Songjiang Zhaobi

Songjiang Zhaobi

    Located in Shanghai's Songjiang District, Park Square Tower, Ming Dynasty Hongwu years (AD 1370), dating back over 600 years of history. Screen wall of the original Temple of the screen wall for the Songjiang Prefecture, and the government is relatively Temple door. Early in the war, government planes bombed the Japanese Temple, but only screen wall survived, in Shanghai and the country's oldest, most beautiful, most well-preserved large brick art treasures, the ancient wisdom of working people.
Wall as high 4.75 m wide and 6.1 m for large Zhuanke relief, imposing imposing, unique style. About 30 square meters of wall, sculpture is rich in content, menu design and vivid, exquisite carved arts, three-dimensional sense. Screen wall under the eaves, there are clouds, cranes, fish, dragon, phoenix, deer and other components of the carvings. Both sides of the white washed walls, whitewashed wall of the center, respectively, round 砖刻 mosaic pattern, east of the Green Dragon, White Tiger west, from afar, a particularly eye-catching. More than 70 blocks from the middle of the big squares are composed of specially painted wall, engraved with a giant monster named "??"。 Birth to a leader, deer hoof, lion-tailed, Qi films, the body strong as a bull. Monster horn erect, eyes like bells, giant articulate sharp, four-footed tread ingot, wishful, coral, rhino horn and other treasures, accompanied around the cash cow, grass fungus and animals. Head monster mouth, mouth, ingot, also deemed the roaring, life-like form. Biography "??" Appetite particularly large, they rely on a large body, Li Meng, of the ruthless, transverse four, lord. It suffered a mountain of grass jelly, animals, and special food earth Jinyin Zhen Bao, and "??" Meaning still insufficient, see a golden sun rises in the east, want to devour the sun. Vacated on the four-legged monster, rushed to the East coast also like to fly toward the sun, jump jump, paranoid swallowed, the results buried in the East China Sea. The legend symbol of Taoist teachings, warning people of the world can not save "greedy", greedy persons, it will be like "??" The same self-defeating.
According to legend, the ancient people to Songjiang official, the first thing is to worship Songjiang screen wall, to show the future for clean government. There are also carved on the wall as a symbol of auspicious meaning of the picture, which contains more than 40 religious myth.
Screen wall in front of a 4 meter wide, 8-meter-long pool, stop it close, played a significant role in protecting the screen wall. This is the heritage it has built a full 600 years of the important reasons.