Many scenes in the game, such as ancient temples, ancient towers, archways, grottoes, stone carvings, sculptures, etc., are mostly based on real ancient Chinese buildings, which impressed countless players. Cinema was amazed, as Yang Qi, the head of the game, said: “The most immersive thing must be what exists in reality.”
Follow the check-in notes to deeply explore the beautiful ancient buildings in China. Let’s set off!
Shanxi
Xiao Xitian: The ultimate “KomiksSunshing Art”Komiks
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, the scene “When you see the future, why don’t you worship” is very shocking. This famous scene was taken in Xiaoxitian, Linfen County, Shanxi.
Xiaoxitian was originally named Qianfo Temple. The statue of the hanging sculpture (hanging sculpture: a color sculpture suspended on the wall) in the temple is a fine product among the color sculptures of the Ming Dynasty. Hanging sculpture requires craftsmen to possess extremely strong techniques, and very few works can be preserved. When it comes to hanging plastic across the country, the most shocking thing must be Shanxi.
The hanging sculpture in Xiaoxitian fully displays the four words “small, clever, exquisite, and strange”. The remaining many exquisite hanging sculptures are still complete after nearly four hundred years.Ruxin is called “the last sound of hanging plastic art.”
The Xiaoxitian is divided into two courtyards: the upper and lower courtyards. The upper courtyard is the essence of the entire temple. The non-destructive hanging sculpture art in its Great Hall is the most outstanding part of the Xiaoxitian.
In the 169.6 square meters of Main Hall, more than a thousand statues stand like mountains and ridges: looking at the layers of heavenly palaces, the strange grasses of mountains and rivers, and the lifelike mythological figures, it is like a series of complex and gorgeous “comics”. Walking through it is like a visual feast, which can only be described by the word “shock”.
The reason why it can Babaylan cause such a beautiful visual impact is precisely because the double layers of the hanging plastic overlap, the upper body of the next statue tilted outward, blocking the foot of the top statue. The largest Buddha statue here is more than 3 meters high, and the small one can be placed in the palm. In the exquisite stacking, Xiao Xitian showed the “extreme aesthetic” of the late Ming Dynasty to a full extent.
When I came to Xixian, I could enjoy my happiness after having a feast for Xiaoxitian.
Xi County is the origin of Yulu Xiang pear. This pear can be called the “Chinese pear king”. It tastes crispy when you bite it in one bite, and the fresh and sweet pear juice explodes in your mouth, satisfying your perfect imagination of fragrant pears. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the picking period of Yulu fragrant pears, so don’t miss it.
The peerless beauty of Feihong Tower
After seeing the little west sky, you might as well go to Hongdong, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and you will see the Feihong Tower in Guangsheng Temple, which is still full of 500 years. As long as you take a look, you will definitely be shocked by its beauty!
Guangsheng Temple is located in Hongdong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. The Feihong Pagoda in the temple is the only one among the five Buddha relic pagodas with craftsmen’s inscriptions. Because its tower body is colorful like a rainbow after rain, it is named Feihong Pagoda. 86 version of Journey to the WestBabaylanThe outdoor scene of the pagoda of “Sweeping the Tower and Distinguishing the Incident” is taken from here.
The tower body is decorated with yellow, green, blue and purple glass. The first, second and third layers are the most exquisite. Each layer imitates the wooden ridge to support the eaves cleverly; countless Bodhisattvas, Vajras, flowers, dragons, birds and beasts under the eavesBabaylan and other components and patterns are all exquisite, exquisitely made, exquisitely made, and beautifully painted. Especially under the sun, the color is still as new as ever.
Look at the whole, the part, the distance, and the close look are all exquisite and peerless. I can’t help but admire the wisdom and artistic talent of the ancients!
Yuhuang Temple: The Peak Achievement of Sculpture Art
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, some characters’ IPs Kang Jinlong and Lou Jingou are inspired by the 28 Star Constellation Color Sculptures in the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi. The temple is famous for more than 300 complete sculptures, covering many mythological figures, especially the Twenty-Eight Star Constellation Color Sculptures. It can be called the pinnacle of the ancient Taoist sculpture art of my country and is the best of the existing Taoist color sculptures.
