History and Culture of Yanzhou Town

Feng Meng is located in Xinming Village, Yanzhou Town, with an altitude of 237 meters. According to legend, one night in the ninth year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 15 14), lightning and thunder thundered, causing damage to the countryside of Fengmeng Mountain and the collapse of houses, but there were no casualties. After the disaster, someone found a big old tree lying on the top of the mountain, with a stone statue facing the sky. People feel very strange, guard the legend, and then sincerely stand up and worship. At that time, Di Daochang, a famous Taoist priest in Nanyue, persuaded Shifang to establish Mengshan Temple, which has a history of nearly 500 years and is said to belong to the seventy-two peaks in Nanyue.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was even more legendary. In Leiyang, Roche's three daughters went to the temple to worship, and one of them was born with desire and died in the temple at that time. I followed my family to transport her body back for burial, but I couldn't move it for a long time. Sometimes it was stormy and thunderous. People were amazed and promised to bury them on the spot, and the thunderstorm stopped. Then, I dug a hole in front of the temple, only three feet away, and I got a stone. Under the stone is a natural cave, so I buried it. In memory of this lady Roche, this statue was dedicated to this temple.

In 2003, the Hunan Provincial Religious Affairs Bureau accepted the declaration of the Mengshan Temple Management Committee, sent personnel to inspect it, approved it as a legal place for religious activities, and issued a recognition permit. Yanzhou stage was built in the eighth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, and its address is now the market town center of Yanzhou Town. According to legend, feng shui experts once said that the address of Yanzhou stage was Tigerheart, which was too strong and unsafe, so a stage was built to suppress it. The stage is a semi-brick and semi-civil structure, and the inner wall of the stage is painted with exquisite patterns, mainly the Eight Immortals, which means good luck.

The stage has gone through many vicissitudes and suffered greatly. It was bombed as early as the Anti-Japanese War, and 1947 was repaired. After liberation, it was demolished in the activities of breaking the four old buildings, and 1958 was restored. Later it was damaged in many ways. It was not until 1984 that the stage was restored with the intentional support of Li Lunhao and Yang Xing. It has been repaired twice since then.

In 20 14, with the support and efforts of the current party Committee and government, Yanzhou stage has been truly restored and expanded, and now it has become a cultural symbol of Yanzhou.