According to historical records, Shiyang Town admitted 2 academicians, 7 scholars, 69 juries and more than 65,438,000 tribute students in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is said that it is precisely because Shiyang has such a large-scale Confucius Temple and a bronze statue of Confucius that Shiyang has a large number of talents. For a long time, there has been an endless stream of students coming here to pay their respects to the sage Confucius.
Shiyang Confucius Temple is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit, which was built in the early Ming Dynasty. After more than 600 years of wind and rain, the main hall is Zhuzi Pavilion, chanting Pavilion, Xiangxian Temple, Moon Bridge, marble murals and stone carvings, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters. The building is simple and sophisticated, and the whole temple floor is covered with yellow, red and green colored glass. Carved grass on the door, exquisite and unique, dragon and phoenix, liger, flowers and birds, fish and insects, pine, cypress, rattan, kudzu vine, colorful paintings are neat and lifelike. The bronze statue of Confucius in the temple was cast in Kangxi period and completed in nine years, with a height of 2.3 meters and a net weight of 2.5 tons. This is the largest bronze statue of Confucius in China.
Confucius Temple and the bronze statue of Confucius are the soul of the whole Shiyang ancient town. The building area of Confucius Temple is 16 16.8 square meters, which is composed of Dacheng Hall, Tianzitai, Zhuzi Pavilion, Tibetan Shengmin, Mingluntang and Dongxiang. The architectural pattern adopts the courtyard layout of China ancient palace office, focusing on vertical and horizontal axes, highlighting the main building, and symmetrically arranging secondary buildings on both sides to form a unified organizational system. In the Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple, there are nine plaques inscribed by emperors and celebrities such as Qianlong and Kangxi, such as "Being a teacher for all generations", "towering into the sky" and "A collection of saints", which are dazzling in gold on a red background. There is also a large stone relief of "Feng's Sutra" in the Confucius Temple, which is 4. 1 m long and 2.2 m high. It consists of six marbles, which are divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower, reflecting the development of salt industry, handicraft industry and commerce in Shiyang ancient town in Ming and Qing dynasties and recording the prosperous history of the ancient town. Beautiful myths, legends and stories, such as the dragon girl herding sheep and the seal stabbing the tiger, are a microcosm of Shiyang's history in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and are praised by the outside world as the "Qingming Riverside Map" of Shiyang.
The beautiful scenery around the Confucius Temple, such as overlooking the rooftop, Manjusri Sunset Red, Baodi Chaoyan, Xianghe jathyapple, Xiangling Yanfang, Lu 'an Spring Wave, Xigu Zaomei, Ludong Sunny, etc., makes people immerse themselves in thinking about the ethics of sages, and at the same time enjoy the beautiful feelings brought by nature.
Shiyang ancient town is rich in tourism resources. There are 6 categories, 1 1 subcategory, and 87 units. There are both natural tourism resources and humanistic tourism resources, but humanistic tourism resources occupy an absolute advantage and the connotation of humanistic tourism resources is very rich. There are many existing cultural relics, including provincial key cultural relics protection units 1 and 9 county key cultural relics protection units. It is a national AAA-level tourist area, one of the first three famous historical and cultural towns named in Yunnan Province, 60 famous tourist towns and four famous tourist towns in Chuxiong Prefecture, and it is a famous "salt capital of Yunnan, a sacred place for worshipping Confucius". Confucian culture, salt culture, historical culture, Yi culture and Buddhist culture constitute the characteristic tourism culture of Shiyang ancient town.
Shiyang Confucius Temple, also known as Shiyang Confucius Temple, is located at the foot of Xiangling Mountain. It was built in the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368) and rebuilt in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1609). In history, Shiyang flourished because of salt. Since salt production began in Han Dynasty, more than 100 wells have been opened. Each well has been divided into five areas since ancient times: Guanyin well, old well, Qiaojing well, boundary well and tail well. There is a poem that says: Look at Qiaojie's last five wells and make money by boiling brine. Big stove and small stove, chicken nest stove, salt pot salt Buddha salt. The traffic in Yangcheng County is busy, and thousands of people gather in all directions. A thousand years of bittern flavor, green hills live long on both sides.
So far, many wells have been closed or stopped, and there are still two well-preserved. One of them is located in Shiyang Salt Factory Guest House, which is the oldest salt well. This was dug in the Han Dynasty. "When the Mongols graze the sheep, they lick and dig the soil and get stones like sheep." This beautiful legend comes from this well, so it is named Shiyang well, also known as Lingyang well. The other is located in Xiayantian, named Qingfeng Well, which was dug in the Han Dynasty and has a depth of 33 meters. The well is well preserved, and there are still wheels for taking water. 1988, Shiyang Salt Plant invested another 50,000 yuan. The new well has a diameter of 10 meter and a depth of about 190 meter. The brine from Shiyang Salt Factory comes from this well. "Longshan is green": that is, Huilong Mountain behind the cave looks like a dragon, with lush trees and pavilions in the mountains, which is spectacular.
"Xiangling Xiangyun": The foot of Xiangling Mountain (also called Tiantai Mountain) behind Confucius Temple rises due to salt fog and water vapor, which looks like colorful clouds in the morning light.
"Baoxiu Morning Smoke": The sight of pedestrians, mules and horses on the Guan Bao Mountain behind the King Temple in the dense forest shrouded in mist in the early morning.
"Manjusri Sunset Red": It is also called "Manjusri Return", that is, Manjusri Pavilion. Because of the steep terrain, it can only be illuminated by the sun at noon, which shows a strange sight.
"Taniguchi Transverse Smoke": When entering the narrow valley mouth of Shiyang from Nanguan, the wisps of light smoke presented in the sun are like Changhong.
Xianghe jathyapple: The moon in the middle of the night presents a strange scene of a small moon cast into the river on a high mountain.
"Longquan Night Bell": the bronze bell of Longquan Temple, which rings three times every night when the cock crows to remind Wujing workers to get up and work.
"Water Pavilion Watching Waterfalls": That is, in the holy water pavilion, you can see the scenery flowing down from the opposite mountain, crashing down, which is refreshing.
There are many temple fairs in Shiyang, including Wang Lung Hui, Tuzhu Hui, Taiping Hui, Confucius Temple Sacrifice Hui, Wenchang Hui, Yanchang Hui, Fudi Hui, Guan Sheng Hui and Vulcan Hui.
Dragon King's Club: The 13th day of the first lunar month, also known as Jingkai Festival, is held because of the legend of "Dragon Lady Shepherd". On this day, people from all directions came one after another, decorated with lanterns, danced with dragons and lions, with unprecedented pomp, invited troupes to sing operas, and brought out a group of Shiyang performers, so Shiyang was called "the hometown of Yunnan opera".
Taiping Club: From February Gengshen Day, it will last for five days from Jingwu, Renwu and Guihai to Jiazi Day, and Guanjiu, Qiaojie, Jieli and Weiwujing will take turns to attend the meeting. Its activities are colorful and lively.
Local owners' meeting: March 28th of the lunar calendar, also known as "horse racing meeting". It's a celebration in memory of the land god who saved Li Wei.
Autumn Festival: Yangmei Festival. On this day, people of all ethnic groups in Fiona Fang of Yangmei Mountain gathered in Yangmei Forest to enjoy Yangmei, singing and dancing happily.
Confucius memorial service: August 27th of the lunar calendar is a sacrificial activity to commemorate Confucius' birthday.