The most dazzling cultural element in the Baoguo Temple Cultural Park—

🌟💕 Baoguo Temple was founded during the Liao Dynasty and is a thousand-year-old ancient temple. 🏯✨ 🏮🍲 During the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua period, the Ciren Temple was built on the original site of Baoguo Temple, and it was renamed the Great Baoguo Ciren Temple after renovations during the Qing Dynasty's Qianlong era. It was renovated again during the Republic of China period and expanded. 🔨🏛 🍽🍜 After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was used as a granary and factory. Restoration began at the end of the 1980s, and in 1997 it was opened to the public as a cultural market. 🏢🚪 🏢👥 In 2020, the Baoguo Temple market was closed, restored as a cultural heritage site, and is now open to the public as the Baoguo Temple Cultural Park. 🏛🎉 📚🏰 Although the main hall of Baoguo Temple still exists, it is no longer used for any religious purposes but has been transformed into a venue for various cultural activities. 🎭🎨 💎🏺 The antique and collectible stalls that were once in the market have been replaced with collectible shops and cultural and creative stores, and there are popular coffee shops and other businesses. ☕🛍 🏞📜 However, in this famous cultural park, there is still a site full of historical and cultural elements, which is the Gutinlin Ancestral Hall located on the west road of Baoguo Temple. 🏯📜 👨‍🏫📖 Gutinlin, also known as Gu Yanwu, was one of the 'Four Great Enlightenment Thinkers' who famously said, 'The rise and fall of a nation is the responsibility of every individual.' 👥🎓 🛡📚 Gu Yanwu idolized historical figures such as Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, and Fang Xiaoru, and after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he devoted himself to anti-Qing activities and never accepted an official position under the Qing Dynasty. 💪🔱 📖📚 He turned his nostalgia for his homeland into a dedication to scholarly research, practicing the idea of 'reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles,' and spent his life studying and writing, ultimately becoming a great Confucian scholar. 📜📚 🏯📚 The Zen rooms on the west road of Baoguo Temple were Gu Yanwu's main residence in Beijing, where he completed most of his works. 🏠🖋 🏛🎉 Therefore, more than 160 years after Gu Yanwu's death, during the Daoguang era, Hanlin Academy editor He Shaoji and tribute student Zhang Mu initiated the construction of the Gutinlin Ancestral Hall at this location. 🏰🔨 🎈🎁 After the completion of the Gutinlin Ancestral Hall, annual spring and autumn festivals, birthday celebrations, and special ceremonies were held, often attended by high officials and famous scholars, becoming a rare phenomenon in Chinese cultural history. 🎉📜 🚪🏞 The main entrance of the Gutinlin Ancestral Hall is on the west side of the Baoguo Temple's mountain gate, but currently, this door is not open, and there is a moon gate on the west side of Baoguo Temple that leads here. 🌙🚪 🎋🎎 The large characters 'The rise and fall of a nation is the responsibility of every individual' are very conspicuous on both sides of the archway, and after entering the archway, you can see the statue of Gu Yanwu in front of the bamboo forest. 🗿🌿 🏯🏞 Inside the ancestral hall are several courtyards, all lush and tranquil, with rooms transformed into collectible shops, and a long corridor on the east side with poems about Gu Yanwu by various historical figures on the walls. 🖼🖋 📜🎓 Mr. Gutinlin's integrity and scholarship have been passed down through the ages, and he will always be a role model for upright scholars, no matter the era! 👨‍🏫👏