Yangming Temple - China Travel

introduce

Yangming Temple is located at the foot of Fufeng Mountain in the east of Guiyang City. It was built in the 19th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1814). Yangming Temple is the general term for three groups of ancient buildings, including Yangming Temple, Yin Daozhen Temple and Fufeng Temple. The three groups of ancient buildings together form the Fufeng Mountain Scenic Area with a quiet environment and beautiful scenery. Zheng Zhen, a great Southwestern scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once praised it as "a green hibiscus in the sky". Yangming Temple is a ancestral hall built by later generations to commemorate the philosopher, military strategist and writer of the Ming Dynasty, the founder of Xinxue Wang Shouren (word Bo'an, name Yangming) (1472-1528). The halls and corridors of the ancestral temple are connected with verdant trees, quiet and pleasant, with many poems and inscriptions, and a collection of cultural relics, which are eye-catching. In the temple, there are verdant trees, root carvings and bonsai in various poses and with different expressions, fragrant osmanthus, many inscriptions, winding paths and corridors, quiet and pleasant. In the temple, there is a large statue of Mr. Wang Yangming carved in court clothes. The left and right walls of the temple are also embedded with woodcuts of Mr. Wang Yangming's "Four Articles of Training Shishi" and "Four Articles of Analects". Since the temple was built, literati and poets have sung praises, and there are many excellent works.