Many scenes in the game, such as ancient temples, ancient towers, archways, grottoes, stone carvings, sculptures<a Most of them are based on real ancient Chinese buildings, which impressed countless players and was amazed. As Yang Qi, the head of the game's art, said: "The most immersive thing must be what exists in reality."
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Shanxi
Xiao Xitian: The ultimate “hanging sculpture art”
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, the scene of “Since you see the future, why don’t you worship me” is very shocking. This famous scene was taken in Xiaoxitian, Linfen County, Shanxi.
Xiaoxitian was originally named Qianfo Temple. The statue of the hanging sculpture (hanging sculpture: a color sculpture suspended on the wall) in the temple is a fine product among the color sculptures of the Ming Dynasty. Hanging sculpture requires craftsmen to possess extremely strong techniques, and very few works can be preserved. When it comes to hanging plastic across the country, the most shocking thing must be Shanxi.
The hanging sculpture in Xiaoxitian fully displays the four words “small, clever, exquisite, and strange”. The remaining many exquisite hanging sculptures are still complete and new after nearly four hundred years. They are called “the last sound of hanging sculpture art.”
The Xiaoxitian is divided into two courtyards: the upper and lower courtyards. The upper courtyard is the essence of the entire temple. The non-destructive hanging sculpture art in its Great Hall is the most outstanding part of the Xiaoxitian.
169.6 square metersBabaylanIn the square meter main hall, more than a thousand statues stand like mountains and ridges: looking at the layers of heavenly palaces, the strange grasses of mountains and rivers, and lifelike mythological figures, it is like a series of complex and gorgeous “comics”. Walking in it is like a visual feast, only the word “shock” can be described.
The reason why it can cause such a beautiful visual impact is because the left and right of the hanging plastic overlaps, and the upper body of the next statue tilts outward, blocking the top carving. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan‘s foot. The largest Buddha statue here is more than 3 meters high, and the small one can be placed in the palm. In the exquisite stack, Xiao Xitian showed the “extreme aesthetic” of the late Ming Dynasty to a full extent.
Come to Xixian, after having a feast for Xiao Xitian, you can also enjoy your taste.
Xixian is the origin of Yulu Xiang pear. This pear is called the “king of Chinese pears”. It tastes crispy and the fresh and sweet pear juice explodes in your mouth, satisfying your perfect imagination of Xiang pears. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the picking period of Yulu Xiang pears, so don’t miss it.
The peerless beauty of Feihong Pagoda
After seeing the little west sky, you might as well go to Hongdong, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and see the Feihong Pagoda of Guangsheng Temple, which is still full of 500 years. As long as you take a look, you will definitely be shocked by its beauty!
Guangsheng Temple is located in Hongdong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. The Feihong Pagoda in the temple is the largest and most complete glass pagoda with craftsmen’s inscription among the five Buddha relic pagodas. Because its tower body is colorful like a rainbow after rain, it is named Feihong Pagoda. The 86 version of Journey to the West “Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Injustice” is taken from here.
The tower body is decorated with yellow, green, blue and purple glass. The first, second and third layers are the most exquisite. Each layer imitates the wooden foil to support the eaves cleverly; the number under the eaves isKomiksThe unclear components and patterns of Bodhisattvas, Vajras, flowers, dragons, birds and beasts are all exquisitely made, exquisitely made, and beautifully painted. Especially under the sunlight, the colors are still as new as ever.
Looking at the whole, looking at the part, looking from a distance, looking close, they are all exquisite and peerless. I can’t help but admire the wisdom and artistic talent of the ancients!
Yuhuang Temple: The Peak Achievement of Sculpture Art
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, some characters’ IPs, Kang Jinlong, Lou Jingou, etc. are inspired by the 28 starry sculptures in the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi. TempleIt is known for more than 300 complete sculptures, covering many mythical figures, especially the Twenty-Eight Star Constellations Colorful Sculptures. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of ancient Taoist sculpture art in my country and is the best of the existing Taoist colorful figures.
