The plaque in Jinci Scenic Area is located in a wooden structure with glazed tiles on the roof. The whole archway is quaint and smart. The words "Jinci Scenic Area" are engraved on the front and the words "Tang Jinsi Garden" are engraved on the back.
Brief introduction of 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 (later called Jin Wang), the founding emperor of Jin State, and his mother Jiang Hou.
Among them, Nan, Maiden Statue and Bai Zhou are also called "Three Musts of Jinci". Jinci Temple is the earliest existing classical ancestral temple garden complex in China, with 98 buildings, 65,438+065,438+00 statues, 300 inscriptions and 37 casting artworks, which lasted for more than 300 years. It is a model of majestic, elegant and beautiful, the perfect combination of ancestral temple sacrificial architecture and natural landscape.
The 43 colored clay sculptures of Notre Dame Hall in the Song Dynasty are realistic works reflecting the court figures of China in the Song Dynasty. The statue is vivid, exquisite and elegant, and it is a treasure in the treasure house of China sculpture art. Among the existing inscriptions in Jinci, the inscriptions in Jinci inscribed by Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and Huayan Classic stone carvings inscribed by Wu Zetian are the most precious.
Preface to the Monument to Jinci was written in the twentieth year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (646). It is a monument integrating history, literature, politics and calligraphy. It is an excellent running script, the first of its kind in China, and a precious "stone history" for studying and discussing politics, culture, literature and calligraphy art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Stone tablets with colored plastic murals are national treasures; It is a comprehensive carrier of the historical context of the Sanjin Dynasty, and it is an empirical study of the cultural system of the Jin Dynasty tracing back from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. It is the birthplace of Wang and Zhang in the world.
1961March, Jinci was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 200 1 was rated as the first batch of AAAA-level tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration. In May 2009, it was approved as a national second-class museum by National Cultural Heritage Administration.