The building area of the whole temple is1033m2. There is a stage, a rain pavilion, a front hall, a main hall and a back hall, with east and west wings on both sides. Located on the left side of the Confucian Temple at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain. The two temples are exquisite in the location of the temple building base, occupying two ridges of the same mountain, 50 meters apart, adjacent and corresponding. Interestingly, the Confucian Temple is 6 degrees east of the south and 45 degrees east of the south. If the respective central axes are extended, the intersection points are from the Confucian Temple 100m and from the Confucian Temple 1 10m respectively. Yinshan Mountain is divided into two ridges, one east and one west, one left and one right. On the left is the Confucian Temple, and on the right is the Wu Temple. The two temples are integrated and complement each other. Gongcheng Wu Temple, also known as Guandi Temple, is a temple dedicated to Guan Yu, a famous soldier of the Three Kingdoms.
Guan Yu (? -220 years), surnamed Guan Mingyu, with a long word. He died in the war with the state of Wu, and was posthumously named Hou. The local people set up a shrine in Yuquan Mountain to offer sacrifices. But until the Tang dynasty, the impact on the people was not great. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was made public. Guan Yu's combination of loyalty and righteousness: he is loyal to the country, brave in fighting, benevolent and righteous, which almost brings together all the virtues of the Chinese nation. So the impact is getting bigger and bigger. Finally, he was named Guan Jun, commonly known as Guan Di. Buddhism and Taoism are also competing to be regarded as the gods of this gate. Buddhism regards it as the patron saint of Galand, while Taoism regards it as the reincarnation of the old dragon in Lei Shou Mountain and respects it as the true king. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guan Yu became the head of man and god, on a par with Confucius in Wen Sheng, and became a "warrior sage". Among the people, all walks of life worship Guan Yu more than Confucius. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guan Yu has become a Wu Shen, a god of war, an industry god in all walks of life, a top scholar promoted in the world, a merchant god of wealth, and a just blessing god to cure disasters, drive away evil and punish evil. Now, Guan Yu's influence has crossed time and space and nationality, and he has been worshipped and admired by China people at home and abroad.
According to relevant inscriptions, as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Gongcheng Wu Temple was built. From the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the rising tide of beautification, deification and deification from all walks of life, Gongcheng Wu Temple has been repaired, rebuilt and expanded on a large scale many times. In the late Qing Dynasty, the temple caught fire several times and suffered heavy losses, but it was repaired and rebuilt in the Republic of China. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the people's government attached great importance to Gongcheng, an ancient architectural group. It was not only included in the national key cultural relics protection units for protection, but also allocated funds for the maintenance and repair of this temple for many times, which basically restored its original historical features. The temple was founded in the thirty-first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1603) and has been rebuilt three times. Now gradually repair, restore the original appearance. The distance between Wuci and Confucian Temple is 1 10 meter, which creates a miracle that the only Confucian Temple and Wuci in China cannot coexist.
Wuci covers an area of 2 130 square meters. It has a stage, a rain pavilion, a front door, a main hall, a back hall and a hatchback hall. The mixed load-bearing structure of wood frame and brick wall is mainly adopted. The temple has no main entrance, but opens from both sides. It is said that this is to prevent the airflow outside from rushing in directly and affecting the powerful gas field in the temple. On the two doors, the characters "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" and "helping the world and the people" are written respectively, implying Guan Gong's code of conduct. Wu Miao architecture is divided into a stage, a main hall, an inclined heavenly palace, a back hall and an affiliated hall of the East-West hatchback. The whole building rests on the eaves, its wings fly, and its ridges are decorated with clay sculptures, auspicious dragons and phoenixes, bright and dark eight immortals, and lifelike figures, flowers and birds. The yellow-green glazed tile roof blends with the light of the Confucian Temple, forming a magnificent ocean of light waves under the Yinshan Mountain. Gongcheng Wu Temple is a well-preserved Guandi Temple in Guangxi so far. Known as the "crown of temples in Guangxi", it is now one of the unique landscapes in Guilin's big tourist area. Gongcheng Wuci is all wood structure except the masonry structure of abutment. There are relief figures in the stone carvings on the platform, doors and windows grids and shrines are carved on the platform, four gold pillars go straight to the top floor to bear the top load, and the eaves columns go to the lower eaves. The double eaves rise from the middle, and there is a caisson in the middle of the platform, which looks like an upside-down clock, and the