The Yuhuang Temple is near Jincheng East Station in Shanxi Province (there is no ticket required at present, and you need to make an appointment in advance). Each of the colorful sculptures in the temple is a combination of a portrait and an animal incarnation, with exquisite conception, such as the star lords of “water” are all female images, and the star lords of “fire” are all Samurai images. Each star king may be gentle and elegant according to the personality he is given, either kind-hearted, strong, powerful, or dignified, and elegant. Babaylan may be gentle and elegant, and vivid.
The height of the statue is about 1.8 meters, and every wrinkle and every fold are clearly visible; the eyes and smile that have been frozen for thousands of years seem to be revealed from the image.
It is hard to imagine that these moments of dynamics have been so exquisitely shaped by the ancients more than 700 years ago!
The Guandi Temple in Fucheng, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Jade Emperor Temple, is also worth a visit. The visit lasts about an hour (no tickets and reservations are required at present). Especially the eight dragon pillars inside, there are wood carvings above and the theme is also dragons, but compared to the dragons with stone pillars, the wood carving version of dragons looks much cute and playful.
Iron Buddha Temple: A treasure in ordinary courtyards
Many players have discovered elements of the twenty-four heavenly statues of the Iron Buddha Temple in the characters in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Iron Buddha Temple is also in Jincheng, located in Gaoping City, Jincheng City. It is very convenient to come from other places to Gaoping East Station.
According to Yang Qi, the art director of “Black Myth: Wukong”, “When I was in college, I saw a picture album of the Cinema statues in Iron Buddha Temple. At that time, I was shocked by the exquisite carving craftsmanship and special style of the Ming Dynasty statues and the exquisite carving of the twenty-four heavens. “After visiting Gaoping here, because the indoor environment was too narrow, the team decided to give up real-life scanning after a long time of evaluation and decided to restore it by hand.
Iron Buddha Temple is in an inconspicuous courtyard in Gaoping, Jincheng. It was named after the iron Buddha was cast in the temple in ancient times. Iron Buddha Temple was founded in the Jin Dynasty and the existing buildings are relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Tiefo Temple was not open to the public before, but is currently limited, which is a very valuable opportunity! No tickets are charged, and the opening hours are from 9:00 to 17:30 every Tuesday to Sunday (non-holiday weeks) (non-holiday weeks).Once rest).
The famous Iron Buddha Temple is the twenty-four heavenly clay statues surrounding the Buddhist temple. The shape is unique and the skills are superb. It can be said to be unique in the entire clay statues and is rare in the world.
Some of these statues have prominent eyes, some have their hair upside down, some have toes grip the ground, and some have armor to protect them. Their shapes are vivid and unique, with different shapes and lifelike, subverting the traditional statues’ pursuit of beautiful details, silently but shocking the soul.
The ultimate pursuit of clothing details by ancient sculpture craftsmen is amazing: every floral pattern stacked on the head, every scale on the armor, every detail on the decoration, even if it is interspersed with each other, and overlapping each other, must be presented one by one.
As Yang Qi said, compared with the feeling of seeing the real scene, the restore rate seen in “Black Myth: Wukong” is only 30%. Only by being in the scene can you feel the shocking power of these statues spanning a hundred years.
In Jincheng, you can also experience the national intangible cultural heritage – go to Situ Town to see the iron flower. The iron trees and silver flowers fall, and thousands of stars bloom. Seeing the colorful rain of iron flowers fall in the sky, you can truly experience the Chinese waves.
As the same as Jincheng belong to Changzhi, the Guanyin Hall there, is comparable to the master of the hanging sculpture art of Xiaoxitian, Xixian County.
The main hall of Guanyin Hall was a remains of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, and the rest were buildings of the Qing Dynasty. The hall is three wideThere are single-eaved mountains and a rolled roof for the front eaves to embrace the building and offer pavilion. Among this series of not-magnificent buildings, there is another great masterpiece of hanging plastic art.
Walking into the main hall, in the space of only 60 square meters, more than 500 statues of large and small sizes are covered with various expressions and lifelike, with amazing scale and density.
