After 800 years after the rise and fall Nan'an Temple to start repairs

Huanglong Daxi around its right, the Qingyuan Lane Roach embraced its left, before the Zimao Mountain, after the negative Shuangyang Mountain, the momentum of the majestic expansion, Xun belongs to a good place. In such a place of beautiful scenery, is located in southern Fujian built the earliest, once the largest Confucian temple? Nanan Temple of Literature.

In more than 800 years, Nan'an Temple of Culture has been repeatedly abolished and revitalized. 1952, due to a fire in the temple hall, abandoned so far. Recently, after many deployments, Nanan City, Culture, Sports, Culture and Tourism Group started the repair work of Nanan Temple, a project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023. By then, Nan'an Temple of literature will be reproduced in the past, to undertake the history and inheritance of the spirit.

Nan'an Temple of Literature is located in Quanzhou City, Fengze District, Beifeng Street, Zhaolian community.

The temple is beautifully carved wooden structures.

Most of the floor has been repaired and leveled

25, the reporter came to the Nan'an Temple repair project site, into the gap in the eastern tin fence, through the open space between the two white buildings, they came to the center of the temple compound. See around most of the main building has not existed, only to stay in the south of the Dacheng door, east and west ear room, west hipped, courtyard edge side have been erected scaffolding.

Site, there are workers on the ground individual uneven granite stone removed, and in accordance with the original way of plastering the ground; there are workers on the bottom of the stone chiseling, in order to return to the security and the ground is more appropriate. At present, most of the floor in the courtyard has been repaired and leveled.

The original Dacheng door towards the south side of a wall, the other side of the wall was the location of the South Plaza, now become a processing plant. Dacheng door and east and west ear room is separated by two walls, coiled dragon stone columns were built into the wall, some of the bas-relief exposed wall, still visible in its style of ancient, rough atmosphere.

The remaining houses, the edge of the red brick and stone red tile structure, still very neat, through a point of refinement. Dacheng Hall site in front, still preserved a more complete DanHei, its carvings clearly visible, amazing.

According to local villagers, Dacheng Hall was destroyed in a fire in early years, the site was reclaimed by nearby villagers as a vegetable plot, only the platform and individual column bases remain.

Into the Dacheng door, look up, visible roof beam rafters dark. Nan'an City Culture, Sports and Tourism Group project leader Wang Hongpeng introduced, this is not smoked by the fire, but its surface paint after a long time of oxidation, become dull.

Wang Hongpeng introduced, Nanan Temple in addition to the main part of the remains, there is a little-known Chaste Martyrs Shrine. So, the reporter along the alleys around the Nanan Temple, around a large number of houses, came here. Now, Zhenlie Jiexiao Shrine is full of half a person high weeds, the roof has long been collapsed, the frame is shaky, written with? The roof has long since collapsed, the roof frame is crumbling, and the words on the plaque have changed. The writing on the plaque has faded. The floor of the shrine has grown a few trees, the crown has been higher than the roof.

According to historical records, Nan'an Temple of Literature is a large-scale, chic architectural style, the entrance plaza is paved with eight large grid of slate, a metaphor for the city of Fengzhou inside and outside of the eight stores, respectively, for the city's four stores (the east gate Fuchun store, the west gate Lile store, the south gate Wu Rong store, the north gate longevity store), the city outside of the four stores (the city of the east Zhaoyin store, the west of the city social altar store, the city of the south of the Qinzhou store, the city north of the Peach Orchard store), and a forty-six grid of ? Stable turtle bridge? , symbolizing Nanan **** have forty-six are.

Today, through the surviving components and sites under repair, the solemnity and splendor of the Temple of Literature in the past gradually revealed.

And Zheng Chenggong has an unbreakable bond

According to historical records, Nan'an Temple of Literature was first created in the Northern Song Dynasty during the period of Jingkang, more than 800 years ago, and was originally located in the west of the original city of Fengzhou, and then moved to the east of the original city of Fengzhou, where it is located today? Quanzhou City, Fengze District, Beifeng Street, Zhaolian community, which also makes it the only cross-regional county-level Literature Temple in Quanzhou City.

