Excuse me, the architectural characteristics and origin of Xiajin Temple.

At the foot of Hanging Wengshan Mountain, 25 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, there is an ancient garden called Jinci. There are mountains and waters around here, and ancient trees are towering. In picturesque places, the working people have built nearly 100 temples, halls, buildings, pavilions, towers and bridges. Under the lush shade of trees, crystal-clear springs meander through temples and temples, and historical sites and natural scenery gather together, dazzling tourists and lingering. Jinci, as a national key cultural relic protection unit and a famous tourist attraction, receives thousands of tourists from home and abroad all the year round.

It's a long story about Jinci. According to the Records of Historical Records of the Book of Jin, his son became and was named. Because there is water in Jin, his son Xie changed his country name to Jin. In order to pay homage to Uncle Yu, later generations built a shrine in the source of Jinshui, which is also called Jinci. The founding date of Jinci Temple is still difficult to determine. The earliest record is in Li Daoyuan (AD 466 or 472? -AD 527), the book wrote: "There is Tang Shuyu Temple on the international mountain, a cool hall by the water, and a flying beam on the water." When sitting, the cultural relics in the scenic spot are already considerable, and the temples, halls and flying beams are all ready. It can be seen that the history of Jinci, even from the Northern Wei Dynasty, has a history of hundreds of years.

The buildings on the central axis of the temple area, from east to west, are: Shuijingtai, Huixian Bridge, Jinrentai, Duiyue Square, the second floor of the bell and drum, Fairy Hall, Fish Bridge Flying Beam and Notre Dame Hall. This group of buildings, including Tang Shuyu Temple, Haotian Temple and Wenchang Palace in the north, Jellyfish House, Difficult Old Spring Pavilion and Relic Living Tower in the south, constitute a comprehensive building complex. The buildings along the east-west main line, together with the south and north buildings, were originally buildings of different periods, but they all seemed to be subject to a delicate overall design. They are not patchwork, but compact in layout, like temples, courtyards and royal palaces, which reflect the intelligence of Gongfang people in ancient China. At the front end of the central axis is the water mirror platform, which was built in the Ming Dynasty and was the stage for acting at that time. The front part is a single-eaved rolling shed roof, and the back part is a double-eaved rest peak. In addition to the spacious stage in front, there are clear corridors on the other three sides, which is unique in architecture. Empress Dowager Cixi once built one in the Summer Palace as it was.

From Shuijingtai to the west, there is a main canal in Jinjiang-"Zhibo Canal", also known as Christina North River. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhi Bo, an official of the State of Jin, dug the canal by diverting water from Fenshui and Jin River to irrigate Jinyang in order to seize the land in Zhao Xiangzi. Later generations deepened the old canal and it became a canal for irrigating fields.

Crossing the Hexian Bridge on the Zhibo Canal is the Golden Terrace. The golden platform is square, and an iron man stands at each corner, each of which is more than two meters high. One statue in the southwest corner was cast in the fourth year of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1097). After more than 800 years of rain, snow, wind and frost, it is bright and rust-free, which vividly reflects the height of smelting and casting achieved by the working people in China during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Go through the Moon Square, Bell Tower and Drum Tower to the Fairy Hall. This temple was originally a place of worship. It was built in the eighth year of Jin Dading (1 168). It is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The beam frame is very distinctive. Only one layer of flat beam is placed on the four rafters, which is simple, material-saving, light and strong. Around the temple, except for the front and rear doors in the middle, thick sill walls and straight fences were built, making the whole hall look like a gazebo, which is particularly neat and open. 1955, the fairy hall was renovated with raw materials according to the original style, maintaining the architectural characteristics of the Jin Dynasty, and it is a treasure in my ancient buildings.

To the west of the Fairy Hall is a fishpond flying beam connecting the hall of Notre Dame. The whole swamp is a square pool, which is the first Er Quan of water. There are thirty-four small octagonal stone pillars in the pool, and the cross-shaped bridge deck is supported by the bucket arch at the top of the column and the beam, which is a flying beam. The east-west bridge deck is 19.6 meters long and 5 meters wide, which is10.3 meters above the ground, and its western ends are connected with the fairy hall and the Notre Dame hall respectively. The north-south bridge deck is19.5m long and 3.3m wide, with both ends inclined downward and flush with the ground. The whole shape is like a big bird spreading its wings, so it is called a flying beam. The date and place of the establishment of Liang Fei are unknown. According to Zhu's records, it was established in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The existing bridge may have been built at the same time as Notre Dame in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was renovated in 1955. The architectural structure has the characteristics of the Song Dynasty, and the small octagonal column and the compound potted lotus petals still carry the legacy of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although this strange and beautiful cross-shaped bridge is recorded in ancient books and occasionally seen in ancient faces, there is only one existing object. This is very valuable for studying the ancient bridge architecture in China. On the east side of the north-south bridge deck in Liang Fei, there is a Song stone lion lying at each end, which is vivid in shape. There are a pair of iron lions on the platform of Qiaodong, which are mighty and magnificent. They were cast in the eighth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1 1 18). They are the earliest iron lions in China. At the end of the central axis is the magnificent Notre Dame Hall. Notre Dame is backed by the hanging urn mountain and faces the fish pond ahead. Another Er Quan-"Difficult to be old" and "Good to benefit" are left and right respectively. This temple was built in the heyday of the Northern Song Dynasty (1023- 1032) and rebuilt in the first year of Chongning (1 102). It is the oldest building in Jinci now. The temple is about 19 meters high, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, seven rooms are wide and six rooms are deep, and the plane layout is almost square. The hall is surrounded by cloisters, with two deep front porches and spacious corridors. Among the ancient buildings in China, the corridor around the temple is the earliest existing example. The pillars around the temple are slightly inclined inward, and the four corner pillars are obviously raised, which makes the curve of the front eaves of the temple very radian. The upturned temple corner and the folded wings of the flying beam set each other off and fell together, relaxing one by one, demonstrating the ingenuity of the flying beam and the openness of the hall. Temple, bridge, spring pavilion and fish pond are integrated. Notre Dame Hall was built by "column dropping method". Sixteen columns were dropped inside and outside the hall, and the roof truss of the hall was supported by colonnades and eaves columns. So the front porch and hall are spacious. Clever use of "column reduction method" shows that the mechanical principle has been further mastered in the architecture of Song Dynasty. The proper ratio of bucket arch to column height avoids the waste of materials in Sui and Tang Dynasties and is more artistic in architectural style. The wooden buildings in China experienced a magnificent and solid development process from Sui and Tang Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties.