Introduce the history of Dai Temple and the cultural legend of Dai Temple

Dai Temple used to be called the East Prison Temple or Mount Tai Palace, and was named after Mount Tai called "Dai Zong". It is located in the north of Tai'an city and the south foot of Mount Tai. It is the largest and most complete ancient building complex in Mount Tai, the Taoist god's house, and the place where the emperors of the past dynasties held the ceremony of sealing Zen and worshipping the god of Mount Tai.

The Daimiao city wall is built high, the temple appearance is saga, the palace is overlapped, and the weather is thousands. Dai Temple was founded in the Han Dynasty, and the palace was brilliant in the Tang Dynasty. When Song Zhenzong sealed Zen in a big way, he expanded and built a large number of temples, etc., and saw the scale.

Its architectural style adopts the style of the imperial palace city, with a circumference of more than 1,500 meters, and there are more than 150 ancient buildings of various types in the temple. The main buildings are Zhengyang Gate, Peitian Gate, Ren'an Gate, Tianzhen Palace, Hou Sleeping Palace, Houzai Gate, Copper Pavilion and so on. The ancient cypress in the temple is towering to the sky, the stele is like a forest, the cultural relics are gathered, and the visitors are endless.

Dai Temple (Dongyue Temple) is the main temple of Mount Tai, dedicated to the Emperor of Dongyue (Taishan God, the god of Taishan, who governs the life and death of people and the noble and low of life, and is the commander of the ghosts of the underworld). Dai Temple is the main temple of Dongyue Temple in the country, and it is also one of the four ancient buildings in China, with an area of 96,322 square meters, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Qin Taishan carved stone in the temple is engraved with the inscription of merit of Qin Shi Huang and the edict of the second emperor, which is written by the seal of Prime Minister Li Si, which has a history of more than 2,200 years and is a rare treasure.

Dai Temple, located in the middle of Taicheng at the southern foot of Mount Tai, is also known as Dongyue Temple, Taiyue Temple, Daiyue Temple, commonly known as Tai Temple. It is the Taoist god's house, it is the place where the emperors of the past dynasties sealed Zen and sacrificed to Mount Tai, it is the largest and most complete ancient building complex in Mount Tai, and it is also the highest specification in the temple building. It is long from north to south, wide from east to west, rectangular, with a total area of 10,000 square meters, about 160 acres.

There are 186 ancient buildings and antique buildings in the temple, 184 steles, 48 Han portrait stones, 212 ancient cypress and arborvitae. In 1988, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Founded in the Han Dynasty, it is the place where the emperors of the past dynasties held the ceremony of sealing Zen and worshiping the god of Mount Tai. The altar temple building is the building of the Han people to worship the sun, moon, mountains and rivers of heaven and earth, and the ancestral Sheji, which embodies the characteristics of the Han Tongyinhe as an agricultural national culture. The layout and construction of the altar and temple buildings are consistent with those of the palace buildings, and the building system is slightly simplified.

Dai Temple was founded in the Han Dynasty, and the palace was brilliant in the Tang Dynasty. When Song Zhenzong sealed Zen in a big way, he greatly expanded and built. Dai temple north and south long meters, east and west wide meters, rectangular, a total area of 96,000 square meters, its architectural style adopts the style of the imperial palace city, more than 1,500 meters around the ring, there are more than 150 ancient buildings of all kinds in the temple.

The Dai Temple displays the Confucian concept of etiquette with its internal architectural arrangement, and the entire building complex is centered on a north-south longitudinal axis, with a balanced horizontal expansion. The main buildings located on the central axis are: Yaoshenting Hall, Dai Temple Fang, Zhengyang Gate, Peitian Gate, Ren'an Gate, Tianzhen Palace, Middle Bedroom Palace, and Houzai Gate.

There is an east-west ring corridor connection between Ren'anmen and Tianzhen Temple, which constitutes the central closed courtyard of Dai Temple.

Its main building, the Tianzhen Palace, is located on a tall double-storey grade platform, the middle of the east ring corridor is the drum tower, and the middle of the west ring corridor is the bell tower. The Tianzhen Hall is built at the rear point of the central axis, the face is nine rooms wide, the top of the heavy eaves hall is the highest; The back bedroom is five rooms wide, and the eaves are sent to the top of the mountain to fight in a single game, which is one level lower; With the gate of heaven and the door of Ren'an, the face is five wide, and the single eaves rest on the top of the mountain, which is the form of the door, and it is a lower level.

The title of the Great. Mount Tai was known as "Shenzhou" in ancient times, "Jinan Mansion is full of people, and Tai'an Prefecture is full of God". On the tablet of the existing Dai Temple's "Five Mountains True Map", the pictographic symbols of the five mountains are engraved, and the duties of the five mountain gods are divided.

