Want To Pass Exam? Visit Wenchang Wang God Temple!

Want To Pass Exam?
Visit Wenchang Wang God Temple!

In a remote small town surrounded by ancient cypress trees, there’s a special temple, people call “Grand Temple” , with enormous affection throughout China, especially for students and their parents. Why?

In ancient Chinese tradition, only entering the official system was truly a good profession, and it was almost the lifelong pursuit of every educated person. To become an official, one must pass the imperial examination.

Therefore, in the history of selecting talents through the imperial examination for about 1000 years, achieving good results in the examination has become an aspiration in everyone’s heart, so the status of the Wenchang Wang(many Chinese also call Wenchang Di Jun or Wenquxing God) who bless good results in the examination is particularly high.

With 2.5 hours drive from Chengdu, you will arrive the very special temple, for anyone if want have connection with the god of intelligence or good performance in exams.

This temple is the ancestral temple of Wenchang Wang, the deity of culture, scholarship and examinations.

As a result, many students and parents come here to pray before important exams. Especially during the gaokao (national college entrance examination) season, crowds of students and parents from all over China — and even from abroad — flock here to seek his divine blessing.

Taoism music is very hard to hear right now. But this temple still reserve this music system performance, with many traditional instruments. The ancient Taoism music called Wenchang Dongjing originated from the sacrificial music of the ancient Shu people, melting religious music, classical music, and folk music into one furnace, with elegant phonetics, simple style, and diverse varieties.

Just outside of the temple, you can immerse yourself in the biggest ancient Cypress forest, with history tale of three kingdoms era of China, you can find the ancient path relics of this era about 1700 years ago.

And not far away, Cliff Carvings of the Thousand Buddha Cliff can show you well preserved exquisite statues of Buddhist statues, some come from Tang Dynasty.