Beijing Guo Shou-jing Memorial

Beijing Guo Shou-jing, Beijing memorial museum open to the public free of charge, one, in my personal opinion, is small, but its significance and profound, the value of the humanities is not the be ignored, especially this year, also encountered the so-called "five-hundred-year" of the total solar eclipse , but also reminds us again recall the history of Chinese astronomy's most important water resources, and far-reaching predecessors ancestors.

Beijing Guo Shou-jing Memorial History:

Filed Huitong Temple, one said to be built in the Ming Dynasty Yongle by Yao Guangxiao years, formerly Hokkeji, also known as the town water nunnery.

This is a bit strange, that and the Yuan Kuo Shou-ching how in any way? I think the more reasonable possibility is that this building communities Huitong Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Shou-jing, where the long-term over the Yuan Dynasty in the water, water system construction and design work, and then Yongle years, Yao Guangxiao built the law in this site Chinese Temple.

Twenty-six years to the Qing Emperor Qianlong, that in 1761 rebuilt and renamed Cathay Temple.

70s of last century, the construction of subway, Huitong shrine dismantled, and today we can see the Cathay Temple in 1988, according to the original architectural forms re-built.



Beijing Guo Shou-jing to visit the museum points:

1, the Yuan Dynasty's water transport terminals, today's middle of the street Garden:

Into today's Cathay Temple, or GuoShouJing memorial, feeling that a Naozhongqujing, the environment elegant, Yishanbangshui the middle of the street gardens, because the West Sea fell sit beside a small hill, visitors will be a kind of winding path Link You-feeling, along a small mountain, board Cathay Temple, quiet, clean and classic small homes, trance, the noise and the adjoining downtown actually has a sense of isolation. Huitong standing in front of Temple Hill, overlooking the West Sea, the Jishuitan Way back in the Yuan Dynasty, who has the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the most northern of the total water transport terminals, said today that water covers almost up to the Third Ring Road from downtown Beijing, the vast region, could really have a Fan Ying reaching the sky, commercial prosperity, water transport terminals busy downtown scene, and today the members of the public enjoy the cool walk fishing in stark contrast to the scenery, very interesting.

2, Guo Shou-jing astronomy, irrigation research results show: Guo Shou-jing to develop "timing calendar" in order to accurately infer 365.3425 days a year, and chaired the manufacture of oversimplification instrument, Yang Yi, high tables and so on more than 10 kinds of astronomical instruments, the Yuan Dynasty in China great astronomers, mathematicians, water experts and equipment manufacturing companies. Memorial to her life, scientific achievements in a very detailed presentation.

3, Dadu water conservancy show

4, Huitong Temple hills at the foot of the West Sea side of the trestle and a statue GuoShouJing

Beijing Guo Shou-jing memorial address: Xicheng District, Beijing Deshengmen West Street, A 60, the West Sea, North along the Huitong Cinei.

Beijing Guo Shou-jing Memorial traffic routes:

Metro: Metro Line 2 Jishuitan station, B, after exit, turn left, within 10 steps, we can see a small arch Huitong Temple seems to be imitation white marble material.

Bus: 55,305,315,815,946 Deshengmen Station Bus