Many scenes in the game, such as ancient temples, ancient towers, archways, grottoes, stone carvings, sculptures, etc., are mostly made of Cinema, which impressed countless players and was amazed. As Yang Qi, the head of the game’s art, said: “The most immersive thing must be what exists in reality.”
Follow the check-in notes to deeply explore the beautiful ancient buildings in China. Let’s set off!
Shanxi
Xiao Xitian: The ultimate “hanging sculpture art”
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, the scene of “Since you see the future, why don’t you worship me” is very shocking. This famous scene was taken in Xiaoxitian, Linfen County, Shanxi.
Xiaoxitian was originally named Qianfo Temple. The statue of the hanging sculpture (hanging sculpture: a color sculpture suspended on the wall) in the temple is a fine product among the color sculptures of the Ming Dynasty. Hanging sculpture requires craftsmen to possess extremely strong techniques, and very few works can be preserved. When it comes to hanging plastic across the country, the most shocking thing must be Shanxi.
BabaylanThe hanging sculpture in Xiaoxitian fully displays the four words “small, clever, exquisite, and strange”. The remaining many exquisite hanging sculptures are still complete and new after nearly four hundred years. They are called “the last sound of hanging sculpture art.”
The Xiaoxitian is divided into two courtyards: the upper and lower courtyards. The upper courtyard is the essence of the entire temple. The non-destructive hanging sculpture art in its Great Hall is the most outstanding part of the Xiaoxitian.
In the 169.6 square meters of Main Hall, more than a thousand statues stand like mountains and ridges: looking at the layers of heavenly palaces, the strange grasses of mountains and rivers, and the lifelike mythological figures, it is like a series of complex and gorgeous “comics”. Walking through it is like a visual feast, which can only be described by the word “shock”.
The reason why it can cause such a beautiful visual impact is precisely because the left and right double layers of the hanging plastic overlap, the upper body of the next statue tilted outward, blocking the top statue’s foot. The largest Buddha statue here is more than 3 meters high, and the small one can be placed in the palm. In the exquisite stacking, Xiao Xitian showed the “extreme aesthetic” of the late Ming Dynasty to a full extent.
When I came to Xixian, I could enjoy my happiness after having a feast for Xiaoxitian.
Xi County is the origin of Yulu Xiang pear. This pear is called the “Chinese pear king”. It tastes crispy when you bite it in one bite, and the fresh and sweet pear juice explodes in your mouth, satisfying your perfect imagination of fragrant pears. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the picking period of Yulu fragrant pears, so don’t miss it.
The peerless beauty of Feihong Tower
After seeing the Little West Sky, you might as well go to the Hongdong Cave that is a hundred kilometers away from Babaylan to see the Feihong Tower of Guangsheng Temple, which is still full of 500 years. As long as you take a look, you will definitely be shocked by its beauty!
Guangsheng Temple is located in Hongdong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. The Feihong Pagoda in the temple is the largest and most complete glass pagoda with craftsmen’s inscription among the five Buddha relic pagodas. Because its tower body is colorful like a rainbow after rain, it is named Feihong Pagoda. The 86 version of Journey to the West “Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Injustice” is taken from here.
塔身用黄、绿、蓝、紫琉璃装饰，一、二、三层最为精致，各层模仿木斗栱支撑巧妙出檐；檐下数不清的菩萨、金刚、花卉、盘龙、鸟兽等各种构件和图案无不鲜丽奇巧，塑制精细，捏制精巧，彩绘鲜丽，尤其在太阳光照下，至今还是色泽如新。
Looking at the whole, looking at the part, looking from a distance, looking close, they are all exquisite and peerless. I can’t help but admire the wisdom and artistic talent of the ancients!
Yuhuang Temple: The Peak Achievement of Sculpture Art
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, some characters’ IPs Kang Jinlong and Lou Jingou are inspired by the 28 star constellations of the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi. The temple is based onMore than 300 complete sculptures are famous, covering many mythical figures, especially the Twenty-Eight Star Constellations color sculptures. They can be regarded as the pinnacle of the ancient Taoist sculpture art in my country and are the best of the existing Taoist color sculpture statues.
