China News Service, Neijiang, July 7th Telegram: Visiting Sichuan Zizhong Temple and Wu Temple: Inheritance of literary style and martial arts from generation to generation
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In Chonglong Town, Zizhong County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, there is a street with a total length of 860 meters. The houses along the street are mainly in the architectural style of southern dwellings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At present, the well-preserved courtyards such as the Red Army Courtyard, the Sun Family Ancestral Hall, and the Zhong Family Ancestral Hall .
This "Zhuangyuan Street", which was first built in the Yongxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, was named after two champions in history.
Wooden pillar frames, stilted buildings, lattice windows, dripping tiles... Walking on the "Zhuangyuan Street", the shops on both sides of the road are connected and dependent.
On the left and right sides of "Zhuangyuan Street", there are national key cultural relics protection units - Zizhong Temple and Wu Temple.
Entering the Zizhong Temple, passing through the Seven-hole Zhaobi, Zhuangyuan Bridge, Dacheng Hall... A magnificent courtyard appears in front of you, and wandering in it seems to have spanned thousands of years.
"Our Zizhong Temple claims to have 'five uniques and one strangeness', and the fourth one is this shrine." After entering the Dacheng Hall, Gu Jing, the docent of the Zizhong Temple, pointed to the shrine in the hall and introduced, "This piece of Ming Jiajing nine The "Sacred Master Confucius Statue" of 2000 is the unique, tallest, most exquisite and most peculiar tablet in Confucian temples across the country."
Capital Chinese Temple.
Photo by Wang Lei
"Confucian Temple is the soul of Zizhong culture, and its preservation integrity is rare in my country." Wang Bing, a staff member of Zizhong Cultural Relics Protection Center, said that Zizhong Temple is an important carrier for the study of traditional Chinese culture, the mainstream of Confucianism. A masterpiece of "Oneness" architecture.
Today, Zizhong arranges the annual Confucian sacrificial ceremony to be held on the eve of the college entrance examination.
People came to worship and pray in an endless stream.
The Wu Temple is only 100 meters away from the Zizhong Temple. The blue-yellow glazed tiles on the roof and the red-brown glazed tiles adjacent to the Confucian Temple complement each other in the sunlight.
Zizhong Temple and Wu Er Temple stand opposite each other, which are rare in the country and have high cultural relic value.
In the Zizhong Wu Temple, the "Emei Pan Pomen Martial Arts" originated in Luoquan Town, Zizhong County, Sichuan is often staged here.
In the performance, the boxing was strong and powerful, the long sword was gleaming, and the long stick danced vigorously.
"Panpomen Martial Arts Culture Corridor opened at the Panpomen Martial Arts Square outside the Sanyi Temple of Zizhong Wu Temple gives a detailed introduction to the historical origin, growth and development process and inheritors of Panpomen Martial Arts Culture." Zizhong County Panpomen Research Association Zhang Yuanyong introduced.
Dacheng Hall in Zizhong Temple.
Photo by Wang Lei
"Not only that, Zizhong Wushu Temple has also opened up a Pan Pomen martial arts experience area to display Pan Pomen martial arts moves." Zhang Yuanyong said that Pan Pomen martial arts has fully entered the physical education classes and inter-class exercises of primary and secondary schools in Zizhong County, which has played a good inheritance effect. .
Playing Tai Chi, dancing square dancing, organizing activities... Today, the square outside Zizhong Wu Temple has long been a place for the elderly to exercise.
"We deeply interpret Zizhong's profound cultural heritage through the repair and protection of Confucian Temples and Wu Temples, exhibition of content, holding Chinese Culture Tourism Week, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and other activities." said Liang Huaisheng, chief planner of Zizhong County Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau. , Zizhong will accelerate the construction of key cultural tourism projects such as the core area of Zizhong Ancient City, vigorously develop rural tourism, promote the deep integration of cultural tourism, and strive to build an important tourist destination in the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor.
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