Many scenes in the game, such as ancient temples, ancient towers, archways, grottoes, stone carvings, sculptures, etc., are mostly 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.”
Follow the check-in notes to deeply explore the beautiful ancient buildings in China. Let’s set off!
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.
In the 169.6 square meters of 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 the 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 formed.
The reason why it can cause such a beautiful visual impact is that the upper body of the hanging sculpture overlaps with the left and right double layers, the upper body of the next statue tilts outward, blocking the foot of the top statue. The largest Buddha statue here is more than 3 meters high, and the small one can be placed in the palm. In the exquisite stacking, Xiao Xitian showed the “extreme aesthetic” of the late Ming Dynasty in full view.
When I came to Xixian, I could enjoy my taste after I had a feast for Xiao Xitian.
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 Tower
After watching the little west sky, you might as well go to the distance again
The peerless beauty of Feihong Tower
After watching the little west sky, you might as well go to the distance againBabaylanA hundred kilometers of Hongdong, looking at the Feihong Pagoda of Guangsheng Temple, which has been shining for five hundred years, will definitely be shocked by its beauty as long as you take a look!
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 86th edition of Journey to the West “Sweeping the Pagoda to Discover the Strange InjusticeKomiks” 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 fountain and supports the eaves ingeniously. The countless components and patterns such as Bodhisattvas, Vajras, flowers, dragons, birds and beasts under the eaves are all exquisite and exquisitely shaped, exquisitely made, and beautifully painted, especially under the sunlight. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema is 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 and Lou Jingou are inspired by the 28 star constellations of the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi. The temple is famous for more than 300 complete sculptures, covering many mythological figures, especially the 28KomiksStar color sculptures are the pinnacle of ancient Taoist sculpture art in my country. They are the best example of existing Taoist color sculptures.
The Jade Emperor Temple is near Jincheng East Station, Shanxi (there is no ticket required at present, and you need to make an appointment in advance). Each colored sculpture in the temple is a combination of a portrait and its animal incarnation, with exquisite ideas. For example, the star lord of “water” is a female image, and the star lord of “fire” is a warrior image. Each star lord is either kind-hearted, strong and powerful, dignified, 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 dynamic moments 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 or reservations are required at present). Especially the eight dragon pillars inside, all with wood carvings above, and the theme is also dragon, but compared to the dragon with stone pillars, the wood carving version of the dragon looks much cute and playful.
Iron Buddha Temple: A great treasure in ordinary courtyards
Many players are in “Black Myth: Wukong”The elements of the twenty-four heavenly statues of the Iron Buddha Temple were found on his body. 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 statues of the Iron Buddha Temple. At that time, I was shocked by the exquisite carving craftsmanship and special style of the statues of the Ming Dynasty, the 24 heavens, and the special style.” After going to Gaoping for a live visit, because the indoor environment was too narrow, the team decided to give up the real scene 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 is 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 it is currently limited, which is a very valuable opportunity! No tickets are charged, and the opening hours are from Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 to 17:30 (closed on Mondays on non-holidays).
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.It subverts the traditional statue’s pursuit of beautiful details, silently but shocks 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 restored degree seen in “Black Myth: Wukong” is only 30% at most. 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 iron flowers fall in the sky, you can truly experience the Chinese romance.
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 main hall has three rooms wide, with a single eaves hanging on the mountain, and a rolled shed on the front eaves to embrace the building and offering pavilions. 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 areas in Shanxi, and it is also the place where many of our country’s top color sculptures are.
From the Tang Dynasty color sculptures of Qinglian Temple, one of only three remaining places in the country (the remaining two are Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple), 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: Wukong”, there are many scene prototypes 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 feels like time is back, and the feeling of returning to nature comes naturally.
There are many temples, and there are many temples, with holy scenery and holy sites gathered in one place. Among them, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Shuxiang Temple, Luo Temple and Bodhisattva Pin are called the five major meditation places of Mount Wutai. The temples outside Taiwan are the most famous: Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple.
