The Chongyang Longevity Palace is a famous tourist attraction in Xi'an's cultural landscape.
Dachongyang Wanshou Palace is located at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, 40 kilometers southwest of Xi'an City, in Zu'an Town, Hu County. Therefore, it has always enjoyed the honorific title of the ancestral court in the world and the reputation of the Quanzhen Holy Land.
On June 25, 2001, it was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Wang Chongyang's name was Zhiming, and his nickname was Chongyangzi. He was originally from Dawei Village in Xianyang. After losing control in the Song Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in Nansi Village, Hu County. In the fourth year of Jin Zhenglong's reign (1159), he met two immortals from the Han Dynasty, Zhongli and Lu Chunyang, who taught him oral formulas at Ganhe Bridge. The next year, he met the two immortals again and taught him the "Five Spiritual Essays". Wang Chongyang then returned to the Nan Temple to practice Qing Dynasty for three years. In 1163, he moved to Liujiang Village and formed a monastery with Yuchan and Li Lingyang to practice Taoism. In the seventh year of Dading (1167), he traveled east to Shandong. Wang Chongyang took Ma Danyang, Sun Buer, Wang Yuyang, Qiu Changchun, Tan Changzhen, Liu Changsheng, Hao Taigu and others as his disciples, and they were later called the Seven Sons of Quanzhen.
The Chongyang Palace was very prosperous in the Yuan Dynasty. The palace area stretched from Laoyu River in the east to Zhongnan Mountain and faced the Weishui River in the north. There were more than 5,000 palaces and pavilions, and nearly 10,000 Taoist priests lived there. During the reign of Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, the Chongyang Palace was renamed the Chongyang Wanshou Palace.
The palace preserves more than 40 steles on the history of the Quanzhen sect, including the portrait steles of the founder Wang Chongyang and Qizhen, the poem "Wu Meng Ling", and the steles of the Yuan Dynasty imperial robes. " is known as the Three Unique Steles, the Stele of the Secret Words of the Founding of the Quanzhen Religion, the Imperial Edict Stele of the Emperors of the Yuan and Five Dynasties, and the painting stele of "Zhong Kui Playing with Ghosts" by Daozhi of Tang and Wu Dynasties, etc. The courtyard also has the world-famous Tomb of the Living Dead, the Chongyang Patriarch's footprint stone, the Yuan Dynasty Laozi stone statue, the thousand-year-old ginkgo cypress tree planted by the Ming Dynasty sister Huang Yang and the Patriarch's disciple Ma Danyang, etc.
Chongyang Palace is located in the north of the beautiful Zhongnan Mountain, with Qingliang Mountain and Wangxianping in the south, Caotang Temple in the east, and Louguantai in the west. It plays a decisive role in the Guanzhong tourist scenic area. The gold documents of the Yuan Dynasty that are truly treasures left in the Chongyang Palace are of extremely high historical value for the study of sociology, history, human body science, language and calligraphy in ancient my country. They are a must-visit treasure land with far-reaching significance. tourism development prospects.