wallboard is painted brightly. There are 36 water tanks at the bottom of the stage. When beating gongs and drums on the stage, the sound reflects upward from different angles and resonates in the algae well, which can amplify the sound and make it spread ten miles away. The red walls and yellow tiles on the stage are full of gold; The eaves on the roof are high, the dragons and phoenixes on the ridge are auspicious, and the figures such as the Eight Immortals of Light and Dark are clay sculptures with realistic shapes. The front hall and the back hall are carved with beams and painted with buildings, and the eaves are hanging in the sky. The imposing manner and exquisite architecture are amazing. The main buildings are Jieyifang, Junzi Pavilion and Sanyi Pavilion. The main temple at the northern end of the central axis is a huge building community with many units and layers of development. It is mainly composed of glazed dragon wall, end gate, meridian gate, imperial book building, knife building, seal building, spring and autumn building and many archways. It is the main place to worship Guan Gong. The main building in the main temple is grand in scale, extraordinary in momentum, carved with beams and painted with buildings, solemn and immersive, which can not but make people respect Guan Gong. On the east side of the southern end of the central axis, there is a stone archway that is expected by all generations, and on the west side of the southern end of the central axis, there is a wooden archway that is "Megatron Huaxia". These two magnificent archways show the world the prominent position of Guan Gong and Guan Gong culture in the ancient history of China, which is admirable. On the east and west sides of the northern end of the central axis, there are basically symmetrical auxiliary buildings of the main temple, such as Zhuifengbo Temple, Changshou Palace and Chongsheng Temple. Like the main temple, these attached buildings are shrouded in solemn atmosphere, but they play an irreplaceable role: deepening people's understanding of Guan Gong's life and life experience, and extending and strengthening his worship and admiration.
The woodcarving shrine in Gongcheng Wu Temple is exquisite, and the statue of Emperor Guan Yu is majestic and majestic. Outside the niche, there are carved beams and painted buildings, etiquette leaning columns, wood carvings and Yunlong golden columns, which are coiled from bottom to top, and the two poems intersect to show Guan Yu's heroism. There is a horizontal plaque inscribed by Kangxi on the niche, which adds a solemn atmosphere. Gongcheng Wuci is a mountain building with brick and wood structure, with three rooms wide and one room deep. There is a treasure house in front, a corner, a double-decker Wu Ang store as a bucket arch, and the mouth is engraved with moire patterns. Celadon drum-shaped column base, wood carving and dragon and phoenix are embedded between the column and the horizontal forehead, and the board is painted.
There is a small shed at the back door, with a corner, a single arch and a three-story arch, and wood carving panels are embedded between the columns. There is a small hexagonal diamond window on both sides of the back door. Youlong is carved in brick on the right spine, with three "thorn halberds" inserted in the middle of the spine, and big kisses at both ends of the spine. Tilted ridge brick carving running beast. The whole building is magnificent and unique. There are five rooms on both sides of the front hall, all of which are hard-mountain. The back hall is a hard mountain building, which is five rooms wide. There is a cloister in front of it, and the dovetail wood carving is embedded between the beam and the square and painted. The mountain gate is a building built on the mountain, with three rooms wide and a door open in the middle. There is a single-gallery, three-story bucket arch at the corner. There is a plaque on the door of Guandi Temple. There are a pair of large and small stone lions outside the door. The second floor of the bell and drum is built on both sides of the mountain gate, resting on the top of the mountain, with brick and wood structure. There are bucket arches and painted stigmas and three bunks. The east building hangs bells and the west building plays drums. There are more than ten murals painted on the inner and outer walls, with bright colors, smooth lines and exquisite painters. There is a stone carving horizontal plaque embedded in front of the temple, and the three big raised characters of Guandi Temple with a thick bowl mouth are eye-catching. On the side of the gate, there is a meaningful couplet engraved with polished stone: "First, Wu Mu made great achievements in Hanshui, then Wenxuan and Shengdao Penni Mountain." On the platform in front of the temple stands a pair of finely carved granite stone lions, which were donated by believers during the Daoguang period. The back hall is a place to worship Guan Di. The statue of Guan Gong in the hall is about 2 meters high with a red face and a black beard. It is majestic and brave, waiting for Guan Ping and Zhou Cang. The inscription rebuilt during the Daoguang period is still preserved in the left compartment. Since the establishment of Wu Temple, incense has flourished, cigarettes linger all the year round, and there are many pilgrims. Every year on May 13th of the lunar calendar, during Guandi's birthday, tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims come to worship, and a local temple fair has been formed, which is very lively.