According to Xu Xiake's Travels and Hengzhou Records, in the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1046), it was known that Cui Ren had revised it and had an inscription. Since then, it has been restored and expanded. The original temple has three entrances: bell and drum tower, memorial archway, front hall, cloister, altar pavilion, middle hall and back hall, with a construction area of 990 square meters. Except for the back hall and altar pavilion, which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, the rest were basically preserved.
Fubo Temple is magnificent and has a rigorous layout. Carving beams and painting buildings, the golden wall is brilliant; The relief is colorful and lifelike: the murals are elegant and beautiful, with far-reaching artistic conception; Long couplet and short forehead, celebrity inscriptions, a dazzling array of Fubo Temple is surrounded by mountains and waters, behind the temple, Paradise Mountain is rolling, ancient trees are swaying, and Wumantan Reef stands in front of the temple.
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For thousands of years, the wonderful architectural art and magical legends of Fubo Temple have attracted many tourists. Celebrities, officials and poets of past dynasties. For example, Xu Xiake, Wang Shouren, Jie Jin, Dong Chuance and Wu Shilai in the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Guangzu and Lu Rongting in the Qing Dynasty and Li Zongren in the Republic of China also visited here.
Literati and literati linger in Fubo Temple, with green mountains and green waters. They mourn the remains, reminisce about the past, write poems, couplets, plaques or monuments, and express their feelings of remembering the ancients and admiring the ancient temples. Nowadays, people visit Fubo Temple more and more times, and now Fubo Temple has become an important base for patriotic education in Hengxian County.
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