If Xiao Xitian is the “masterpiece of hanging plastic art”, then Guanyin Hall is undoubtedly the “dazzling pearl of hanging plastic art”.
In southeast of Shanxi, such an immersive time travel experience can be said to be everywhere – this is one of the most densely preserved ancient buildings in Shanxi and the shelter of many top color sculptures in our country.
From the Tang Dynasty color sculptures of Qinglian Temple (the remaining two are Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple), which are only one of the three remaining places in the country, to the Chongqing Temple color sculptures known as the “Crown of Song Dynasty Sculptures”, to the most well-preserved Song Dynasty murals in Gaoping Kaihua Temple… It is no exaggeration to say that the southeast of Jin is a natural treasure house for sealing these ancient art masterpieces.
Foguang Temple: The “king” of ancient buildings
Careful players have discovered that in “Black Myth: WukongKomiks“, there are several prototypes of scenes from Wutai Mountain, Xinzhou, Shanxi.
Wutai Mountain is not a mountain. It is surrounded by five peaks with flat roofs, so it is called “Wutai Mountain”. In temples of all sizes, you can always feel the history and culture of Mount Wutai. Walking through it, it seems like time goes back, and the feeling of returning to nature is born.
There are many temples, and the temples are lined up one by one, with holy scenery and holy sites gathered in one place. Among them, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Shuxiang Temple, Luo Temple and Bodhisattva Ting are called the five major meditation places of Mount Wutai. The temple outside the Taiwan Strait is the most famous of Nan Zen Temple and Foguang Temple.
The lotus pattern sutra pagoda that flashes by in the Black Myth: Wukong is a sutra pagoda at the entrance of the Foguang Temple Hall in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. (The sutra pagoda is a stone pillar used in Buddhism to carve Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues or Buddha names, and is usually standing next to a temple or pagoda.)
The East Hall, built in the 11th year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty (857 AD), is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The hall is a huge and large, with a gentle roof slope and wide eaves wings, all of which are huge and heroic” is Liang Sicheng’s description of the magnificent East Hall of Foguang Temple.
The beam structure of the East Hall is complex and exquisite, and the structure of the Douyin is rigorous and orderly. It is understood that the cross-sectional dimensions of the Douyin section are ten times that of the Douyin section of the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the hall are protruding 3.96 meters, which cannot be found in wooden structures after the Song Dynasty.
In addition to the huge wooden hall itself, the sutra pagoda in the courtyard is also very important. It directly confirms the construction of the east hall of Foguang Temple. Lin Huiyin’s photo of Foguang Temple’s sutra pagoda has also become the entrance for all people who go to Foguang Temple to travel through time and history.
It stands quietly there,After thousands of years of storms, it is still majestic and spectacular, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
The discovery of the East Hall broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that “there were no wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty and its previous ones on the land of China”, proving that the Tang Dynasty wooden structures still existed in real objects on the land of China.
Therefore, the East Hall is known as the “king of ancient Chinese architecture.” It is not only an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese architecture, but also a shining pearl in world cultural heritage.
Nanshan Temple: A mysterious treasure house of stone sculptures
In the game promotional film of “Black Myth: Wukong”, a row of stone sculptures slowly pass by. The scene originated from the prototype of the stone sculpture in Nanshan Temple in Wutai Mountain.
Nanshan Temple is one of the more long-standing temples in the Wutai Mountain Temple complex. It is a collective name for three adjacent temples, Jile Temple, Shande Hall and Youguo Temple. It is built on the mountain and has a layered layout. It has been built with the mountains and has been built into seven courtyards.
The Jile Temple located on the lower three floors is solemn and simple; the Shande Hall is exquisite and elegant in the middle, one layer is higher than the other, showing a unique sense of layering; the Youguo Temple on the upper three floors is a sea of stone sculptures, and the exquisite carvings are breathtaking.
Nanshan Temple has always been famous for its rich preservation of stone sculpture artworksCinema. Almost all the main buildings in the temple are decorated with exquisite stone sculptures, rich in content, huge in number and exquisite carvings. The stone sculptures here are unique to Mount Wutai.