The Jade Emperor Temple is near Jincheng East Station, Shanxi (no tickets are required at present, so you need to make an appointment in advance). Each colored sculpture in the temple is a combination of a portrait and its animal incarnation, with exquisite ideas. For example, the star lords of “water” are all female images, and the star lords of “fire” are all samurai images. Each star lord is either kind-hearted and kind-hearted, or strong, or dignified, or gentle, and vivid.
The height of the statue is about 1.8 meters, and every wrinkle and every fold are clearly visible; the eyes and smile that have been frozen for thousands of years seem to be revealed from the image.
It is hard to imagine that these dynamic moments have been so exquisitely shaped by the ancients more than 700 years ago!
The Guandi Temple in Fucheng, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Jade Emperor Temple, is also worth a visit. The visit lasts about an hour (no tickets or reservations are required at present). Especially the eight dragon pillars inside,There are wood carvings in the square, and the theme is also dragon, but compared to the dragon with stone pillars, the wood carving version of the dragon looks much cute and playful.
Iron Buddha Temple: A great treasure in ordinary courtyards
Many players found elements of the twenty-four statues of the Iron Buddha Temple in the characters in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Iron Buddha Temple is also in Jincheng, located in Gaoping City, Jincheng City. It is very convenient to come from other places to Gaoping East Station.
According to Yang Qi, the art director of “Black Myth: Wukong”, “When I was in college, I saw a picture album of the statues of the Iron Buddha Temple. At that time, I was shocked by the exquisite carving craftsmanship and special style of the statues of the Ming Dynasty, the 24 heavens, and the special style.” After going to Gaoping for a live visit, because the indoor environment was too narrow, the team decided to give up the real scene scanning after a long time of evaluation and decided to restore it by hand.
Iron Buddha Temple is in an inconspicuous courtyard in Gaoping, Jincheng. It is named after the iron Buddha was cast in the temple in ancient times. Iron Buddha Temple was founded in the Jin Dynasty, and the existing buildings are relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Iron Buddha Temple was not previously open to the public, but currentlyLimited opening is a very valuable opportunity! No tickets are charged, and the opening hours are from Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 to 17:30 (closed on Mondays on non-holidays).
The famous Iron Buddha Temple is the twenty-four heavenly clay statues surrounding the Buddhist temple. The shape is unique and the skills are superb. It can be said to be unique in the entire clay statues and is rare in the world.
Some of these statues have prominent eyes, some have their hair upside down, some have toes grip the ground, and some have armor to protect them. Their shapes are vivid and unique, with different shapes and lifelike, subverting the traditional statues’ pursuit of beautiful details, silently but shocking the soul.
The ultimate pursuit of clothing details by ancient sculpture craftsmen is amazing: every floral pattern stacked on the head, every scale on the armor, every detail on the decoration, even if it is interspersed with each other, and overlapping each other, must be presented one by one.
As Yang Qi said, compared with the feeling of seeing the real scene, the restored degree seen in “Black Myth: Wukong” is only 30% at most. Only by being in the scene can you feel the shocking power of these statues spanning a hundred years.
In Jincheng, you can also experience the national intangible cultural heritage – go to Situ Town to see the iron flower. The iron trees and silver flowers fall, and thousands of stars bloom. Seeing the colorful iron flowers fall in the sky, you can truly experience the Chinese romance.
As the same as Jincheng, the Guanyin Hall is in Changzhi, southeastern Jin, where it is comparable to the master of the hanging sculpture art of Xiaoxitian, Xi County.
The main hall of Guanyin Hall was a remains of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, and the rest were buildings of the Qing Dynasty. The main hall has three rooms wide, with a single eaves hanging on the mountain, and a rolled shed on the front eaves to embrace the building and offering pavilions. This series is not macro.ookish.com/”>CinemaThe great building contains another masterpiece of hanging plastic art.
Walking into the main hall, in the space of only 60 square meters, more than 500 statues of large and small sizes are covered with various expressions and lifelike, with amazing scale and density.
