Introduce
The old monarch of Western Hills belonged to the Taoist temple in the temple, it was Laotse Li s ear that officiated at funeral or sacrificial rites. She lies in the west mountain path of Urumchi, next to the evil spirit mountain in the south, lean against and ride a horse on the mountain, dark Kui expressway passed through from east to west in front of the mountain door. Established in 1767 (the 32nd year of Qianlong) ,It is an important site of ancient culture remains in Urumchi, history (actually 240 years) of nearly 300 years so far .
Listed in the municipality protected historic site of Urumchi in 2003. Old monarch s temple is the largest Taoism building in history in Xinjiang, it is crystallization that the national culture of Chinese merged with local national culture too, it was the stone structure of soil at that time, covered an area of 88 square meters, sat in the north to the south, there are audience halls, back halls, both sides have wing-room, have seven statue in the audience hall, centre, for Laotse, both sides have the intersection of medicine and king, Wang, the intersection of fire and supernatural grandfather, civil and military the God of Wealth Ma, it is said burning incense curl up that year, very lively, until 1951, the Taoist priest in the temple left successively, old monarch s temple falls into disuse gradually too. It is scale much older to be of today the intersection of Western Hills and old the intersection of monarch and temple than at the history, present old the intersection of you and floor space 20640 m2 of the temple, floor area 6804m2, totally designs the overall arrangement according to in fact the central axes of architectural style and traditional Taoism of Qing Dynasty, Middle Road has memorial archway, mountain door, efficacious officer s hall, jade emperor s hall, old monarch s hall from south to north, the east have bell tower, the intersection of merciful ferry and hall, the intersection of medicine and Wang hall side hall in a palace or temple, the west have drum-tower, the intersection of Wenchang and hall, the intersection of the God of Wealth and the intersection of hall and side hall in a palace or temple.
Temple spread one old legend about old monarch, because the intersection of mother and two dragons of empress Wang offend against laws of heaven according to legend, throw into the mortal world, wander here to stir up trouble, do so that the people have no means of livelihood, cries of discontent rise all round, Laotse knows that subdues two dragons under the evil spirit mountain after this, the evil spirit presents the black clouds on the mountain till now, the dark market will inevitablely rain heavily, there is a word like this: whether cloud take the intersection of evil spirit and mountain, groundwater waft ship ,Common people, in order to thank Laotse, has built old monarch s temple here, the one that hoped Laotse protected the propitious and common people of this stretch of land is safe, but according to the records of historical data: Old monarch s temple is discipline dawn the haze builds while banishing North SinKiang, the dawn haze of the discipline is when here, dream Laotse appears in one s dream and makes a request for him, helps him to dissolve the frustration in life, and give him a safe embroidered purse, it is gentle that there is such signing in the embroidered purse: Join the army temples want spot in the Wan, return, it replies to be always upper the intersection of covering and mountain. These two sentences are exactly the true portrayal in latter half of one s life of the haze dawn of disciplines too, so from ancient times to the present, old the intersection of monarch and temple keep ask for the intersection of embroidered purse and custom this, local the intersection of common people and child of house will come old monarch ask for one embroidered purse for child by temple at full one hundred days, smooth, safe in all one s life him.