The Yuhuang Temple is near Jincheng East Station in Shanxi Province (there is no ticket required at present, and you need to make an appointment in advance). Each of the colorful sculptures in the temple is a combination of a portrait and an animal incarnation, with exquisite conception. For example, the stars of “water” are all female images, and the stars of “fire” are all samurai images. Each star king is either kind-hearted, strong and powerful, dignified, graceful, gentle, and elegant, and vivid according to the personality he is given.
The height of the statue is about 1.8 meters, and every wrinkle and every fold are clearly visible; the eyes and smile that have been frozen for thousands of years seem to be revealed from the image.
It is hard to imagine that these moments of dynamics have been so exquisitely shaped by the ancients more than 700 years ago!
The Guandi Temple in Fucheng, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Jade Emperor Temple, is also worth a visit. The visit lasts about an hour (no tickets and reservations are required at present). Especially the eight dragon pillars inside, there are wood carvings above and the theme is also dragons, but compared to the dragons with stone pillars, the wood carving version of dragons looks much cute and playful.
Iron Buddha Temple: A treasure in ordinary courtyards
Many players discovered elements of the twenty-four heavenly statues of the Iron Buddha Temple in the characters in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Iron Buddha Temple is also in Jincheng, located in Gaoping City, Jincheng. It is very convenient to come here from another place to Gaoping East Station.
According to the art director of “Black Myth: Wukong”, Yang Qi, “When I was in college, I saw a picture album of the statues of the Iron Buddha Temple. At that time, I was shocked by the exquisite carving craftsmanship and special style of the Ming Dynasty statues and the exquisite carving of the twenty-four heavens. “After visiting Gaoping here, because the indoor environment was too narrow, the team decided to give up the real-life scan after a long time of evaluation and decided to restore it by hand.
Iron Buddha Temple is in an inconspicuous courtyard in Gaoping, Jincheng. It is named after the iron Buddha was cast in the temple in ancient times. Iron Buddha Temple was founded in the Jin Dynasty and the existing buildings are relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Iron Buddha Temple was not open to the public before, but is currently limited, which is a very valuable opportunity! No tickets are charged, and the opening hours are from 9:00 to 17:30 every Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays on non-holidays).
The famous Iron Buddha Temple is the twenty-fourth surrounding the Buddhist temple.The Tianni statue has a unique shape and superb skills. It can be said to be unique in the entire clay statue and is rare in the world.
Some of these statues have prominent eyes, some have their hair upside down, some have toes grip the ground, and some have armor to protect them. Their shapes are vivid and unique, with different shapes and lifelike, subverting the traditional statues’ pursuit of beautiful details, silently but shocking the soul.
The ultimate pursuit of clothing details by ancient sculpture craftsmen is amazing: every floral pattern stacked on the head, every scale on the armor, every detail on the decoration, even if it is interspersed with each other, and overlapping each other, must be presented one by one.
As Yang Qi said, compared with the feeling of seeing the real scene, the restored degree seen in “Black Myth: Wukong” is only 30% at most. Only by being in the scene can you feel the shocking power of these statues spanning a hundred years.
In Jincheng, you can also experience the national intangible cultural heritage – go to Situ Town to see the iron flower. The iron trees and silver flowers fall, and thousands of stars bloom. Seeing the colorful iron flowers fall in the sky, you can truly experience the Chinese romance.
The Guanyin Hall there is a great master of the hanging plastic arts of Xiaoxi, Xi County.
The main hall of Guanyin Hall was a remains of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, and the rest were buildings of the Qing Dynasty. The main hall has three rooms wide, with a single eaves hanging on the mountain, and a rolled shed on the front eaves to embrace the building and offering pavilions. Among this series of not-magnificent buildings, there is another great masterpiece of hanging plastic art.
Walking into the main hall, in only 60 square meters of space, walls, columns, beams, and framesMore than 500 statues of various sizes are covered with sculptures, with different expressions and lifelike appearances, and their scale and density are amazing.
