Jianfu Palace建福宫
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- China · Sichuan · Dujiangyan, Chengdu · At the foot of Zhangren Peak, by the gateway of Mount Qingcheng
- Coordinates
- 30.911, 103.576 Map ↗
- School
- Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen
- First built
- the eighteenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang (730) · Originally named Zhangren Temple, renamed Huiqing Jianfu Palace in the Song; the surviving buildings date from a reconstruction during the Guangxu reign of the Qing
- Heritage status
- Ancient Building Complex of Mount Qingcheng — Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (2006)Component of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000)
Overview
Jianfu Palace stands at the foot of Zhangren Peak at the base of Mount Qingcheng and is the first temple encountered on the ascent. It was built in the eighteenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang (730), originally named Zhangren Temple, dedicated to Ning Fengzi, 'Patriarch of the Five Marchmounts' and the presiding deity of Mount Qingcheng (said in tradition to have been a teacher of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor); in the Song it was granted the name Huiqing Jianfu Palace, and the surviving buildings mainly date from a reconstruction in the fourteenth year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing (1888), with repairs carried out after 2005. The palace has three successive halls: the front hall is dedicated to Ning Fengzi, Patriarch of the Five Marchmounts, and to Du Guangting; the main hall is dedicated to the Supreme Venerable Sovereign (Laojun), the Sovereign Lord of the Eastern Florescence, and Wang Chongyang; and the rear hall enshrines the Three Pure Ones. The palace preserves a long antithetical couplet composed in the Qing (394 characters, one of the celebrated long couplets of Mount Qingcheng) and inscribed poems and steles from successive dynasties. Song-dynasty poets such as Lu You and Fan Chengda, when touring Mount Qingcheng, composed many of their poems here.
Highlights
- Zhangren Peak
- The shrine to Ning Fengzi
- The long antithetical couplet
- The gateway of Mount Qingcheng