The Lotus pattern sutra that flashes through “Black Myth: Babaylan” has a sophisticated shape. Its prototype is the sutra pagoda at the entrance of the Foguang Temple Hall in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. (The sutra column 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.)
Built in the eleventh year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty (857 AD), the East Hall is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The palace is a huge and large, with a gentle roof slope and a 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 Douba is rigorous and orderly. It is understood that the Douba section size is ten times that of the Douba section of the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the hall are protruding 3.96 meters, which is not found in wooden structure buildings 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 was also an entrance for all people who went to Foguang Temple to travel through time and history.
It stands quietly, after thousands of years of wind and rain, but it is still majestic and spectacularCinema, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
The discovery of the East HallKomiks breaks the assertion of “there are no timber structures of the Tang Dynasty and its previous ones on the land of China”, proving that the Tang Dynasty’s wooden structures are still on the land of ChinaCinema has physical objects.Babaylan
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 the 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 originates from the prototype of the stone sculpture in Nanshan Temple in Wutai Mountain.
Nanshan Temple is one of the more ancient 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 seven courtyards built with the mountains.
Ji Le Temple located on the lower three floors, solemn and simple; in the middle is Shande Hall, exquisite and elegant, one layer 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 sculptures. Almost all the main buildings in the temple are decorated with exquisite stone sculptures, with rich content, huge quantity and exquisite carvings. The stone sculptures here are unique to Mount Wutai.
Mountain WutaiThe stone sculpture not only has high artistic value, but also the crystallization of the wisdom and skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen, and is worth looking at and exploring.
Chongfu Temple: The Treasure House of Culture and Art of the Jin Dynasty
In the original painting of “Black Myth: Wukong”, a special place is hidden. According to analysis, this scene is taken from Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.
The Amitabha Temple in Chongfu Temple is one of the most complete and perfect buildings in the Jin Dynasty in China. It has a width of seven rooms, a depth of four rooms and eight rafters, a single-eaved hip-top. The platform in front of the hall is spacious and wide and has five rooms. This Jin Dynasty giant sword located on a 2.5-meter platform is extremely shocking.
In addition to the architectural structure itself, it is also worth seeing its “five wonders”:
One-sense glazed. The ridge beast and the chubby kiss are both original objects of the Jin Dynasty. The 1.5-meter-high Glazed Wizards look very miniature against the backdrop of the hall, almost rushing away, vividly staying with this ancient building 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 that even the doors and windows 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, you will see that the heads of each bouquet are still different, but Cinema feels the unique ingenuity of craftsmen a thousand years ago.
Four beautiful sculptures. The three Western saints worshipped are all gold statues. 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 in the hall are murals of the Jin Dynasty, with delicate carvings and complex dresses, and adopting powder and gold-plated techniques, which have a more three-dimensional sense.
This hall is a culmination of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art, whether it is wooden structure construction technology, or Buddha statues and mural art. It is a culmination of the past and art of the past. 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. The tower is 67.31 meters high and the bottom diameter is 30.27 meters. It has been 962 years. 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 all rely on components to bite each other. There are as many as 62 types of mortise and tenon forms used in the wooden tower, so it is called the “Crown of mortise and tenon” by later generations; there are 54 types of mortise and tenon forms, and they are also called the “Doubao Museum” by architect Liang Sicheng. It is an architectural masterpiece that perfectly combines science and art.
There are many wooden tower plaques, and the third floor “Sakya Tower” plaque is a relic of the Jin Dynasty, which is the oldest plaque in the pagoda; the fifth floor “Junji Shengong” was written by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty Chengzu.
The Yingxian wooden tower has not fallen for thousands of years because of craftsmenCinema has left many mechanisms, with a 10-meter-high metal tower brake on the top 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 for 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, and will never be relied 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 the cliffs with wooden pillars, and are taken at Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi.
Hanging Temple is located in Hunyuan County, Datong City. 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. It relies on the principles of mechanics and 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 still standing 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, and some are focused. Some are useless and can even shake. These wooden pillars are not false, but generally href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema is not struggling in the situation; but once there are too many people and the load increases, the virtual pillar will stand up and play a role in a pillar bearing a thousand pounds, making the Hanging Temple a special building that looks like virtual but solid, dangerous and safe, steep and dangerous.