If Xiao Xitian is the “masterpiece of hanging plastic art”, then Guanyin Hall is undoubtedly the “dazzling pearl of hanging plastic art”.
In southeast of Shanxi, such an immersive time travel experience can be said to be everywhere – this is one of the most densely preserved ancient buildings in Shanxi and the shelter of many top color sculptures in our country.
From the Tang Dynasty color sculptures of Qinglian Temple, one of only three remaining places in the country (the remaining two are Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple), to the Chongqing Temple color sculptures known as the “Crown of Song Dynasty Sculptures”, to the most well-preserved Song Dynasty murals in Gaoping Kaihua Temple… It is no exaggeration to say that the southeast of Jin is a natural treasure house for sealing these ancient art masterpieces.
Foguang Temple: The “king” of ancient buildings
Careful players have discovered that in “Black Myth: Wukong”, there are many scene prototypes from Wutai Mountain, Xinzhou, Shanxi.
Wutai Mountain is not a mountain. It is surrounded by five peaks with flat roofs, so it is called “Wutai Mountain”. In temples of all sizes, you can always feel the history and culture of Mount Wutai. Walking through it, it feels like time is back, and the feeling of returning to nature comes naturally.
There are many temples, and there are many temples, with holy scenery and holy sites gathered in one place. Among them, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Shuxiang Temple, Luo Temple and Bodhisattva Pin are called the five major meditation places of Mount Wutai. The temples outside Taiwan are the most famous: Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple.
The Lotus Flowers flashing in “Black Myth: Wukong” has a delicate shape. The prototype is the Sutra Tower at the entrance of the Foguang Temple Hall in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. (The sutra pagoda is a stone pillar used in Buddhism to carve Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues or Buddha names, usually standing next to a temple or pagoda.)
The East Hall, built in the 11th year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty (857 AD), is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The hall is a huge and large, with a gentle roof slope and wide eaves wings, all of which are huge and heroic” is Liang Sicheng’s description of the magnificent East Hall of Foguang Temple.
The beam structure of the East Hall is complex and exquisite, and the structure of the Douyin is rigorous and orderly. It is understood that the cross-sectional dimension of the Douyin section is ten times that of the Douyin section of the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the hall are protruding 3.96 meters, which is not found in wooden structures after the Song Dynasty.
In addition to the huge wooden hall itself, the sutra pagoda in the courtyard is also very important. It directly confirms the construction of the east hall of Foguang Temple. Photos of Lin Huiyin’s surveying and mapping of the sutra pagoda of Foguang Temple have also become the entrance for all people who go to Foguang Temple to travel through time and face the history of Komiks.
It stands quietly there, after thousands of years of wind and rain, but it is still majestic and spectacular, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
The discovery of the East Hall broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that “there are no wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty and its previous ones on the land of China”, proving that the Tang Dynasty’s wooden structures still exist on the land of China.
Therefore, the East Hall is known as the “king of ancient Chinese architecture”. It is not only an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese architecture, but also a shining pearl in the world cultural heritage.
Nanshan Temple: A mysterious stoneTreasure Library of Sculpture Art
In the game promotional video of “Black Myth: Wukong”, a row of stone sculptures slowly pass by. The scene originated from the prototype of the stone sculpture in Nanshan Temple in Wutai Mountain.
Nanshan Temple is one of the more long-standing temples in the Wutai Mountain Temple complex. It is a collective name for three adjacent temples, Jile Temple, Shande Hall and Youguo Temple. It is built on the mountain and has a layered layout. It has been built with the mountains and has been built into seven courtyards.
The Jile Temple located on the lower three floors is solemn and simple; the Shande Hall is exquisite and elegant in the middle, one layer is higher than the other, showing a unique sense of layering; the Youguo Temple on the upper three floors is a sea of stone sculptures, and the exquisite carvings are breathtaking.
Nanshan Temple has always been famous for its rich preservation of stone sculpture art. Almost all the main buildings in the temple are decorated with exquisite stone sculptures, rich in content, huge in number and exquisite carvings. The stone sculptures here are unique to Mount Wutai.