The authority assigned to the god Taishan is the greatest: "The Lord is in the official position of the people of the world and the period of life and death, and also pays attention to the distinction between high and low, and the long and short things." "Dongyue Taishan Jun, leading the gods of 5,900 people, presiding over life and death, the commander of the hundred ghosts, and the blood food temple worship Zongbo.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne, he reformed the feudal Zen system, and changed from the emperor to the official sacrifice. In 1370 A.D., a monument was erected in the Dai temple to correct the name, and all the titles of the god of Mount Tai were removed. Although the title has been removed, the title of Dongyue Emperor is still used throughout the dynasties.

Regional characteristics. Scholar Wang Keyu believes that Dongyue Temple mainly has three major regional characteristics, one is that Dongyue Temple in the region of the wax chain spread first originated in present-day Shandong, the Tang Dynasty "Yuanhe County Atlas" contained in the Yutai (now Shandong) Taishan Mansion Jun Temple, for the earliest Dongyue Temple seen in the official gazetteer. Since then, the temple worship has gradually spread to the northern states and counties, and the Tang Dynasty's Helun Sunan, Hebei, Hedong and other provinces - that is, the areas where Dongyue Temples were built earlier in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei and other places.

This area is also the traditional area of Taishan faith. As early as the Han Dynasty, the belief that "Mount Tai is the main death" prevailed here.

The second is that the southern region of China is almost at the same time as the construction of the Dongyue Temple in the north, and some of the southern parts will begin to build such ancestral halls, such as the Taishan Mansion Jun Temple in Shudi, which appeared in the late Tang Dynasty at the latest, and in addition, part of the Dongyue Temple in the south of the Yangtze River and Fujian was also built in the Tang Dynasty. However, the general prosperity of Dongyue Temple in the south began in the Song and Song dynasties. In particular, the Song Dynasty crossed to the south and vigorously promoted the worship of Dongyue in the south of the Yangtze River, and made the southern Yibei Fight become an important town of Taishan faith.

The third is China's border areas, after the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the development of the frontier by successive dynasties, the Dongyue temple worship also began to spread to the border areas. The Dongyue Temple in the Yuan Dynasty was first built in Hannan Mongolia, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Ningxia and other places were successively incorporated into its territory, including the official sacrificial system of the Dongyue Temple in the above areas. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zheng Chenggong of the Southern Ming Dynasty recovered Taiwan, built Dongyue Temple in Tainan, and spread the temple worship to Taiwan.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Manchu and Han cultures were increasingly integrated, and the Dongyue Temple was greatly developed in the northeast, and then the Qing Dynasty pacified Xinjiang and other places, and the government decree was carried out in the borderlands, prompting the Dongyue Temple to be promoted to these regions.

<> Dai Temple is the five temples of Mount Tai, in the southern foot of Mount Tai in Tai'an County, it is the place where the emperors of the past dynasties held the ceremony of sealing Zen. In history, there is a record of "Han Yiqi Palace". After generations of expansion and addition, the formation of a grand and magnificent ancient building complex, a total area of more than 96,400 square meters, its scale design completely imitates the imperial palace and the palace city, embodies the artistic style of ancient architecture in our country.

In front of the Dai temple is the Dai temple square, and the remote pavilion in front of the temple is the first step to enter the temple. In ancient times, the emperor Dynasty Mountain, first held a simple ceremony in the pavilion, and then entered the temple to make a big sacrifice, so the original name was the grass ginseng pavilion. After entering the temple, you can see the 5 Han cypress of the East Han Bai Courtyard of Tianmen, which is said to be planted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he came to Mount Tai to seal the Zen.

In the Hanbai Temple, what is more eye-catching is the various ancient inscriptions. There are more than 160 inscriptions in the Dai Temple from the orange Qin to the Qing Dynasty, and most of them are hidden in the Hanbai Temple.

The famous Han "Zhang Qian Tablet", "Hengfang Tablet", Jin "Mrs. Sun Tablet", Tang "Shenbao Temple Jie", are all precious cultural relics for studying China's calligraphy art and inscription. There are also "Taiji Diagram Tablet" reflecting the philosophical thoughts of the pre-Qin Dynasty and the "First Mountain" tablet of Mi Fu, a great calligrapher and painter in the Song Dynasty. The earliest inscription in the Dai Temple is the "Li Si Tablet" of the Qin Jutuan Dynasty.

Li Si small seal carved stone in the East Imperial Throne Courtyard, is the edict of Qin II Hu Hai when sealing Mount Tai in 209 BC, for the prime minister Li Si personally written, the original text is 79 words, now only 10 remnants of the true Zen Wu trace remain, is a treasure in ancient culture. The main building of Dai temple is tall and majestic, the air is magnificent, it is the place where the ancient emperor worships Mount Tai of Dongyue. This hall was founded in the second year of Song Dazhong Xiangfu (1009), which is the product of Song Zhenzong to consolidate his power, forge the book of heaven, and thank heaven.

There is a huge mural of 62 meters high in the hall "Mount Tai God Qi Hui Luan Tu", which is called to describe the Dongyue Emperor going out on patrol, which is actually a description of the Song Emperor's tour of the mountain.