Introduction to Tianmen: There are three Tianmen in Jueshan Mountain, which are built along the mountain from southwest to northeast. One day, the gate stood guard halfway up the mountain, above Yuelao Pavilion, where the gentle slope connected with the steep cliff. This gate was built in the 35th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1556) and was destroyed when the "Four Olds" were destroyed. In 1991, the more than 4-meter-high brick wall left at the original site was renovated. Nowadays, Tiantianmen is a stone arch door. On the lintel is a stone plaque engraved when it was first built in the Ming Dynasty. There are two flying dragons engraved on both sides of the plaque. The technique is delicate and the craftsmanship is exquisite. There are stone patterns and figures on both sides of the doorway. There are stone tablets on the left and right sides of the doorway engraved in 1556, one of which is "The First Construction of Jueshan Tiantianmen", which records in detail the age and scale of the construction of Tiantianmen and the origin of "Jueshan spitting out the moon". The other passage is a monument of merit and virtue, which records in detail the donors who donated money for the construction of Jueshan Tiantian Gate at that time, ranging from the Huang family to ordinary people. Entering the Tiantian Gate, the left side hall is the Temple of the Six Plagues, which houses the statues of the Six Plagues, namely Zhong Shigui, Zhao Gongming, Shi Wenye, Lu Yue, Liu Yuanbo and Zhang Yuanda. This is the patron saint worshiped by the working people in ancient times to ward off disasters and prevent diseases when medicine was underdeveloped.

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