Yunnan's magical "Daopo Temple" is going all the way. Why did you build it like this?

Tong Yuan Zen Temple with Yunnan characteristics will find that the whole process is going downhill from the moment it enters the archway, which may be for the convenience of drainage or the local geographical environment itself. In fact, there is no relevant record about the construction of Yuantong Temple. Many people think that the temple was built to facilitate drainage, but I think it may also be because of its location here. In order to make the temple look better, it is wrong to build the center into a release pool.

1. Regarding the downhill design of Yuantong Temple, many people think that the ancients deliberately chose this site in order to reduce the drainage problem.

Yuantong Temple is a typical temple? Daopo Temple? The biggest feature of this temple with a history of 1200 years is that it basically goes all the way down. From the entrance to the archway, the lowest end of the temple is the release pond; For the design of Yuantong Temple, many people think that it was specially built here to facilitate drainage. Although drainage is a concern of every temple, will it be built here for a simple drainage problem? I don't think this is the real reason. After all, for the ancients, building a temple would not simply consider the issue of drainage.

Second, Yuantong Temple may actually belong to such a terrain when it is located, and then the lowest end will be built into a release pool according to the actual situation.

For the downhill building of Yuantong Temple, I think the site itself is downhill terrain; In the eyes of ancient people, building a temple is ultimately feng shui and significance, which may be the downhill terrain when building a temple. In order to create a stable momentum of the temple in all directions, craftsmen can only build the main hall at the lowest place, and build a gravity pool with convenient drainage, so that rainwater will not directly invade the main hall, which has made a special downhill temple.

The construction of Yuantong Temple may be due to the geographical environment, which makes it become a low-lying release pond often accompanied by a main hall.