What attracts tourists come to Sichuan province for travel? Metropolis Chengdu City, Jiuzhaigou, Panda Base or Panda Nature Reserve Park? Daochengyading？The Eastern Alps Mount Siguniang？Taoism Original Temples in Mount Qingcheng Shan? Or Dujiangyan Irrigation Project？
Yes, all of them are attractive, but for very long time Sichuan province is not easy to visit, especially for foreigners, until recent years Chengdu becomes an international flight hub in China.
So it’s time to introduce you this mysterious yet rich in culture & nature heaven. You should not miss it for your life.
Today, we are going to introduce you a Taoism temple, it’s not the original temple in Qingchengshan Mountain, but with enormous affection throughout the country. 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 only 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.
People call it the Great Temple.
This great temple is the ancestral temple of God Wenchang Wang. Therefore, many students and parents come to pray before the exam, especially before the college entrance examination, parents and student from all over China flock to it.
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.
Do you hope to experience this special Wenchang Wang or Wenquxing God Culture and visit this place? Write email to us, pandawego@foxmail.com, or follow us by facebook, Tiktok, whatsapp: sissi.pandawego, we will be glad to make plan and take care every detail for you.
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