Pangu Ancient Temple

Cangzhou folk song: "One literary and one martial arts, one national treasure, one ancestor." The writer is Ji Xiaolan, a generation of Wenzong, and the martial artist is Cangzhou, a well-known hometown of martial arts at home and abroad. The national treasure refers to the iron lion of Cangzhou. Today, Cangzhou belongs to Qingxian County. There is a village called "Big Pangu" 6 kilometers south of Qingxian County, and there is a Pangu Temple in the west of the village. Dapangu is located on the west bank of Heilonggang River (the old route of the ancient Yellow River), and there is Xiaopangu Village in the south, which is named after the legend that Pangu settled here. The Pangu Temple was built in the fifteenth year from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. It was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. In the 27th year of the Qing Emperor Kangxi, it was rebuilt in the southwest of the Qiu Temple due to river erosion. According to records, the Pangu Temple at that time resembled the three halls of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The front hall is three feet and six feet high, symbolizing 360 days in a year; 18 steps are climbed, which is the theory of 18 levels of hell; 108 flying eaves rafters are clothed according to 36 heavens and 72 grounds; each rafter is tied with a copper bell, according to the workmanship , Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu are placed with five tones, and there is a saying that "the wind rattles the sky and moves the music, and the top of the hall shines brightly". In the hall, there is an iron cast and gold-coated Pangu statue covered in leaves and holding the sun and the moon in his hands. In the nave, there is a statue of Guanyin of the South China Sea, sitting on a lotus basin, on both sides of the golden boy and the jade girl. There are three statues of Laojun, Confucius and Dragon King in the rear hall. There are two thick acacia trees in front of the hall, and an iron chime hangs on the ancient locust in the rear of the hall.