The only temple in my country dedicated to Zhu Bajie has been smoking incense for over 600 years. It is located in Xizhuang Village.

I think everyone has heard of character Zhu Bajie and knows him well. In fact, our country also has a temple dedicated to it, this temple is over 600 years old, incense has never been broken, and almost all wishes made here can come true.

Let's look at this temple together.

1. Image of Zhu Bajie

Our idea of ​​Zhu Bajie's image is more based on Journey to West. In eyes of people who watched series, this person is especially greedy, and he is not ready to bear responsibility on his shoulders, he just wants to be lazy, and he also likes image of money and beauty. girls, and he was driven into mortal world because of mistakes.

In whole process of studying scriptures in Western Paradise, once he encounters an enemy stronger than himself, he will yell for him to return to every house and stop moving forward.

And because of some small actions, people will watch jokes. When watching TV series, people get a lot of joy from Zhu Bajie. Although this character has a lot of flaws, he just talks about it most of time and works very hard when he should be working hard.

Yi has a very strong gestation ability and is also very responsible to owner, so many people like this simple and honest character image and follow him.

2. Development of Bajie Temple

Actually, Gao Laozhuang in TV series really exists in reality, but now village has been renamed Xizhuang Village. In this village there is a temple dedicated to him. If people here have some nasty things.

Then you will come to this temple, tell your desires and problems to gods, hoping to get help from revered gods, or express your heart. Every year, many people come here to offer incense and worship. There will also be a temple fair here , which is very humane and attracts many people who come here to take part in temple fair.

This temple is over six hundred years old, which means that this temple has witnessed historical changes and development of this place for over six hundred years. However, for last 600 years, incense here is still very strong and continuous.

People have always come here to bow and burn incense. The statues are also very realistic, and details are vivid, just like in TV series. His clothes were wide open, revealing his chest and stomach, a weapon was in his hand, a monastic hat was on his head, and linen shoes were on his feet, just like a real one.

When this temple was founded relatively early, statue of Zhu Bajie was placed in main hall, which meant that only one of them was fixed. But later, when locals raised funds, they also offered Guanyin.

Therefore, main hall was changed to Guanyin, and it was placed on left side. People usually worship main hall first after entering temple, and then go to worship on left side.

3. The connection between Zhu Bajie and Wu Chenggeng

Speaking of which, some people must be very curious about close connection between Zhu Bajie in novel and this temple.

Judging by analysis of materials recorded in history books, Wu Chengen himself has never been to this temple and has not personally been to this village. But Gao Laozhuang and Bajie are indeed prototypes in novel.

Because people with Dong surname moved here to live here, most of people here had surname Gao at that time, so it is said that name here was changed to Gao Laozhuang, and people with Dong surname migrated here later.

When clan members went home to visit their relatives, he happened to visit them, and he happened to hear anecdotes about temple and village told by these people, so he was inspired to create character in novel. After the release of this novel, Zhu Bajie's character soon became popular.

Residents here took advantage of this opportunity to protect some of buildings associated with it, which attracted many people to come and see it, as well as boost local economic development. Of course, there are also very cautious tourists who find statues in temple very unusual. It doesn't look like it's hundreds of years old.

This is mainly due to fact that statue was broken during war. The current statue was restored by residents living there after fundraising. Because people here believe in eight of pigs, they don't eat food related to pigs.

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In general, this temple is very interesting. If you have opportunity, you are welcome to come here for travel. The climate of this place is also quite suitable for tourism, and temperature is very comfortable, not to mention that there are other delicacies and beautiful scenery, I believe that everything here will not disappoint you, and it can open door to a new world for you, I wish you a pleasant journey!