老君庙是煤窑行业进行祭祀活动,以求神灵保佑的场所。老君即传说中用八卦炉炼海烧山的太上老君,煤是火的燃料,此神主宰火,自然也就成了煤的主宰,成了煤窑之神。于是许多煤窑就塑老君像,立老君牌位,建老君庙。我国的河南、河北、陕西、北京、山东、吉林、辽宁等省区煤炭矿区,几乎都有关于老君的传说和老君庙的遗迹。 近来翻检旧籍,发现在甘肃武都县的旧地方志中,有一条关于建观祭祀以祈煤炭的资料。这在甘肃的史志资料中是不多见的。 这条资料见于光绪年间编纂的《阶州直隶州续志》。阶州是唐代设置的,清代雍正年间升为直隶州,1913年废州,改为武都县。 据这份地方志记载,阶州过去并不产石炭。由于连年荒涝,加上山林薪 Laojun Temple is the coal industry to perform sacrificial activities, in order to God bless place. Laojun legend that the use of gossip furnace refining the sea on the hill Laojun, coal is the fuel of fire, the god dominate the fire naturally became the master of coal, became the god of coal. So many plastic kilns Laojun statue, Li Laojun tablets, built Laojun temple. China’s coal mines in Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Beijing, Shandong, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces have almost all the relics of the Laojun and the remains of the Laojun Temple. Recently, I examined the old books and found that there was a piece of information about the jian observance and praying for coal in the old local chronicles in Wudu County, Gansu Province. This is rare in historical records in Gansu. This information can be found in the Guangxu years compilation of “Order State Chihli state continued Chi.” Order state is set in the Tang Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng rose to Chihli state, waste state in 1913, to Wudu County. According to the local history records, order state did not produce carbon in the past. Due to successive years of waterlogging, coupled with the forest salary