Zhang Gong Temple of Zhang Yuanxun

Legend has it that Song Gui Zhang Gong Temple was originally called "Yuanxun Zhang Gong Memorial Shrine" and was built in the seventh year of the Wanli reign (1578). In the beginning, there was only a shrine, about one square meter, inside the Yuanxun gods, after the wind blew away a piece of cedar bark, has been blown to the present Liantan Zhang Gong Temple fell, so people believe that this is the will of God, so Liantan people also built a Zhang Gong Temple in this.

From the building of Zhang Gong Shrine in 1578, Xining County, Xining County, many times for the Ming and Qing armies occupied back and forth, occupying the matter frequently, the situation is chaotic. But is located in Luoding, Dong'an, Xining three counties in the center of the city Liantan and not directly affected by the military conflict, this place does not seem to be a soldier to fight, become a peaceful place in the chaotic world, the local people attribute this phenomenon to Zhang Yuanxun's shelter, Zhang Yuanxun gradually deified.

Lian Tan old rumors, Yu Ma Ba waiting En Jinrong in the Qing dynasty Tongzhi five years (1866) in the winter of the countryside catalyze the section, touring to Liantan Heiquan Academy. One day after dinner, walking outside the courtyard, met an old man in white and said to him: "Western bandits invaded the county, you are still here to balk?" He was shocked and asked him his name. The old man said, "Zhang!" When Eup Hou asked again, the old man had already drifted away in the direction of Zhang Gong Temple.

Euphoria was even more surprised to see the situation, and hastily returned to the county, immediately strengthened the alert, and organized the four townships to prepare for the defense. When the western bandits came, they saw the red lights outside the city, surrounded by soldiers and horses, and knew that they were on guard and did not dare to invade, but they retreated. The city's army was able to quell the Western bandits without a single soldier or general.

After the incident, Mr. Zhang was grateful to Mr. Zhang for showing his spirit to save the people, so he wrote a plaque with the words "Defend the Disaster" and had it hung in the temple, and wrote a couplet to remember the incident:

The foreign invaders didn't dare to invade from the inside, and in the light of the lamps and lanterns, they could see the golden-armored divine soldiers expelling them with might;

The bandits became wolves and thieves.

The bandits have turned into wolves, and on the Taki River Road, I was fortunate to meet the white-robed patriarchs who passed on the word of caution.

This matter spreads, Zhang Gong Temple incense more prosperous, every time the county where the place is uneasy, the gods will be the first to show the alarm, to protect the law and order. Since Xianfeng, Tongzhi, iterative banditry, and even beach a corner are celebrated peacefully. This matter in the old Xining County Journal also contains.

Lian Tan Zhang Gong Temple Fair held on the twentieth of the first month and August 6 every year. Five years a small celebration, ten years a big celebration. In the year of Fengjia, the beginning of the sixth day of the eighth month of the old calendar, the day is considered by the locals Zhang Gong birth anniversary. On that occasion, Taoist priests are invited to mumble fast for three days and three nights. During the period, dozens of mountain songs around the payoffs, performances, songs and drums. After three days, the Bodhisattva is invited to go on a tour. Parade team, according to Lian Tan - West Dam - East Dam - Lian Tan, in the South River on both sides of the dozens of miles to go around, the parade time up to twelve days. Zhang Gong Temple , built in the Ming Dynasty Wanli 6 years (1578), Zhang Yuanxun, general military officer of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Yuanxun, word Shichen, Ming Shijie Haimenwei Xinhe hundred households, calm and resolute and resourceful, the value of the rickets police, under the banner of Qi Jiguang, flat rickets merit, into the deputy general. Wanli five years (1577) for the general officer, guarding Guangdong. Had led the Department in the area of Liantan pacified "Yao chaos", the descendants built a temple.

Lian Tan Zhang Gong Temple, is one of the county's surviving relatively complete ancient buildings of the Ming Dynasty. 1985 was listed as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Yunan County, and in 1986 by the Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and the masses of donations to the maintenance and gradual restoration of the original appearance.

Zhang Gong Temple is located in the town of Liantan, Liantan High School right, was built in the Ming Dynasty Wanli year (1587), has been 422 years of age, the temple by five times rebuilt, the earliest one rebuilt in the Wanli year twenty-seven years (1599), the Qing Dynasty has also carried out many times to varying degrees of construction and expansion. The last reconstruction was in Guangxu three years (1877). The head house is a two-room building with a shrine hall in the center, where the statues of Li Yuanxun, Miss Zhang and the generals and schoolmasters are enshrined. On the right side of the entrance is the kitchen, and on the left side are the residence of the temple priest and other people, a meeting place and a storage room. The left into the ear-shaped and a building of three rooms for the worshiper to rest and so on.

