Sanyuan Palace, located at the southern foot of Yuexiu Mountain, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. It was built in the second year of Emperor Daxing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (319). It was originally named Yuegangyuan. It was the place where Bao Gu, the daughter of Bao Liang, the prefect of the South China Sea, practiced medicine. Because it was located in the north of the city, it was also called "North Temple" by later generations. In December 1989, Guangzhou Municipal People's Government announced it as a cultural relics protection unit.
Sanyuan Palace sits north to south and is built on the Yuexiu Mountain. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, covering an area of about 5100 square meters. You can reach the mountain gate by climbing more than 40 stone steps from the ground. There is a stone inscription "Sanyuan Palace" directly above the gate, and there are regular script couplets "Sanyuan Ancient View, Baiyue Famous Mountain" on both sides of the gate. Connected to the mountain gate is the spiritual palace, which enshrines the guardian of the gods. The mountain gate is facing the Sanyuan Hall, the main hall of the Sanyuan Palace, which is the main building of the entire palace. In the hall, there are statues of heaven official, local official, and water official, also known as the three official emperors Yao, Shun, and Yu. The east and west sides of the Sanyuan Hall are the Luzu Hall and Baogu Hall, the Laojun Hall at the back, and the Bell and Drum Towers on both sides of the hall. There are stone steps and patios in front of the main hall. Around the patios are the guest hall, zhai hall, ancestral hall, and bowl hall.
Sanyuan Palace has many precious cultural relics, including the "Baoguang Lixue" plaque bestowed by the Qing government, the big bell donated by Shangxixi, the authentic calligraphy of Kang Youwei and the "Tao Cangjing", but all It was destroyed in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Cultural Revolution. Existing stone wall portraits of Guanyin from the Tang Dynasty, door couplets from the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1863), stone carvings of acupuncture points, three Qing pictures and ancient horned dragon wells, etc. A large number of believers come here to burn incense and worship each year during the Lunar New Year's Day.
Since Bao Liang built Yuegangyuan on the site of Beimiao, Sanyuan Palace has a history of more than 1,600 years. From the Sanyuan Palace to the Yuegangyuan, one cannot fail to talk about the life and deeds of Bao Liang, Bao Gu and Ge Hong.
Bao Liang is Tai Xuan. He was the prefect of Nanhai in Guangzhou during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. He believed in religion and was the first person to introduce Taoist Danding School to Lingnan. Later, he built a Yuegangyuan under the Yuexiu Mountain in Yuejinggang, where he promoted Taoism and made alchemy.
Bao Liang later accepted an apprentice named Ge Hong. Ge Hong is a legend in history. He was a native of Jurong, Jiangsu in the Jin Dynasty, with the name Zhichuan and Baopuzi, and the great-grandson of Ge Xuan, a scholar of Wu Fang during the Three Kingdoms period. Ge Hong was a Taoist theorist, medical scientist, and alchemist. Since childhood, he was a good god looking for health preservation techniques. He once learned alchemy from Ge Li's disciple Zheng Yin. In the last years of Emperor Hui, he was invited by the Guangzhou Governor Jihui to join the army in Guangzhou and lived in Guangzhou for about 10 years. Later, he followed Bao Liang to explore Taoist theories, alchemy and Qi cultivation techniques, and worked with his wife Bao Gu to treat the common people. When he was 24 years old, Ge Hong came to Guangzhou for the first time. He studied arts as a teacher for 10 years, and eventually became a man of knowledge. Before the age of 40, he wrote 70 volumes of internal and external chapters of "Baopuzi" and 100 volumes of "Golden Tablet Prescriptions". He is proficient in acupuncture and it is said that he left the original acupuncture meridian inscriptions in the Sanyuan Palace. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty Yuan Emperor Ge Hong once went to Nanjing (then called Jiankang) to serve as an official, and he was also called the Prime Minister Taoist. Later, he heard that Jiaozhi is now Vietnam's rich dansha, so he resigned from the senior official Houlu and came to Lingnan for the second time with his family. He was retained by Guangdong governor Deng Yue. After that, he lived in Luofu Mountain for 30 years, making medicine and writing medicine. Ge Hong also built four temples in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Luofu Mountain, namely the current Chongxu Temple, Baihe Temple, Jiutian Temple and Su Mian Temple.
Ge Hong's wife, Gu Bao, is also good at medical practice. Gu Bao is the daughter of Bao Liang and has been deeply influenced by Taoism since childhood. Because Bao Liang loved and valued his apprentice Ge Hong, she married the 18-year-old Gu Bao to him, when Ge Hong was over 40. Since then, the husband and wife are affectionate and loving, and jointly study alchemy and medical skills. Aunt Bao spent several decades in Guangdong. In order to gather medicine and practice medicine, she traveled all over the South China Sea, Panyu, Boluo, Huiyang and other places. She is very skilled in medicine, and the people kindly call her "Fairy Girl" and "Sister Bao". Later, Gu Baogu died of a sudden illness. Later generations built a "Baogu Temple" under Yuexiu Mountain to commemorate her. The well she used was called "Baogujing" and "Qiulong Gujing". Unfortunately, this shrine and well no longer exist. But the "Bao Xiangu Palace" was built in the Sanyuan Palace to commemorate her. Bao Liang later buried her daughter in Luofu Mountain. The "Millen Pearl Nunnery" on the mountain was built to commemorate Bao Gu.
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