The stone sculptures in Mount Wutai not only have high artistic value, but also the crystallization of the wisdom and skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen, and are worth exploring.
Chongfu Temple: The Treasure House of Culture and Art of the Jin Dynasty
In the original painting of “Black Myth: Wukong”, this scene is taken from Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.
The Amitabha Temple of Chongfu Temple is one of the most complete and perfect Jin Dynasty buildings in China. It is seven-bedrooms wide, with four or eight rafters deep, with a single-eaved hip-roof top. The platform in front of the hall is spacious and wide with five rooms. This giant Jin Dynasty sword located on a 2.5-meter-high platform is extremely shocking.
In addition to the architectural structure itself, it is also worth seeing its “five wonders”:
Yiju GlazingKomiks. The ridge beast and the chubby kiss are both original objects of the Jin Dynasty. The 1.5-meter-high Glazed Lissus looks very miniature against the background of the Babaylan Hall, almost rushing away, vividly admiring the ancient city.The buildings have been together for nearly a thousand years.
The second plaque. The plaque “Amitabha Hall” written in the 24th year of Dading in the Jin Shizong (1184 AD) is the largest piece of the same era.
Three-best window lattice. It is rare to have ancient buildings that retain the original objects of the Jin Dynasty, with as many as fifteen patterns: round, prism, four petals, six petals, etc. If you enlarge it and look carefully, the heads of each bouquet are still different, and you can feel the unique craftsmanship of thousands of years ago.
Four-god color sculptures. The three Western saints worshipped are all statues of the Jin Dynasty, and the backlight screen of the main Buddha Amitabha Buddha is as high as 14 meters. You can imagine how shocking the scene will be when the light passes through.
Five cliff murals. The four walls of the hall are murals of the Jin Dynasty, with delicate carvings and complex outfits, and adopting powder and gold-plated techniques, which have a more three-dimensional sense.
This hall, whether it is a wooden knot, construction technology, or the art of Buddha statues and murals, is the pinnacle of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art. It will feast everyone here. It is definitely an unparalleled visual feast.
Yingxian Wooden Tower: Standing for nearly a thousand years without falling
The Yingxian Wooden Tower, located in Shuozhou, is one of the must-see attractions in Shanxi. This wooden tower was built in the Liao Dynasty and has a high tower67.31 meters, with a diameter of 30.27 meters. It has been 962 years since then. It is the largest and oldest pure wood structure pavilion-style building in the world.
The body of the Yingxian wooden tower is built of wood, without a single iron nail, and it all relies on components to mortise and tenon each other. There are as many as 62 types of mortise and tenon forms used in wooden towers, so they are called “the crown of mortise and tenon” by later generations; there are 54 types of mortise and are also called “the museum of mortise and tenon” by architect Liang Sicheng. They are architectural masterpieces that perfectly combine science and art.
There are many wooden tower plaques. The third floor of the “Sakya Tower” plaque is a relic of the Jin Dynasty, which is the oldest plaque in the entire tower; the fifth floor of the “Junji Shengong” was written by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty’s Chengzu.
The Yingxian wooden tower has not fallen for thousands of years because the craftsmen have left many mechanisms. The 10-meter-high metal tower brake on the top is connected to 8 iron chains to form a metal defense net to prevent lightning from entering the tower body. It took the craftsmen who built the tower 140 years to build this tallest “building block” in ancient times, with a height of more than 20 stories today!
The wooden tower has withstood several earthquakes, but has remained unmoved after thousands of years of vicissitudes, which is extremely shocking. Now the whole is slightly tilted, but at this moment, it still stands, just as the plaque says: Neutral, never relies on Jincheng.
Hanging Temple: Relief inlaid in the mountains
In the promotional video released by the official account of “Black Myth: Wukong”, the buildings appearing in the picture are all hanging on cliffs supported by wooden columns, and are shot in Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi.
Hunkong Temple is located in Hunyuan County, Datong City. It is on the cliff of Jinlong Gorge in Hengshan. It is named after the entire temple is like hanging on a cliff. It is a rare high-altitude building in my country.
