65438+February 65438+March 2020, the renovation project of Shangdang Changchun Huang Yu Temple, which lasted about two years, was successfully completed recently, and the maintenance personnel accidentally discovered that there was an underground palace in the temple. The underground palace is a dome, and several bricks inside are engraved with inscriptions.
He Dalong, a research librarian at the Shanxi Institute for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and Painted Plastic Murals, said that in the next step, they will cooperate with xi Jiaotong University to carry out research on the belief and sacrifice of the Jade Emperor in southeastern Shanxi, taking the underground palace and stone tablets as clues.
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The function of underground palace
In ancient China, the house built for the use of the deceased in the underworld was a typical combination of stone carving and stone structure, which was an important part of the mausoleum building and also the place where the coffin of the deceased was placed. Usually found in the tombs of emperors or nobles. Another kind of underground palace exists in the towers built in ancient temples, and generally stores some relics and utensils of eminent monks.
The latter is a cellar built under the tower foundation for burying "relics" (the remains of Buddhist monks after cremation). The early Tasheli was placed in the tower and gradually buried under it in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At first, the treasure letter with relics was buried directly underground, and later it gradually developed into a treasure letter buried in the underground palace.
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