Climb Mount Tai from Hongmen Road, pass Doumu Palace, and then pass the "Qingwei" stone carving. There are steep steps in front of it. At the end of the steps, the temple hanging high above in the air is Sanguan Temple.

From Hongmen Road, climb Mount Tai , pass Doumu Palace , and pass the "Qingwei" stone carving. There are steep steps in front of it. At the end of the steps, the temple hanging high above in the air is Sanguan Temple. There are fifty-three steps in front of the temple, commonly known as fifty-three gates.

From a distance, the stone steps are like a ladder. The temple is built on a steep slope of the mountain. There are high retaining walls on both sides of the mountain gate, and the three big characters "Sanguan Temple" are on the retaining wall.

There are many Sanguan Temples all over the country, and this is the Sanguan Temple with the highest altitude. It is very interesting to have two ancient cypresses growing on the retaining wall. This is the first time I have seen this method of growth.

There is a gap in the middle of the retaining wall, and it climbs up the steps from the gap and leads directly to the temple gate. There are couplets on both sides of the gate: " cultivates the essence of one lineage, and maintains health and cleanses the mind and enlightens the truth; respects the three officials, and prays for blessings, atones for sins and eliminates disasters. ." This couplet is simple and easy to understand.

The Sanguan Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty and worshipped by Qin Shihuang. It is said that it is the ruins of the Zulong Temple created by Qin II when he climbed Mount Tai. In the Qing Dynasty, it was changed to the Sanguan Temple, which worshipped the heavenly officials, the earthly officials, and the water officials. It is said that they were the incarnations of Yao, Shun and Yu. When you enter the mountain gate, the first thing you see is the tall and mighty statue of the Qinglong and White Tiger gods of the mountain gate.

Enter the yard, and the incense is lingering. The Sanguan Temple has a main hall, a side hall and a mountain gate, and the main hall is the Sanguan Hall.

There were etiquettes of sacrifice to heaven, earth and water in ancient China. However, sacrifice to heaven, earth and water was the emperor's right in ancient times, and common people could only worship their ancestors. Taoism regards the three officials of heaven, earth and water as gods, and the people can come to worship at any time to bless the weather, peace and good fortune. There is a couplet in front of the Sanguan Hall: " Ask about the misfortunes and blessings of the world, you must visit the Taoist officials in heaven, earth and water. When you reach the fairy world, you must pass the heaven gate one, two, three ."

The hall enshrines heaven, earth and water officials. The three officials originated from the natural worship of heaven, earth and water in primitive religions. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism regarded the three officials as the great gods who dominated the misfortunes and good fortunes of the world. The three officials had a high status in the Taoist divine system. Their names were the first-rank Tianguan blessed Emperor, the second-rank rank territorial cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral cerebral The Taiping Road of Zhangjiao and the Five Doks of Rice Road of Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu both launched a large-scale peasant uprising under the name of "Three Officials Handbooks" preaching and curing diseases. The three officials are closely related to the misfortune, good fortune and honor and disgrace of people, so they are widely respected by the ancients, but today people don’t know much about this.

There is an ancient cypress in the courtyard. It is said that it was planted by Hu Hai, Qin Ershi. On its thick and low trunk, there are five huge branches. People are attached to the incarnation of Qin Shihuang, saying that his merits are great and one hand covers the sky, allowing his descendants to pass on from generation to generation, so it is called the "Five Finger Tree". There is also a word called "Han Yi Cypress", which means that Han cypress has meaning. In the past two thousand years of history, cypress trees have absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon.

There are also Temple of Wealth and Wenchang Hall in the courtyard. The couplet of the Temple of Wealth is: "The dragon travels through wind and rain and people travel, and the family brings good fortune and wealth from the sky." The couplet in Wenchang Hall is: "The foundation of civil and military qualifications and honors, and is at the root of promotion for officials of all sizes."

There is a small gate in the east of the courtyard, which is the exit of the temple. There is a very interesting couplet: "The entry is no longer a middle-aged man in the pool, but he will become an outsider when he leaves the gate." "The generation in the pool" comes from the sentence "The dragon gets clouds and rain, and is not the object in the pool" in "The Legend of the Condolences", which means the mediocre people who do nothing; "Get out of seclusion" borrows Lao Tzu's allusion, which means transcending the original confinement.