“Dog Shaped Temple”, that is, the “Yanqing hall” in Sanliao Zengwu village, is said to have been built by the ancestors of the three bedrooms of the Zeng family. It is located behind the “Zhencheng primary school” on the left of Yanggong temple. It is an ancestral hall with very strange shape and design style.
When I came to Sanliao, I first saw that the “Dog Shaped Temple” had experienced wind and frost. It looked old and simple. It felt that there was nothing special and did not enter the eyes of the common people. Unexpectedly, the temple is a unique existence in many Feng Shui buildings in Sanliao village. It is one of the typical representative works of Yang Gong Feng Shui in Liaoxi.
The “Dog Shaped Temple” does not cover a large area. Its architectural shape is completely designed to imitate the way dogs sleep. It not only has the shape characteristics of dog’s mouth, ears and nose, but also has a dog’s food basin. Generally speaking, it is a side lying spirit dog. It keeps alert at any time to sensitively capture foreign information.
The front gate of the ancestral hall is opened in the Geng Youfang, which can receive the water of Geng Youdi Wang and the water Hall of Ding Weiguan. The left ear door faces the Bingwu side, and the landscape and scenery seen are much more beautiful than the main door. The mountain situation is better and the main house is good. In fact, after the construction of the dog shaped temple, the number of people in the three rooms is very prosperous. Now the three rooms are also the largest number of people in the three Liao Zeng family.
This puzzling Dog Shaped Temple actually contains the mystery of Yang Gong’s Feng Shui everywhere. From the construction design of “Dog Shaped Temple”, the most prominent features are as follows:
The door and window design is different. The building area of the ancestral hall is not large. The whole house is one-in-one, with a height of more than three meters and large doors and windows. On the front, there is a gate that is not very symmetrical with the whole building. The gate accounts for almost two-thirds of the front of the ancestral hall. The open gate is like a dog’s big mouth. In the middle of the house, there are two large windows on both sides of the gate, just like the two nostrils of a dog. It is said that it is to highlight the sensitivity of the dog’s smell and find enemies and food in the distance. What makes people feel very strange is that the back door of the temple is not opened in the back as usual, but in the front left of the house, just in the position of the dog’s ear. The small door was opened to let the dog’s left ear breathe in. Among animals, the vigilance of dogs is the strongest. This ear door vividly shows the spirituality of dogs in sleep.
Set up two ancestral tablets. The ancestral hall was jointly built by the two brothers, so there are two places to set up a incense burner for ancestors. One ancestral tablet is placed in the middle of the ancestral hall; Another ancestral tablet was placed on the right side of the hall and hung on the wall. Because the second son often goes out, Feng Shui is rarely at home. When building, the boss basically takes care of everything. After the ancestral hall is completed, when placing the ancestral plate, the second brother asks the boss to select the hall, and he uses the right corner. Therefore, the divine plate in the middle hall is dedicated to the long room ancestor, and the divine plate in the right corner is dedicated to the two room ancestor. Later, the results showed that the person in the second room was much better than the long room.
In front of the ancestral hall, there is a “food basin for dogs”. In front of the dog shaped temple is the belt road and belt ditch water, and the tianban water in front goes back against the direction. There is also a “dog food basin” in front of the ancestral hall, which is said to be specially designed.
According to legend, after the completion of the dog shaped temple, Ding CAI and Liang Wang, and other Fang sects of Zeng’s same clan, said that they were dissatisfied with more good feng shui. They took the opportunity to build a tiger shaped tomb lying on the ground on the east slope of yangbeinao opposite. The tiger shaped tomb is located in the north of the dog shaped temple, which is just the death side. Two artificial tiger eyes are specially built to covet the dog shaped temple, but do not bite it, because they are the same clan and can’t hurt each other. It symbolizes that they only look at the dog shaped temple at the bottom of the hillside. As the saying goes: “when Yin Gong comes to the village to eat pigs, ask him first”. According to the principle of five elements generating grams, Yin Gong and dog Gong are also three in one.
Perhaps because of this, at the beginning of the completion of the dog shaped temple, the brothers often quarreled for unknown reasons. After careful consideration, they found problems, designed a toothed dog mouth on the right side of the temple to avoid Beisha, and dug a small pit on Kunshen Fang’s temporary official position in front of the temple about three feet away from the temple, which was built into a square well, which is said to be a food basin symbolizing the dog. The water in the small well is often muddy. It is said that this is dog food rice soup, Wangcai. It is said that the more turbid the water is, the better. It is said that the turbid water has the meaning of fish. It’s really interesting!
What’s more strange is that since the “dog’s food basin” was set up in front of the ancestral hall, the suppression of the tiger shaped tomb was avoided. There was no quarrel between the two brothers, and the people, wealth and wealth were still strong. It was said that the reason of Yin Shen’s confrontation was used to intimidate Yin Hu with Shen monkey. The legends are more magical.
There is a large pond on the side of the ancestral hall. Usually, the pond is mostly built in front of the house, while the pond of the dog shaped temple is not directly in front. Instead, the house is built on the right side of the pond, and the side door is used to collect air, so that the clear water of a large pool is located on the bathing side. Such an ingenious design is refreshing and eye opening. It’s really different!
In fact, the original terrain of this location is not suitable for the construction of ancestral halls, because there is a ditch in front, a ridge on the right is similar to lying obliquely, and there is a pond on the left. It is not easy to build this house! It is said that the two brothers, the great grandfather, both know Feng Shui. When building this ancestral hall, they had to choose it as the ancestral hall because they were limited by their own place. It can be seen that the feng shui design of the dog shaped ancestral temple is indeed very clever. It can give full play to its imagination and creatively build this unique ancestral temple according to the limited geographical conditions. This is really an innovation and amazing.
The architectural designer of the dog shaped Temple vividly presents the characteristics of the geomantic omen of Yang Gong of Liaoxi in every place of the temple. In fact, the mystery of geomantic omen is far more than the above. Therefore, the dog shaped temple has always attracted many Yi lovers to visit and verify.
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