Temple, pictophonetic characters, on? Earth? The next inch means an inch of land, in which palaces, heirs and rulers continue, which is described in Shuowen. Temples, courts, and statutes? There are also: temples, governance and official residences in the "Sounds and Meanings of the Classics". Literature about temples always refers to power and the rule of law.
In fact, the temple is the name of the ancient official residence. Generally speaking, it is the place where ancient officials worked. After the Qin Dynasty, the places where they worked were all called temples, such as Dali Temple, which is no stranger to everyone. It is a place to review prison cases. "Yuan Di Ji" has a cloud: The place where the imperial court is located is called the Confucian Temple.
Temple is very different from Temple. Temple, pictophonetic characters, from wide to wide, Hong? It's also related to architecture. Before the Han Dynasty, temples were places where ancestors were sacrificed, and there were strict regulations on the scale of building temples. According to the Book of Rites, there are seven temples of the emperor, five temples of the Qing Dynasty, three temples of doctors and one temple of scholars.
The ancestral temple is a temple where emperors worship their ancestors. Anyone with an official title can build temples of different sizes according to the rule of law. But after the Han Dynasty, the definition of temple was different. Mixed with the land temple, it became a place to worship ghosts and gods. People say ghosts when they are dead? Ghosts will stay on earth through temples.
This difference is also caused by the introduction of Buddhism. In 64 AD, Liu Zhuang, the son of Liu Xiu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, had a dream one day. He dreamed that a 6-foot-tall gold man was standing in the yard, and the gold man was shining with golden light. When Emperor Xiandi wanted to inquire about the Golden Man,
Jin people fly to the west. The next day, Emperor Han Ming called ministers to interpret dreams. Imperial academy Boyi said: There is a god in the west called Buddha. Your majesty probably dreamed of Buddha! ? Since learning that it was a Buddha, Emperor Han Ming has been obsessed with it, so he sent messengers to the Western Regions to learn from the Buddha.
The messenger rode a white horse with Buddhist scriptures. Emperor Han Ming was very happy and built the first Buddhist temple in Luoyang? Baima Temple, where monks live in the western regions, has gradually merged with temples, so most temples are called Buddhist temples.
But there is a big gap between temples and temples. In Indian Buddhism, the Buddhist realm has three stages: stupa, grottoes and temples, which laid the foundation for the emergence of the mainstream of temples. The architectural symbol of Buddhism is pagoda, which stands for kingship, but the center of the grottoes is also pagoda.
There are no monks living in the pagoda, but if monks are accommodated, it will become a temple. The history of Buddhism and architecture is a gradual process. Baima Temple has both Han Pagoda and Han Temple. For thousands of years, temples and temples have been inseparable.