi, Beilianchi, and Bodhisattva Guanyin, the universal bodhisattva, instead of Nuwa, who tried to mend the sky by refining stones, but they were all women, only adding a jade girl and a golden boy.
Houdian, also known as the "Temple of Three Religions". Blue bricks and gray tiles are simple and elegant. In the temple, we should change the Dragon King, add Laojun and Laozi, Confucius in the middle, Dragon King in the left and Confucius in the right.
The sacrificial arrangement of the three halls combines religious culture and national culture, reflecting the original innocence.
There are two acacia trees in front of Sanjiao Temple, which are thick and thick. During the flowering period, the blooming Zhu Ying reflects the sunlight, and the new leaves are like onions. There is a clock hanging behind the house, and the ancient locust is flourishing. On both sides of the three halls, pines and cypresses are towering, and the forest of steles is jagged. Zen room, Confucian classics room and warehouse are also on the east side.
Pangu Temple Group covers an area of 18 mu, surrounded by red walls and nine feet high. Shanmen couplet:
(on) creation, ranking third.
(2) To educate the world and increase people, everything is king.
The mountain gate is facing the wall, and it is 10 feet high. The painted porcelain is painted with the chart of the Eight Immortals Crossing, which is lifelike.
Pangu Temple Fair is held twice a year, on the third day of March and the ninth day of September. (Beginning in the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms) The temple fair was postponed for four days, or there were singers, storytellers and circus jugglers at ten o'clock or half a month. During the period, good men and women, temple monks, businessmen and tourists gathered here. The myth about Pangu was first widely circulated among the minorities in southern China. Miao and Yao have always worshipped Pangu and regarded Pangu as their ancestors. Zhuang, Dong, Mulao and other ethnic groups also generally call Pangu and regard Pangu as the ancestor of mankind. "Today, the Pangu family has more than three hundred miles in the South China Sea, and the soul of the Pangu family has also been buried by future generations. There is Pangu Temple in Guilin, and people want to worship it today. As early as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhuang's ancestors had the "graveyard" of Pangu soul in Hainan. In particular, Guilin (located in the southeast of Liuzhou today), where Zhuang people lived together at that time, competed for Pangu Temple. People worship it. It can be seen that Pangu is also a highly respected image in the minds of ancient Zhuang people. There is a myth to the effect that at first, heaven and earth were chaotic like Pangu, and then the big egg broke, so heaven and earth formed. The sun, the moon, rivers, clouds, vegetation and so on. It is the body differentiation after Pangu's death: "Qi is cloud, sound is thunder, left eye is sun, right eye is moon, five limbs are four poles and five prisons, blood is river, tendons are ground, muscles are earth, hair is star, fur is vegetation, teeth are stone, essence is jade, sweat is rain, and everything is everything." "This statement is also recorded in ancient books and documents. For example, The Death of Pangu in the Past. The head is four mountains, the eyes are the sun and the moon, the fat is the river and the sea, and the hair is the vegetation. In the west of Guangxi, there is still a folk song "Pangu Begins the Creation": Pangu opens the world, builds rivers on the hillside, delimits continents, and builds seas to store water. Pangu opened heaven and earth, divided mountains and rivers, opened three forks, and there were roads everywhere. Pangu created the heavens and the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars. Because of Pangu, people get light.
Pangu in this song is deified and has superhuman power, which opens up the world and brings light to mankind. From the records of ancient books and oral circulation, we can see the traces of the evolution of ancient Zhuang myths in the world. (Quoted from Huang Xianfan's General History of Zhuang Nationality)