Zhang Fei Temple (Yunyang)

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The Zhang Fei Temple ( Chinese  张飞庙 , Pinyin Zhāng Fēi Miào , English Zhang Fei Temple ) or Temple of Margrave Zhang von Huan ( 张 桓侯 庙 , Zhāng Huán hóu miào , English Zhang Huanhou Memorial Temple ) in Yunyang County ( 云阳县 ) the government-direct city of Chongqing in the People's Republic of China was established in honor of Shu Han General Zhang Fei , a Chinese military leader of the Three Kingdoms (220-280), one of Shu Han’s Five Tiger Generals and brother-in-arms of Liu Bei and Guan Yu . The temple looks back on a history of over 1,700 years.

It was originally located at the foot of the Flying Phoenix Mountain ( 飞凤 山 , Feifeng Shan ) on the south bank of the Yangtze River opposite the county seat. According to legend, the gold was fished from the Yangtze River to finance the construction of the temple, along with the severed head of the general, who had been killed by two subordinates. It is popularly said: "The body is in Langzhong , the head in Yunyang" ( 身 在 阆 中 ， 头 在 云阳 ). The original temple was destroyed by a flood in 1870 and rebuilt in the style of the late Qing period .

The original temple site is now below the water level because of the Three Gorges Dam , but the temple and its cultural objects have been saved: it was rebuilt on a new, higher site 32 km upstream; it has been in the village of Long'an since 2003 ( 龙安 村 ) of Panshi Town ( 盘石 镇 ) (also Yunyang County, Chongqing). It cost approximately 70 million yuan ($ 8.5 million) to move and was the largest building move involved in the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.

The Zhang Fei Temple ( Zhang Huan hou miao ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-380) since 2001 .

literature

  • Le Mentec, Katiana; Brown, Peter, tr. "The Three Gorges Dam Project: Religious Practices and Heritage Conservation: a Study of Cultural Remains and Local Popular Religion in the xian of Yunyang (Municipality of Chongqing)." China Perspectives 65 (2006): 2-13. [Note: A German translation of this article appeared in "China heute" 25 (2006) 4-5: 154-163.]
  • Wang Ya, Xiong Yong: Try to compare Yunyang Zhang Fei Temple and Langzhong Zhang Fei Temple's similarities and differences (chinese)

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Coordinates: 30 ° 54 ′ 44.5 ″  N , 108 ° 41 ′ 57 ″  E