Luonan Confucian Temple

Perhaps because there are too many famous attractions in Shaanxi, many attractions have been ignored, such as this Luonan Confucian Temple I want to say today. It was built in 1370, three years after Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, fourteen years before Xi'an's famous bell tower, and is one of the most complete ancient buildings in the northwest. Luonan Confucian Temple, also known as the Confucius Temple, is located in Luonan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. The temple is surrounded by modern high-rise buildings, so when you pass by, you can see the antique shape and golden glazed tiles at a glance, especially conspicuous. Along the road is a tall shadow wall, also known as the photo wall, which is a wall facing the gate of the large ancient Chinese building. The whole shadow wall is 9.2 meters long, 7.3 meters high, and 0.82 meters thick. It is a three-in-one earthen foundation, which looks quite solid and stable. The biggest feature of the shadow wall is the two patterns in the middle, the front is the inner circle and the outer "two dragons play beads" pattern, the corner is decorated with powder lotus; the back is the inner circle and the outer "ichthyosaur change" pattern, the carving is quite fine, lively and lifelike. Especially the carved dragon, as if it is about to rush out. On the east and west sides of the shadow wall are the gates, the east is the entrance, and the "Dexu Tiandi" wooden raft is hung; the west is the door, and the "Daoguan ancient and modern" wooden raft is set. It is used for blue brick walls, wooden gates, and glass door roofs. Tourists who want to visit Luonan Confucian Temple have to enter and exit from the east gate, no tickets are required, and everyone can enter. This is worthy of praise. When you come to the temple, the iconic archway of the Confucius Temple is "Krypton Gate". The base of the whole building is made of blue stone slabs, long 13.8 meters, wide 4.9 meters, and height 0.6 meters. The archway is 25 meters high and17.6 meters wide. The whole is wooden structure, exquisite and complicated, rich in color, rigorous and magnificent. It is understood that the entire Krypton Gate is supported by four large wooden pillars, with a total weight of 100,000 pounds. It has been standing for hundreds of years and cannot stand. The total area of the whole temple is 3115 square meters, with the traditional Chinese central axis symmetrical layout, including the front, middle and back three courtyards, on both sides of the east and west wing rooms. Walking through the comet gate, the front is the anus gate, don't look at this door, in ancient times, but the highest symbol of the Confucian Temple. This door is usually closed, only when the major celebration or the emperor comes up, and it is not possible for anyone to pass the door. Behind the anus is the Shendao, leading to the platform and Dacheng Palace. The platform used to be an open-air platform for watching the moon, built with bluestone slabs and stone bars. Today, the platform has become a resting place for people to relax and enjoy the cool. The main building of the Confucian Temple is the Dacheng Palace. The whole building is a single dome of Xishan, bright seven dark five, long 14.85 meters, deep 11 meters, into the deep five, surrounded by bright pillars, horn pillars, gold pillars a total of 28, the column under the drum-shaped stone foundation. There are flower-ridge moths, dragons and phoenix dances on the Dacheng Hall. The craft is quite complicated, and the carving is fine and lifelike. Luonan Confucian Temple, as the first Confucian Temple in southern Shaanxi, has a considerable architectural artistic value and cultural relics value. It is worth mentioning that Luonan Confucian Temple is currently the seat of Luonan County Museum, and there are more than 3,400 precious cultural relics in the east and west wing rooms. This includes many cultural relics unearthed more than 1 million years ago "Luonan Ape Man Cave Site", as well as a large number of very precious cultural relics such as original social pottery, Hanwaxuan, Yue Fei Mobao, Xizhou bronzeware, Baoju, etc. unearthed in Luonan. So you come to Luonan Confucian Temple is equivalent to walking two attractions, and they are all free. This is a good scenic spot to understand the culture and history of southern Shaanxi. It is worth everyone to take a look. Address: West Street, Luonan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. Tickets: free.

In Luonan County, Shangluo City, meet the beauty of ancient Chinese construction. Luonan Confucian Temple, Luonan Confucian Temple is known as the "first Confucian Temple in southern Shaanxi", with high architectural artistic value and cultural relics value, is one of the most complete ancient buildings in the northwest, built in Minghongwu three years, earlier than Xi'an Drum Tower. It is also the site of the Red 25th Army headquarters.

Today we came to the "Luonan Confucian Temple" in Luonan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, which was built in Minghongwu three years (1370), and it was 14 years earlier than Xi'an Bell Tower! The overall structure of the "Luonan Confucian Temple" is rigorous, majestic, and scattered. It was listed as the third batch of key cultural relics protection units in Shaanxi Province in 1992. For more than 600 years, the "Luonan Confucian Temple" has been one of the most representative places of interest and monuments in Luonan County. More worth mentioning is that "Luonan Temple of Literature" is still the former site of the 25th Army of the Red Army of China's Workers and Peasants, and it is also the location of the "Luonan County Museum". The historical and humanistic heritage can be said to be quite deep!