Xiangyuan Cisheng Temple is located in Xiangyuan Village, Xiangyuan Township, Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, covering an area of 70,465,438+0 square meters. According to the Records of Pingyao County in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty, it was built in Yuan Dynasty. According to the records of the temple monument, it was built in the third year of Yuan Dynasty (1332) and the fifty-fifth year of Qing Qianlong (1790).
Cisheng Temple, facing south, is arranged in two courtyards. The existing buildings include the main hall, the East-West Attached Hall, the West Small Hall, the East-West Main Hall, the East-West Wing of the West Hall, and the stage. The main hall is a relic of the Ming Dynasty, with three rooms wide and six rafters deep. The single eaves hang down from the top of the mountain, the four rafters are connected with four pillars in front and back, and the outer eaves are paved with double bottoms, which is a square bucket in the Ming Dynasty. The roof was covered with gray tiles and the glass square was trimmed. The painted beams in the temple are well preserved, and most of the murals are covered with white ash. There are five halls in the east, five halls in the west, and the front porch of Liu 'ao is hung with mountain breeze. The front eaves bucket is two liters, one stigma and one patch, and the upright melon arch supports the head wood. Roof pipe, tile cover, lace dripping, flower ridge. There are colored paintings on the central wall and beam frame of the East Annex Gallery.
The stage is 40 meters south of the mountain gate, sitting south to north. It consists of four front eaves columns and left and right abutments, five rafters deep and rolled to the top of the mountain. The infamy between Taiwan and Ming Dynasties carried a lot of money. There are five steps on the roof, with double purlins inside and outside Tuo Dou, two buckets in the room and one bucket next door, and the arch heads are embossed with half-empty flowers respectively. _ Eye wall is filled with flower board, and beam frame is painted. On the south side of the west annex hall, there is a small west hall and a front porch with double slopes and hard mountains.
The main cave has three holes, a front porch, and the west hall has five east and west wings. Tozenji has five main rooms. There is also a 1 yuanqing maintenance monument, and there are 4 ancient cypresses in the temple.
The pattern of Cisheng Temple in xiang yuan is basically complete and has important historical value.
20 13 May, xiang yuan Cisheng Temple was announced as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Address: Xiangyuan Village, Xiangyuan Township, Pingyao County
Xiangyuan Village: Xiangyuan Village Xiangyuan Village is the resident of Xiangyuan Township and the political, economic and cultural center. Pingchuan, located at the north of the county 15km. According to legend, it was originally named Dongsang Garden and Xisang Garden. During the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, a group of people looked up at their village and said, "If you want to prosper, you must change the small temple between the two villages into a big temple." At that time, there was still a lack of funds to build the temple, and the monk was willing to contribute, so he asked Zhao to be the manager and began to build it. This temple was built in the reign of Wulong. On June 28th, the opera started, and the East, West Sangyuan and Nanzhuang became one village, and the monk gave the fragrant garden a good name. This village has cultivated land.