Looking from afar, Hanging Temple is like a clever cliff relief, forming a unique style of half-wall building and half-wall cave.
The Hanging Temple is a wooden structure building. Relying on the principles of mechanics, it cleverly uses half-insert flying beams as the basis. With the support of the rock, the beams and columns are integrated up and down, and the corridors are connected left and right, forming a stable wooden frame structure, enhancing the seismic resistance.
This ingenious architectural technique has made the Hanging Temple stand firm after thousands of years of wind and rain!
There is another wonder in Hanging Temple: the supporting wooden pillars under the beams are long and short, some are focused, some are useless, and even can sway. These wooden pillars are not empty, and are generally not difficult; but once there are too many people and the load increases, the empty pillar will stand up and play a role in a pillar bearing a thousand pounds, making Hanging Temple a special building that looks like virtual but solid, dangerous and safe, steep and dangerous.
Imagine how ancient craftsmen allowed temples to coexist harmoniously with natural landscapes under such geographical conditions. This is a double miracle of architectural mechanics and aesthetics!
Down from the Hanging Temple, be sure to try the local jelly.
Hunyuan jelly is not only famous in the local area, but also can be ranked among the best in the country. The mellow vinegar aroma, fresh chili peppers, and smooth jelly are a delicacy that makes people fall in love with.
Yungang Grottoes: A Smile that Spreads Thousand Years
When I came to Datong, I have to mention Yungang Grottoes. It is known as the four major grotto art treasure houses in China, and is also a world cultural heritage site.
Yungang Grottoes are one of the rare grotto groups in China that were excavated in just one dynasty. Some people say, “Yungang Grottoes are a Northern Wei historical book engraved on stones, a road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.”
Yungang StoneBabaylanThere are 254 caves of all sizes, including 45 main caves, and each cave has its own story.
The most famous Yungang Grottoes is the “Tanyao Five Caves” (caves 16th to 20th), among which Cave 20th is also called the “Open-East Buddha” and is a symbol of Yungang stone carvings.
Zhejiang
“Taoyuan in the Cloud” Jingning Dahan
The official account of “Black Myth: Wukong” was released in the game interlude video in 2022. The Lanfang where the old spider spirit, the mother and daughter of the spider spirit lived, was discovered by netizens to be the main hall of Shisi Temple in Dahan, Lishui, Zhejiang. Since then, Shisi Temple has appeared many times in the trailer video.
The entire ancient village of Dalian in the Yunzhong is located on a mountain above 1,000 meters above sea level. It is about an hour’s drive from Jingning County. The mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist. You can drive in the area, as if you are through the clouds and fog between the sky. The locals call the waterfall “现”, and there is a large waterfall “现”. The name is “Da Han in the Clouds”, just like its name.
Shisi Temple seems to be the gate of time and space hidden in the deep mountains. It is an ancient Song Dynasty temple surrounded by mountains and surrounded by green.
The ancient juniper lies across the door, the courtyard is towering in ancient trees, and the green moss is deep. Time seems to have stopped at this moment.
A delicate and scattered courtyard, the simple and solemn Daxiong Temple, the Horse Fairy Palace with Taoist bones and fairy wind, the Heart Sutra Bell Tower with floating clouds, and the Mei Clan Ancestral Hall carrying filial piety. Each brick, tile, tenon and pillar all contain the charm of ancient buildings.
Although the Daxiong Temple does not have Buddha statues, the four-character plaque “Mahara Hall” can make people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The main hall is not decorated and painted in color. It is plain and faces facing the sky, with only brown and white colors. The delicate wood grain seems to be able to see the traces of the flow of time. The main hall is a double-eaved hip-mounted top with three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The dove is simple and atmospheric, with slightly raised wings and stretched out eaves. It is an isolated example of the existing wooden ancient buildings in China.
The unique aura of Shisi Temple satisfies all the fantasies about the ancient temple, and it can’t help but make people feel a wonderful sense of fate, which also seems particularly mysterious in the scene of “Black Myth: Wukong”.
