Introduce Taiyuan Jinci Temple

Jinci is located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, formerly known as Jin Wang Temple and Tang Shuyu Temple. It was built in memory of Tang Shuyu, the founding emperor of Jin State (later called King Jin) and her mother city, Jianghou. It is the earliest existing royal garden in China and the ancestral temple of the State of Jin. There are dozens of ancient buildings in the temple, which have the traditional cultural characteristics of China.

In Jinci, the old fountain, the maid statue and the virgin statue are called "Three Musts in Jinci". 196 1 In March, Jinci was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in October11was announced as the first batch of national AAAA-level tourist attractions. ?

History and culture

Jinci Temple was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1 1 century) to commemorate Tang Shuyu, the founding emperor of Jin State, and his mother Jiang Hou. It is the concentrated carrier of ancient architectural art in China.

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan recorded that Jinci had a considerable scale. After more than two thousand years of construction, repair and expansion, it has become today's scale. Among them, it flourished from the 7th century to12nd century, and it was a model of ancient gardens and sculpture in the Tang and Song Dynasties. There are more than 0/00 ancient buildings/kloc in different periods of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially Notre Dame, the main building, which is regarded as the only typical representative architectural example of the Northern Song Dynasty in the ancient architectural history of China. The sculpture of the Song Dynasty preserved by Notre Dame broke through the pattern of religious statues before the Song Dynasty, became a portrayal of real people in society at that time, and created a precedent for realistic works of sculpture art. It is not only the only statue reflecting court figures in the history of sculpture in China, but also a rare masterpiece in the history of sculpture in China.

Jinci has been established for a long time and has a superior geographical position. With a large number of ancient buildings, sculptures, inscriptions, murals and ancient and famous trees, it reflects the development and changes in China's ancient politics, economy, architecture, gardens, sculpture, religion, culture and many other fields from different aspects. The historical value, artistic value, scientific value and appreciation value of Jinci Temple make it the oldest and most representative example of the combination of ancient ancestral temple and garden art, and it is also a precious heritage in the treasure house of ancient Chinese culture and human architectural art.