1, Introduction to Jinci
Jinci, located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, was formerly known as Jin Wang Temple and Tang Shuyu Temple. Jinci Temple is the earliest existing imperial sacrificial garden in China, the ancestral hall of the State of Jin; It is the concentrated carrier of ancient architectural art in China. It is an isolated case with complete architectural types and time sequence during the period of Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China. The attached painted murals and stone tablets are all national treasures. It is a comprehensive carrier of the historical context of the Sanjin Dynasty, and it is an empirical study of the cultural system of the Jin Dynasty tracing back from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. It is the birthplace of Wang and Zhang in the world.
2. History of Jinci Temple
In the Western Zhou Dynasty (1 1 century -77 1 year), Song Ji, Zhou Chengwang, named her younger brother Yu Ji as Tang Shuyu of the Tang Dynasty. Its fief is in Yicheng, Shanxi. Later, a branch of Shuyu clan moved to Jinyang, and built a temple called Tang Shuyu Temple at the source of Jinshui at the foot of Hangweng Mountain. Yu's son Xie was renamed Jin because there was water in Jin.
The value of Jinci
Jinci Temple is the earliest existing classical ancestral temple garden complex in China, with 98 buildings, 65,438+065,438+00 statues, 300 inscriptions and 37 casting artworks, which lasted for more than 300 years. It is a model of majestic, elegant and beautiful, the perfect combination of ancestral temple sacrificial architecture and natural landscape.
The earliest existing main building of Jinci Temple-Notre Dame Hall was built in the ninth year of Taiping Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (984), surrounded by cloisters. It is the earliest example of existing ancient buildings in China, and it is the masterpiece of architecture in Song Dynasty, which is of great significance to the study of architecture and architectural development history in Song Dynasty.
Fish pond flying beam, built in Song Dynasty, is the only existing cross-shaped bridge building with ancient wooden structure in China, and it also has high scientific, artistic and research value in the history of ancient bridge building in the world. Jin Dynasty architecture is dedicated to the temple, with stable structure and beam frame, which is both the main hall and the pavilion. Notre Dame Cathedral, Fish Pond Flying Beam and Fairy Hall were rated as national treasures by the Ministry of Culture.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Jinci.