Landscape of De'an Ancient Fortress

The word "JUEYUAN" is carved on a stone tablet unearthed by the descendants of Xu Shangguan, the owner of De'an Ancient Fortress in the Qing Dynasty, during the restoration of De'an Ancient Fortress. It is rumored that Guan Gong worship hall named "JUE YUAN", its "JUE YUAN" of the "JUE" word is "Guan Sheng Di Jun Jue Shi Zhen Jing" short, "YUAN" means worship hall. The word "JUE" is the short form of "Kwan Sheng Di Jun Shi Jing Jing" and the word "Yuan" refers to the hall of worship.

"Guan Sheng Di Jun Jue Shi Zhen Jing" is also known as "Jue Shi Chapter", "Jue Shi Bao Sheng", referred to as "Jue Shi Jing", is Guan Di descending from the pen of the words of instruction, the full text of more than 640 words, written to emphasize that the world should be "loyalty, filial piety, righteousness and righteousness, in order to know to change the past and relocate the good". One of the book was written by the Kangxi Emperor himself to make the preface is also shrouded in a layer of mysterious and awe-inspiring color. This has always respected "Guan Gong", coupled with the age of 6 to 16 years old to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts y influenced by the Buddhist ideology of the owner of the "De'an Ancient Castle" Xu Shangguan, naturally, has a great awakening. When the rich Xu Shangguan realized that: "the amount of wealth does not represent a person's spiritual fulfillment or not, and only cultivate character, purify a person's mind, in order to live and work in peace and contentment". This is also Xu Shangguan will be the old fort named "De'an" meaning ("De'an" of the word "De" means "cultivation of virtue ("De" means "to cultivate character" and "An" means "to live and work in peace and contentment"). Therefore, in order to revitalize the family and let the whole clan "cultivate their character", Xu Shangguan specially set up a Guan Gong Pilgrimage Hall in the south of the "De'an Ancient Fortress", which was named "JUE YUAN". In addition to serving as a hall of worship for Guan Gong for the whole clan, more importantly, the "Guan Sheng Di Jun Jue Shi Zhen Jing" is used as a family rule for the management of the several hundred Xu Clan members living in the De'an Ancient Fortress, which is intended to allow the whole clan to wholeheartedly cultivate the "Guan Sheng Di Jun Jue Shi Zhen Jing" to enhance their character and virtue, so as to tell the whole clan: only by doing good deeds and eliminating evils, by being loyal, filial and righteous can they be united and live happily in peace and happiness. It is only by doing good and doing evil, being loyal, filial and righteous that the clan can be united and live and work in peace and contentment.

Because Kwan Kung is a Buddhist monk, the Bodhisattva Galang. The name "Jalan" is a common name for a temple or a Taoist temple, and Guan Gong means the guardian deity of the Jalan land. According to legend, the founder of the Tiantai Sect in the Sui Dynasty, Master Zhi Shi (智者), was once in meditation at Mount Yuquan (玉泉山) in Jingzhou (荆州), when he heard in the air, "Give me back my head! Give me back my head!" It turned out that Guan Yu's head had been cut off by the enemy, and he was so indignant that he searched everywhere for his own head. Wise masters rhetorical question: "you pass five passes to cut six generals, killed so many people, their heads who will return it?" And he preached the Dharma for him. Guan Yu was so ashamed that he asked the Master to teach him the Three Precepts and became a full-fledged Buddhist disciple, and vowed to be the protector of Buddhism. From then on, this heroic figure, who had been honored by the people of China for more than a thousand years, was known as one of the two guardian deities of Buddhist monasteries, along with Gautama and Vairocana, who are the two major guardian deities of Buddhism, with Gautama as the right guardian deity and Vairocana as the left guardian deity. In the daily morning and evening recitation in the dojo, will recite the "Galang Praise": Galang Lord, the temple's powerful spirit, admiring the Buddha's edicts **** loss of sincerity; embracing the Dharma King City, for Han for the screen, the Brahma temple eternal peace. In thanksgiving for the great merits of the Bodhisattva Gyalan in protecting the Dharma and the teachings of the Buddha.

Nowadays, in the east of the old castle, the stream is the place where the Joyful Garden Academy is located, the academy is backed by the old castle, facing the stream and waterfalls, the decoration is ancient, Zen is strong, is a collection of Zen tea culture, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Chinese medicine and health care, the guqin collection, the national salon as a body of the culture of the club, the academy adhering to the "love of the mountains and the water, the return of life to the nature! Adhering to the purpose of life "in the mountains and water, return to nature," to promote the virtues of traditional Chinese culture, to become a hundred years of ancient fortresses as the basis for the cultural core of the Wufeng scenic area, concerned about today's society and visitors to the "body, mind, spirit" health, and provide as much as possible to cooperate with the space. Welcome to the insightful, like-minded friends to come to the Academy small talk, we will serve a cup of tea, **** enjoy the Zen space and the beauty of nature.