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 and amazed countless players. 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 explore the beautiful ancient buildings of China, destiny, 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. BabaylanThis famous scene was taken in Xiaoxitian, Linfen County, Shanxi Province.
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 the small west sky fully displays the four words “small, clever, exquisite, and strange”. The many exquisite hanging sculptures that have been preserved in Babaylan are still intact and new after nearly four hundred years. They are called “the last sound of hanging sculpture art.”
Xiaoxi Tian is divided into two courtyards, and the upper courtyard is the entire courtyard.The essence of the temple, the undamaged hanging plastic art preserved in the Great Hall, is the most outstanding part of the Little West Heaven.
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 through it is like a visual feast, which can only be described by the word “shock”.
The reason why it can cause such a beautiful visual impact is precisely because the left and right double layers of the hanging sculpture overlap, the upper body of the next statue tilted 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 to a full extent.
When I came to Xixian, I could enjoy my happiness after having a feast for Xiaoxitian.
Xi County is the origin of Yulu Xiang pear. This pear can be called the “Chinese pear king”. It tastes crispy when you bite it in one bite, and the fresh and sweet pear juice explodes in your mouth, satisfying your perfect imagination of fragrant pears. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the picking period of Yulu fragrant pears, so don’t miss it.
The peerless beauty of Feihong Tower
After seeing the little west sky, you might as well go to Hongdong, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and you can see the Feihong Tower 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 as colorful as a rainbow after rain, it is named Feihong Pagoda. The 86 version of Journey to the West “Sweeping the Pagoda 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 ridge to support the eaves cleverly. The countless components and patterns such as Bodhisattvas, Vajras, flowers, dragons, birds and beasts under the eaves are all brilliant. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan is clever, finely made, exquisitely made, and beautifully painted. Especially under the sun, it still has a new color.
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 is either kind-hearted, strong and powerful, dignified, graceful, gentle, and elegant, and vivid according to the personality he is given.
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 Brilliant Treasure in Ordinary Courtyard
Many players are in “Black Myth: Wukong》 The elements of the twenty-four heavenly statues of the Iron Buddha Temple were found in the characters in the 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.”Cinema After visiting Gaoping on site here, 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, 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 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. BabaylanIron trees and silver flowers fall, thousands of stars bloom, and seeing the colorful rain of iron flowers fall in the sky, you can truly experience 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 ancient buildings in Shanxi and the shelter of many top color sculptures in our country.
From the Tang Dynasty color sculptures of Qinglian Temple, one of the three remaining places in Cinema, (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 by in “Black Myth: KomiksWukong” is exquisitely shaped. The prototype is the 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.)
Built in the eleventh year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty (857 AD), Dongda Hall is one of the earliest existing wooden structures in China. “The palace is a huge and powerful palace, with a gentle slope of the roof, and a wide eaves are winged, all of which are huge and heroic” is Liang Sicheng’s description of the magnificent east hall of Foguang Temple.
The structure of the beams of the East Hall is complex and exquisite, and the structure of the Douba is rigorous and in order. It is understood that the cross-sectional dimensions of the Douyin section are ten times that of the Douyin section in the late Qing Dynasty; the eaves of the palace were protruded 3.96 meters, which was not found in the wooden structures of Komiks 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 age of the East Hall of Foguang Temple. Lin Huiyin’s photo of the sutra pagoda of Foguang Temple has also become the entrance for all the people who go 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 spectacular, telling the glory and vicissitudes of the past.
<The discovery of the East Hall broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that "there are no wooden structures of the Tang Dynasty and its previous ones on the land of China", and proves that the Tang Dynasty wood structures still exist 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 art. 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 are also the crystallization of the wisdom and skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen, which are worth looking at and savoring.
Chongfu Temple: The Treasure House of Culture and Art of the Jin Dynasty
In the original painting of “Black Myth: WuhuoCinemaThe scene is taken from Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.
The Amitabha Hall of Chongfu Temple is one of the most complete and perfect Jin Dynasty buildings in China. It is seven rooms wide and four rooms deep. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksEight rafters, single-eaved hip-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 platform is extremely shocking.