The stone sculptures in Mount Wutai not only have high artistic value, but are also the crystallization of the wisdom and skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen, and are worth looking at and savoring.
Chongfu Temple: The Treasure House of Culture and Art of the Jin Dynasty
In the original painting of “Black Myth: Wukong”, there is a special place hidden in the original painting of “Black Myth: Wukong”.According to analysis, this scene is taken from Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.
The Amitabha Temple in Chongfu Temple is one of the most complete and perfect buildings in the Jin Dynasty in China. It has a width of seven rooms, a depth of four rooms and eight rafters, a single-eaved hip-top. The platform in front of the hall is spacious and wide and has five rooms. This Jin Dynasty giant sword located on a 2.5-meter platform is extremely shocking.
In addition to the architectural structure itself, it is also worth seeing its “five wonders”:
One-sense glazed. The ridge beast and the chubby kiss are both original objects of the Jin Dynasty. The 1.5-meter-high Glazed Wizards look very miniature against the backdrop of the hall, almost rushing away, vividly staying with this ancient building for nearly a thousand years.
The second plaque. The plaque “Amitabha Hall” written in the 24th year of Dading in the Jin Shizong (1184 AD) is the largest piece of the same era.
Three Prize WindowBabaylanLink. The rare ancient buildings with original objects in the Jin Dynasty are preserved in the doors and windows, with as many as fifteen patterns: Babaylan have round, prism, four petals,Six petals, etc., zoom in and look carefully. The heads of each bouquet are still different, and you can feel the unique craftsmanship of a thousand years ago.
Four-god color sculptures. The three Western saints worshipped are all statues of the Jin Dynasty, and the backlight screen of the main Buddha Amitabha Buddha is as high as 14 meters. You can imagine how shocking the scene will be when the light passes through.
Five cliff murals. The four walls of the hall are murals of the Jin Dynasty, with delicate carvings and complex outfits, and adopting powder and gold-plated techniques, which have a more three-dimensional sense.
This hall, whether it is wooden structure construction technology, Buddha statues and mural art, is the pinnacle of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art. It will feast everyone here. It is definitely an unparalleled visual feast.
Yingxian Wooden Tower: Standing for nearly a thousand years without falling
The Yingxian Wooden Tower, located in Shuozhou, is one of the must-see attractions in Shanxi. This wooden tower was built in the Liao Dynasty. It has a height of 67.31 meters and a diameter of 30.27 meters at the bottom. It has been 962 years since then. It is the largest and oldest pure wooden structure pavilion-style building in the world.
The body of the Yingxian wooden tower is built of wood, without a single iron nail, and all rely on components to mortise and tenon joints. There are as many as 62 types of mortise and tenon forms used in wooden towers, so they are called “the crown of mortise and tenon” by later generations; there are 54 types of mortise and are also called “the museum of mortise and tenon” by architect Liang Sicheng. They are architectural masterpieces that perfectly combine science and art.
There are many wooden tower plaques, and the third floor “Shaga Pagoda” plaque is a relic of the Jin Dynasty, which is the oldest plaque in the pagoda; the fifth floor “Junji Shengong” was written by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty.
应县木塔千年不倒，是因为工匠留了很多机关，顶部10米高的金属塔刹，连接8根铁链，组成1张金属防御网，阻止雷电进入塔身。而建塔的工匠们足足花了140年，才拼出这座现存古代最高的“积木”，高度超过今天的20层楼！
木塔扛过数次地震，历经千Komiks has been moving but is still moving, extremely shocking. Now the whole is slightly tilted, but at this moment, it still stands. Komiks is as written in the plaque: Neutrality, forever, Jincheng.
Hanging Temple: Relief inlaid in the mountains
In the promotional video released by the official account of “Black Myth: Wukong”, the buildings appearing in the picture are all hanging on the cliffs with wooden pillars, and are taken at Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi.
Hanging Temple is located in Hunyuan County, Datong City. It is a rare high-altitude building in my country.
