The building is about 6 meters high and is divided into three parts: the building seat, the building body and the roof. Except that the roof is bluestone, the rest are white marble. The building is a stone sumeru, with a height of 0.25m and a diameter of1.1m. There is a square platform under the pedestal, which was built by later generations. The building is made of two white marble stone carvings, an octagonal cylinder with a height of 4.29 meters (the upper block is 70 cm high and the lower block is 3.59 m high), a diameter of 90 cm and a width of 40-42 cm on each side. Seen from the east, the block of the building is written in block letters with eighteen characters, covering three sides, "Notes of Emperor Daodejing of Emperor Tai Shang Xuanyuan and SHEN WOO of Tang Kaiyuan". On December 14th, the 20th year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an imperial edict, praising the Tao Te Ching, demanding that "scholars keep a copy of the Tao Te Ching at home and order them to study it so that they can know what it means".
Laozi's Classic of Tao Te Ching is engraved on the four sides of the downstairs seat in turn, with a total of 81 chapters. The ending is "Yizhou secretariat, Levin military envoys admire purple, goldfish bags, fields and countries are erected", "Kaiyuan 26th year, Wuyin, October 8th, ugly new moon, built". There is a stone lotus throne at the top of the building, which is the roof. The top of the building has been broken. It was originally carved from a huge blue stone, 38 cm high, with a roof shape and an octagonal shape, consistent with the shape of the building. Carve eight ridges from the octagonal flat top, tile ridges between the ridges, and then cornices, cornices and rafters. There is a bucket arch support of "one bucket and three liters" under the corner beam. The whole building is slender, simple and elegant, with an octagonal roof, which provides an example for the study of Tang Dynasty architecture. Laozi's Moral Classic Building was built in the 26th year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (AD 738). At first, it was located in Kaiyuan Temple in the west of Yixian County. Moved to the official residence in the Southern Song Dynasty, and later moved to the present county address.
China's domestic collection of 1845 does not contain the imperial notes of the emperor. This tall and magnificent building is the first in China. Several prints of this building and Longxing Temple have been upgraded from provincial level to national protection units. Yizhou moral classic building, simple and exquisite carving. Visitors can not only appreciate the essence of China traditional culture, appreciate the treasures of ancient calligraphy, but also get a glimpse of the mysteries of ancient stone carvings and architecture, increase their knowledge and cultivate their sentiments.
Tao Te Ching, also known as Laozi, was written by Laozi (Li Er), a famous thinker in the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-4865438 BC +0 years), and it is the main document of Taoism. The Tang Dynasty respected Laozi as the ancestor and regarded the Tao Te Ching as a classic.
Laozi's moral building is 6 meters high and is divided into three parts: the building seat, the building body and the roof. Except that the roof is bluestone, the rest are white marble. There is a stone lotus in the block and a square platform under the block, which was built by later generations. The building is carved from two pieces of white marble, 4.29 meters high and 90 centimeters in diameter. The plane is an octagonal cylinder, each side is 40 to 42 cm wide, and it is engraved with the imperial edict of praising the Tao Te Ching issued by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in the 20th year of Kaiyuan (AD 732) and the full text of the Tao Te Ching by Laozi.
There are four moral classic buildings in China, and Longxingguan moral classic building in Yixian is the largest, with an earlier age and better preservation. It is also the only national key cultural relics protection unit in the Moral Classic Building.
Laozi's Moral Classic Building is not far from the yi county Municipal Government. Laozi Moral Classic Building is located in the northeast of the old city of Xingtai, in the backyard of Nanchang Street Office. The original building in Longxingguan no longer exists, and it is surrounded by farmhouses and small farmland. The whole building is well preserved, but there are some defects and rubbings of later generations. According to legend, the full text of Chapter 8 1 of Tao Te Ching and Laozi written by Su Lingzhi in Tang Dynasty is clear and easy to read. The scripture on the upper floor was written according to the annotation of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. Because of the clear inscription, this Confucian classics building has long been an important material for people to proofread and translate Laozi's Tao Te Ching. In order to strengthen protection, the local cultural relics department has also built a hexagonal pavilion on the building in recent years.
Laozi's moral classic building has experienced 1200 years of vicissitudes, and it is the only remaining stone carving Laozi's moral classic building in China. It was built in the 25th year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (AD 737). At that time, Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, thought that Laozi was his distant ancestor, so he personally annotated 81 moral classics of Laozi and carved stones to set up a monument for later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, there were all such classic buildings in Shangguan houses, and this one was the only one left in yi county.