Liaocheng old city
Guangyue building
Located in the center of the ancient city, Guangyue Building was built in the seventh year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1374). Its height is 33 meters, that is, nine feet nine feet, which is the number of the sun, suitable for Yi Li. Build five floors, reflecting the number of Heluo. Guangyue Building is a landmark building in Liaocheng, a famous historical and cultural city. It is also one of the highest and oldest existing ancient pavilions in China, and also a national key cultural relics protection unit. Guangyue Building was built by Chen Yong, commander of Heping Mountain Guard at that time, for the military needs of "watching the enemy more strictly", and it was also called "Yumulou Building", so it had the function of beating drums and telling the time, and was also called "Drum Tower".
In the 22nd year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1486), Yang Neng, the magistrate, named this building "Dongchang Building" when he was renovating it.
In the ninth year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1496), Li Zan, the official minister, passed by Dongchang to visit Mr. Jin Tianxi, the prefect. * * * climbed up the building and was amazed. "There is nothing in the world because of sighing, although yellow crane Yueyang also wants to see it. It's been a hundred years now, and I'm still unknown, nameless and nameless, and I'm not ashamed. Because it is called' Guangyue Building' by Tianzhu, it is better to be near Lu than to wait for Yue. " Since then, the name of "Guangyue Building" has been used in the reconstruction of inscriptions in previous dynasties.
The appearance of Guangyue Building is a street pavilion with four eaves and ridges, which is divided into two parts: pier and main building. The pier is a quadrangular prism made of masonry, with a bottom length of 34.43 meters, which is close to the total height of Guangyue Building and a vertical height of 9.38 meters. In the middle of the east, west, south and north directions of the platform, there is a half-ticket arch, which forms a cross arch from the center of the platform. Square doorways are built above the four ticket gates. South says "civilization", North says "martial law", East says "peace" and West says "Xing Li". It is worth noting that the "Wuding" in the north gate has a strong military color, which should be related to the wariness of the remnants of northern Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty. There are small arches on both sides of the south arch, which are similar in shape to the middle arch. The front of the small door on the east side is carved with bluestone, with the inscription "Fairy Que in Fengcheng" and the inscription "Yingzhou in Yuen Long" on the west side. The "Fengcheng" in the "Fairy Que of Fengcheng" is named after the legend of the old Fenghuang ancient city in Liaocheng. "Xianque" refers to the place where immortals live. Reading the artistic conception is ethereal, giving people the association of Xianshan Qiongge. "Yuen Long" in "Yingzhou, Yuen Long" is the legendary fairy residence. Yingzhou refers to the legendary fairy island. Although the two characters are different, they are all in contrast with the fairyland atmosphere outside the transcendental object. The west gate is a fake gate, only in form, in order to match the east gate. The east gate is the only access to the building. The gate width is 3. 14m, and the arch height is1.75m. However, the actual use is still too large, so a small coupon is built in the coupon, and the doorway width is only1.86m.. When people step on the door, there is a room in the door, a stamp on the east, and a small window on the south wall for ventilation and lighting. Visitors can use the lights to turn north and climb 37 steps to reach the platform. The platform area is not large, but you can stop and take a nap. Tourists often stop here to have a rest. Then it will be upgraded to 15 level to reach the table.
Build an open porch on the countertop to prevent rainwater from invading the terrace. Its architecture can be traced back to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and its location is just on the central axis of the East Building. As the East Gate is the main avenue, its buildings were added as a symbol. The veranda is 5 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep, and the roof is light and lively. On the stairs of Changxuan, there is a woodcut plaque inscribed by a famous contemporary calligrapher, Mr. Qi Gong. The font is exquisite and the brushwork is vigorous. The countertop is brick, surrounded by parapets, and there are drainage channels on the east and west sides. Standing by the wall, look around: overlooking the southeast, Daiyue peaks are looming; Looking south, the banks are weeping willows and the lake is overflowing; Looking north, trees are shaded and tile houses are clustered; Looking up outside the city, the buildings are vertical and horizontal, and the flowers are like flowers; Looking back, dongchang lake is like a brocade belt, surrounded by ancient cities, and the lake city is full of interest.
When you climb the foundation, you can see that the four-story main building is built on a high platform, and it is all made of wood. This square building is surrounded by a veranda about 24 meters high. * * * There are 192 gold pillars and 200 bucket arches. The ground on the first floor is slightly higher than the countertop, square, surrounded by stones, with five rooms wide and five rooms deep. The structure is fresh and clear, with double grooved columns and corridors inside and outside. The wall is decorated with red chalk, but there is no paint inside, revealing a bare brick wall. All the rooms open on all sides of the building have two board doors, which are simple and elegant.
The stele gallery consists of 7 vertical steles and 15 wall steles. Except for two wall monuments embedded in the inner wall of the first floor, the other 20 are under the eaves or on the outer wall of the first floor. It is of great historical, literary and artistic value to observe its contents, either for repairing stones or writing poems. Among them, the Qianlong poem tablet is one of the best products. There are two * * * tablets of Ganlong poems, one of which stands in the north outside the East Gate, engraved with seven Ganlong poems by Gengzi Nian (1780), Chen Jianian (1784) and Geng Xunian (1790). The other is a wall monument, which is embedded in the east wall outside the south gate and engraved with Gan Shen (1776) and two imperial poems. In addition, some inscriptions on the reconstruction of Guangyuelou are included, which are important historical materials for studying the architecture of Guangyuelou. The monument to the reconstruction of Dongchangfu and the merger of Guangyue Building stands outside the south gate. Fu Yijian Shudan, a teacher of Kangxi, was the first scholar in the Qing Dynasty in the fifth year of Shunzhi (1649). In addition, there is a tablet entitled "Rebuilding Dongchang Building" written by Liaocheng Jinshi and household minister Liang in the 22nd year of Ming Chenghua (1488). Rebuilding Guangyue Building was written by Jinshi in Liaocheng in the 13th year of Ming Jiajing (1534) and right assistant minister Xu of the Ministry of Rites. Written by Yang Yizeng, then a Taoist priest in Jingxiang, Hubei Province and the founder of Haiyuan Pavilion, in the 20th year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty (1840), the monument to rebuild Guangyue Building was erected at the East Gate and the Four Gates respectively. On the forehead of the east gate on the first floor, there is also a wooden horizontal plaque "Tailai is a emerald screen", written in black and white by Shi, the special envoy of Shandong research in Qing Dynasty.