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Record of Guandi Temple in Changping
According to historical records, since the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing in Ziming (1555), the Guan Sheng Family Temple has been repaired or added 16 times. Therefore, most of the existing buildings are left over from the Qing Dynasty. The total area of the whole temple is 13320 square meters, with a large scale and rigorous layout. It's a brick-wood structure and glazed tile building. The temples in the temple are spectacular, with towering cypresses and magnificent momentum. There are three archways in front of the temple, with left and right wooden structures and stone carvings in the middle; From front to back, the central axis of the temple has six halls, namely, Shanmen Gate, Wumen Gate, Appreciation Hall, Guandi Hall, Niangniang Hall and Shengzu Hall. There are wing rooms, annex halls and cloisters on both sides. Guandi Hall is five rooms wide, surrounded by verandahs, double eaves and nine ridges. The woodcarving shrine in the hall is richly decorated. Guan Yu, wearing a crown and an imperial costume, sat intently in the dragon chair. There are four waiters inside and outside the niche, modest and modest. There is a hanging flower gate in front of the empress temple, and the left and right halls are divided into independent courtyards; The main hall is five rooms wide and five rooms deep, with a corridor in front and a shrine inside. Mrs. Guan's wife, Guan Feng Xiadian, sat inside, and the waiter stood respectfully with a handkerchief or a water pole. Each image has a moderate proportion and is unique. It is a fine clay sculpture in the Qing Dynasty. The Temple of the Holy Father is located in the last five-bay complex in the temple. It includes the ancestral palace of Guan Yu, his great-grandfather, his grandfather Yu Changgong, his father's palace, and the statues of Yu's ancestors, great-grandfather and grandfather's wife, which have never been seen in other temples. There is also an octagonal seven-story brick tower in Guandi Temple, which is said to be the tomb of Guan Yu's parents. The ancient cypress in the south of the temple is green and has many stone tablets, which is the ancestor of Guan Yu.

There are 22 inscriptions on Guandi Temple in Changping, including 1 in Jin Dynasty, 7 in Ming Dynasty, 13 in Qing Dynasty and 1 in Republic of China. Some inscriptions tell the story of Guan Yu, which are valuable materials for us to study the history of the Three Kingdoms.