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Kaifeng >> Terrace of Yu the Great

Attraction Typ: Historic Site
Location: City Centre - Central
Recommend: 3 Star

Terrace of Yu the Great

Terrace of Yu the Great, there enshrined the people who were once influenced deeply on the aspects of spirit culture and economic advantage in Chinese long history.

The Terrace of Yu the Great(Chinese:禹王台;pinyin:yǔwángtái) lies on the Fanta East Street in Kaifeng City, the Huanghe River was flowing through this place in ancient times. "Da Yu regulating rivers and watercourses" left eternal good words in Chinese history, people respect him as Da Yu(Yu the Great) and later King Yu. To commemorate King Yu, the legendary leader of the Xia Dynasty (c. twenty-second-seventeenth centuries), who devoted his wife to the taming of the flood, the people renamed the place King Yu‘s Terrace and erected a bronze statue of King Yu on the spot. Major buildings on King Yu‘s Terrace include the King‘s Library (Yushulou), Temple of Three Saints (Sanxiansi), King Yu‘s Temple, and the Water Virtue Temple (Shuidesi). King Yu‘s Temple is said to have housed a statue of King Yu and some of his tools used in flood control. The Temple of Three Saints was built in memory of the three great poets of the Tang Dynasty, Li bai, Du Fu, and Gao Shi, who cane here to compose poems while drinking wine in the spring of 744.

The Terrace of Yu the Great called also "the Guchuitai Temple". Because in north Liang times of Nan Bei Dynasty that the King of Liang times, who loved music very much attached great weight to the blind musician named Shikuang. Who is the music master in Jin country of Spring and Autumn Times, Shikuang once played instruments and performed music here.The beautiful melody reeling the beams letting people unforgettable for three days, so the King of Liang times selected this place and built a Chuitai in order to give regards to this blind music master with consummate musical technology.

The Terrace of Yu the Great Terrace changed into a park now. Beside the Temple people design garden, plant many flowers and trees, now the environment of the Yuwang Park is very elegant and the visitors are coming and going in an endless stream.

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