Looking from afar, Hanging Temple is like a clever cliff relief, forming a unique style of half-wall building and half-wall cave.
The Hanging Temple is a wooden structure building. It relies on the principles of mechanics and cleverly uses the half-insert flying beam as the basis. With the support of the rock, the beams and columns are integrated up and down, and the corridors are connected left and right, forming a stable wooden frame structure, enhancing the seismic resistance.
This clever architectural technique has made the Hanging Temple stand still standing after thousands of years of wind and rain!
The Hanging Temple has another wonder: the supporting wooden pillars under the beams are long and short, some are focused, some are useless, and even can shake. These wooden pillars are not empty, and are not difficult in general; but once there are too many people and the load increases, the empty pillars will stand up and play the role of a pillar bearing a thousand pounds, making the Hanging Temple a special building that looks like virtual but solid, dangerous and safe, and steep and dangerous.
Imagine how ancient craftsmen allowed temples to coexist harmoniously with natural landscapes under such geographical conditions. It was simply a double miracle of architectural mechanics and aesthetics!
Down from Hanging Temple, be sure to try the local jelly.
Hunyuan jelly is not only a local name, but also one of the best in the country. The mellow vinegar aroma, fresh and fragrant Komiks chili peppers, slippery jelly, and mix together, it is a delicacy that makes people fall in love with.
Yungang Grottoes: A Smile that spans thousands of years
When we come to Datong, we have to mention Yungang Grottoes. It is known as the four major grotto art treasure houses in China, and it is also a world cultural heritage site.
Yungang Grottoes are one of the rare grottoes in China that were excavated in just one dynasty. Some people say, “Yungang Grottoes are a Northern Wei history book engraved on stones, a road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. ”
There are 254 large and small caves in Yungang Grottoes, including 45 main caves, each cave has its own story.
The most famous Yungang Grottoes is the “Five Caves of Tanyao” (Casts 16 to 20), among which Cave 20 is also known as the “CinemaOpen-air Buddha”, which is a symbol of Yungang stone carvings.
Zhejiang
“Taoyuan in the Cloud” Jingning Dahan
The official account of “Black Myth: Wukong” is in the game interlude video released in 2022, Spider SpiritBabaylanThe orchid house where the old spider spirit among mother and daughter lives was discovered by netizens as the main hall of Shisi Temple in Dahan, Lishui, Zhejiang. Since then, Shisi Temple has appeared many times in the trailer video.
The entire ancient village of Dahan in Yunzhong is located on a mountain above 1,000 meters above sea level, about 1 hour from Jingning County. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaThe journey is surrounded by mountains and clouds and mist. When you drive in the car, you feel like you are breaking through the clouds and mist between the clouds and the sky. The locals call the waterfall “现”, and there is a large waterfall “现”. The name is “Da Han in the Clouds”, just like its name.
Shisi Temple seems to be the gate of time and space hidden in the deep mountains. It is an ancient Song Dynasty temple surrounded by mountains and surrounded by green.
The ancient juniper lies across the door, the courtyard is towering in ancient trees, and the green moss is deep. Time seems to have stopped at this moment.
A delicate and scattered courtyard, the simple and solemn Great Hall, the Horse Fairy Palace with Taoist bones and fairy wind, the Heart Sutra Bell Tower with floating clouds, and the Mei Clan Ancestral Hall carrying filial piety. Every brick, tile, tenon and pillar all contain the charm of ancient buildings.
Although there is no Buddha statue in the Main Hall, it is only based on the four-character plaque of “Main Hall”Well, it makes people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The hall is not decorated with colorful paintings, with plain face facing the sky, with only brown and white colors. The fine wood grains seem to be seen. The main hall is a double-eaved hip-mounted roof with three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The dove is simple and elegant, with slightly raised wings and slightly stretched out of the eaves. It is an isolated example of the existing wooden ancient buildings in China.
The unique aura of Shisi Temple satisfies all the fantasies about the ancient temple, and it can’t help but make people feel a wonderful sense of fate, which also seems particularly mysterious in the scene of “Black Myth: Wukong”.
