Xujiangzu Temple is located in the northern suburb of Lubao Town, Sanshui. Founded in the fourth year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1268), it is the oldest temple building in Sanshui. After many renovations in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the 13th to 14th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1808- 1809) and 14th year of Guangxu (1888), this temple has become a magnificent art hall ... The ancestral temple consists of Kannonji in the north, Wudang Palace (the main body) in the middle and. The present architecture is in the Qing Dynasty style. Covers an area of 965 square meters. Each temple has a quadrangle layout with two courtyards. It is difficult for the mountain gate and the Hall of Ursa Major to reach the Sanhuafeng volcano wall at the top of the mountain. The gables are three rooms wide in front, three rooms wide in the main hall and three rooms deep. Frame structure of mixed wood beam with lifting beam and passing through barrel. The three temples are connected by a horizontal gate, and the passage is separated by a lane. The south lane is titled "Kuiguang". The title of "Dou Yao" in North Lane. The six roofs of the three temples are decorated with ceramic flower ridges. Based on various classical operas and ancient legends, it has shaped many figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals, jewelry and so on. Glaze is bright, vivid and colorful. It is a finely crafted artistic treasure when Guangxu was rebuilt in the 14th year of Qing Dynasty. In particular, the two Pearl Dragons at the top of the entrance of Wudang Palace are lifelike. Up to now, the roof still retains part of the Shiwan ceramic decoration shaped by Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, which is the earliest existing Shiwan ceramic sculpture on the building. Colorful flower ridges make these ancient temples look elegant and magnificent. There are a pair of stone lions in front of Wudang Palace, 2 meters high. For the stone carvings in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the knife method is simple and concise, and the form is vigorous and vivid. A pair of neat regular script couplets are engraved on the stone eaves column in front of the mountain gate: "Five horses return to the ring, and the jade mirror water leads to the holy well water;" Three peaks stand at the summit, and Longpo Mountain meets Wudang Mountain. The second time, put a little stone lion on the shrimp bow climbing beam. Between the eaves column and the door wall, there are two groups of wood carvings carved with golden beams, each group consists of three beams, with a total length of 3 meters. They are all high relief figures. On one side is the story of "Wagangzhai" and on the other side is the story of "Western Liao Country". This sculptor is very delicate. Carved flowers, trees, birds and animals on the back, and published the words "Made in Guangzhou and Thailand", which was made in the 14th year of Guangxu. The eaves gallery at the entrance of Kannonji is similar to Wudang Palace in structure and wood carving. Its eaves and columns are connected as follows: "Fa and Longpo are like Putuo weather; Looking at the jade mirror on the lotus platform is vaguely on Zhu Xi's scale. " There are many murals painted on the wall of the eaves gallery at the gate of Sanmiao Mountain. The figures in the mountains and rivers are lifelike. Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest is amazing. Art decorations are everywhere. Make the appearance of the ancestral temple more rich, elegant and luxurious. There is a precious carved vertical plaque of nanmu hanging on the forehead of Wudang Palace Gate, and the four official scripts of Wudang Palace Que are engraved in gold, which is majestic and vigorous. On both sides of the door, there is a woodcut couplet copying Su Dongpo's works: "Let's put on our swords, and the immortal Buddha won't listen;" Is there any way to save the dragon and the tiger? " Humorous tone. There is a huge plaque hanging across the golden pillar of the mountain gate. Regular script: "Shu Tianxing Arch". During the Xianfeng period, Shunde Hanlin visited Xianting Pavilion. The paintings on the inner wall are dazzling. On the top wall of the gate, there is an ink painting of Shuanglong. Only the dragon head, the dragon tail and part of the waist are shown in the picture, roaring and rolling in the boundless clouds and water. The "breast wall" on both sides of the courtyard of Sanmiao Courtyard is decorated with exquisite and realistic pottery sculptures and gray sculptures each 6 meters long. The contents include Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liangshan Heroes, Han Xizai's Night Banquet and Guo Ziyi's Birthday. Among them, the decoration of Wudang Palace is even more ingenious: behind the gray sculpture, a glass mirror is placed at the bottom, which shines under the sunlight or rain, making the landscape story of the gray sculpture more gorgeous. The patios of the three temples are all paved with granite. There are stone reliefs of auspicious pictures such as "Three Sheep Enlightening Thailand", "Lin Tu Yu Shu" and "Double Phoenix Rising Sun" in Ming Dynasty on the courtyard fence and the stone guardrail in Shangtang. Their carvings are exquisite and ingenious, and their knives are quaint. There is a well on the lower left of the stone steps near the main hall in the courtyard of Wudang Palace, and the words "Jinsha Shengjing" are engraved on the stone column. According to legend, this well is clear and dry. Most pilgrims come here for a drink in order to eliminate disasters and diseases and prolong their life. There is a couplet on its stone pillar: "The water is Zhong Ling, and the Jinsha River is vast and magnificent; The stars arch the moon, and the jade mirror is exquisite as jade. "Kannonji Courtyard said," Draw a building to add luster, and replace the Golden Lotus with a golden manhole; Kindness is far away, and the fat in the jade armpit flows to the jade mirror platform. "The three halls of the ancestral temple are solemn, but the buildings have their own characteristics. The wooden beam and its sparrows on the eaves column of the Second Stone in Wudang Palace are carved with auspicious patterns on three sides, and twelve Da Lian brackets are placed from the beam to the eaves. Make the hall look extremely rich and luxurious. A couplet is engraved on the eaves column: "Yang Fali is withered, and the fairy palm is far away from Yuan Yuexiu;" The spirit is in the water, and the stars surround the emperor Chen Zun. "A camel pier with a length of 2.3 meters, a height of 0.98 meters and a width of 0. 16 meters was set on the front eaves gallery beam of Kannonji Hall. Liang Fang and Totton also carved various auspicious patterns. This makes the hall look exquisite and exquisite. Its shape, structure and techniques all have local characteristics. The connection is as follows: "The slope is rugged, and there are several volumes of fairy stones, which are illusory for Putuo Rock; The cloud bridge is vast, sailing with kindness and sailing across the sky in the water mirror. "The regular script couplets on the eaves column in front of Wenchang Palace Hall are a supplement to 1985 written by Esheng Qin. On the right is: "there is no limit to learning the sea, running towards the blue waves"; On the left is; " Yu Hengsi is a native of the moon, and there is still a long way to go. "There are several stone tablets in the ancestral hall. Among them, the Huashan Temple and the Dizang Hall were rebuilt, which were carved in the 56th year of Qing Qianlong (179 1). It provides detailed historical facts for the changing process of Huashan Temple Dizang nunnery and the customs at that time, which is of great historical value. It has been more than 700 years since the ancestral temple was built. Since the Guangxu period, it has been in disrepair for a long time. The zhaobi in front of the temple, the archway and the "Jingfu" stage on the side of the temple have all been destroyed. The shrines, statues and sacrificial utensils in the original temple are also gone. In view of its important value in architecture, art and history, 1983 and 1989 were respectively announced as key cultural relics protection units in Sanshui County and Guangdong Province.