In addition to the architectural structure itself, it is also worth seeing its “five wonders”:
One glaze. Ridge beast, chubby kissBabaylan are all original objects of the Jin Dynasty. The 1.5-meter-high glazed strongman looks 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. Written in the 24th year of Dading of the Emperor Shizong of Jin (public)The plaque “Amitabha Hall” in 1184) was the largest in 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. 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 wooden structure construction technology, Buddha statues and mural art, is the pinnacle of the history of ancient Chinese architecture and art, allowing everyone here to feast their eyes. 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. It has a height of 67.31 meters and a diameter of 30.27 meters at the bottom. It has been 962 years since then. It is the largest and oldest pure wooden 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 “crowned tenon” by later generations; there are 54 types of mortise and tenon forms, which are also called the “museum of mortise and tenon” 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’s Chengzu.
The Yingxian wooden tower has not fallen for thousands of years because the craftsmen have left many mechanisms. The top 10-meter-high metal tower brakes are 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, and 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.
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In the promotional video released by the official account of “Black Myth: Wukong”, the buildings appearing in the picture are all suspended on cliffs with wooden pillars, and are shot in Hanging Temple in Datong, Shanxi.
The Hanging 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, the 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 the semi-inserted flying beam 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 seismic resistance.
This ingenious architectural skills have made the Hanging Temple stand firm after thousands of years of storms!
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 they can even shake. These wooden pillars are not false, and generally not difficult; but once there are too many people coming and the load increases, the virtual pillar will stand up and play a role in bearing a thousand pounds of pounds, making the Hanging Temple a special building that seems to be virtual but solid, dangerous and safe, Komiks.
Imagine how ancient craftsmen allowed temples to coexist harmoniously with natural landscapes under such geographical conditions. It was simply a double miracle of architectural mechanics and aesthetics!
Down from Hanging Temple, be sure to try the local jelly.
Hunyuan jelly is not only famous in the local area, but also in the country. The mellow vinegar aroma, fresh chili peppers, and slippery jelly are a delicacy that makes people fall in love with.
Yungang Grottoes: A Smile that Spreads Thousand Years
When we come to Datong, we 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 rare in China and only in one dynasty<a The group of caves was excavated in Cinema. Some people say, "Yungang Grottoes are a Northern Wei history book engraved on stones, a road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. ”
Yungang GrottoesBabaylan has 254 caves, including 45 main caves, each with 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-Eleven Buddha” and is a symbol of Yungang stone carvings.
Zhejiang
“Taoyuan in the cloud” Jingning Dahan
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 as 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 Yun is located on a mountain above 1,000 meters above sea level, 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 mist between the sky. The locals call the waterfall “王”, and there is a big waterfall “snowflakes”. The beauty is called “王子” and it is 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 lies in front of the door, the courtyard is towering in ancient trees and deep in green moss. TimeKomiks seems to have stopped at this moment.
A delicate and scattered courtyard, the ancient 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.
Although the Daxiong Temple does not have Buddha statues, the four-character plaque of “Mahatuk Hall” makes people feel its extraordinary momentum.
The main hall is not decorated and painted in color. It is 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 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. It 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 smoke from cooking to curling cooking, and the temple with dusk drums and morning bells at the same end.
Sichuan
Anyue Stone Carving: A Performance Art of Time
Anyue 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, two small to Chengdu href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema The convenient driving distance was Anyue County. The skilled craftsmen 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 is attracted by the severely weathered Buddha niche. Because of the thousand-year-old wind, traces of wind are left on the stone carvings. Thousands of years have formed the shape of wind. Standing in front of this Buddha statue, the beauty created by time will make the heart extremely shocked.
The reclining Buddha in Anyue stone carvings is the largest reclining Buddha on the left of the Tang Dynasty in China. It is 21.3 meters long and is chiseled at about 20 meters highCinema‘s cliff.
More than 400,000 words of stone-carved Buddhist scriptures were also found in the reclining Buddha courtyard. It is well preserved and has a clear and font size of more than 100,000 words. Its engraving and calligraphy are recognized as the world’s best.
The statue of Shuiyue Guanyin in Vila Cave is one of the most popular statues in the entire Anyue stone carving. It has its own beauty from any angle.
The group of Buddha statues on the pagoda slope is amazing. BabaylanIt is on a hillside because the temple’s facade 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 amazing Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue is engraved on 88KomiksThere are 1,007 hands engraved on the square meter cliff surface, which is as gorgeous and spectacular 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 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 “semi-finished productBabaylan“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!