At the water mouth at the southern end of Dahan Village, there is a typical water mouth bridge called “Huguan Bridge”. Huguan means “Guardian Pass”. The bridge spans Muhe River from east to west, connecting the village with curling smoke from cooking to one end, and the temple with dusk drums and morning bells on the other end.
Sichuan
An Yue Stone Carving: A Performance Art of Time
An Yue Stone Carving appears in the Spider Spirit Sisters promotional film in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Many exquisite Buddha statues stand, mysterious and distant.
East of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province, Anyue County is conveniently located two hours’ drive from Chengdu. The skilled craftsmen left these statues in Anyue for thousands of years, making Anyue the most densely populated area in Sichuan Province.
Many people want to see Anyue stone carvings, which are attracted by the severely weathered Buddha niche. Because of the thousands of years of wind, the traces of wind left on the stone carvings. Thousands of years of traces form the shape of wind. Standing in front of this Buddha statue, the beauty created by time will shock the heart.
The reclining Buddha carved by Anyue stone is the largest reclining Buddha on the left side of the Tang Dynasty in China. It is 21.3 meters long and is chiseled on a cliff about 20 meters highBabaylan.
In the reclining Buddha courtyard, more than 400,000 words of stone carving Buddhist scriptures were also found. Its 400,000 words are now preserved in good condition, with more than 100,000 words clearly visible in the font. Its engraving and calligraphy are recognized as the world’s best.
The Water Moon Guanyin statue in Vilu Cave is one of the most popular statues in the entire Anyue stone carving, and it has its own beauty from any angle.
This group of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is amazing. It is on a hillside because of the temple’s facade.Looking west, when dusk comes, the sunset shines on it, like a layer of gold is naturally plated.
Most of the statues in Anyue stone carvings have gradually been weathered. While regretting, you might as well go and see it earlier.
Many people call Anyue County a little “sour” small town, because it is rich in lemons and enjoys the reputation of “Chinese lemons look at Sichuan, Sichuan lemons look at Anyue”.
Baosen Lemon Tourism Zone is the largest lemon-themed scenic spot in the country. It was as if you walked into the kingdom of lemons, and the fresh fragrance came to your face. Don’t forget to taste the sour and refreshing lemon to instantly refresh your mind.
Chongqing
Dazu Stone Carvings: A Treasure of the Thousand Years of Tang Dynasty
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, many scenes are restored to Chongqing Dazu Stone Carvings, and too many are like being shocked in front of you. “Thousands of years of storms have passed, and art is unique in the world” refers to Cinema, which is Dazu stone carving.
The breathtaking statue of Thousand-Handed Guanyin is carved on the 88-square-meter cliff surface, with a total of 1,007 hands engraved, which is as magnificent as a peacock spreading its tail.
After 800 years of storm, the exquisite stone carvings were also plagued by illness, and the statues were weathered and peeled off. Now, this Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue reappears, which is what people today have used eight years to go back to more than 800 years.
Walking through the mountains and forests, huge stone carvings emerged in front of you. It started in the Tang Dynasty, went through ten countries, and reached the Southern Song Dynasty, spanning thousands of years. It is still vivid today, as if you are talking to you.
Amid the green mountains, the 31-meter-long Dazu stone carvings reclining Buddha, each stone carving is a whisper of the craftsman.
Every tourist who walked into the Dazu stone carvings will see several unfinished statues of the Ming King. Compared with the exquisite statue groups around, the lower part of these statues is uneven and full of marks, which makes people wonder why only half of them are made?
In fact, according to the inscription “BabaylanDi Nanshan’s inscription “[A href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanDi Nanshan” “Da Zu” at that time, it is not difficult to see that Dazu had suffered from the wars of Song and Meng at that time. However, the dazzling monument they created has become a witness to history, and it is worth looking at this rare one”Semi-finished” historical relics.
This is the ancient Chinese architecture
It is not only a visual shock
It is also a concentrated display of Chinese aesthetics
Let us protect and inherit it together!