Chengdu Wuhou Ancestral Hall, located in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, the south gate of the Wuhou Ancestral Hall Street, by Liu Bei, Zhu Geliang Shu Han monarchs and ministers of the joint worship of the ancestral temple and Huiling. Beginning in 223 AD to build Liu Bei mausoleum. The Wuhou Ancestral Temple (the dedicated shrine of Zhuge Liang) was built before the Tang Dynasty, and was initially adjacent to the Zhaolie Temple (of Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty), which was dedicated to Liu Bei. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote about it in a poem: "Where can I find the Prime Minister's Shrine, the cypresses outside the Jin Guan City are so thick". In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Wuhou Ancestral Hall was incorporated into the Han Zhaolie Temple, forming the existing Wuhou Ancestral Hall as a joint temple of the ruler and his ministers. The main building of the existing temple was rebuilt in 1672 during the Kangxi period (the 11th year of the Qing Dynasty), and it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1961, and a museum was established in 1984, and it was awarded the first batch of national-level museums in 2008, and it enjoys the reputation of "the holy land of the Three Kingdoms". Chengdu Wuhou Ancestral Hall is now divided into three parts, namely the Cultural Relics Area (Three Kingdoms Historical Relics Area), the Garden Area (Three Kingdoms Cultural Experience Area) and the Jinli Area (Jinli Folklore Area), covering an area of about 150,000 square meters. Chengdu Wuhou Ancestral Hall is the main monument commemorating Zhu Geliang, the Prime Minister of Shu Han, and a major tourist attraction in Chengdu. Chengdu Wuhou Ancestral Hall is China's most influential museum of the remains of the Three Kingdoms, best known for its "Three Greats" of writing, calligraphy and carving, the "Ancestral Hall Stele of the Prime Minister of Shu, Zhuge Liang Wuhou".
Wuhou Ancestral Hall (refers to the Zhuge Liang's specialized ancestral hall) and Han Zhaolie Temple, Liu Bei's tomb (Huiling) adjacent to each other. The entire Wuhou Ancestral Hall is located in the north to the south, the main building gate, two doors, Han Zhaolie Temple, over the hall, Wuhou Ancestral Hall five buildings, strictly arranged in a central axis from south to north. To Liu Bei Hall is the highest, the building is the most majestic and magnificent. After the Wuhou Temple, there are also three righteousness Temple, Jieyi building and other buildings.
The plaque at the main gate reads "Han Zhaolie Temple". Inside the gate to the second door between the shade bushes **** there are six stone monuments, each side of a monument gallery, in the west side of the monument gallery, the Ming monument known as the "Zhuge Wuhou Ancestral Hall monument". Ming Jiajing twenty-six years (A.D. 1547). The inscription was written by Mr. Zhang Shi Che, the Governor of Sichuan Province, and there is a Bi Xi stone pedestal underneath the body of the stele. In the east side of the gallery, there is the "Stele of the Ancestral Hall of Marquis Zhuge Wuhou, Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty" of the Tang Dynasty, with a height of 367 centimeters and a width of 95 centimeters, which was erected in the fourth year of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 809). It has a high cultural relic value and is a first-class cultural relic, and the text of the stele is divided into the preface and the inscriptions. Because of the article, calligraphy, carving skills are known as the "three best monument". Ancestral relics in the "three great monuments" is the most valuable. Tang dynasty famous prime minister Pei Du wrote the inscription, calligrapher Liu Gongchuo (Liu Gongquan's brother) writing, the famous artisan Lu Jian carving, all from the famous, this monument because of the article, calligraphy, carving exquisite and praised Zhuge Liang's virtues of the world, so the Ming dynasty is known as the three best monument. Tablet to Zhuge Liang's life, made the focus of praise; Praise Zhuge Liang's high style and integrity, civil and military achievements, and as an incentive to the Tang Dynasty rulers. Tablet especially praised Zhuge Liang's idea of the rule of law, Ma Su because of the loss of street pavilion by Zhuge Liang according to the law of the decapitation, near the execution, Ma Su cried and said he and no complaints. Li Yan and Liao Li, both of them were cut down by Zhuge Liang exiled sinner, but they are also self-satisfied to serve the crime. When they learned of Zhuge Liang's illness and death, "they heard of the pain, or weeping or extinction". These are historical facts, Pei Du according to the history of praise, convincing inscription throughout the rhetoric is very cut, the writing is sound, so that people never tire of reading. Zhuge Liang is admired by future generations, but also because he has a noble mind and style, do not use his power for personal gain.
After the second door is Liu Bei Hall, for the single-eave hermit-style building. Qing people Wanyan Chongshi book "so that the world's heroes" joint position in Zhaolie Hall: "so that the world's heroes, orthodoxy is relevant, the king's gas Zhonglou mulberry car cover; Bashu Department of the Han Dynasty, the end of the remnants of the people are still in the Batu Yu Ancestral Temple of the ancient cypress". There is a gold statue of Liu Bei in the center of the temple, accompanied by his grandson Liu Chen on the left. Why does his son Liu Chan, the later lord of Shu Han, have no place here? It is said that due to Liu Chan's mediocrity and incompetence, he could not keep the foundation, and his statue was destroyed several times in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and then it was not molded again. When Liu Chan, the later lord of Shu Han, surrendered to Wei his son, Liu Chen, went to Liu Bei's tomb to cry and worship him, killed his family and then committed suicide, and there is a play called Crying Temple and Killing Family. On both sides of the hall, there are statues of Guan Yu and Zhou Cang in the east, and statues of Zhang Fei's grandparents and grandchildren in the west. Both sides of the east and west corridors were molded Shu Han ministers, military generals sitting statues of fourteen. The east side of the civilian ministers gallery room to Pang Tong as the head, the west side of the military generals gallery room to Zhao Yun lead.
