Hui Hall of Zhaili Guan Di Temple

　　Hui Hall of Zhaili Guan Di Temple (Sixth Batch National Cultural Heritage Protection Unit)

　　Era: Yuan Dynasty

　　Address: Zhaili Village, Hongzhiyi Town, Yanhu District

　　The construction date of the Guan Di Temple is unknown, and only the Hui Hall from the Yuan Dynasty remains today. The main hall faces south and has a width of five bays and a depth of four rafters. It features a single-eave suspended gable roof without column capitals. The front eaves use thick round wooden beams spanning the entire width, with bracket sets (dougong) on the beams—1 set in the form of a four-tiered single downward cantilever. The roof structure follows the “exposed rafter ends” construction method, with camel humps supporting the horizontal beam, upon which ridge-supporting pillars and forked hands are erected. The four-rafter beams and associated components are from the same period as the main hall, featuring four-rafter beams supported by cantilevered bracket arms.　　Guan Yu (162–220)　　Guan Yu (162?–220), of Han ethnicity, was born during the Yanxi era of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. His courtesy name was Yunchang, originally Changsheng. He was a native of Jieliang, Hedong (present-day Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province). He was a renowned general of the Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, serving as General of the Vanguard, Marquis of Hanshou Ting, and a military strategist. After his death, he was venerated by the people and honored by successive dynasties, eventually being worshipped as Guan Sheng Di Jun (Lord Guan the Holy Emperor). In Buddhism, he is known as Sangharama Bodhisattva, and respectfully called “Guan Gong.” Later rulers revered him as the “Military Sage,” equal in status to Confucius, the “Literary Sage.” Following Liu Bei Guan Yu’s original courtesy name was Changsheng, later changed to Yunchang. In his early years, after being involved in some trouble, he fled his hometown to Zhuojun in Youzhou (present-day Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province). In the first year of the Zhongping era...   More+

The Hui Hall of Zhaili Guan Di Temple is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.