Baigui Temple is a cultural relic protection unit in Zhumadian City.
Baigui Temple is located in Baigui Temple Village, 15 kilometers east of Shangcai County. According to legend, Fuxi, the founder of humanities and the leader of the Three Emperors, led his tribesmen to move eastward along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and established their capital in Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan). Later, when he traveled south to Gucai, the Night Dream Fairy took him to fly more than thirty miles east of Gucai. I saw yarrows growing thickly here and turtles glowing like a fairyland on earth. Fuxi followed his dream to find this place, and found that yarrow was lush and turtles were in and out. There are hundreds of yarrow stems, green leaves and purple flowers, and a refreshing fragrance. "At night, there are green clouds covering it above, and white turtles guarding it below." The white tortoise has been there for thousands of years. Fuxi regarded it as a sacred place, so he used the stems of yarrow and the armor of the white tortoise to create the innate Bagua here, which started the Chinese civilization, so he named this place Cai. In memory of Fuxi, later generations built a large-scale Fuxi Temple here. Later it was also called Baigui Temple, also known as Baigui Temple.
The Baigui Temple was built in the Han Dynasty. It was called Xihuang City in the Song Dynasty and Xihe Village in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, there was a temple and a city covering an area of ??60,000 square meters. Its village is 800 meters wide from east to west and 1,200 meters long from north to south. It has city gates and double moats on all sides. The gate of Baigui Temple faces south, with the Yudai River in front of it and the "Yatai" stone square at the bridgehead. To the north, in the middle, five rooms wide and three rooms deep is the Fuxi Hall. There is the Sanhuang Pavilion at the back. To the west of the pavilion, there is a hanging flower gate leading to the yarrow garden. In the garden, there is a Xiantian Bagua Pavilion. Xihuang City has been damaged many times in the past dynasties. Some of the existing ancient buildings in the temple were rebuilt in the 25th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1686 AD). In 1985, the Shangcai County People's Government carried out renovations. In 2004, local residents introduced funds to rebuild He moved to Baigui Temple and renamed it Fuxi Temple. There are three Fuxi Halls in the temple, a yarrow garden in front of Fuxi Hall, three Dragon King Halls, nine Zen rooms, three east wing rooms, and a Fuxi Painting Gua Pavilion on the west side. Fuxi's Gua Pavilion painting is said to be the first to create writing and the beginning of Chinese civilization. The Hua Gua Pavilion is built on a 2-meter-high octagonal brick platform. The pavilion has an octagonal pointed glazed tile roof and bluestone columns, which stand on an octagonal brick platform. Under the eaves of the pavilion are engraved the eight characters "Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Xun, Li, Kan and Dui", symbolizing the Eight Diagrams. The pavilion door opens to the south, and there are couplets engraved on the bluestone frames on both sides: "Look up and look down to see a painting of the way of heaven and earth, and count the six lines to know the ancient and modern treasures." Beside the pavilion is engraved "Fuxi Paintings" inscribed by Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty. "Gua Stele" is connected. The yarrow that remains today has flourished for thousands of years. According to folklore, yarrow can ward off evil, attract good fortune, embalm corpses, and cure serious illnesses. The "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" written during the Warring States Period and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty both listed yarrow as a top-grade medicine, and it is known as the auspicious sacred herb in the world.
The Baigui Temple Fair originated in the Ming Dynasty and is one of the largest ancient temple fairs in southern Henan. During the temple fair from March 15th to 25th of the lunar calendar every year, performances are performed day and night. All kinds of goods shops are divided into streets, which stretch for several miles. Merchants from neighboring provinces gathered here, and pilgrims came to the temple to worship in large numbers, with more than 100,000 people attending the meeting. On the first and fifteenth day of each month over the past years, devotees have gathered to make pilgrimages and worship their ancestors, year after year. In 2008, it was announced as a key municipal cultural relic protection unit by the Zhumadian Municipal People's Government.