If you say XiaoxitianBabaylan is the “masterpiece of hanging plastic art”, so Guanyin Hall is undoubtedly the “dazzling pearl of hanging plastic art”.
In southeast of Shanxi, such an immersive time travel experience can be said to be everywhere – this is one of the most densely preserved ancient buildings in Shanxi and the home of many top color sculptures in our country.
The Tang Dynasty color sculptures in Qinglian Temple, one of the only three remaining places in the country (CinemaThe remaining two are Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple), to the Chongqing Temple color sculptures known as the “Crown of Song Dynasty Sculptures”, and to the most well-preserved Song Dynasty murals in Gaoping Kaihua Temple… It is no exaggeration to say that the southeast of Jin is a natural treasure house for sealing these ancient art masterpieces.
Foguang Temple: The “king” of ancient buildings
A careful players have found that in “Black Myth: Wukong”, there are many scene prototypes from Wutai Mountain in Xinzhou, Shanxi.
Wutai Mountain is not a mountain. It is called “Wutai Mountain” because it is surrounded by five peaks with a flat top like a platform. In temples of all sizes, you can always feel the history and culture of Wutai Mountain. Walking through it, it seems like time goes back, and the feeling of returning to nature comes naturally.
There are many temples, and the temples are lined up one by one, and there are sacred sights and sites. Among them, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Shuxiang Temple, Luo Temple and Bodhisattva Ting are called the five major meditation places of Mount Wutai. The temple outside the Taiwan Strait is the most famous of Nan Zen Temple and Foguang Temple.
The lotus pattern sutra pagoda that flashes by in “Black Myth: Wukong” is a carefully shaped sutra pagoda at the entrance of the Foguang Temple Hall in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. (The sutra pagoda is a stone pillar used in Buddhism to carve Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues or Buddha names, and is usually standing next to a temple or pagoda.)
The East Hall, built in the 11th year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty (857 AD), is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The palace is a huge and large, with a gentle roof slope and wide eaves, and all the wings are huge and heroic” is Liang Sicheng’s description of the magnificent East Hall of Foguang Temple.
The beam structure of the East Hall is complex and exquisite, and the structure of the Douyin is rigorous and orderly. It is understood that the cross-sectional dimensions of the Douyin section are ten times that of the Douyin section of the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the hall are protruding 3.96 meters. This is not found in wooden structures after the Song Dynasty.
In addition to the huge wooden hall itself, the sutra pagoda in the courtyard is also very important. It directly confirms the construction of the east hall of Foguang Temple. Lin Huiyin’s photo of Foguang Temple’s sutra pagoda has also become the entrance for all people who go to Foguang Temple to travel through time and history.
It stands quietly there,After thousands of years of storms, it is still majestic and spectacular, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
The discovery of the East Hall broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that “there were no wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty and its previous ones on the land of China”, proving that the Tang Dynasty wooden structures still existed in real objects on the land of China.
Therefore, the East Hall is known as the “king of ancient Chinese architecture” by Komiks. It is not only an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese architecture, but also a shining pearl in world cultural heritage.
Nanshan Temple: A mysterious treasure house of stone sculptures
In the game promotional film of “Black Myth: Wukong”, a row of stone sculptures slowly pass by. The scene originated from the prototype of the stone sculpture in Nanshan Temple in Wutai Mountain.
Nanshan Temple is one of the more long-standing temples in the Wutai Mountain Temple complex. It is a collective name for three adjacent temples, Jile Temple, Shande Hall and Youguo Temple. It is built on the mountain and has a layered layout. It has been built with the mountains and has been built into seven courtyards.
The Jile Temple located on the lower three floors is solemn and simple; the Shande Hall is exquisite and elegant in the middle, one layer is higher than the other, showing a unique sense of layering; the Youguo Temple on the upper three floors is a sea of stone sculptures, and the exquisite carvings are breathtaking.
Nanshan TempleIt has always been famous for its rich preservation of stone sculpture art. Almost all the main buildings in the temple are decorated with exquisite stone sculptures, rich in content, huge in number and exquisite carvings. The stone sculptures here are unique to Mount Wutai.
