The Longmafutu Temple (The Map-Carrying Dragon-Horse Temple)

The Longmafutu Temple (The Map-Carrying Dragon-Horse Temple)

Name:The Longmafutu Temple (The Map-Carrying Dragon-Horse Temple) Class:AAA Area:Luoyang Tel:Tel:0086-371-65907709 0086-400-666-0166 Email：henantour@gmail.com Skype：karenzheng2004   Located in the Leihe Village of the Huimeng Township in the Mengjin County, the Longmafutu Temple is renowned not only as the holy place for the Chinese to offer sacrifice to Fuxi, an ancestor of the Chinese civilization, but also as the spot of the discovery of “Hetu”, the divine map in the Huanghe-Luohe Culture. The Temple derived its name from the legend that a dragon-horse had once carried on its back a divine map from under the Menghe River. With a history of over 1,600 years, it has now become a tourist resort where the Huanghe-Luohe Culture originated, as well as the cradle for the study on the Book of Changes. Adjacent to the Yellow River on the north and Mangshan Hill on the south, facing the Han Mausoleum in the west and Kouma in the east, the Temple is indeed a hot tourist spot for the Chinese to commemorate their ancestors and admire the long and rich culture of China. On the wall of the corridor of tablets of the Futu Temple is inscribed the whole passage of The Book of Changes checked and punctuated by Prof. Liu Dajun, which is a spectacle. On one of the sidewalls of the Emperor Fuxi Hall are more than twenty tablets of poems, and poetic essays of great Confucian philosophers such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi as well as top Chinese calligraphers such as Shao Kangjie, Wang Duo and Zhang Han. These inscriptions are of much value in the study of The Book of Changes and Chinese traditional calligraphy. The most valuable possessions of the Temple are the stone sculptures and inscriptions. With a primitive air of ancient pureness and everlasting vigor, many of them are top artworks rarely found in China. Outside the mountain gate there stand some stone lions, which are mighty and lively. Inside the gate is a statue of a dragon-horse (a divine animal with a dragon’s head and a horse’s body), galloping on the waves of the river. In front of the Palace of Emperor Fuxi, there stands a large-scale bluestone embossment, with the Eight Diagram in the center, the cloud-covered sky on the top, the sea at the bottom, and flying dragons and phoenixes on the left and right. Exquisitely carved, they are valuable art treasures. The thirty-six signs and the Eight Diagrams platform in the temple have always been regarded as the symbol of mysterious connotations about the universe, as one of the achievements of ancient Chinese. At present, the flourishing temple is attracting numerous Chinese all over the world to seek their roots or to pilgrimage here. Reputed as the source of the Chinese culture, the Temple in memory of the Chinese ancestor is expecting more and more admirers to come to visit it. Tel: 0379-7833887 Henan Feng International Travel Agency: 0371-65963326 Add: Leihe Village, Huimeng Township, Mengjin County, Luoyang City Traffic: Take the regular bus from Luoyang Bus Station to Huimeng Town; or to take bus No. 85 in Luoyang City to Leihe Station Ticket: RMB 10 yuan