The Nan'an Temple of Literature is also associated with the national hero Zheng Chenggong, whose father, Zheng Zhilong, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in 1646. The country is in danger, the people are trapped in the suffering, but his father surrendered at this time, so Zheng Chenggong decided to rise up to the division in order to avenge the national hatred of the family. He came to the temple in Nan'an had stood in the Kuixing Pavilion next to the statue of Confucius in front of his own study when he wore a green coat, a green hat, etc., put on the armor, wear a sword, and from then on the military life.

"Nan'an County Records" records, Nan'an Temple of literature repeatedly abolished and re-emerged, or temple site relocation, or temple temple ruined, or destroyed by bandits, or floating in the flood, or bridge in the earthquake, many disasters. However, successive generations of Nan'an people repeatedly repair, and even rebuild, visible to the people of the temple, the importance of education.

Most of the rebuild by the successive counties, Eup gentry, or oracle, school record, trainer presided over. Every time the reconstruction, the stone will be erected, chronicle the event, say its difficult, table its merits. According to "Nan'an County Records" and "Fengzhou manuscripts" contained in the Nan'an Temple of Literature * * * there are 15 construction monuments. Since the abolition of the Qing Guangxu years after the school, Nanan Temple of literature is really gradually deserted.

In 1913 and 1915, the Temple was rebuilt, when the Nanan Temple still has the main hall, latticework door, Minglun Hall, Wenchang Pavilion, Oracle Department, Ocean Pond, Yunpan Bridge and so on there, the left side and Zhu Zi Ancestral Hall, Shrine of the Famous Eunuchs, the Kai Sheng Gong Ancestral Hall and the successive generations of the construction of the Tablet and so on. Until 1952, because of the temple fire, the spread of the corridor, Nanan Temple was burned only the front door and part of the remains.

? The whole old as the old? Taking into account the characteristics of Minnan

As early as September 2020, Nan'an City Museum invited professional archaeological team, Nan'an Temple site for archaeological investigation and exploration work. According to the survey, Nan'an Temple of Culture, Dacheng door, east hipped, west hipped, Dacheng Hall, section filial piety ancestral temple and other roofs are paved with Minnan building special red tile, roof cover red tiles; East and West ear room wall has a side of a round two Minnan characteristics of the window; Dacheng Hall in addition to the use of traditional Minnan roof structure, but also the use of the mirror wall practice, the composition of the wall from the bottom to the top of the skirt plugs, incense line box, the body of the plugs, the top of the plugs and the water car plugs. The repair will also restore these parts.

Due to the south of Minnan near the sea, humidity, high requirements for building moisture, rain, therefore, stone is widely used in traditional architecture. Nan'an Literary Temple facade mainly using granite columns, stone columns and then wooden columns at the top to connect the beams. In order to fully replicate the Nan'an Temple, the construction unit has also commissioned a professional stone processing plant to customize the stone columns, stone carvings and other components.

? Repair roof tiles to a piece of a piece to, feel the stone to cross the river. ? Construction unit site responsible person Dong Zhihuang said, many parts of the construction process to discover the damage, such as the roof rafters need to lift the tiles to know whether it is necessary to replace, ? The purpose of doing so is to preserve as much as possible the original components of the Temple of Nan'an?

It is reported that the Nan'an Temple repair will follow? The whole old as the old?

It is reported that the restoration of the temple will follow the concept of "the whole old as the old", make the best use of the original materials, save the original components, use the original technology, as much as possible to preserve the historical information, to maintain the characteristics of cultural relics. After the reinforcement of the structure, should be comprehensive to reduce the hidden danger, to ensure that a longer period of time is no longer repaired. Dong Zhihuang introduced, attached to the cultural relics in the possibility of suffering damage before being allowed to dismantle, and after repair according to the original state of return to the security.