Imagine how ancient craftsmen allowed the temple to coexist harmoniously with natural landscapes under such geographical conditions. It is simply the double wonder of architectural mechanics and aesthetics. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan trace!
Down from the Hanging Temple, be sure to try the local jelly from Komiks.
Hunyuan jelly is not only famous in the local area, but also in the country. Mellow vinegar aroma, fresh chili peppers, smoothKomiks‘s jelly, mixed together, is 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.
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. ”
There are 254 large and small caves in Yungang Grottoes, including 45 main caves, each cave has its own story.
The most famous Yungang Grottoes is the “Five Caves of Tanyao” (Caves 16 to 20), among which Cave 20 is also called the “Open-Earth Buddha” and is a symbol of Yungang stone carvings.
Zhejiang
“Taoyuan in the Cloud””Jingning Dahan
In the game interlude video released by the official account of “Black Myth: Wukong” in the game interlude video released 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 Dahan 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 passing through the clouds and fog between the sky. The locals call the waterfall “Snowflakes” here. BeautyBabaylan is called “Da Han in the Clouds”, just like its name.
Shisi Temple seems to be a gate of time and space hidden in the deep mountains. It is an ancient Song Dynasty temple surrounded by mountains and surrounded by greenery.
The ancient juniper cypress lies in front of the door, the courtyard is towering in ancient trees and deep green moss. Time seems to have stopped at this moment. Cinema
A delicate and scattered courtyard, the simple and solemn Great Hall, 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,A brick and a tile, a Babaylan are all filled with the charm of ancient buildings.
Although there is no Buddha statue in the Main HallKomiks, the four-character plaque “Mahattan” makes people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The hall is not decorated with colorful paintings, with plain face facing the sky, with only brown and white colors. The traces of the flow of time seem to be seen between the delicate wood grains. The main hall is a double-eaved hip-mounted roof with three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The dove is simple and elegant, with slightly raised wings and slightly stretched out of the 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”. Huguan means “Guardian Pass”. The bridge spans Muhe River from east to west, connecting the village with curling smoke from cooking to one end, and the temple with dusk drums and morning bells on the other end.
Sichuan
An Yue Stone Carving: A Performance Art of Time
An Yue Stone Carving appears in the Spider Spirit Sisters promotional film in “Black Myth: Wukong”. Many exquisite Buddha statues stand, mysterious and distant.
East of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, the convenient location from Chengdu is Anyue County. The skilled craftsmen have left these statues in Anyue over the past thousands of years, making Anyue the most densely populated area in Sichuan Province.
Many people want to see Anyue stone carvings, which are attracted by the severely weathered Buddha niche. Because of the thousands of years of wind, the traces of wind left on the stone carvings. Thousands of years of traces form 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 side of the Tang Dynasty in China. It is 21.3 meters long and is chiseled on a cliff about 20 meters high.
More than 400,000 words of stone carved Buddhist scriptures were also found in the Reclining Buddha courtyard. It is now well preserved and has a clear and font that is clearly visible to Babaylan. Its 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. It has its own beauty from any angle.
The set of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is amazing. It is on a hillside because of the temple’s facade.Looking west, when dusk comes, the sunset shines on it, like a layer of gold is naturally plated.
Most of the statues in Anyue stone carvings have gradually been weathered. While regretting, you might as well go and 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 was as if you walked into the kingdom of lemons, and the fresh fragrance came to your face. Don’t forget to taste the sour and refreshing lemon to 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 in front of you. “Thousands of years of storm, art is unique in the world” refers to the Dazu stone carving.
The breathtaking statue of Thousand-Handed Guanyin is carved on the 88-square-meter cliff surface, with a total of 1,007 hands engraved, which is as magnificent as a peacock spreading its tail.
After 800 years of storm, the exquisite stone carvings were also plagued by illness, and the statues were 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 walks into the Dazu stone carvings will see several unfinished statues of the Ming King. Compared with the exquisite statues 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 brilliant ancient land 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!