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 and was amazed. As Yang Qi, the head of the game’s art, 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 “hanging sculpture art”
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, the scene of “Since you see the future, why don’t you worship me” is very shocking. This famous scene was taken in Xiaoxitian, Linfen County, Shanxi.
XiaoxitianharaBabaylan is named Qianfo Temple. The hanging sculpture (hanging sculpture: color sculpture hanging on the wall) in the temple is a fine product among color sculptures in 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.
XiaoxiCinemaThe hanging sculpture in the sky fully displays the four words “small, clever, exquisite, and strange”. The remaining many exquisite hanging sculptures are still complete and new after nearly four hundred years. They are called “the last sound of hanging sculpture 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 cause such a beautiful visual impact is precisely because the left and right double layers of the hanging sculpture 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 the Hongdong that is more than 100 kilometers away from Cinema to see the Feihong Tower of 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 glass pagoda with craftsmen’s inscriptions and is the largest and most complete glass pagoda among the five Buddha relic pagodas. Because its tower body is colorful and colorful like a rainbow after rain, it is named Feihong Tower. The 86 version of Journey to the West “Sweeping the Tower and Distinguishing the Strange Injustice” 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 ingeniously. The countless components and patterns such as Bodhisattvas, Vajras, flowers, dragons, birds and beasts under the eaves are all exquisite and exquisitely shaped, exquisitely made, and beautifully painted. Especially under the sunlight, the color is still as new as ever.
Looking at the whole, looking at the part, looking from a distance, looking close, all of them are 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, Lou Jingou and others are inspired by the 28 star constellations of the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi. The temple is known for more than 300 complete sculptures, covering many mythical figures, especially the Twenty-Eight Star Constellations, which can be called ancient Taoist sculptures in my country.The pinnacle of art is the best of existing Taoist color sculptures and figures.
The Jade Emperor Temple is near Jincheng East Station in Shanxi (no tickets are required at present, and reservations are required). Each of the colorful sculptures in the temple is a combination of a portrait and an animal incarnation, with exquisite conception, such as the star lords of “water” are all female images, and the star lords of “fire” are all Samurai images. Each star king is either kind-hearted, strong and powerful, dignified, graceful, gentle, and elegant, and vivid according to the personality he is given.
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 lifted out of the image.
It is hard to imagine that these moments of dynamics 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 and reservations are required at present). Especially the eight dragon pillars inside, there are wood carvings above and the theme is also dragons, but compared to the dragons with stone pillars, the wood carving version of dragons looks much cute and playful. Komiks
Iron Buddha Temple: A great treasure in ordinary courtyards
Many players found elements of the twenty-four heavenly 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 the art director of “Black Myth: Wukong”, Yang Qi, “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 Ming Dynasty statues and the exquisite carving of the twenty-four heavens. “After visiting Gaoping here, 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 small courtyard in Gaoping, Jincheng. It was named after the iron Buddha was cast in the temple in ancient times. Iron Buddha Temple was founded. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanIn the Jin Dynasty, the existing buildings were relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Iron Buddha Temple was not open to the public before, but is currently limited, which is a very valuable opportunity! No tickets are charged, and the opening hours are from 9:00 to 17:30 every Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays on non-holidays).
The Iron Buddha Temple is famous all over the world, the twenty-four 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 statue 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 themselves. The shapes are vivid and unique, with different shapes and lifelike, which subvert 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 on the head is complicatedly stacked, every Babaylan scale on the armor, every detail in 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 real scene, the restoredness seen in “Black Myth: Wukong” is only 30%. Only when you are immersed in the scene can you feel the shocking power of these statues spanning a hundred years.
In Jincheng, you can also feel the national intangible cultural heritage – go to Situ Town to see iron thunder flowers. Iron trees and silver flowers fall, thousands of stars bloom, and seeing the colorful rain of iron flowers fall, you can truly experience Chinese romance.
