Gongcheng Wu Temple (Guandi Temple) is a temple to commemorate Guan Yu, a famous soldier of the Three Kingdoms. It was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (16O3), rebuilt in Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1720), destroyed in Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty (1854) and rebuilt again in Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1862). 1984 Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Government allocated funds for maintenance, which was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in the autonomous region.
Wu Temple is located at the foot of Xiyin Mountain in Gongcheng County, and the Confucian Temple is on the right. The two temples are exquisite in the location of the temple building base, occupying two ridges of the same mountain, 50 meters apart, adjacent and corresponding. Interestingly, the Confucian Temple is 6 degrees east of the south and 45 degrees east of the south. If the respective central axes are extended, the intersection points are from the Confucian Temple 100m and from the Confucian Temple 1 10m respectively. Whether this kind of long and short is the result of the ancestors' intentional arrangement to comment on the length of the two sages or a natural coincidence remains to be verified.
Wu Miao Temple, with a total width of 32.55 m and a depth of 66.8m, mainly adopts the mixed load-bearing structure of wooden frame and brick wall, without the main entrance, and enters and exits from the west gate. The whole temple covers an area of 2 100 square meters, with a building area of 1033 square meters. There is a stage, a rain pavilion, a front hall, a main hall and a back hall, with east and west wings on both sides. The stage is the essence of the whole temple building. Exactly, he said it was a martial arts stage: the height of the stage is 1.32 m, which is 25cm higher than the stage, but there are no steps on the stage. How can performers get up and down on such a high stage? Only when used in combat can this arrangement be made. The upper part of the stage is all wood structure except abutment masonry. There are relief figures in the stone carvings on the platform, doors and windows grids and shrines are carved on the platform, four gold pillars go straight to the top floor to bear the top load, and the eaves columns go to the lower eaves. The double eaves rise from the middle, and there is a caisson in the middle of the platform, which looks like an upside-down clock, and the wallboard is painted brightly. There are 36 water tanks at the bottom of the stage. When beating gongs and drums on the stage, the sound is reflected upward from different angles by the water tank, concentrated in the algae well, producing a * * * sound, which can enlarge the sound and make it spread ten miles away. This is a historical testimony of the achievements made by the ancient working people in China in acoustics. The red walls and yellow tiles on the stage are full of gold; The eaves on the roof are high, the dragons and phoenixes on the ridge are auspicious, and the figures such as the Eight Immortals of Light and Dark are clay sculptures with realistic shapes. The front hall and the back hall are carved with beams and painted with buildings, and the eaves are hanging in the sky. The imposing manner and exquisite architecture are amazing. In the past, there were majestic and tall statues of sages in the main hall, front hall and back hall. Every year, the 16th day of the sixth lunar month is the day for Guan Yu to sacrifice and parade.
Gongcheng Confucian Temple, also known as Gong Xue, is a temple dedicated to Confucius. Located at the southern foot of Xishan Mountain in Gongcheng County, Guilin City, it is the best-preserved Confucius Temple in Guangxi and one of the four largest Confucius Temples in China.
According to records, in the fourth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (630), Confucian temples were generally established in all counties. Gongcheng Confucian Temple was founded in the eighth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (14 10). Its original site is in Fenghuang Mountain in the northwest of Gongcheng County. In the 13th year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1477), it moved to Huangniugang in the west of the county, moved to Xishan (present site) in the year of Jiajing Gengshen (1560), and moved to Daoguang in the 9th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1842). Some people thought that the original temple room was too small to be the top scholar, so the government sent it. It took more than two years to build and became the largest Confucius Temple in Guangxi. Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty was destroyed by soldiers in the fourth year (1854) and rebuilt in the eleventh year (186 1). It has been repaired more than 20 times since then. 1963 The People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region allocated funds for maintenance and was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region.
The Confucius Temple faces south, 6 degrees east of the south, overlooking the Chajiang River, backed by Yinshan Mountain, and built on the mountain, arranged in layers, solemn and solemn. The whole temple covers an area of 3,600 square meters, with a building area of 1.300 square meters. Entering and leaving from two ear doors, the east gate is called the Ritual Gate, and the west gate is called Lu Yi Road. Outside the gate, there is a forbidden monument, on which officials of civil and military forces dismount to show the solemnity of the Confucius Temple. The front is the zhaobi, and the gate is not open. It is said that when someone wins the championship, they will open the door in the middle of the screen. This is the so-called champion door. If you want to enter Ling Xing from the gate, the champion is the only one.
After the founding of New China, for the convenience of the masses, the top scholar was opened. According to legend, Lingxingmen was ordered by Emperor Gaozu to move to the Confucius Temple to worship heaven, in order to respect heaven and Confucius. The gate is all bluestone, engraved with three characters of Xingxingmen, and there are also reliefs such as Shuanglong Play Pearl and Shuangfeng Chaoyang. There are six little stone lions peeping at the top of the six big stone pillars of the Star Gate. After Lingxingmen, it is the Panchi, also known as the Moon Pool. It is made of stone and surrounded by bluestone. There is a stone arch bridge on the surface of the pool, which means that the champion can pass. There is a bluestone engraved with moire relief on the bridge deck, which means soaring. From Lingxingmen to the second floor platform, it is the big city gate. The gate of Dacheng consists of eleven wooden doors, with flowers, birds, insects and fish carved on the doors, which are lifelike. To the east of Dachengmen is the famous official temple, and to the west is the Xiangxian Temple, which is a place where the sages and Confucians of all ages are worshipped, with 143 spirits. Behind the gate is a courtyard, and in front is a broad platform, called Xingtan, also called Lutan, which is said to be the place where Confucius gave lectures. Above the exposed altar is Dacheng Hall, which is the main building of the Confucian Temple. It is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with ten brick columns, eighteen wooden columns and fourteen doors. Doors, windows and cornices are decorated with wood carvings. The roof has a high cornice and a double cornice. The roof is decorated with flowers, clay sculptures and colored paintings, and covered with glazed tiles. The shrine in the center of Dacheng Hall is a place to worship Confucius' spiritual position. After Dacheng Hall, there is a shrine dedicated to five generations of ancestors of Confucius. Both the shrine and the Dacheng Hall pay great attention to the architectural structure and vary in size.
Every year in the middle of spring (February and August of the lunar calendar), sacrifices were held in the main hall. At the dawn of the festival, the official uniforms stood neatly, assembled and saluted, and the ceremony was extremely grand.