The stone sculptures in Mount Wutai not only have high artistic value, but also the crystallization of the wisdom and skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen, which are worth looking at and savoring.
Chongfu Temple: The Treasure House of Culture and Art of the Jin Dynasty
In the original painting of “Black Myth: Wukong”, a special place is hidden. According to analysis, this scene is taken from Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.
The Amitabha Temple in Chongfu Temple is one of the most complete and perfect buildings in the Jin Dynasty in China. It has a width of seven rooms, a depth of four rooms and eight rafters, a single-eaved hip-top. The platform in front of the hall is spacious and wide and has five rooms. This Jin Dynasty giant sword located on a 2.5-meter platform is extremely shocking.
In addition to the architectural structure itself, it is also worth seeing its “five wonders”:
One-sense glazed. The ridge beast and the chubby kiss are both original objects of the Jin Dynasty. The 1.5-meter-high Glazed Wizards look very miniature against the backdrop of the hall, almost rushing away, vividly staying with this ancient building for nearly a thousand years.
The second plaque. The plaque “Amitabha Hall” written in the 24th year of Dading in the Jin Shizong (1184 AD) is the largest piece of the same era.
Three-Essential Window Frame. It is rare to have ancient buildings that retain the original objects of the Jin Dynasty, with as many as fifteen patterns: round, prism, four petals, six petals, etc. If you enlarge it and look carefully, the heads of each bouquet are still different, and you can feel the unique craftsmanship of thousands of years ago.
Four-god color sculptures. The three Western saints worshipped are all statues of the Jin Dynasty, and the backlight screen of the main Buddha Amitabha Buddha is as high as 14 meters. You can imagine how shocking the scene will be when the light passes through.
Five Clergy FloorCinema. The four walls of the hall are murals of the Jin Dynasty, with delicate carvings and complex outfits, and adopting powder and gold-plated techniques, which have a more three-dimensional sense.
This hall, whether it is wooden structure construction technology, Buddha statues and mural art, is the pinnacle of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art. It will feast everyone here. It is definitely an unparalleled visual feast.
Yingxian Wooden Tower: Standing for nearly a thousand years without falling
The Yingxian Wooden Tower, located in Shuozhou, is one of the must-see attractions in Shanxi. This wooden tower was built in the Liao Dynasty. It has a height of 67.31 meters and a diameter of 30.27 meters at the bottom. It has been 962 years since then. It is the largest and oldest pure wooden structure pavilion-style building in the world.
The body of the Yingxian wooden tower is built of wood, withoutAll iron nails rely on components to get tenon and tenon each other. There are as many as 62 types of mortise and tenon forms used in wooden towers, so they are called “the crown of mortise and tenon” by later generations; there are 54 types of mortise and are also called “the museum of mortise and tenon” by architect Liang Sicheng. They are architectural masterpieces that perfectly combine science and art.
There are many wooden tower plaques. The third floor of the “Sakya Tower” plaque is a relic of the Jin Dynasty, which is the oldest plaque in the entire tower; the fifth floor of the “Junji Shengong” was written by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty’s Chengzu.
The Yingxian wooden tower has not fallen for thousands of years because the craftsmen have left many mechanisms. The 10-meter-high metal tower brake on the top is connected to 8 iron chains to form a metal defense net to prevent lightning from entering the tower body. It took the craftsmen who built the tower 140 years to build this tallest “building block” in ancient times, with a height of more than 20 stories today!
The wooden tower has withstood several earthquakes, but has remained unmoved after thousands of years of vicissitudes, which is extremely shocking. Now the whole is slightly tilted, but at this moment, it still stands, just as the plaque says: Neutral, never relies on Jincheng.
Hanging Temple: a relief inlaid in the mountains
In the promotional video released by the official account of “Black Myth: Wukong”, the buildings appearing in the picture are all suspended on the cliffs supported by wooden pillars, and are shot in Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi.