Just as Jincheng belongs to Changzhi, southeastern Jin, where Guanyin Hall is comparable to the collection of hanging plastic arts in Xiaoxitian, Xi County.
The main hall of Guanyin Hall was a relics of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the rest were buildings of the Qing Dynasty. The main hall has three rooms wide, single-eaved hanging mountains, and a rolled roof is set up in the front eaves to embrace the building. In this series of not-magnificent buildings, there is another fine product of hanging plastic arts.
Walking into the main hall, in the space of only 60 square meters, more than 500 large and small statues were covered with large and small statues, with different expressions and lifelikeness, and their scale and density were amazing.
If Xiaoxitian is the “masterpiece of hanging plastic art”, then 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 it is also the place where many top color sculptures in my country are home.
From the Tang Dynasty color sculptures in Qinglian Temple, one of the only three remaining places in the country (the remaining two are Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple), to the Chong, known as the “Crown of Song Dynasty sculptures” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksQing Temple color sculptures, and then the best 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”. In temples of all sizes, you can always feel the history and culture of Wutai Mountain. Walking around, 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, with holy scenery and holy sites gathered in one place. Among them, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Shuxiang Temple, Luo Temple and Bodhisattva Ting are called the five major meditation places of Mount Wutai. The temples outside the Taiwan Strait are the most famous for Nan Zen Temple and Foguang Temple.
The lotus pattern sutra that flashes through “Black Myth: Wukong” is exquisitely shaped, and its prototype is Wutai, ShanxiThe sutra pagoda at the entrance of the main hall of Foguang Temple in the county. (The sutra column 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, Tang Dynasty (857 AD), is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The palace is a huge and powerful palace, with a gentle slope of the roof, and the wide eaves are wings, all of which are huge and heroic” is Liang Sicheng’s description of the magnificent east hall of Foguang Temple.
The structure of the beams of the East Hall is complex and exquisite, and the structure of the Douba is rigorous and orderly. It is understood that the cross-sectional dimensions of the Douyin section are ten times that of the Douyin section in the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the palace were protruded 3.96 meters, which was 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 age of the East Hall of Foguang Temple. Lin Huiyin’s photo of the sutra pagoda of Foguang Temple has also become the entrance for all the people who go to Foguang Temple to travel through time and history.
It stands quietly, after thousands of years of wind and rain, but it is still majestic and spectacular, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
The discovery of the East Hall broke the Japanese scholars’ breaking the “there is no wooden structures in the Tang Dynasty and its previous areas on the land of China”This proves that the Tang Dynasty wooden structures still exist in real objects on the land of China.
Therefore, the East Hall is known as the “king of ancient Chinese architecture.” 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 Temple has always been famous for its rich preservation of stone carving art. The main buildings in the temple are almost decorated with exquisite stone sculptures, with rich content, huge quantity 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, and are worth looking at and exploring.
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, and they almost rush away to live 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.
KomiksThree-Such window lattice. 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, you will see the uniqueness of each bouquet of flowers.
Four beautiful 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 cliff murals. The four walls in the hall are murals of the Jin Dynasty, with delicate carvings and complex dresses, and adopting powder and gold-plated techniques, which have a more three-dimensional sense.
This hall is a culmination of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art, whether it is wooden structure construction technology, or Buddha statues and mural art. It is a culmination of the past and art of the past. 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. The tower is 67.31 meters high and the bottom diameter is 30.27 meters. It has been 962 years. It is the largest and oldest pure wood structure pavilion-style building in the world.
The body of the Yingxian wooden tower is built of wood,There is no iron nail, all rely on components to bite 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” 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.
Hunkong Temple is located in Hunyuan County, Datong City, 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 my 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 a double miracle of architectural mechanics and aesthetics!
Down from the Hanging Temple, be sure to taste the local jelly.
