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Contact information of Yuanyou Palace: Yuanyou Palace Road, Zhongxiang City

Yuanyou Palace Attractions Introduction:

Yuanyou Palace is located in Yingzhong Town, Zhongxiang City Mianyu was built by Emperor Zhu Hou of the Ming Dynasty. The palace was built in 1549 AD and completed in 1558. It has a history of more than 400 years. It is the third major project built after the Xing Palace and Mingming Mausoleum in Zhongxiang after King Xing granted Ying and Jiajing ascended the throne. It covers an area of ??12,000 square meters, with extremely magnificent architectural scale and dazzling colored glaze paintings. Its architectural style and layout are similar to those of the Forbidden City in Beijing and similar to the Wudang Taoist Temple.

According to legend, in Changshou County (Zhongxiang) on ??the south side of Anlu City, there is a Xuanmiao Taoist temple, in which lives a pure Taoist named Yuanyou. At that time, Zhu_hang, the king of Xing who had a fiefdom of Zhongxiang, became a close friend with him. The two often talked about the past and the present together, enjoying the scenery and playing chess. One day in the second year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the two of them were playing chess. When the interest was high, Zhu_hang suddenly felt tired. In the hazy state, he seemed to see a person entering the palace. He was startled. When he woke up, it turned out to be Nan Ke Yimeng. Suddenly, a message came from the trail: Master has ascended to heaven. Zhu_Hang was shocked, and another palace maid came to report: The prince was born! This prince was later Emperor Jiajing Zhu Hou_. Zhu Hou is therefore said to be the incarnation of a pure Taoist. Therefore, after Zhu Hou succeeded to the throne, he ordered this palace to be built and named it Yuanyou Palace. Yuanyou takes the meaning of Xuantian Yuanyou to commemorate.

The Yuanyou Palace has a majestic architecture and a spectacular scene. It is a rare Ming and Qing ancient building complex in Central and South China. During this period, some buildings were destroyed by war in the late Ming Dynasty. It was repaired many times during the Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty. After liberation, the party and the government attached great importance to the protection of cultural relics and allocated special funds for repairs and arrangements on many occasions. This magnificent building has been repaired several times. The existing ground-level buildings include the glazed Qionghua wall, the Yanxi wooden archway, the Yuanyou Palace gate, the second floor of the bell and drum, the Yuanyou Palace, the Jiangxiang Palace and the ruins of the Sandong Pavilion, Xuanfa and Yanxi Palaces. The Zhen Er Pei Hall, Yu La Monument, etc. have basically maintained their original appearance.

Why did Zhu Hou build this palace? "Zhongxiang County Chronicle" records: During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Chunyi lived in Xuanmiao Temple, and his Taoism was very high. King Xing (that is, Zhu Youhang, the father of Emperor Jiajing) wanted to travel with him. One day, he fell asleep and saw Chunyi entering the palace. Jue asked Zuo Yi, "Is Chunyi here?" Russia reported that a son was born in the palace! A pure Taoist with the name Yuanyou, he has practiced Taoism since he was a child. At that time, Zhu Youhang, the Xingwang of Zhongxiang, became a close friend with him. The two often talked about the past and the present together, enjoying the scenery and playing chess. One day in the second year of Zhengde, the two were playing chess. When the interest was high, Zhu Youhang suddenly felt tired. In the haze, he seemed to see Chun Dao entering the palace of the prince. He was suddenly startled, angry in his heart, and woke up with a roar. It turned out to be Nanke Yimeng. . Suddenly, a message came from the trail: Master has ascended to heaven. Zhu Youhang was still shocked, and another palace maid came to report: Congratulations to the prince, the prince is born! This prince was later Emperor Jiajing Zhu Hou_. Zhu Hou is said to be the incarnation of a pure Taoist. Therefore, after Zhu Hou ascended the throne, he ordered the palace to be built and named it Yuanyou Palace. Yuanyou takes the meaning of Xuantian Yuanyou to commemorate.

Yuanyou Palace is Zhu Hou's third major project after he ascended the throne and left Zhongxiang at the age of fifteen, after Xing Palace and Xianling Mausoleum. It covers an area of ??12,000 square meters and has poor construction specifications. It is extremely magnificent, with glazed paintings that are dazzling. Its architectural style and layout are similar to the Forbidden City in Beijing and similar to the Wudang Taoist Temple.

The Yuanyou Palace has a majestic architecture and a spectacular scene. It is a rare Ming and Qing ancient building complex in Central and South China. During this period, some buildings were destroyed by war in the late Ming Dynasty. It was repaired many times during the Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty. After liberation, the party and the government attached great importance to the protection of cultural relics and allocated special funds for repairs and arrangements on many occasions. This magnificent building has been repaired several times. The existing ground-level buildings include the glazed Qionghua wall, the Yanxi wooden archway, the Yuanyou Palace gate, the second floor of the bell and drum, the Yuanyou Palace, the Jiangxiang Palace and the ruins of the Sandong Pavilion, Xuanfa and Yanxi Palaces. The Zhen Er Pei Hall, Yu La Monument, etc. have basically maintained their original appearance.

The Yuanyou Palace has a magnificent architecture and a spectacular scene. It is a rare Ming and Qing ancient building complex in Central and South China. In 1961, it was listed as one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in the province by the Hubei Provincial People's Government. It is now the site of Zhongxiang Museum. The museum collects more than 6,000 cultural relics of various types, reflecting Zhongxiang's long history and cultural prosperity from different aspects. Among these cultural relics are Bianfan culture that studies the jade, stone, pottery and other utensils left behind by human activities in Zhongxiang in the middle and late primitive society; some study the relics left by merchants in Zhongxiang. Chu ware is the most distinctive among the museum's collections.

Porcelain occupies a considerable proportion in the entire collection, and its exquisiteness is unparalleled. More than 700 ancient calligraphy and painting works reflect the cultural outlook of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Mochou Ancient Ferry in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties , Zheng Banqiao's Orchid Picture, Zhu Da's calligraphy, Yang Yanzhen's Hundred Years Old Picture, Huang Yunxuan's Nine Elders Returning Home, etc. The soft corpses of women from the Qing Dynasty are well preserved. The thirty-six pieces of clothing in the collection all have embroidery and various patterns, reflecting the superb skills and beauty of women at that time. Zhongxiang is also a revolutionary base area. The older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as He Long, Li Xiannian, Deng Zihui, Chen Shaomin, etc. left behind precious cultural relics such as guns and ammunition, printed Zhongzhou coins, and printing lead during their activities here, which provide us with revolutionary traditional education. Precious physical information. These cultural relics are displayed in the Ancient Porcelain Museum, Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Museum, Bronze Ware Museum, Qing Dynasty Female Corpse Museum, and Revolutionary Cultural Relics Museum, and are open to the public all year round.

This Yuanyou Palace, a cultural relic display site, is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has pleasant scenery. It is indeed a tourist attraction.