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长春观各殿堂介绍 Instructions of the Palaces in Chang Chun Taoist Temple 灵官殿： 为长春观山门，坐北朝南，红墙黛瓦，额嵌砖雕，牌楼式殿面，洞开三门。殿内正中供奉王灵官像，两侧供奉青龙、白虎、朱雀、玄武四大护法元帅。王灵官为道教护法神，司天上人间纠察之职，统领百万天将神兵镇妖伏魔，被玉皇大帝封为“都天纠察豁落先天主将”。老百姓称其为：“三眼能观天下事，一鞭惊醒世间人”。 Ling Guan Palace As the main entrance to Chang Chun Taoist Temple, Ling Guan Palace faces south with red-colored walls, dark tiles and three doors. The architectural style of the Palace is Pai-loo, a typical Chinese traditional decorative archway. A statue for Wang Ling Guan was built in the center of the Palace, with Qing Long, Bai Hu, Zhu Que and Xuan Wu, the four Dharmaraksa (marshal in Taoism) besides it. Wang Ling Guan, serving as a guard for protecting the Taoist laws, does disciplinary investigations among both heaven and ordinary mortals and leads millions of heavenly soldiers to defeat the evil. So he acquired his name as “the most gifted and brilliant god of judicature” by the Jade Emperor (the supreme deity of Taoism). As the Chinese saying goes that “Inspect the world with his three eyes, and shock the mortal with a spur.” 太清殿： 重檐歇山，宝瓶压脊，翘角舒翼，雕梁彩绘。殿内正中供奉道祖太上老君——道德天尊。左奉关尹子文始先生，右奉南华真人庄子。太上之道，放之则弥六合，卷之则退藏于密，退藏于密者，清净自然之修也，包罗万象，先儒谓老君之学，合易经阴阳变化之理，故世间以老易并称，其著作《道德经》为万古明灯，大无不包，细无不微。老君圣号甚多，有太上道祖，无极老祖，三清道祖，道德天尊等等，与庄子合称“老庄”，与黄帝合称“黄老”，其道德理义为道教之根本和基石。 Palace of Lord Lao Tzu The angled palace lies against the mountain, with a precious vase on the ridge of its double-eave roof and colored pattern on the carved-beams. Lord Lao Tzu of the Great Monad is enshrined in the center of the palace, with Wen Shi (an official of keeping the gateway of the city in ancient China) on his left and Zhuang Zi on his right. Taoism is a natural theory including the inner-laws of everything in the universe, no mater how huge or tiny it is. Scholars of the past called it the theory of Lord Lao Tzu, and it has also been called Lao Yi with another Taoist classic Yi Jing (the Book of Change) together. The work of Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching which includes the inner-laws of everythin