Hunyuan jelly is not only famous locally, but also among the best in the country. The mellow vinegar aroma, fresh chili peppers, and smooth jelly are a delicacy that makes people fall in love with.
Yungang Grottoes: A Smile that Spreads Thousand Years
When I came to Datong, I have to mention Yungang Grottoes. It is known as the four major grotto art treasure houses in China, and is also a world cultural heritage site.
Yungang Grottoes are a few cave groups in China that were excavated in just one dynasty. Some people say that “Yungang Grottoes is a Northern Wei history book engraved on stone Cinema, a road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.”
The Yungang Grottoes has 254 caves of large and small, including 45 main caves, each with its own story.
The most famous Yungang Grottoes is the “Tanyao Five Caves” (caves 16th to 20th), among which Cave 20th is also called the “Open-East Buddha” and is a symbol of Yungang stone carvings.
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, and the Heart Sutra with floating cloudsBabaylanBell Tower and Mei Clan Ancestral Hall carrying filial piety, each brick, tile, tenon and pillar all contain the charm of ancient buildings.
Although the Great Hall does not have Buddha statues, the four-character plaque “Mahara Hall” can make people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The main hall is not decorated and painted in color. It is facing the sky, with only brown and white colors. The delicate wood grain seems to be able to see the traces of the flow of time. The main hall is a double-eaved hip-mounted top with three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The dove is simple and atmospheric, 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. It 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 smoke from cooking to curling cooking, and the temple with dusk drums and morning bells at the same end.
Sichuan
Anyue Stone CarvingsCinema: A performance art of time
An Yue stone carving appeared in the Spider Spirit Sisters promotional video in “Cinema Black Myth: Wukong”, with many exquisite Buddha statues standing, 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 over the past thousands of years, making Anyue a part of Sichuan ProvinceKomiksThe area with the most dense remains of ancient statues.
Many people want to see Anyue stone carvings, which are attracted by the severely weathered Buddha niche. Because of the thousands of years of wind, the traces of wind left on the stone carvings. Thousands of years have formed the shape of wind. Standing in front of this Buddha statue, the beautiful meeting created by timeBabaylan made my 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 stone carving Buddhist scriptures were also found. Its font is well preserved, with more than 100,000 words clearly visible. Its 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. It has its own beauty from any angle.
This group of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is wonderful. It is on a hillside. Because the temple’s door faces west, when dusk comes, the sunset shines on it, as if it is naturally covered with gold.
Most statues of Anyue stone carvings have gradually become weathered. You might as well see it earlier when you feel sorry for it.
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 scenic spot in the country with lemon-themed. It seems that when you walk into the kingdom of lemons, the fresh fragrance comes to your face. Don’t forget to taste the sour and refreshing lemons, which will refresh your mind in an instant.
Chongqing
Dazu stone carvings: A treasure of the thousand-year-old Tang Dynasty
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, many scenes in “Black Myth: Wukong” restored the Dazu stone carvings in Chongqing, and too many statues were shocked. “Thousands of years of storm, art is unique in the world” refers to the Dazu stone carvings.
The amazing Thousand Hand Guanyin statue is carved on an 88-square-meter cliff surface. There are 1,007 hands engraved, which is as gorgeous as a peacock spreading its screen.
After 800 years of storm, the exquisite stone carvings were also plagued by illness, and the statues were weathered and peeled off. Now, this Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue reappears, which is what people today have used eight years to go 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 today, 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 whisper of ingenuity.
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 made?
In fact, according to the inscription “Since Di Nanshan’s “He Guangzhen Farewell to the County Governor Wang Mengying” in Dazushishi’s stone carving “Di Nan” “Dazu had suffered from the wars of Song and Meng at that time. However, the dazzling monument they created has become a witness to history, and it is worth checking out these rare “semi-finished” historical relics.
This is the ancient Chinese architecture
not just a visual shock
It is also a concentrated display of Chinese aesthetics
Let’s protect and inherit it together!