The famous Zhangfei Temple in Yunyang faces the Yangtze River in front, the Phoenix Mountain in the back and the ancient city of Yunyang across the river. Pavilions and pavilions stand on the cliffs, carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent and magnificent, and are known as "a scene of Bashu", which is one of the key cultural relics protection units in the Yangtze River Basin 120.
Zhang Fei was born in Zhuojun and died in Langzhong. Why is the temple in Yunyang? It turned out that after Guan Yu was killed, Zhang Fei, who was stationed in Langzhong, ordered his men to prepare white flags and white armor within three days to show their filial piety. The Ministry and Zhang Dayin objected, and Zhang Fei whipped them, took advantage of their drunkenness, took their heads, and went to Wu for credit. Unexpectedly, when I arrived in Yunyang, I heard that Wu Shu had made peace and had to throw his head into the river. A fisherman dreamed that Zhang Fei was buried at night, picked up his head at Tongluo Ferry and buried it by the river. At this time, there was a loud gong and a faint pipa in the river. The local people raised funds to build a temple for sacrifice, so Zhang Fei was said to be "in Langzhong, with his head in Yunyang".
Since the temple was built, it has been repaired in all dynasties, and it was destroyed by floods in the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1870). Most of the existing buildings were renovated and newly built in the late Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 14 mu, including Deyue Building, Jieyi Building, main hall, wind pavilion, wing hall, Wang Yunxuan, cuckoo pavilion, arch bridge, stone ladder, winding path, sill gallery, dripping spring and other buildings with their own characteristics. There is a picture of "Jiang Shang Feng Qing" two meters square, which was inscribed by Peng Juxing, a calligrapher in Yunyang in the Qing Dynasty. The glass roof, red painted windows and triple eaves of Jieyi Building overlap, which is exactly the saying of "Three Jieyi in Taoyuan". Huge portraits of Zhang Fei are hung in the main hall, such as Du You, Righteousness and Yan Yan, Nagano resisting the enemy and being killed, and the words "Lingyou with great power" and "Help" are hung on the gold plaque. The wind-assisted pavilion is a pentagonal pavilion, towering into the sky, which is the most distinctive. According to legend, Zhang Fei's god can protect past boating. When the boat arrived at Tongluo ferry, the boat people burned incense and sacrificed, and then they blew for 30 miles with the wind. People felt their kindness and built this pavilion in the east of the hall. There was once a prime minister, Zhang, who went back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. He did not worship, which angered Zhang Fei and made his ship go back three miles. The Prime Minister had to bow his head and beg for mercy. Up to now, there is a poem by the prime minister on the stone pillar in front of the temple, "The ancient bronze gong crossed the east of Shu River, thanking me for gaining the upper hand." According to legend, Prime Minister Zhang was a famous poet in Qing Dynasty.
From 765 to 766, Du Fu lived in Yunyang for nearly a year, leaving more than 40 poems. His apartment was in Zhangfei Temple. It is said that the poem "Jiang Lou", written in Deyue Pavilion, "Yun 'an County in the gorge, Waqi on the wing of Jiang Lou, the mountains on both sides of the strait, and Zigui crying all day". Later, people built a pavilion in the temple as a memorial, and it was named "Du Fu Pavilion" because of its poem "Du Fu in Xichuan, Du Fu in Dongchuan, Du Fu in Fuwan and Du Fu in Yunyang" ("Du Fu"). After the pavilion was built, it was abandoned several times. This pavilion was built in the first year of Guangxu (1875), covering an area of140m2, with two floors and a bottom, and a height of15m. It is a wooden structure with red walls and green tiles and carved beams and painted buildings. The upper and lower floors are supported by 24 vermilion cylinders respectively. On the upper floor, there is a plaque of "A few peaks on the river are green", and on the lower floor, there is a plaque of "History of Neo-Confucianism Poetry". There are many portraits of Du Fu and his poems in Yunyang in the epic museum.
Zhang Fei Temple is called "Wenzao Resort" because it has more than 400 stone tablets, cliff carvings and famous wood carvings from Han and Tang Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them are the "Sky Blue Monument" of the Liang Dynasty dating back more than 1,400 years, the "Tour" of Huang Tingjian with an area of 30 square meters, and the calligraphy works of calligraphers such as Su Shi, Dong Qichang, Wang Yangming, He, He and He. In particular, Yue Shufei and Zhuge Liang, famous craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty, carved on the basis of rare books, have the reputation of "three musts". On the stone pillar in front of Zhu Fengting, there is a couplet praising the cloud: "Han Musong's two perfect calligraphy is peerless;" Send Bashu scenery, pipa sound, gong sound. "
There is a 200-meter-long and 10-meter-wide sandstone Liang Shi in the center of Zhangfei Temple River. In the dry season, the middle section is bare, like a long dragon lying in the water, with a slightly raised back. People call it "Longji Stone". According to legend, in ancient times, there was a dragon in Dongting Lake, which swam to Yunyang when the Yangtze River flooded, making waves all the way, endangering all directions. After hearing the news, Dayu fought the dragon with a golden axe and chisel. After being defeated, the dragon became a huge stone, which is now Yunyang Longji Stone. There is a round hole as big as a washbasin in the low-lying place on the stone, which is the mark of Dayu's axe chisel. It is said that this cave is very strange. Every hundred years of drought, there is always a clear spring. At this point of the river, the waves are raging and watching under the moon. For example, Youlong, known as the "Dragon Ridge Moon Wave", has been one of the eight scenic spots in Yunyang since ancient times. There are more than 170 inscriptions on the stone tablet, which record the hydrological changes of the Yangtze River in past dynasties. In ancient times, "the people of the ship shrank until they saw its surplus." There is an inscription on the stone: "In ancient times, Chongqing was suitable for Xi, Fuling was sometimes Yu, and Yunyang had Longji Stone, although in different places, the meaning was the same". These are valuable materials for studying ancient hydrometeorology and folk customs.