Kuixing Building, the ancient town of Yangmei with a long history, embodies the historical and cultural characteristics of Nanning and is a well-preserved cultural heritage collection in Nanning. 1996 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Nanning. This Taoist temple building with historical, artistic and scientific values is magnificent, simple and elegant, both ancient and modern, and fascinating. Lou Kuixing is the most important ancient town.
Kuixing Building was built in the first year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1736) and rebuilt in the twentieth year of Daoguang (A.D. 1840), with a history of 300 years. The building is located in the northeast of Yangmei Ancient Town, in Yangmei Primary School. Under the shade of a century-old magnolia tree and the rich orchid fragrance, Kuixing Tower stands tall and attracts attention.
Kuixing Building is an attic structure, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, blue bricks and tiles and red eaves. The whole building is square, quite like a jade seal, so it is called "Emperor Seal". The eaves are yellow glazed tiles, cast in bronze with golden roofs, cornices and horns, and carved with flowers and animals. The eaves, roofs and high walls are decorated with antique and exquisite patterns and murals. There is an inlaid dragon spine at the top and a fiery red golden ball fishtail dragon embedded in the back, which is simple and vivid. Kuixing Building is15.3m high, three rooms are about10m wide and four rooms are about10m deep. It is equipped with a corridor and a bucket-type wooden frame, which is divided into two floors and an attic. The four pillars in the building are connected to the second floor and run through the attic. On the third floor, on the top of the window of a small garden with a diameter of one meter, a gold-plated plaque engraved with the words "Kuixing Building" is very eye-catching. There is a couplet in the building that says "ferocious faces are facing the wind and rain, and tall and straight figures are standing in the sky", which reflects people's desire and awe for the gods of Kuixing Building.
There was originally a statue of Guan Di on the first floor of Kuixing Building, which was called "The Demon of Three Realms is far away from Megatronus Guan Sheng Di Jun". Guan Yunchang is portrayed as a hero in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is familiar to tourists. The second floor is dedicated to "Fuyuan Hua Kai Wenchang Lu Si Hongren Emperor", which is the statue of Wenchang Emperor. Wenchang, also known as Wenquxing, was originally the general name of the six stars of ancient Doukui, and was later regarded as the patron saint of emperors and princes by Taoism. Immortals occupy a high position in the Taoist immortal system. In The Mirror of Immortals in Past Dynasties, it is said that he is "the immortal of the Lord for thirty-three days, and the life between master and apprentice is good and bad, and being a teacher is the reincarnation of eighteen layers of hell". The third layer is the Taoist and Han folk gods Kuixing who are in charge of the fate of literati. Kuixing was originally the common name of Kuixing, one of the 28 places in ancient astronomy. Its name was Su Kui. Taoism respects it as the god who dominates the rise and fall of articles. In the Han Dynasty, the theory of "filial piety to Jing Wei" was a "Que Ba Wen", and later generations built Que Xing Pavilion to worship it. Gu's "Mother Knows Osmium": "The gods can't be like osmium, but change osmium into osmium. You can't take a zigzag like Wei Xiao and make a ghost fight. " So the head of Kuixing statue is like a ghost, with one foot tilted backwards, like Zi Kui's hook, a bucket in one hand and a pen in the other. According to legend, the one with a pen is the winner, which is said to be the "best". Because people deified Kuixing, Kuixing became a sacred political party in the imperial examination era, which made the dignified and arrogant state officials, county officials, extraordinary literati, and even ordinary people who worked at sunrise and died at sunset pay homage to it.
Anecdotes about famous buildings have existed since ancient times.
The ancestors of Yangmei ancient town attached importance to teaching and literature, and the economy was relatively developed, so they raised funds to build Kuixing Building. Because the third day of February is the birthday of Emperor Wenchang, the "Wenchang Club" is held every year on his birthday, which is very popular. Maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's influenced by the atmosphere. In the Ming and Qing imperial examinations in Guzhen, there were 6 Jinshi, 12 juren and more than 30 tribute students, which were rare even in the culturally developed Central Plains.
There are many anecdotes about celebrities related to the legend of Kuixinglou.
Liang Dexian, a native of Gonghe Street in Yangmei, was born in the 27th year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1847). He was studious and talented since childhood. Tongzhi five years in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1866), won the first place in the provincial capital after the provincial examination and became Xie Yuan. I should have gone to Beijing to take the exam, but I missed the opportunity because I couldn't go because of my family relationship. Three years later, in the second rural examination, Liang Dexian was full of ideas and won the first place again. Because both of them are original and unique, they are called "the first solution of Guangxi in Qing Dynasty".
When Liang Dexian, who won the title of Xie Yuan, went to the Kuixing Building to pray, he deeply felt that Wen Yunchang and Zhong Sheng were expected to embark on their official career as long as they studied hard. Full of excitement, he wrote the word "civilization" on the top of the statue of Kuixing Building, encouraging rural children to cultivate themselves and be sensible. He boarded the pavilion and looked at it from a distance. He improvised a poem "Govin boarded the pavilion and looked at Xia Zi", so people in the ancient town took "Wang Gexia Zi" as one of the eight scenic spots to celebrate the beautiful scenery.
On the eve of the Revolution of 1911, Huang Xing, Wang Heshun and Mingtang Huang, close followers of Sun Yat-sen and leaders of Guangxi Huimin Party, one of the Kuomintang elders, held a meeting in Kuixing Building under the cover of sightseeing, and deployed the Zhennanguan Uprising and the revolutionary armed struggle to overthrow the Qing Dynasty in various parts of southern Guangxi. Kuixing Building has now become the base of revolutionary traditional education.