Lady Xian Temple

Lady Xian Temple

Qiao Guo's wife, a native of Shandou village, Diancheng Town, Dianbai District, Guangdong Province, married Feng Bao, then Gaoliang Prefecture. He was good at making friends with heroes. In 550 A.D., he got to know Chen Baxian, the later leader of the Chen Dynasty, when he took part in pacifying Hou Jing's rebellion, and determined that he was a man who pacified the troubled times. In 551 A.D., Mrs. Xian helped Chen Baxian capture and kill Li Qianshi. In the Liang Dynasty, Mrs. Xian was canonized as "protecting Mrs. Hou" for his anti treason work. In 557 ad, Chen Baxian was called emperor and Chen Chaoli was established. In 558 A.D., Feng baozu was appointed as Mrs. Tai of Shilong county. When the Sui Dynasty was established, several counties in the south of the five ridges gave priority to lady Xian, who was honored as the "Virgin Mary". Later, Mrs. Xian led the Lingnan people to surrender. In the Sui Dynasty, Mrs. Qiao was granted the title of "wife of sincere respect" after her death.

Later generations built many temples in Gaozhou, Leizhou, Huazhou, Qinzhou and Lianzhou of Guangdong and Guangxi to commemorate her great achievements and noble integrity. Among them, Madame Xian's hometown in Diancheng Town, Dianbai District, Guangdong Province is the most authentic, known as Niangniang Temple.

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Mrs. Xian (about 522-602) is an outstanding political leader of the Li nationality (a branch of Baiyue). She was born in a family of leaders. She was "young, wise, and resourceful", and was good at "pacifying and following the troops, being able to do military division, and subduing ZhuYue". She has been an outstanding leader since her youth. She conventionally advised her relatives to be kind, and "established her faith and righteousness in her hometown". She was impartial and did not play favoritism. Therefore, she had great prestige in the countryside and won the support and love of the local people.

Support unity

At the end of the Liang Dynasty, Hou Jing's rebellion took place, and the local gentry took the opportunity to expand their power and separate one side. In the first year of Liang Dabao (550), Mrs. Xian supported Chen Ba to launch a crusade against Hou Jing. At the beginning of the establishment of the Chen Dynasty, the political situation was unstable and the order was difficult to carry out. The regime of Chen Dynasty was always threatened by the separatist forces headed by Ouyang he, and Mrs. Xian stepped forward to support Chen Dynasty and put out the powerful forces in Lingnan. Because she helped to defeat the enemy, Chen Dynasty canonized her as Zhonglang general, Shilong (county) too wife, and treated her with stab envoy. In feudal society, it is extremely rare for a woman to be granted the title of "Yi Tong CI Shi".

In the ninth year of kaihuang (589), Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty marched into Lingnan, which was resisted by the old officials of Chen Dynasty and some ethnic minorities. Mrs. Xian immediately sent her grandson fenghun to meet the Sui army, and attached eight prefectures under her jurisdiction to the Sui Dynasty, which enabled the Sui Army to enter Guangzhou and finally completed the unification of Lingnan. As a result, Mrs. Xian was honored as Mrs. Qiao.

Mrs. Xian is the leader of the ethnic minorities in Lingnan. She has her own armed forces and has the conditions to dominate. However, when the whole country was in chaos and division, she did not engage in separatist rule, but always supported the feudal court and maintained the reunification of the motherland, and became the main pillar of supporting the Liang and Chen dynasties in the Southern Dynasties and stabilizing the political situation of the Pearl River Basin in the Sui and early Tang Dynasties. It has made an important contribution to the development of local politics and social economy.

In addition, Mrs. Xian also played a positive role in the re establishment of the county system in Hainan Island. Because of the adoption of Mrs. Xian's suggestion, the Liang Dynasty restored the county system in the lilen area of Hainan Island, which made the relationship between the Central Plains and Hainan island closer and closer, which was conducive to the reunification of the motherland and the social and economic development of the lilen area.

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There are many temples

Mrs. Xian has always upheld centralization and reunification of the motherland, and opposed separatist rule, which has deeply influenced her descendants. Later, her grandson Feng ang firmly refused to be king and independent, and attached himself to the Tang Dynasty, which made a great contribution to the unification of Lingnan area in the Tang Dynasty. This is directly related to her leading by example and educating her children and grandchildren to attach importance to the country. In order to commemorate her great achievements, many temples have been built in Gao, Lei, Hua, Qin, Lian and other prefectures of Guangdong and Guangxi, including Maoming, Hua county and Dianbai County.

Address: Xinpo Town, Qiongshan District, Haikou City, Hainan Province

Longitude: 110.370507

Latitude: 19.768779