Liu Bei Hall, down a few steps (Wuhou Shrine is lower than the Han Zhaolie Temple, symbolizing the relationship between the ancient monarchs and ministers), is a hall, hung with "Wuhou Shrine" plaque. The couplet on both sides of the hall reads: "The Three Gu's often bother the world's plan, a meeting with ancient and modern feelings", the first couplet is a collection of Du Fu's poems, and the second couplet is written by Dong Biwu. It was written by Dong Biwu. Wuhou Ancestral Hall is a memorial hall for Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang was awarded the title of "Marquis of Wuhou" during his lifetime, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Zhongwu"; therefore, the memorial hall for him is called "Wuhou Ancestral Hall". Zhuge Liang Hall hangs "the name of the universe" plaque, on both sides of the Qing dynasty Zhao Fan wrote "attacking the heart" link: "can attack the heart of the counter side of the self-canceling, from ancient times, know that the military is not a good war; do not examine the situation that is the width of the strictness of the error, and later to think about the Shu. The "Heart" couplet is a very famous couplet. The joint text, is quite famous a couplet, through the Zhu Geliang, Shu Han regime and Liu Zhang regime of the success or failure of the analysis of the summary, to remind the future generations in the rule of Shu, the rule of the country, drawing on the lessons learned from the previous generation, we must pay special attention to the "attack the heart" and "review the situation". The main hall enshrines the statue of Zhu Geliang's grandparents and grandchildren. In the middle of the hall there is Zhuge Liang head wearing a silk scarf, hand holding a feather fan of the gold statue, like the front of the three copper drums are rumored to be Zhuge Liang led the troops to the south when the production, known as "Zhuge Drum". The drums have delicate patterns on the pattern, for the precious historical relics. Hall roof beams made of ebony, on the book Zhuge Liang wrote to his son Zhuge Zhan "book of commandments" in the "non-tantalism can not be clear, non-tranquility can not be far-reaching" (do not look down on worldly fame and fortune can not be clear about their own aspirations, is not the physical and mental tranquility can not be achieved far-reaching ideals). Zhuge Zhan and his son Shang were killed in a battle against Wei general Deng Ai in Mianzhu.
West of Zhuge Liang Hall is Liu Bei's tomb, known as "Huiling". By Zhuge Liang personally selected the treasure land, buried Liu Bei here. The three kingdoms first master biography " records: " August, buried huiling ". According to the "posthumous law", "love the people and good, said 'hui'", so the name of Liu Bei's tomb called "hui mausoleum". Mausoleum also buried with Liu Bei's Gan, Wu two ladies. Liu Bei's tomb in front of the Qing Qianlong years set up by the "Han Zhaolie Emperor's mausoleum" stone monument, mausoleum building by the wall, fence gate, the Divine Way, bedchamber and other components. Mausoleum in front of a smaller scale of the Shinto for the Qing Dynasty. The mausoleum and the main building of the Wuhou Ancestral Hall is also north-south, adjacent to the Han Zhaolie Temple and the Wuhou Ancestral Hall on the west side of the Wuhou Ancestral Hall and the Wuhou Ancestral Hall is connected with the red wall between the sandwiched road.
"Huiling" south side of the "Wuhou Ancestral relics showroom", by Guo Moruo title. There are excavated replicas of the cultural relics of the Shu Han Dynasty and pictures of the history of the Three Kingdoms. Wuhou Ancestral Temple has a lot of paintings and couplets, among which the "Longzhong Pair" written by modern calligrapher Shen Yinmo is the most striking. Wuhou Ancestral Temple also has Yue Fei's handwritten Zhuge Liang "out of the division table" (the authenticity of which has always been controversial, there is a theory that before and after the two tables is actually a Ming Dynasty scholar Bailin pseudo-Yue Fei's name by the book).
"Huiling" west of the garden area was originally the southern suburbs of the park, merged in 2003 for the Wuhou Temple garden area. Nanjiao Park was originally for the Republic of China Nationalist Sichuan Provincial Government Chairman Liu Xiang's cemetery, in 1953 by the renovation of the park, built in order of relief-style stone plaque gate, jingzhongmen, Pavilion, Recommended Xin Hall, Liu Xiang's tomb and other buildings. East of Wuhou Ancestral Temple, Jinli was restored by the Wuhou Ancestral Temple Museum. Jinli is an ancient street with the architectural style of the late Qing Dynasty and early Civil War. Relying on the Wuhou Ancestral Temple, it expands the extension of the Three Kingdoms culture and integrates the folk style and folklore of western Sichuan, integrating food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, shopping and entertainment, and has become a new highlight of Chengdu's cultural tourism. The second phase of Jinli also opened before the Spring Festival in 2009, and the second phase of Jinli boldly introduced water into the cycle of Jinli, forming a new landscape of "waterfront Jinli".
Address: China. Chengdu. No. 231 Wuhouci Street
Opening and Closing Hours:
Summer: 07:30-21:00
Winter: 08:00-18:30
Transportation Tips: Take buses 1, 8, 10, 53, 57, 59, 82, 109, 110, 212, 213, 301, 304, 306 can be reached.