Next to Miaotou Village in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, there is a sea-sacrificial temple that has been passed down for more than 1,400 years. It is the largest and most complete sea-sacrificial temple preserved among the four sea-sacrificial temples in China. It is an important place for emperors of all dynasties to worship the sea and one of the birthplaces of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. It is the South China Sea Temple.
The entrance of the Nanhai Temple Scenic Area
The Nanhai Temple was built in the 14th year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty (594) and is located at the mouth of the Pearl River. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, emperors of all dynasties have sent important officials to sacrifice to the sea. The imperial inscriptions of Kangxi and Hongwu were engraved, and Su Shi and Han Yu left behind thousands of years of poems here. The temple is inscribed in the temple. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks has 47 steles inscribed in history, which are later called “Southern Stele Forest”. For thousands of years, Chinese and foreign ships have come to the temple to worship the South China Sea God and pray for peace. The Temple of the South China Sea therefore witnessed the glorious history of ancient maritime trade and became one of the birthplaces of the ancient Maritime Silk Road.
Nanhai Temple Scenic Area InformationKomiks Book of Contents
North China Sea Temple has become a national key cultural relics protection unit and a national 4A-level tourist attraction, and it grows every year. The “Balo” from February 11th to 13th, Komiks, is also a national intangible cultural heritage. The archway of “The Sea Does Not Rise” stands in front of the Babaylan temple, inheriting the prayers and blessings of the South China Sea Temple for thousands of years.
The legend of “South Sea God”
The name of the South Sea God is Zhurong, and some historical books also call it Zhu Chi. There are many folk legends about who Zhurong is. Some legends Zhurong is ChineseBabaylanThe emperor of the Kingdom was also a musician; some legends Zhurong was the Situ who specialized in identifying directions during the Huangdi era, and was the ancestor of the Chu people. There are also legends that KomiksZhurong was originally the god of fire, and the south was also fire, so Zhurong was also the god of the south.
Scenery of the Temple of the South China Sea
The Temple of the South China Sea is located in Fuxu Town (now Huangpu Templetou) on the estuary of the Pearl River. It is located on the north bank of the Pearl River and faces the Fuxu River (a section of the Pearl River). It is connected to Shiziyang in the east, Humen in the bottom, and Guangzhou back. It is an important sea transportation area between ancient times and from Guangzhou. After traveling to and from Guangzhou, you can reach various countries in the South China Sea. The geographical location of Fuxu Town is very superior, and it is called “only a hundred steps to get to the sea, and the waves have always come from thousands of acres of wind and waves, and the shore is facing an unexpected abyss.” The ancients believed that this was an ideal place for building the Temple of the Sea.
Nanhai TempleCinemaThe main entrance of Cinema
In the 14th year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty (594), Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict to build the Four Seas Temple to worship the Four Seas, and built the Nanhai Temple in Guangzhou, Cinema, and invited a local href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanThe wizard presided over the sweeping of the temple and worshiping the South China Sea God. The temple also planted pine, cypress and trees, etc., so the South China Sea God Temple was established.
Da Xi Sikong and the South China Sea God Temple
The South China Sea God Temple is also called “Bolu Temple”. This alias is originated from a Gentile Da Xi Sikong.
The statue of Da Xi Sikong in the South China Sea Temple
It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, there was a tribute envoy named Da Xi in the ancient Polo Kingdom (ancient India). After going to Beijing to pay tribute, Babaylan came to Guangzhou Nanhai Temple to visit and worship, and brought two Bola tree species brought from the ancient Polo Kingdom in the temple. Because of his obsession with the exquisiteness of the temple, he missed his return. The sea boat of Cinema has been crying all year round, holding her left hand on her forehead to look at the sea, and finally standing on the beach. Later generations therefore sacrificed statues in the temple, commonly known as “Fan Gui Wangbolu”, and the temple is also called “Bora Temple”.
“Bora” Temple Fair
Bora” is also called the South China Sea God’s Birth. The conference period is from the eleventh to the thirteenth of the second lunar month every year, and the thirteenth is the birthday of the thirteenth. The Polo Day Temple Fair is a very grand folk event in the Lingnan region. Traditional sacrificial activities such as antique sea sacrifice ceremony and five sons’ dynasty kings are held during this period. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks.
The grand scene of the Boluo Dan Temple Fair Liang Yitao Photo
At that time, a long stall set up outside the temple, filled with delicious food such as Polo chickens and Polo rice dumplings. The people in the temple prayed and wished for blessings. Young men and women dug love beans under the red bean tree to pray for a beautiful love. Therefore, the common saying “First visit to Polo, second marry a wife” is circulated among the people.
The Polo Dan Temple Fair is rich in content, containing the most representative traditional folk culture and profound marine cultural heritage in the Lingnan region. In 2011, “Polo Dan” was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list project.
The first named place of “Eight Scenery of Yangcheng”
The sun bathing pavilion on Zhangqiugang on the west side of the South China Sea Temple is the former viewing of the sunrise on the sea.It is a good place with water on three sides, with vast smoke and waves, and the scene is extremely spectacular, and it is called “Fu Xu Bathing in the Sun”.
Under the Sun Pavilion
In the early years of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1094), the great writer Su Dongpo worshiped the god of the South China Sea. He climbed to the Sun Bathing Pavilion, marveled at the magnificence of the sunrise on the sea, and wrote the poem “The Sun Bathing Pavilion in the South China Sea” with emotion. As soon as this poem was released, the Cinema pavilion became famous, attracting countless literati and poets to visit. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng were selected for the first time, and “Fu Xu Bathing on the Sun” was rated as the first scenic spot, which lasted for a hundred years.
Where is the beautiful title of “Southern Stele Forest”? There are many precious information about the Maritime Silk Road and Guangzhou history in the South China Sea. Emperors of all dynasties often send officials to worship the God of the South China Sea, repair the Temple of the Sea, and erect the monument to record the events. The South China Sea Temple currently has 47 steles (1 Tang stele, 3 Song stele, 3 Yuan stele, 17 Ming stele, 4 Qing stele, 10 copy stele, and 9 modern poetry stele), the Tang Hanyu stele, Song Kaibao stele, Ming Hongwu stele, etc. are all very precious cultural relics. Therefore, the South China Sea Temple is also known as the “Southern Stele Forest”.
The inscription in the South China Sea Temple
It is worth mentioning that in front of the main entrance of the South China Sea Temple, there is an ancient stone archway. The archway is a Qing Dynasty building with four big words “The sea does not rise and fall”. The archway is facing theThe mouth of the Xu, the bay of yellow wood” is a must-pass place for Chinese and foreign merchants to enter and exit Guangzhou. The four words “the sea does not rise and the waves” represent the most sincere wishes for peace and good fortune when emperors and ministers, merchants, helmsmen and shipmen walked out of this prosperous ancient port for thousands of years.
The Qing Dynasty archway “the sea does not rise and the waves”
Some sources: South China Sea Temple