During the Taihe period of Jin Dynasty (1201-1208), a captain from Wu Dun returned to Udasa, the wine supervisor of Yingcheng Town, Gushu County, Defu, to rebuild three halls and temples respectively, and to sculpt Mulan statues. In the second year of Yuan Dynasty (1334), Governor Liang of Suiyang proposed to raise 2500 yuan for reconstruction and expansion.
In the 11th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1806), the monks of this temple strengthened their branches and tried to raise funds to repair the temple and erect a monument again. By the1940s, Mulan Ancestral Hall occupied an area of 10000 square meters, with more than 20 buildings 120, 400 mu of temple land and more than 0 abbots 10. Inside and outside the temple wall, there are cypress trees and locust trees. On both sides of the gate aisle, there is a clay sculpture of a tall horse. There is a portrait of Mulan's boudoir in the main hall, a portrait of Mulan's army in the dedication hall and a portrait of Mulan's whole family in the back building. Inside and outside the temple, there are more than 60 pieces of incense tables, poems, paintings and calligraphy written by officials and celebrities. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (Mulan's birthday), the surrounding governments lead villagers to pay homage, and then fly into the ancient incense party for five consecutive days, receiving more than 65,438+10,000 guests every day.
In 32 years of the Republic of China (1943), Mulan ancestral hall was destroyed by war. There are two connections between the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
1992, the people's government of Yucheng county, Shangqiu city invested in the reconstruction of Mulan ancestral hall in order to protect the historical remains of 1000 years. Based on the principle of repairing the old as the old, the original historical features of Mulan Ancestral Hall have been basically restored. Mulan Ancestral Hall covers an area of 160 mu with a total investment of 50.5 million yuan. Invest 3.5 million yuan to build Mulan Temple, Mulan Cultural Square and Mulan Cemetery and open them to tourists.
From 65438 to 0999, Mulan Ancestral Hall was designated as the patriotic education base of Henan Province by the Propaganda Department of Henan Provincial Party Committee.
In 2000, the State Post Bureau held the launching ceremony of "Mulan Joining the Army" commemorative stamps here. There are 4 stamps of Mulan joining the army, namely "Mulan Textile", "Mulan Joining the Army", "Mulan Fighting" and "Mulan Returning to Home". Stamps are designed in the form of folk shadow play and paper-cutting, and the glorious image of Mulan, an ancient heroine, is artistically reproduced with the whole thread-bound book sample of Mulan Poetry as the background. It was designed by famous stamp designers Huang Li and Guo Tianhui.
200 1 Mulan Ancestral Hall was approved by Shangqiu Municipal People's Government as a key cultural relic protection unit in Shangqiu City.
In 2008, Mulan Ancestral Hall was listed as the fifth batch of key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province by the Henan Provincial People's Government.