Preface

Five kilometers away at the foot of north HuaShan Mountain.There is a temple facing the main peak of HuaShan Mountain.Which is the best Location for looking at the millennium royal sacrifice temple in HuaShan Mountain——the Xiyue Temple，also known as Huayue Temple，Xiyue HuaShan Temple，the shrine of Jingtianwang，commonly Known as the grand temple，imperial temple.It was built in the first year of YuanGuang（134BC），Emperor Wudi of Han Dynasty.Its predecessor was the Jiling Palace built at Huangfuyu valley at the north foot of HuaShan Mountain during the period of Emperor Wudi.It was born in Han and Wei Dynasties，developed in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties，It has a history of more than 2，100 years，known as“The Forbidden City of Shaanxi”“The first temple of Five Mountains”“Small Forest of Steles”and“Hometown of Baolian lantern”.Xiyue Temple is now the largest palace and imperial garden style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ancient building community in northwest of China，the national key cultural relics protection units，Today，it is like a bright pearl inlaid in the eastern part of the Weihe plain.

As an important part of Huashan Scenic Area，Xiyue Temple is very good in both hardware facilities and software services，but its popularity is far from the core scenic area of HuaShan scenic，forming the so-called“dark under the light”.Lack of visibility or awareness，poor popularity or inadequate publicity is an important factor .To do a good job of propaganda，propaganda materials，propaganda media is the key.Xiyue Temple had some propaganda materials.which were superficial，too professional，out of date，or incomplete content，or insufficient in quantity and so on.The former propaganda materials cannot satisfy the present propaganda needs of Xiyue Temple.For that reason，it has become a urgent need for the current development of Xiyue Temple to compile a publicity book with exquisite appearance，comprehensive content，outstanding focus，appropriate details，pictures and texts，easy to understand and popularize.

The leading group of the unit attaches great importance to the preparation of propaganda books.It has held thematic meetings for many times，coordination of departmental cooperation，arrangements for division of labour，specific requirements and time limits.After several revisions，the compile work of“The charm of Xiyue Temple”was finally completed.

The book“The Charm of Xiyue Temple”included the smoke and dust of the millennium sacrifice of Xiyue Temple，showing the inner and outer nature of Xiyue Temple，the essence of cultural relics and the royal style of Xiyue Temple.The book is divided into four parts：ancient buildings and steles，ancient and famous trees，cultural relics collection.There are 28 ancient buildings，23 stele stone.14 ancient and famous trees.71 pieces of ancient relics.

In order to excavating DaHuaShan Mountain culture and highlighting the cultural characteristics of Xiyue Temple.showing the profound，accumulated and profound personality background of Xiyue Temple to tourists in a simple way，so as to facilitate tourists to know，enjoy and remember Xiyue Temple and achieve the purpose of better publicity of Xiyue Temple.We hereby write the book“The charm of Xiyue Temple”.In this book，the spirit of Xiyue Temple are described in a beautiful frame and a paragraph of meaningful words，in order to achieve the purpose of relaxing and leisure visit.(https://www.daowen.com)

The book enriches cultural connotation of DaHuaShan mountain，excavates the cultural background of Xiyue Temple and combs the culture of Xiyue Temple at the same time.In order to better publicize and improve the popularity of Xiyue Temple，the book makes a great attempt of spiritual benefits.

Due to the lack of time，limited information，and our shallow knowledge，it is inevitable to make mistakes.Please do not hesitate to give your advice.

Editor

June 2019