The temple is located in the west to the north-east, the original is composed of inside and outside the building of the architectural group. The main buildings are the front hall, the main hall, the four corners of the pavilion, the supporting hall and the corridor. The front and back of the courtyard has a theater, turret, hexagonal pavilion, gray brick plastic lions and walls and other ancillary buildings. Before liberation, every temple festival (the 20th day of the first month of the lunar calendar), three Luo (Yunan, Luoding, Yunfu) and other places of the masses have come to participate in the activities of the temple festival, despite the distance, lively. After liberation, the backyard of the turret and other ancillary buildings demolished, the construction of a granary, the front yard of the theater, gatehouse, walls, double lions and other buildings and ten years during the Haojiao demolition, only the main building area of 1900 square meters.

The temple to the vertical and horizontal arrangement, in front of the front hall, in the four corners of the pavilion, after the main hall, on both sides of the hall and the corridor. The layout is balanced and symmetrical, and the plane is square. In front of the temple gate, there are two granite stone pillars supporting the lower decorative flying head, covered with green glazed tiles, the main hall is set up with six wooden columns to support the weight of the columns under the base, there are still arches. Columns longitudinal and horizontal rows, arranged in a regular manner, the formation of the bright room, the second room is extraordinarily spacious. Painted buildings and carved beams, magnificent hall. What is more worth appreciating is that there are all kinds of poems and colorful paintings engraved on the wall of the hall, encrusted with various kinds of carvings and paintings with excellent craftsmanship, there are vivid images of the ancient tasks, and there are exquisite and chic birds and birds ...... all the decorations, which retains the characteristics of the southern architectural art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has a certain value of art and historical research. Provincial intangible cultural heritage list project - Zhang Gong Temple Introduction

Zhang Gong Temple is located in the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art - Liantan Town, Yunan County. Liantan Zhang Gong Temple was built in honor of Zhang Yuanxun, the general soldier of Guangdong in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, and has been in existence for more than 400 years. Zhang Yuanxun was originally a general of Qi Jiguang, a famous general who fought against Japanese invaders, and was promoted to be the general soldier of Guangdong for his merits in fighting against Japanese invaders. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was an indigenous rebellion in the area of Dashan, Luobun (i.e., the counties under the jurisdiction of present-day Yunfu City), which lasted for several decades. Ming Wanli four years, Zhang Yuanxun was ordered to lead the troops to quell the rebellion, according to the "Zhang Gong Temple Tablet Records", "the division just four months to eliminate, years of encroachment on the land are returned to the territory" "the line of people singing, living in peace," the officials and the people of the people of his benevolence, "so the establishment of a temple dedicated to the Liantan". Zhang Yuanxun was thus appointed by the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty as a general to protect the country and protect the people.

In Lian Tan, the legend of Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong customs, Zhang Gong culture attracts hundreds of thousands of believers from all over the world come to worship year after year, for more than 400 years the incense has been flourishing continuously, the scene is bustling and spectacular.

The lively Zhanggong Temple Fair

The Zhanggong Temple Fair is a folk beliefs as the main content of the folk mass activities and folk cultural activities, over the centuries, people's faith in Zhanggong Temple to commemorate the content and form of the increasingly rich and diversified, so as to form a fixed time of the activities and a more stable form of expression, so that the Zhanggong Temple Temple Fair has become the western part of the Guangdong Province is still alive to reflect the traditions, beliefs, lifestyles, folk customs, the Zhanggong Temple Fair.

The temple fair of Zhanggong Temple has become a distinctive folklore activity reflecting traditional beliefs, lifestyles and folk customs in western Guangdong, and has a wide and far-reaching influence in the Nanjiang Basin area.

The temple fair of Zhanggong Temple mainly focuses on the "Temple Festival" from the 15th to the 20th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar and the "Autumn Festival" on the 6th day of the 8th month of the Lunar Calendar every year, and the main contents of the festival include 10,000 pilgrimages, eight tones to celebrate the birth of the festival, lion performances, parades in costume, donations of joss sticks and oils, soliciting for interpretations, sign language, eating fasting rice, and the celebration of the birth of a child. The main contents of the temple fair include ten thousand pilgrimages, eight sounds to celebrate the birth, lion show, procession in costume, donation of incense and oil, solicitation of interpretation, eating fasting, going up to the mountain of knives, singing songs, opera, burning guns, doing jiao-festival, Zhang Gong parade, etc.