Wuhou Temple is located in Wuhou District, Chengdu. It was first built in 223 AD when Liu Bei’s Hui Mausoleum was built. It covers an area of ??150,000 square meters. It is an ancestral hall to commemorate Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty. Wuhou Temple is the only ancestral temple in China where monarchs and ministers jointly worship. It is also the most famous memorial site for Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and the heroes of the Shu Han Dynasty.
In 223 AD, Liu Bei died of illness in Baidi City. His coffin was transported back to Chengdu and buried, and it was known as Huiling in history. In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang became ill due to overwork and died in Wuzhangyuan. Zhuge Liang was named "Marquis of Wuxiang" during his lifetime, and after his death, he was posthumously named "Marquis of Zhongwu" by Liu Chan, the later leader of the Shu Han Dynasty. Therefore, his temple was honored as "Marquis Wu Temple". Around the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Wuhou Temple in Chengdu was combined with the Huiling and Han Zhaolie Temples.
The existing main buildings of Wuhou Temple (except Huiling) were all rebuilt in the 11th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. They face south and are arranged on a central axis, followed by the main gate, the second gate, and the Han Zhaolie Temple. , Guoting Hall, Wuhou Temple, the relocated Sanyi Temple and the newly built Jieyi Building, with the seventh floor. The temple enshrines more than 50 statues of Shu Han heroes such as Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, more than 50 inscriptions from the Tang and later generations, and more than 70 plaques and couplets. The "Three Unique Steles" of the Tang Dynasty and the "Heart Attack" Couplet of the Qing Dynasty are the most famous.
It was noon, the sun was scorching, and I entered the gate with my ticket. In the thick shade inside the gate, there are six stone steles standing, with a stele corridor on each side. The largest one, "The Monument of the Ancestral Hall of the Prime Minister Zhuge Wuhou of the Shu Han Dynasty" is in the east side stele corridor. It was erected in the fourth year of Yuanhe by Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty. The famous prime minister Pei Du wrote the text, the calligrapher Liu Gongchuo wrote it, and the famous craftsman Lu Jian carved it. It was called the Three Jue Steles by later generations and is of extremely high cultural value.
Entering the main entrance of Wuhou Temple, you can see the magnificent Han Zhaolie Temple. The Zhaolie Temple of the Han Dynasty is a single-eaves Xieshan-style building, with a gilded statue of Liu Bei in the middle, 3 meters high, with plump and solemn appearance, large ears and drooping shoulders. On the left side of the gilded statue of Liu Bei is the statue of his grandson Liu Chen, King of the North. When Liu Chan, the later lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, surrendered to the Wei Dynasty, his son Liu Chen went to Liu Bei's tomb to cry and worship, killed his family and then committed suicide. The golden statue of Liu Bei originally had a statue of his son and later master Liu Chan on the side. Because Liu Chan was incompetent and lost power and humiliated the country, it was removed by Sichuan local officials during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, and it was never rebuilt later. On both sides of the side hall, there are statues of Guan Yu and his son and Zhou Cang in the east, and statues of three generations of Zhang Fei and his grandson in the west. They show the different appearances and personalities of Guan and Zhang, as well as their common characteristics of superior martial arts and bravery. There are fourteen seated statues of Shu Han civil servants and military generals on the east and west corridors on both sides. The civil official gallery of the East Prefecture is headed by Pang Tong, followed by Jian Yong, Lu Kai, Fu Wei, Fei Yi, Dong He, Deng Zhi, Chen Zhen, Jiang Wan, Dong Yun, Qin Mi, Yang Hong, Ma Liang, and Cheng Ji; the military generals of the West Prefecture The corridor is headed by Zhao Yun, followed by Sun Qian, Zhang Yi, Ma Chao, Wang Ping, Jiang Wei, Huang Zhong, Liao Hua, Xiang Chong, Fu Qian, Ma Zhong, Zhang Yi, Zhang Nan, and Feng Xi. The statues are life-size, each of them majestic and both physical and spiritual. There is a small stone tablet in front of the statue, which contains their name and life story, so that visitors can understand it easily. After looking at the civil servants and generals, I was surprised to find that the reason why these civil servants and generals were erected as statues in the east and west corridors for people to admire is because they were all loyal ministers of the Shu Han Dynasty. Although the civil servant Liu Feng was a relative of the emperor, and the military general Wei Yan had outstanding military exploits, they were excluded due to surrender and rebellion.
After watching the heroes in the east and west corridors, walk through the path to the west, pass through the bamboo forest and the red wall, and enter Huiling. Its buildings include screen walls, fence gates, shrines, sleeping halls, etc. It is said that Liu Bei's two wives, Gan and Wu, are buried together in the mausoleum. The mound of the mausoleum is tall and round, covered with green grass. There are high stone walls around the mausoleum, and the Shinto along the wall is cool and cool, so you can walk around it.
Walking slowly along the quiet shrine of the mausoleum, thoughts came up behind me: Liu Bei had a bumpy and hard life, went through many hardships, and unswervingly worked hard to restore the Han Dynasty. His benevolence, generosity, and His love and justice, his employment of people, his ability to level the world, and his benevolent policies are clear to passers-by. He can be called a wise king and a peerless hero. But the benevolence was too strong, the generosity was too much, the friendship was too heavy, and the soul was lost. I didn't know that the general trend of the world was to join Wu and reject Wei. In a moment of anger, the whole camp was burned down and Baidi City was defeated. The most deplorable thing is that he failed to teach his son well, and he actually gave birth to an extremely mediocre successor, ruining his beautiful country alive. If the late master had a spirit and could see that the country had changed its owner, but his son was still "happy and did not miss Shu", he would not have looked up to the sky and sighed, feeling ashamed and ashamed, and would have died all over again.