Zhou Xin Temple is located in front of the Town God Temple, commonly known as "Town God Temple". Hangzhou City God Temple was built for Zhou Xin, the God of Hangzhou City God.
Zhou Xin was a local judge in Zhejiang during Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. Zhou Xin is a clean official, punishing corruption and enforcing the law like a mountain, which is deeply loved by the people. He was called "cold-faced" and was later killed by Ming Chengzu because he was framed.
In order to quell public anger, Ming Chengzu named Zhou Xin as the city god of Hangzhou, and built a city god temple on the Wu Shan for him to burn incense.
Zhou Xin Temple is small in scale, but unique in style. There is a big clock at the entrance of Zhou Xin Temple. According to legend, this big clock is a safe clock, which can be kept safe as long as it is struck three times.
There is a "cold noodles and cold iron" plaque on the horizontal plaque in front of the door. There are three plastic statues in the temple. Zhou Xin is enshrined in the middle. Zhou Xin's statues are always 5 meters high, and officials with weapons and seals stand beside him, each 3.8 meters high. These three statues are covered with gold foil.
At the top of the statue of Xin Zhou is a shrine, 2.5 meters long and 2.8 meters wide.
In the hall of Zhou Xin Temple, six paintings were painted on the wall of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which described the process of Zhou Xin's law enforcement and insight into the people's feelings, and he was made a city god. Smooth brushwork and beautiful pictures.
There is a stele pavilion directly opposite the Zhou Xin Temple, in which stands the monument of "Wu Shan Tianfeng". A couplet outside the pavilion reads: "The lake shadow long dike is divided inside and outside, and the river flows to Zhejiang to draw things."
Behind Zhou Xin Temple is the City God Pavilion, a seven-story antique building with the architectural style of Southern Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. Huangcheng Pavilion is about 40 meters high and has a building area of about 4,000 square meters.
The top of the main roof of Chenghuang Pavilion looks like a gourd-shaped vase, and the top of the four sub-roofs looks like a phoenix. The whole pavilion is like a flock of phoenixes spreading their wings and flying, and the fairy mountain Qiongge stands in the sky and is fascinating.
The entrance of Chenghuang Pavilion is made of mushroom stone, and the bottom is a solid foundation built in the shape of stone, which symbolizes the long history contained in the ancient city wall of Hangzhou. Looking up, the couplets on both sides of the "City God Pavilion" plaque on the second floor are:
800 miles of lakes and mountains, I know what year it is.
Hundreds of lights, all back to the balcony here.
The plaque on the fourth floor reads "Fenghua Mao Jing" in seal script.
On the first floor of Chenghuang Pavilion, eight folk stories reflecting the customs of Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, and celebrity handicrafts related to the West Lake in previous dynasties were carefully produced by using techniques such as wood carving, line carving and colored plastic arts and crafts unique to the south of the Yangtze River.
There are sculpture paintings such as Dou Cha Tu, Dongyang woodcarving World Scenery of West Lake, sculpture painting West Lake Dragon Boat Race, three-dimensional hardwood color plastic painting Hang Cheng Style Map of Southern Song Dynasty, bluestone line carving of ancient celebrities of West Lake, color gold woodcarving of Grand Palace of Southern Song Dynasty and sculpture painting Southern Song Dynasty Merchant Car.
In particular, the large-scale three-dimensional hardwood color plastic painting "Southern Song Dynasty Hang Cheng Customs Map" is 3 1 m long, 4 meters high and 2 meters deep.
This colored plastic painting is based on the most brilliant Southern Song Dynasty in Hangzhou's history, and gives a detailed description of the palace, government offices and private houses, streets, bridges, tiles, pagodas and gardens in Hangzhou at that time, as well as the daily life and cultural activities of all social strata.
Looking at this "amorous feelings map" is like looking at an ancient famous city in China with magnificent weather, rich contents, rich historical culture and local characteristics of Hangzhou.
On the second floor, there is an exhibition of Ou Su. Ou Su is produced in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Named after Wenzhou's old name Dongou, it is also called oil clay sculpture among the people. It has a long history. The whole exhibition hall is decorated with large-scale wall carvings of 1 1, with extraordinary handwriting, which reflects historical events, people and stories related to Hangzhou and Wu Shan from different sides.
This 1 1 wall carving is as follows: Sun Quan's treasure island, great river style, Song Xiaozong's plaque smashing, Gan Long's elimination of bullies, Liu Yong's understanding of a word, soldiers surrounding the Korean palace, Shi Quan's stabbing to death of Qin Gui, Wen Riguan's cursed thieves, and anger.
Above the third floor of Huangcheng Pavilion, the main functions are leisure, viewing, reception and tea tasting. Boarding the Chenghuang Pavilion, overlooking the fence and looking at Xizi Lake in the north, the waves are as flat as a mirror, and canoes are rippling. Overlooking the urban area in the east, there are many tall buildings, spacious buildings, dense forests and bustling markets. Looking at the Qiantang River in the south, the waves are rolling and the sails are disappearing between the clouds and the water. Looking at the mountains in the west, the sound is soft and bamboo, and the peaks are soaked in smoke.
If you go to the City God Pavilion at night, the lights of the whole city will flash and compete with the bright moon and stars in the sky. Its scenery fully shows Xu Wei's amorous feelings of "knowing when is the color map of the 800-mile lake, and 100,000 lights belong to this tower".