Hanci oak

Hanci oak

Eight sceneries of Chaozhou -- Hanci oak

Across the Guangji Bridge, facing is the winding and rolling Bijia mountain. The rocks on the mountain are stacked, with dark pines and cypresses. Along the stone steps of Zhongfeng mountain, it goes straight up to the hillside. The solemn and solemn Korean ancestral hall stands in front of you. Here is the resort of "Korean ancestral hall oak".

formation

Bijia mountain was originally named Shuangjing mountain. Because it is similar to Bijia mountain, it is called Bijia mountain. Hanwen temple is located under the shuangjingshi of Bijia mountain. It is said that when Han Yu was demoted as the governor of Chaozhou, he often climbed the mountain, built pavilions and planted oak trees. Later generations respected Han Gong and called Bijia mountain "Han mountain" and Pavilion "Shilang Pavilion". In 1189, Ding Yunyuan, the governor of Junzhou in Song Dynasty, thought that Han Gong's ancestral hall should be built here, so he moved the Han Wen ancestral hall seven Li south of the city to the present site. features

The architecture of Hanwen temple is simple and elegant. The walls are all made of water polished bricks. The temple is divided into two parts: front and back, with two corridors. The back part rises seven feet. There are stone steps to climb, and the statue of Hanyu is in the middle. The stone pillars in the temple are mostly carved with couplets, and the four walls are surrounded by 40 inscriptions of the past dynasties, which contain the historical traces of Han Yu's demotion and the rise and fall of the temple.

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It is said that the oak planted by Han Yu in that year was in front of the temple. According to Han Muzan written by Wang Dabao, the Minister of rites of Song Dynasty, the shape of the oak is like a canopy, covering the eaves. The skin of the oak is fish scale shape, the leaves are thin and long, the veins are convex, and the edges are angular. It blooms at the turn of spring and summer, red and white, which is very beautiful. But the flowers don't bloom often. Chaozhou people adore Han Yu so much that they benefit from the oak he planted. "The prosperity and decline of the family name can be predicted by the number and rarity of flowers", and there is even a record in Chaozhou Fu Zhi that "in the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the family name was greatly prosperous because of the oak flowers in the ancestral hall.". As a result, the ancestral temple hanging sages, Mubu family name, "Han Temple oak" has become one of the eight Chaozhou scenery. Zheng Lanzhi, a native of the city, wrote a poem

High plant a towering green mountains, Shilang hands leaning on the fence.

Deep roots in August pan ancestral temple ancient, Ye Yu double Jing degree cold.

The uneven shadows invade the Qushui River, and the odd flowers reflect on the ancestral altar.

If visitors ask about the name of the section, they refer to Fanglin's old surname, Han.

Hanwen Temple (Hanyu Memorial Hall), located at the foot of Bijia mountain on the East Bank of Hanjiang River, is a memorial hall in memory of Han Yu, a great writer and thinker in Tang Dynasty. It is also the site of Hanci oak, one of the eight famous sights in Chaozhou.

In 819 A.D., Han Yu, a famous statesman, thinker and writer, was demoted as the governor of Chaozhou for admonishing the Buddha. In August of his reign in Chaozhou, his political achievements were outstanding; he drove away crocodiles, set up schools, worked hard in agriculture, and released slaves. In particular, he used sages to set up schools and educate talents, which had a profound impact on the development of Chaozhou culture, so it was passed down and admired by Chaozhou people through the ages. Bijia mountain was renamed Hanshan, the Crocodile River at the foot of the mountain was renamed Hanjiang, and Chaozhou mountain and water were all surnamed Han. In the second year of Xianping of Song Dynasty (A.D. 999), Chaozhou ordered Chen yaozuo to build "Han Li Bu Ci" at the foot of Jinshan mountain. In the fifth year of Yuanhu (1090 A.D.), Zhizhou King Di moved to Qili in the south of the state. Su Shi wrote the famous stele of Chaozhou hanwengong temple, saying that Han Yu's "writing began to decline in eight dynasties, and the way helped the world" became the final conclusion of the world. In 1189 ad, in the 16th year of Chunxi reign of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ding Yunyuan, the supreme minister, moved the Han ancestral temple to the present site because "Dongshan is the place where Han Gong came to visit, especially the hand planted oak.". At present, the ancestral hall has three storeys of pavilions. The main entrance is a plaque inscribed by Hu Yaobang. Stepping into the main hall, one can look up the statue of Han Yu step by step, which is awe inspiring. Surrounded by Han ancestral hall inscriptions and Han Yu's handwriting. What's interesting is that the inscriptions of "preaching and writing" have many ways of reading because of their special characters. There are stele corridors in the garden, which preserve the calligraphy inscriptions of Han Yu. At the back of the mountain is the Shilang Pavilion. In front of the pavilion is the carved stone head of Han Yu. Inside the pavilion is the exhibition hall of Han Yu's life. The temple is close to the mountain and faces the water, behind which there are three peaks of the mountain, and in front of which there is the gurgling water of the mountain. The scenery of the mountain and the water, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers attract many admirers to visit and pay homage to it, leaving behind many valuable poems and works of art. There are now 40 inscriptions in the temple, which are precious materials for the study of Chaozhou history.

modern

In 1984, when Hu Zhuobang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, visited Chaozhou, he inscribed a plaque for the Han ancestral temple. In that year, the provincial government funded the renovation of the Han ancestral temple, and formulated the overall plan for the Han ancestral temple scenic area. After years of gradual development, a building group centered on the main temple has been formed. The Shilang Pavilion, Yunyuan Pavilion, Tiannan Beisheng and Tianshui garden, which have been completed successively, are distributed around the main temple. They are high and low, echoing each other from afar. They are not only the most complete Memorial site for Han Yu in China, but also the key cultural relics protection unit of Guangdong Province and the patriotism education base of Guangdong Province.

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