The colorful clouds disperse easily and the glass is fragile | Hou Tu Temple in Jie Xiu, Shanxi
【Jin Shan Jin Mei·Jie Xiu·Colorful Clouds Disperse Easily and Glass is Fragile】I didn't do enough homework, when I arrived in Jie Xiu it was Monday, and places like Hou Tu Temple were surprisingly closed. I was unwilling to accept this, so I rested for a day and visited again the next day, but I had already entered a glass world.
The craftsmanship of the glass products in various parts of Jie Xiu Hou Tu Temple is exquisite, and the color does not fade over time. The green, golden, and peacock blue colors complement each other. The roof slope of the Sanqing Building is made up of patterns formed by yellow and green glass tiles. The golden lotus ridge tube, ridge brake, treasure bottle, treasure bead, immortal, beast, etc., are dazzling and dazzling. The cross-hipped roof on both sides of the wind board, hanging fish, and grass are all decorated with various glass pieces, which are lifelike and colorful. The purple and white glass grapes decorated on the wind board of the screen wall are vivid and lifelike, and they are rare art treasures.
The shadow wall, mountain gate, over hall, side hall, bell and drum tower, Hou Tu main hall, Niang Niang hall, Guan Di temple, every building of the ancient architectural complex of Jie Xiu Hou Tu Temple is topped with gorgeous glass decorations, which are exquisite and spectacular, majestic, golden and brilliant, and colorful.
Figure 9 is the Xian Shen Tower not far from Hou Tu Temple. I visited it by the way. It is one of the four famous towers in San Jin, and it is extraordinary.
Tips: Historical records show that at the beginning of the 4th century AD, the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty established its capital in Pingcheng (Datong), and began to use glass products when building palaces, swallowtails, beasts, and palace towers. Therefore, Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of glass, and Jie Xiu glass has its own system in Shanxi during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The roofs of the eight ancient temples in the architectural complex of Jie Xiu Hou Tu Temple are all decorated with colorful and exquisite glass. The glass tile pieces (including cat heads and drips) and exquisite ridge decorations, and the tower lion bottle, beast swallowtail, immortal auspicious bird, etc., each design is exquisite, the shape is lifelike, the glaze is delicate and firm, and it does not change color after hundreds of years. Because of the variety of glass products and the full range of colors, it is known as the "Chinese Glass Art Architecture Museum", which can be called the name to the truth.
After Jiexiu Tu Temple is a Taoist temple. There are two main points: First, the Taoist theme of more than 1,000 sculptures, mainly color plastic and suspension plastic, for the early Ming Dynasty works. Second, the glaze process, Jiexiu is famous for producing exquisite glaze. Later Tu Temple is more luxurious glazed ancient building decoration enjoy the "three Jin glazed art museum", walking into the Tu Temple is like walking into the glazed art museum.
The temple is a large complex of five courtyards with terrace hall pavilions. This complex includes shadow walls, mountain gates, passage halls, east and west corridors, Sanqinglou, Bell and Drum Tower, and the back hall.
The Houtu Temple is located at the north end of Temple Bottom Street in Jiexiu City. When you go to Jiexiu, you must go here to see it. The glazed tile roof here is magnificent and brilliant. The key point is that there is no ticket here, and the inside is very clean.
After the temple rests on Monday, we have felt beautiful from the outside, don't run empty.
Houtu Temple, a group of Quanzhen Taoist ancient buildings, large scale, China's best preserved imperial palace-style temples, built in the north and south 1500 years ago or even earlier, Yuan Dade seven years, destroyed in the earthquake, Yanyou five years to rebuild, the existing Ming Zhengde sixteen years after expansion, The main hall is called the Taining Palace, which is called the Taining Palace by Taoism. It sits north and south, with five rooms wide, three deep and three deep, and the top structure is built on the top of the mountain. The three main temples and three official residences are paralleled by the three hanging mountain corridors on both sides of the east and west. The appearance is the 11-open hall of the main and second displays, which is spectacular. The roof of the palace is full of yellow glazed, magnificent, and the shape of the ridge is particularly strange. The front is the Shuangfeng opera peony, and the back is the Shuanglong opera bead, which is rare in China. The temple is dedicated to one of the four imperial temples of Taoism - Chengtian emulation of Houde Everbright, commonly known as the "post-earth mother", "for the Yin land, five squares multiplied, five gas condensation, load Jianghaishan forest houses, so the heavens and the earth and the earth and the earth mother also." This Taoist mother supreme ancestor temple, there is also a treasure, "Ming Dynasty Halloween Yuan Suspension Plastic", absolutely exclusive color plastic, but unfortunately, in order to protect cultural relics, it is not possible to see. Finally, it is also the beginning, 'the earth can live all things, such as mother breeding group', ''the grain six meters I grew, all things I grew, people live on the earth to eat me, and after death I am still in my arms', after the earth, Fuze people, Fukushimi, Wanxi Wanxi, Wanxi Wanxi...