Basic introduction Chinese name: Beihai Guanyin is located in Chaoyang, Nanshan, Lianyungang. The reason for its decline is that there is a well under the cliff. Geographical location in Lianyungang Nanshan Chaoyang is called "Houding", and there is a huge cliff facing north, which looks like Guanyin. Guanyin usually faces south, but this cliff is north-south, called the "inverted cliff", which is opposite to Guanyin in the South China Sea in Putuo Mountain. There are purple bamboos on the cliff and many white clouds on it, just like the Buddhist world of Guanyin in the South China Sea, which has always been called "Guanyin in the North Sea" by the people in history; During the Song Dynasty, there was a "Houding Kannonji", and believers built a large-scale Tuzi Buddhist temple under this cliff, which was called "Beihai Kannonji" in history books. Houding was built in the 18th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1662). In order to prevent the restoration of the Ming Dynasty and the harassment of the Japanese, a strict policy of cutting the sea was implemented, and all the residents on the coastal islands were moved inland, and all the buildings were destroyed. It was not until the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678) that the order to cut the sea was cancelled, which was called the restoration of the sea. When the temple was rebuilt, the inscription was written by the host of the building complex, Suo Etu, and the inscription was carved for the main temple, Sanyuan Palace and Dashi Temple. It can be seen that the two temples were equal at that time. The rear roof will suddenly slide down in the future. What is the reason? So far, there is no written record. Closer to that time, there is a travel book of Qianlong's fifty-four years (1789), which records that in April of that year, a group of five people went to the top in two ways. Take a shortcut along the top of the mountain to Yugou, and ride all the way from the back top. They met on the front roof, paid homage to Sanyuan Palace, Lingguan Hall and Giant Buddha Hall, visited water curtain cave and visited the site of Yulin Temple, but did not mention the temple on the back roof. If there are relics on the back roof, they will never come in. It is estimated that it has been less than half a century since the back roof fell. The following is a poem by Yang Tingzhen, the discipline of Haizhou during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. There are still several inscriptions about Dong Lei in his poems, but the front roof is rare. It can be seen that the rear roof and the middle roof were more prosperous than the front roof in the early Qing Dynasty. The cliff here naturally forms a 20-meter-long monument engraved with Chinese characters such as "Touching my feelings", "Once in the Sea" and "The Year of the Golden Buddha". Stone Carving on the Back Top (1) A poem on the inverted cliff is worthy of scrutiny: "Clouds shake near and get up in the morning. □□ Open the North Sea, and the mountains are like the south. Without volley braking, the ruined city caresses the ruins. There are thousands of waves, where to send fishing. " Two of the words are illegible, which gives the curious people room to guess. The previous word seems to be "water". What is "water"? Let's express our opinions. The author's signature of this poem is not clear, only the words "Xing Sun Xi Three Works" and so on. What do these people do? When was this word carved? Can we judge from the place names of Beihai and Nanxu and the environment of "empty brake" and "ruins"? There is a well under the cliff. Although it is on the top of the mountain, the clear spring does not dry up all year round. There are few people here, and the springs are clear. Although you can see the end at a glance, no one dares to drink for fear of pollution. At that time, this spring used to be the "fat brother" behind. When the distinguished guests came to the temple, the monk naturally went to the spring to draw water and make tea, and repeatedly praised the benefits of this spring. The cliffs next to it are crowded together, engraved with the names of four springs: Tianci Spring, Langhua Yuquan Spring, Ganlu Spring and Ling □ Spring. Why does a spring have four names? How can this mystery be solved easily! Since the opening of Yuntai Mountain, Xie Chun has been living in the temple behind the mountain, which is the core of the whole temple. The written materials we can see today all follow a fairy tale, saying that Xie Chun stood on a stone at the back of the house every day to practice, not to avoid the wind and rain, and only ate pine leaves when he was hungry. For three years, an inch-deep footprint was left on the stone, and a bodhi tree, the sacred tree of Buddhism, grew beside him.