Shengda Yanfu Hall is a sub-furnace of Longhu Temple in Dehua. Founded in the fifty-first year of Emperor Gaozong in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1786, the third year of the lunar calendar), it was the founder of three generations.
Longhu Temple is one of the four famous temples in Dehua, and it is also the birthplace of three generations of ancestral temples in Fujian and Taiwan. Longhu Temple is located in Longhu Mountain (formerly known as Taihu Mountain, also known as Jinbifeng) in the northwest of Shangkuang Village, Hu Mei Township, with an altitude of1350m. The top of the mountain is flat and concave like a boat, surrounded by mountains, and there are twelve peaks next to it. Ancient trees towering, full of green, elegant scenery. There is a pool pavilion in the cave, blue as a mirror and quiet in space. It's called Caoqing Lake. Outside the lake, in the north, there is a spring, which flows out of the stone stream and drops like a pearl. It is called Bishuitan, and the temple is built in the clear water of Jin Feng.
According to the data recorded in the light spectrum of Longhu Temple in Dehua County Records (Qianlong Edition) and the genealogy of five Lim Kim San, "three generations of grandparents were reincarnated as Vishnu Floating Buddha", and Vishnu Floating Buddha is the third Buddha in seven buddha, so Buddhist believers call it "three generations of grandparents" or "three generations of floating Buddha". Three generations of ancestors surnamed Lin, Wang Bi and Zi Chao. My ancestral home is Xiagubao, Renyili, Yongfu County, Fujian Province. In the second year of Song Longxing (AD 1 164), Shen Jia was born in Yinggedun, Shangyong, Dehua County (now the former site of Dehua No.2 Middle School). /kloc-at the age of 0/2, he became a monk in Shao Ping Temple. Crossing the famous mountains, I suddenly dreamed that strangers were leading to Taihu Mountain, and I saw the ancient trees flowing back to the extraordinary realm. That is, climb the Dragon and Tiger Mountain to watch, and see four mountains in front and water behind, just like small bamboo. Therefore, the temple was built in the land of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and the Taoist couple got married, asked for a sign, and they were superb in their ways, giving extensive help, saving lives and ensuring a bumper harvest, and their merits were boundless. In the second year of Song Jiatai (A.D. 1202), on the fourth day of December in Ren Xu, he made a positive result and sat on the Dragon and Tiger Mountain (the existing platform) at the age of 39. After his death, the villagers offered sacrifices to the gods in Longhu Temple, and since then they have become ancestral temples, and have been honored as "Lin Ji's authentic three-generation ancestor, Longhu Fapai, and the blue sky of ten thousand generations-Zhuoxi Kaiji Clear Water". Later generations felt their spiritual response and made statues one after another. Today, there are three generations of ancestors in Fujian, Taiwan Province and Nanyang.
The mainstream of the school of legalism in Longhu still inherits the traditions of Zen and Buddhism, with the theme of "seeing nature clearly", which has the characteristics of "three styles", namely, the teaching style of "killing one's life", the teaching style of "repenting cleanly, abandoning evil and doing good" and the teaching style of "teaching by example and doing good and accumulating virtue". As abbots, three generations of ancestors spread to temples all over the world, and at the same time, they continued to carry forward the clan style of Longhu Legalists.