BabaylanHanging Temple is located in Hunyuan County, Datong City. It is on the cliff of Jinlong Gorge in Hengshan. It is named after the entire temple is like hanging on a cliff. It is a rare high-altitude building in our country.
Looking from afar, Hanging Temple is like a clever cliff relief, forming a unique style of half-wall building and half-wall cave.
The Hanging Temple is a wooden structure building. Relying on the principles of mechanics, it cleverly uses half-insert flying beams as the basis. With the support of the rock, the beams and columns are integrated up and down, and the corridors are connected left and right, forming a stable wooden frame structure, enhancing the seismic resistance.
This ingenious architectural technique has made the Hanging Temple stand firm after thousands of years of wind and rain!
There is another wonder in Hanging Temple: the supporting wooden pillars under the beams are long and short, some are focused, some are useless, and even can sway. These wooden pillars are not empty, and are generally not difficult; but once there are too many people and the load increases, the empty pillar will stand up and play a role in a pillar bearing a thousand pounds, making Hanging Temple a special building that looks like virtual but solid, dangerous and safe, steep and dangerous.
Imagine how ancient craftsmen allowed temples to coexist harmoniously with natural landscapes under such geographical conditions. It was simply a double miracle of architectural mechanics and aesthetics!
Down from Hanging Temple, be sure to try the local jelly.
Hunyuan jelly is not only famous in the local area, but also can be regarded as one of the best in the country. Mellow vinegar aroma, BabaylanFresh and fragrant chili, smooth jelly, are a delicacy that makes people fall in love with.
Yungang Grottoes: A smile that spans thousands of years
When we come to Datong, we have to mention Yungang Grottoes, which are with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and LuoyangCinemaLongmen Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui are known as the four major grotto art treasure houses in China and are also world cultural heritage sites.
Yungang Grottoes are one of the rare grotto groups in China that have been excavated in just one dynasty. Some people say, “Yungang Grottoes are a Northern Wei historical book engraved on stones, a road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. ”
There are 254 large and small caves in Yungang Grottoes, including 45 main caves, each cave has its own story.
The most famous Yungang Grottoes is the “Five Caves of Tanyao” (Caves 16 to 20), among which Cave 20 is also called the “Open-Earth Buddha”, and is a symbol of the Yungang stone carving.
Zhejiang
“Taoyuan in the Cloud” Jingning Dahan
The official account of “Black Myth: Wukong” In the game interlude video released in 2022, the Lanfang where the old spider spirit, the mother and daughter of the spider spirit lived was discovered by netizens as the main hall of Shisi Temple in Dahan, Lishui, Zhejiang. Since then, Shisi Temple has appeared many times in the trailer video.
The entire ancient village of Dalian in the Yun is located on a mountain above 1,000 meters above sea level, about an hour’s drive from Jingning County. The mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist. You can drive in the area, as if you are passing through the clouds and mist between the sky. The locals call the waterfall “王”, and there is a big waterfall “snowflakes”. The beauty is called “王子” and it is just like its name.
Shisi Temple seems to be a gate of time and space hidden in the deep mountains. It is an ancient Song Dynasty temple surrounded by mountains and surrounded by greenery.
The ancient juniper lies in front of the door, the courtyard is towering in ancient trees and deep in green moss. Time seems to have stopped at this moment.
A delicate and scattered courtyard, the simple and solemn Great Hall, the Horse Fairy Palace with Taoist bones and fairy wind, the Heart Sutra Bell Tower with floating clouds, and the filial pietyThe Mei Clan Ancestral Hall, each brick, tile, tenon and pillar, all contain the charm of ancient buildings. Although there is no Buddha statue in the Great Hall, the four-character plaque “Mahara Hall” can make people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The hall is not decorated with colorful paintings, with plain face facing the sky, with only brown and white colors. The traces of the flow of time seem to be seen between the delicate wood grains. The main hall is a double-eaved hip-mounted roof with three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The dove is simple and elegant, with slightly raised wings and slightly stretched out of the eaves. It is an isolated example of the existing wooden ancient buildings in China.
