The temple is located at the foot of Ruoye Mountain, the source of Jiruoye River (now Huiji Scenic Area) in Shaoxing County, Zhejiang Province, and is called Pingyang. Because in the south of Huiji, the terrain is wide and flat, surrounded by mountains. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ancestors of Yue State were allowed to live here to establish the capital.
According to Jiatai Huiji, Ge Xuan, a famous Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once lived in Ruoye Mountain to practice. According to legend, Tibetan deer turned into white deer, so this mountain is also called "Luhua Mountain". According to the records of Huiji County, Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, Pingyang Temple was originally named Pingyang Taoist Temple. Here the mountains are interlaced, the streams are gurgling, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. This Taoist temple was destroyed by soldiers in the early Ming Dynasty. According to the Buddhist History of China, in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1660), a monk left Beijing on the orders of the emperor and returned to Jianping Yang Temple in the mountains as abbot, and was named "Hongjue Zen Master". Kangxi five years (1660), the scale of six wells, seven towers and eight feet eaves. In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi (1705), the emperor made a southern tour and gave the "Dengchuan Hall" with the inscription "Qing Xiang Brahman"; In the fifty-second year of Kangxi (17 13), the emperor gave another diamond sutra. In the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787), the emperor presented a volume of Dayun and a volume of Lun Pan, and the hall was full of critical eyes written by Taoist blood. Since then, Pingyang Temple has gained great fame and become the main Buddhist place for high officials of the imperial court to worship. According to the legend of Shaoxing ancestors, the emperor shunzhi became a monk and swam to Pingyang Temple. Although there is no chronicle record, Emperor Kangxi made two southern tours and returned to Pingyang Temple, which was called "mothering". According to Yu Kangxiren (1672), a Taoist priest in the temple, the words "returning to rest" and "bravely retiring" in the title of "Passing jade in an temple, the old man in Fanan returns to rest ~ Tin refers to the rooftop, and the teacher realizes that Weng dares to retreat" obviously mean something.
The most distinctive Buddhist building in Pingyang Temple is the Buddhist Scripture Building. The simple beams and columns in the building are always clean and unsightly. There are no moth-eaten marks on the rafters and beams, as if they had just been scrubbed. It is said that since the building was built more than 300 years ago, it has never been dusted and scrubbed, and it is still spotless. This is a world miracle, and many Chinese and foreign celebrities have heard of it. 197 1 year, Yugoslav cultural representatives visited here specially, and news organizations at all levels from central to local made special reports for many times. But so far, no one has come to a conclusion about the cause of dust-free. It is widely circulated among the people that when the emperor shunzhi lived in seclusion in Pingyang Temple and became a monk, he put a vacuum bead to clean the dirt. According to historical records, Pingyang Temple became a Taoist priest and later became the abbot of Tian Yue Zen master, and was admired by all parties.
The temple used to cover an area of 19980 square meters, with nearly 100 halls and houses, with a total property of 2000 mu. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 0/00 monks/kloc, statues of Taoist priests, monuments of "Rebuilding Pingyang Hall" and Mao Qiling's Xihe Collection. To sum up, Pingyang Temple is a famous temple in the Qing Dynasty. After two generations of famous Buddhist teachers stationed, it benefited a lot from the favor of three emperors. 1936, the temple was built on the east side, and Tang Fu, a Buddhist monk, and Tong Guogan, a Buddhist layman in Shaoxing, were recruited. In the same year, the Anti-Japanese War broke out and shelved, and the main building was in disrepair and collapsed many times.
Pingyang Temple once contained all the bloody books "The Goblet of Fire" written by Zen master Hongjue, and Kangxi gave Zen Tian Bo Huang and a thousand Buddhist robes, which were then called "Three Treasures of Pingyang". 194 1 year, Du Mou, director of the East Zhejiang Administrative Office, moved the "Three Treasures of Pingyang" to the National Assembly Temple in Tiantai Mountain for collection. 195 1 year, the temple stopped religious activities and the houses were converted from the village into private houses and teahouses. As a result, all the scriptures and cultural relics in the temple were lost. 1956, Pingyang Zen Temple was swept away by a typhoon, leaving only a few temples and side rooms. 1958 During the "Big Steelmaking", the 1000-person boiler and the clock weighing about three tons were destroyed. 1988, enthusiastic lay people launched a fund-raising campaign to repair the Buddhist scripture building and use it as a temple, and to rebuild the Buddha statue and buy offerings. Pingyang Temple was revived, and the building scale began to take on the scale of a temple. 1On September 28th, 992, Shaoxing county government approved Pingyang Temple as an open temple. At present, there are 44 large and small Buddha statues.
Shaoxing Municipal Government listed the temple as a major development project of Huiji Scenic Area, and restored its previous building scale in 2000. Pingyang Temple is presided over by abbot Yin Xiang-Jisheng, and pilgrims from inside and outside the province raise funds to build the temple and buy all Buddhist utensils. It is not uncommon for good men and women to make Buddhist accounts and hang banners, which makes the Hall of Great Heroes and the Buddhist Scripture Building look brand-new.