Fuxi is the first emperor in the ancient Chinese historical legend, the head of the three yellow, the first of the hundred kings. It was Fuxi and Nuwa who ignited the fire of Chinese civilization and made great contributions to the progress of Chinese civilization, and in the magical and beautiful land of Tianshui, there was a Fuxi Temple with flight to hebei the only statue of Fuxi in China.
Here to worship the worship of “ancestors “, here you can see Fuxi Temple gardens, museums, close understanding of the Chinese cultural and historical legends in the true reproduction here.
Fuxi Temple is located in Xiguan Fuxi Road, Qinzhou District, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. As a famous historical and cultural city in China, Tianshui has an extremely important role in history. This is the birthplace of Fuxi and the birthplace of Fuxi culture, and there are a large number of Fuxi cultural relics left here.
Gansu Tianshui “Taihao Fuxi Memorial “, is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Among them, Tianshui Fuxi Temple public sacrifice ceremony, is a global official Fuxi sacrificial activities, renowned at home and abroad. ….。 When we came to Fuxi Temple, it wasn’t exactly the busiest time, but the visitors here are still not a few, people step by step, just to feel Fuxi culture.
From the periphery of the square, from the street and the construction of the gate into here, the courtyard, four into the four courtyard, wide and deep. The ancient buildings in the temple have opera buildings, archways, the temple of heaven, the temple of tai chi, the bell tower, the drum tower, the hall of lai he, and so on. This is a complex of buildings built in ming chenghua from nineteen to twenty years, retaining the architectural style of the ming and qing dynasties.
I think it’s the event for the ceremony of the Fuxi Temple, which is a great sacrifice to the Chinese people all over the world, and we cannot help but lament this kind of luck if we can step here ourselves.
Fuxi Temple has important material value for studying the ancient history of our country, exploring the architectural art of Ming Dynasty and examining the local folk customs of Tianshui. In addition to its own architecture, there are museums here, showing and recording a large number of Fuxi culture and historical materials, for the future world to understand the origin and development of Chinese civilization has a very important reference significance.
Although Fuxi’s birthplace has many different versions, the legend that “Xi Huang hometown” of Tianshui is Fuxi’s birthplace is always convincing, Fuxi head snake body, married to sister Nuwa, and have children and children, according to the changes of heaven and earth, created divination gossip, words, legendary Fuxi omnipotent! Fuxi said Wang died 111 years later, leaving behind a large number of myths and legends about Fuxi. …..
And in the fusion of new and old buildings in tianshui fuxi temple, we will find that all of them are integrated with Fuxi elements, from the overall architectural style layout, following the orthodox design of the palace in the ming and qing dynasties, at the same time, under the cover of trees and vegetation, fully show a solemn feeling.
All the buildings divide the front hall, the rear hall, the left and right bell drum tower, the left and right partial hall according to the fixed flight to jiangxi pattern, each part has the unique function and the function, especially some ancient trees and the cypress, which have been kept in the temple for a long time, or even longer, have merged with each other with the palace, forming a long sense of ancient times, and the vicisssitudes of history have become a great feature of Fuxi Temple.
Fuxi Temple, also known as the main temple, the main hall, located in the middle of the back of the courtyard, Fuxi Temple is the main building, towering in the courtyard is 1.7 meters north of the brick platform. Here are many people come to worship the core, Fuxi statue is also here to be worshipped all the year round.
The Fuxi Temple still sits quietly in the corner of Tianshui every day. On June 22, the Gregorian calendar of Fuxi, the annual public sacrifice, contrasts with the quiet at this moment.
Perhaps the grand festival sacrifice is not the most important, but the legend from the ancient times, and the legacy of the millennium, we cannot give up.
Wherever you come from? When you arrive in Tianshui, as a Chinese children, should come here, not to seek roots to ask ancestors, nor for the past years, only for this inner world of stability, should come to feel.