Eastern Han Dynasty's Yinzi Shrine

　　 The origins of the Yinzi Shrine have deep historical roots. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scholar Yin Zhen established a school in Nanchuan to teach students, making great contributions to later generations. In the fifth year of the Guangxu reign during the Qing Dynasty, then-county magistrate Huang Jifei and scholar Xu Dachang built the Yinzi Shrine in honor of Yin Zhen’s legacy. Since then, literati and scholars visiting Nanchuan often composed poetry and prose in tribute to Master Yin, making the site widely known and establishing Nanchuan as one of the cradles of culture in eastern Sichuan. The Yinzi Shrine is also one of only three ancient academies still existing in Chongqing today.

　　 The wooden structure, large roofing features, intricately carved beams and painted rafters, as well as the architectural aesthetics of harmony between man and nature that align with the surrounding landscape and water features of the Yinzi Shrine, are of high aesthetic value. In 1984, it was listed as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. On May 13, 2005, Wu Tao, Secretary-General of the Historic and Cultural Cities Protection Committee of Chongqing and a senior engineer, along with his team, visited the Yinzi Shrine to assess its current condition. Secretary-General Wu believed that the Yinzi Shrine holds high historical, cultural, environmental, and architectural value, and fully deserves to be elevated to a municipal-level protected heritage site in Chongqing.

　　Opening hours of the Eastern Han Dynasty's Yinzi Shrine: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM.

　　Yin Zhen (79~162)　　"Scholarship first began in the southern regions with Yin Zhen." This refers to the eminent scholar Yin Zhen, who during the Eastern Han Dynasty traveled a thousand li on foot to study under Xu Shen and Ying Feng from Ruyang, learning classics, divination charts, and other teachings. After completing his studies, he returned to his hometown to teach and was regarded as a distinguished figure of the southern lands. To commemorate the native son Yin Zhen, an "Archway of Yin Zhen’s Hometown" was once built in old Fuyuan. Yin Zhen, courtesy name Daozhi, was a native of Pingyi County (now Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province). His birth and death dates are unknown. He is honored as the one “who brought knowledge to the southern lands.” In ancient times, the South Book Hall (later called the South Academy) was built where the current county library stands. On the top of Weipo, near the east gate street of the county seat, there once stood a wooden archway about seven meters tall, flanked by towers, with a street over 30 meters wide running through the middle, featuring a wooden horizontal plaque mounted above... Details+