At the water mouth at the southern end of Dahan Village, there is a typical water mouth bridge called “Huguan Bridge”. HuguanCinema means “Guardian Pass”. The bridge spans Muhe River from east to east, connecting the village with smoke from cooking to curling cooking fires on one end, and the temple with evening drums and morning bells on the other end.
Sichuan
An Yue Stone Carving: A Performance Art of Time
An Yue appeared in the Spider Spirit Sister Promotional Film in “Black Myth: Wukong”.Stone carvings, many exquisite Buddha statues stand, mysterious and distant.
East of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, two hours drive from Chengdu is Anyue County. Over the past thousands of years, skilled craftsmen have left these statues in Anyue, making Anyue the most densely populated area in Sichuan Province.
Many people want to see Anyue stone carvings, but they are attracted by the severely weathered Buddhist niche. Because of the thousand-year-old wind, the traces of wind are left on the stone carvings. The traces of thousands of years have formed the shape of wind. Standing in front of this Buddha statue, the beauty created by time will shock the heart.
The reclining Buddha carved by Anyue stone is the largest reclining Buddha on the left of the Tang Dynasty in China. The total length is 21.3 meters and is chiseled on a cliff about 20 meters high.
In the reclining Buddha courtyard, more than 400,000 words of stone-carved Buddhist scriptures were also found. They are now well preserved, with more than 100,000 words clearly visible in the font. The engraving and calligraphy are recognized as the world’s best.
The Water Moon Guanyin statue in Vilu Cave is one of the most popular statues in the entire Anyue stone carving, and it has its own beauty from any angle.
The group of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is wonderful. It is on a hillside. Because the temple’s door faces west, when dusk comes, the sunset shines on it, as if it is naturally covered with gold.
Most of the statues in Anyue stone carvings have gradually become weathered. While you feel sorry, you might as well go see it earlier.
Many people call Anyue County a little “sour” small town, because it is rich in lemons and enjoys the reputation of “Chinese lemons look at Sichuan, Sichuan lemons look at Anyue”.
Baosen Lemon Tourism Zone is the largest lemon-themed scenic spot in the country. It seems that when you walk into the kingdom of lemons, the fresh fragrance comes to your face. Don’t forget to taste the sour and refreshing lemons, which instantly refresh your mind.
Chongqing
Dazu Stone Carvings: A Treasure of the Thousand Years of Tang Dynasty
In “Black Myth: Wukong”, many scenes restored Chongqing Dazu Stone Carvings, and too many statues were shocked. “Thousands of years of storm, art is unique in the world” refers to Dazu Stone Carvings.
The breathtaking statue of Thousand Hands Guanyin is carved on the 88-square-meter cliff surface, with a total of 1,007 hands engraved, which is as gorgeous as a peacock spreading its tail.
After 800 years of storms, the exquisite stone carvings have also been plagued by illness, and the statue has weathered and peeled off. Now, this Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue reappears, which is what people today have used eight years to go back to more than 800 years.
Walking through the mountains and forests, huge stone carvings emerged in front of you. It started in the Tang Dynasty, went through ten countries, and reached the Southern Song Dynasty, spanning thousands of years. It is still vivid today, as if you are talking to you.
Amid the green mountains, the 31-meter-long Dazu stone carving reclining Buddha, each stone carving is a whisper of ingenuity.
Every tourist who walked into the Dazu stone carvings will see several unfinished statues of the Ming King. Compared with the exquisite statue groups around, the lower part of these statues is uneven and full of marks, which makes people wonder why only half of them are made?
In fact, according to the inscription “Since Di Nanshan’s “He Guangzhen Farewell to the County Governor Wang Mengying” in Dazushishi’s stone carving “Di Nan” “Dazu had suffered from the wars of Song and Meng at that time. However, the dazzling monument they created has become a witness to history, and it is worth looking at this rare one”Semi-finished” historical relics.
This is the ancient Chinese architecture
It is not only a visual shock
It is also a concentrated display of Chinese aesthetics
Let us protect and inherit it together!