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Binchuan Pangu Village
Celebrities’ inscriptions from half the Republic of China are gathered here
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Pangu Village belongs to Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is located in the northeast of Binchuan County, more than 50 kilometers away from the county seat. It is a thousand-year-old ancient town with natural treasures, numerous historical sites, beautiful mountains and clear waters, rich products, rich customs, outstanding people, a long history and splendid culture. It is known as the "land of calligraphy and calligraphy" and "the hometown of calligraphy and calligraphy".
Pangu Village has had outstanding people and celebrities since ancient times. It has many preserved monuments, the most famous of which are Yang's Ancestral Hall and Guanyin Temple. And these are all related to Yang Ruxuan, a big shot from Pangu Village.
Yang Ruxuan, a native of Pangu Village, Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, Yunnan Province, graduated from the fourth phase of the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall and became a KMT lieutenant general.
The unique screen wall of Yang's Ancestral Hall
Hundred-year-old Pavilion
In 1929, a mother's 100th birthday attracted the attention of military and political dignitaries and academic leaders during the Republic of China. , famous calligraphers, and celebrities all focused on Pingchuan, and she rewrote Pingchuan's history. That year, Yang Ruxuan's mother was approaching her 100th birthday. The National Government specially approved the construction of a memorial hall to pay tribute to people's auspiciousness and built a memorial building - Yang's Ancestral Hall. The ancestral hall faces north to south, covering an area of ??more than 1,380 square meters. It is composed of a large screen wall, a pavilion-style centenary pavilion with an octagonal roof, a single eaves resting hall, east and west wing rooms, a courtyard, and an ancestral hall. The entire building has a grand layout. , exquisite craftsmanship. The large screen wall in front of the temple is 22 meters long and 12 meters high. It has a double-layer tile roof with corners and three large holes in the middle. According to the Feng Shui of traditional Chinese architecture, holes cannot be made in the screen wall unless there has been a "Jiujiu Wufu". "Gonghou Qiancheng", these three holes show that the Yang family has produced generals who "defend like a shield and defend like a city", so they are not afraid of all evil spirits.
These celebrity inscriptions are mainly concentrated in the Baisui Pavilion in the front yard of the ancestral hall. According to the traditional architectural form of ancestral halls, there are many stele pavilions in the ancestral hall. The stele pavilion of Yang's ancestral hall is a stone structure with an octagonal spire pavilion. The pavilion cover is supported by eight stone pillars with a length of 3.35 meters and a width of 2727 centimeters, with a total height of about 4 meters. Under the stone pillars, there are drum-holding stones and exquisite lion-shaped patterns carved on them. The three characters "Hundred Years Pavilion" are engraved on the door of the pavilion. The center of the pavilion is a square column, engraved with "The Centennial Pavilion" written by Yuan Jiagu and inscriptions written by Chen Zengshou, Yi Lixun, Li Xuangong and Wang Youlan. The stone beams and pillars under the pavilion are engraved with plaques and couplets inscribed by Yuan Jiagu, Ren Kecheng, Wu Liangtong, Li Genyuan, Chen Rongchang, Wu Shao? and others. The base of the pavilion is a Xumizuo, with inscriptions in Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit on three sides, as well as Chen Rongchang's epigraph. The entire Centennial Pavilion is upright and upright, made of huge materials, interlocked with mortise and tenon joints, solidly built, and exquisite in craftsmanship. The inscriptions and stone inscriptions are handwritten by the inscriber. The combination of calligraphy art and architectural art is the cultural essence of Yang's ancestral hall. Its many celebrity inscriptions reflect the changes in Yunnan's modern history from one perspective and bear witness to the cultural exchanges between Yunnan and the mainland.
Chiang Zhongzheng's inscription "Yi De Ya Ling"
Chiang Zhongzheng's inscription couplet "Wraps around the knees to encircle the talents' national-style mother rituals, eight dragons and beautiful Gaoyangli, Qi Yi Zhen goes to Shoufang to write the inscription The auspiciousness will last forever and the Cangshan Mountain will be the best."
Cai Yuanpei's inscription "The Chinese people are auspicious"
Tibet's Nona Hutuktu's inscription
Yunnan celebrity Chen Rongchang's inscription< /p>
Yu Youren's inscription
Yu Youren's inscription "Shouquan"
Ma Fuxiang's inscription
The Yang Ancestral Hall gathers the important figures of the Republic of China, Jiang Zhongzheng There are more than 120 plaques, couplets, prefaces, notes, postscripts, poems and inscriptions written by the presidents of various ministries of the National Government and domestic celebrities, bringing together the Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and Hui languages. There are currently 50 The remaining items are preserved intact. On the east and west sides of the front of the ancestral hall are inlaid plaques inscribed by Zhang Binglin and Zheng Xiaoxu. In the hall and corridor are the "Mrs. Centenary Monument" written by Yu Youren and inscriptions inscribed by Chen Rongchang, Wu Peifu, Ma Fuxiang and Zhou Da; On the top of the gate, there are stone inscriptions with plaques inscribed by Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Binglin, Mongolian stone inscriptions inscribed by Dharani and Master Xili from Inner and Outer Mongolia, as well as the heart, pillars, beams and foundation of the Centennial Pavilion by Hu Hanmin, Lin Sen, Ren Kecheng, Zhou Zhongyue, Li Genyuan, Yuan Jiagu, Tan Ze?, Zhu Peide, Ma Cong, Jin Handing, Bu Qingyang, Wu Liangtong, Yi Dachang, Yi Lixun, Li Xuangong, Wang Youlan, Chen Changshou, Ding Huaijin, Wu Shaoge, Chen Qinhu, Tibet Poems, plaques, couplets, and inscriptions written by Dafa monk Nona Hutuktu and others, as well as Tibetan stone carvings, "Hundred-year-old Pavilion" and "Mr. Yang" written by Yuan Jiagu, Zhang Xin, Yang Ruxuan, and Huang Baowu "Temple Stele Inscriptions" and a large number of inscriptions, plaques, couplets, poems, etc. inscribed by political and military dignitaries and cultural celebrities at home and abroad. Yang's Ancestral Hall has become "a modern historical site with the most, most concentrated and complete preservation of celebrity inscriptions during the Republic of China in Yunnan Province so far", and is also extremely rare in the country.
Pingchuan Guanyin Temple is also a famous landscape here. It was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), Yang Ruxuan and local gentry in Pingchuan repaired and expanded it.
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