Major visits in Sichuan

• Wenshu Temple
• Taoist Temple
• Zhaojue Temple
• Wuhou Shrine
• Dufu Thantched Cottage
• Babang monastery
• Baiyu monastery
• Baoguang temple
• Daocheng
• Derge
• Derong
• Dujiangyan
• Mount Emei
• Ganzi monastery
• Katoc monastery
• Geba Social Structure
• Big Panda bears
• Huanglong nature
• Jiuzhaigou nature
• King Gesar
• Leshan
• Luojishan
• Litang
• Lugu lake
• Miyaluo
• Mosuo people
• Matriarch
• Mount Qingcheng
• Qionghai Lake
• Ruo'ergai
• Sanxingdui Museum
• Mount Siguniangs
• Wangcongci temple
• Wangjian Tombs (Museum)
• Wolong
• Wanglang Panda nature
• Xiangcheng
• Xinlu lake
• Xichang
• Xuebaoding
• Three Gorges of Yangtze river

Wangcong shrine temple is located in Pixian county seated to the west of Chengdu. It is dedicated to Duyu (Emperor Wang) and Kaiming (Emperor Cong) of the ancient Kingdom of Shu (About 3000 years traced back from present day). The temple was built in the 5th century AD and was destroyed in wars and restored through the dynasties. The latest constrcution took place in 1985.

Among the green bamboo and the cypress trees are the tombs of the two emperors - Du Yu, the learned and Enlighted emperor who taught people knowledge of agriculture, and Kaiming who brought the floods under control. The history and legend goes this way: (in fact, Du yu and Kaiming were two wise men in their time and they were throned to be the top leader of the local tribes which lived in and around Dujiangyan area and Chengdu area.) Long long ago, there was person named Yu Fu who led his people (Qiang nationality ) out of deep mountains (Mt. Minshan) from the north (to the north of Dujiangyan) down to the plains and began their half haunting, half farming society, but he failed to bring happy and stable life tp his people because of the floods. Then after Yu Fu, another man named Du Yu, he throned to be the leader of tribes union, he advocated and led people to cultivated the fertile land around the present Dujiangyan and Chengdu, and opened a new are in history - Agriculture, people gradually gave up haunting dependent life and began to farm, he was greatly repected and loved by his people, but he met the same problem as Yu Fu did, so went around to study and find ways of taming the Min River, he gave his seat to Bieling (his time in history was called Kaiming dynasty), Du Yu, by legend, transformed into a Cuchoo, flying around on the plain to tell people when to harvest and when to ploughing and sowing crying until blood oozed at its mouth. Bieling, the ruler of Kaiming dynasty, succeeded in taming the water, Libing wsa a person of that time, who built the famous water project - Dujiangyan irrigation project. In honour of them, Erlang temple was built on the mountain by the project, Tomb of Libin was built in Shifang county, Wangcong shrine temple built in Pixiang (at that time, the capital of Kaiming dynasty was built there.) Nowadays the Sanxindui relics in Guanghan was thought by experts to the capital relics of Yu Fu dynasty before Kaiming dynasty.

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