The unique aura of Shisi Temple satisfies all the fantasies about the ancient temple, and it can’t help but make people feel a wonderful sense of fate, which also seems particularly mysterious in the scene of “Black Myth: Wukong”.
At the water mouth at the southern end of Dahan Village, there is a typical water mouth bridge called “Huguan Bridge”. Huguan means “Guardian Pass”. The bridge spans Muhe River from east to west, connecting the village with curling smoke from cooking to one end, and the temple with dusk drums and morning bells on the other end.
Sichuan
An Yue Stone Carving: A Performance Art of Time
An Yue Stone Carving appears in the Spider Spirit Sisters promotional film in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Many exquisite Buddha statues stand, mysterious and distant.
East of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, two hours drive from Chengdu is Anyue County. The skilled craftsmen have left these statues in Anyue for thousands of years, making Anyue the most densely populated area in Sichuan Province.
Many people want to see Anyue stone carvings, which are attracted by the severely weathered Buddhist niches. Because the thousand-year-old windward zodiacKomiks Because of this, the traces of wind are left on the stone carvings. Thousands of years have formed the shape of wind. Standing in front of this Buddha statue, the beauty created by time will make the heart extremely shocked.
The reclining Buddha carved by Anyue stone is the largest reclining Buddha on the left side of the Tang Dynasty in China. It is 21.3 meters long and is chiseled on a cliff about 20 meters high.
In the reclining Buddha courtyard, more than 400,000 words of Cinema stone carving Buddhist scriptures are also found in the reclining Buddha courtyard. They are now well preserved, with more than 100,000 words clearly visible in the font. The engraving and calligraphy are recognized as the world’s best.
The statue of Shuiyue Guanyin in Vilu Cave is one of the most popular statues in the entire Anyue stone carving, and it has its own beauty from any angle.
This group of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is amazing. It is on a hillside because the temple’s door faces west. When dusk comes, the sunset shines on it, like a layer of gold is naturally plated.
Most of the statues in Anyue stone carvings have gradually been weathered. While regretting, you might as well go and see it earlier.
Many people call Anyue County a little “sour” small town, because it is rich in lemons and enjoys the reputation of “Chinese lemons look at Sichuan, Sichuan lemons look at Anyue”.
Baosen Lemon Tourism Zone is the largest lemon-themed scenic spot in the country. It was as if you walked into the kingdom of lemons, and the fresh fragrance came to your face. Don’t forget to taste the sour and refreshing lemons that are instantly refreshed.
Chongqing
Dazu Stone Carvings: A Treasure of the Thousand Years of Tang Dynasty
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, many scenes restored Chongqing Dazu Stone Carvings, and too many statues were shocked in front of you. “Thousands of years of storm, art is unique in the world” refers to the Dazu stone carving.
The amazing Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue is carved on the 88 square meters cliff surface. It has 1,007 hands engraved, and it is as gorgeous as a peacock spreading its screen.
After 800 years of wind and rain, the exquisite stone carvings were once plagued by illness, and the statues were weathered and peeled off. Now, this Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue reappears, which is a time that people have gone back to more than 800 years.
Walking through the mountains and forests, huge stone carvings emerged in front of you. It started in the Tang Dynasty, went through ten countries, and reached the Southern Song Dynasty, spanning thousands of years. It is still vivid, as if you are talking to you.
Amid the green mountains, the 31-meter-long Dazu stone carving reclining Buddha, each stone carving is a craftsmanship whisper.
Every tourist who walked into the Dazu stone carvings will see several unfinished statues of the Ming King. Compared with the exquisite statue groups around, the lower part of these statues is uneven and full of marks, which makes people wonder why only half of them are created?
In fact, according to the inscription “Di Guangzhen Farewell to the County Governor Wang Mengying” in Dazu stone carving “Since Di Nan”, it is not difficult to see that Dazu had suffered from the wars of Song and Meng at that time. However, the dazzling monument they created has become a witness of history, and it is worth looking at this rare one.”Semi-finished” historical relics.
This is the ancient Chinese architecture
It is not only a visual shock
It is also a concentrated display of Chinese aesthetics
Let us protect and inherit it together!