The architecture of Yongqing Temple

Yongqing Temple, with a building area of 1500 square meters and thousands of Buddha statues, is the place where Dezhou monks do Buddhist services for laymen and the Buddhist activity center of Luji. From south to north along the central axis, there are three mountain gates in the temple, and there are Er Shen Hehe who protects Buddhism on the left and right sides of the mountain gates. There are three Guanyin halls opposite for clay sculptures of Guanyin. There are three "Heavenly Kings Halls" at the entrance 10 meter, with a width of 13 meter and a depth of 9 meters. Sitting in the middle is Maitreya Buddha, with clay sculptures covered with gold, and there are four statues of heavenly kings on the left and right, who hold the country, grow, see widely and listen more. Behind the temple is the North Hall-Wei Tuo Hall connected to 1. Wei Tuo Hall faces the Ursa Major Hall. Daxiong Hall is built on a masonry pedestal, with a height of 1 m, a square height of 30 m, a width of 5 rooms and a depth of 3 rooms, and a brick-wood structure. There are single eaves, columns, beams, sandalwood and rafters to support the roof. The bucket, arch, arch and roof are suspended above the mansion, and the front and rear doors are connected. The wooden red lattice doors, red gables and yellow glazed tiles cover the roof. In the middle is the statue of Sakyamuni, with Amitabha Buddha on the left and King Buddha of Glazed Glass on the right. The three Buddhas are all 3 meters high, plated with gold, and sit on Sumeru. There are nine arhats under the east and west gables in the temple, all of which are in wooden niches. There is a 1 Buddha statue in the southwest of the temple, which looks like a arhat. It is said to be a statue of the wheel king. At the top of the main hall, there is a "algae well", also known as "Luo Xuan", which is made up of countless wooden blocks. There are carved dragons along the front ridge of sandalwood, which are lifelike and superb, and are rare structures in ancient buildings. There is a brick screen directly behind the Buddha statue, behind which there are three buddhas: Manjusri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and Guanyin Bodhisattva. The surrounding walls are decorated with relief paintings. On the pedestal in front of the temple, there are 1 meter-high bronze dings and stone lions. In front of the pedestal stood several tall stone tablets erected since the Ming Dynasty, which recorded in detail the historical facts of temple repair and the names of donors. There is a 1 Imperial Monument Pavilion in the courtyard, which contains four-sided white marble tablets written in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan when the emperor passed through Dezhou in the 57th year of Qing Qianlong (1792). On both sides of the main hall, there are three halls: East Hall and West Hall. The West Hall is Wen Zhong, a great master of the Yin Dynasty, and there are gods of wind, clouds, thunder and electricity on both sides. In the backyard of the main hall is Guanyin Pavilion-Thousand Buddha Pavilion, which is built on a masonry foundation. Five rooms are 2 1m wide and three rooms are 13.5m deep. It is a double-layer brick-wood structure with double eaves and nine ridges and a yellow glazed tile roof. There are thousands of Buddha statues with thousands of hands and eyes in the temple, which are like bronze gilded. Numerous arms, large and small, extend in a fan shape, and each palm has 1 eye. You have Buddha statues of different sizes and shapes in the pavilion. They are all hidden in a niche 1 foot square. There are three affiliated halls on both sides of the Thousand Buddha Pavilion, including 1 hall-style small Buddha Hall "Ye Jing Hall", which contains a shrine for Sakyamuni to sit in. Another reclining Buddha is Sakyamuni's "Nirvana" statue. The last courtyard is the monk's meditation room and dormitory, all of which are blue bricks and tiles, and there are flowers and trees in the courtyard. There are more than 10 adobe bungalows in the northwest corner of the courtyard, which are servants' houses, warehouses, mills, rolling sheds and barns. There is a back door in the northeast corner, where you can get in and out of the car. There are 1 Buddhist temples with their own characteristics in the west of the mountain gate, with 5 ridge tiles overhanging the eaves, 10 m wide and 7 m deep, for Sakyamuni to stand as a statue, known as the "sandalwood statue"; On both sides stood statues of Ye Jia and Ananda, the great disciples of Sakyamuni, all carved with wood and gilded. There are two east-west halls in front of the Buddha Hall, and three brick and tile north rooms behind the hall are the Buddhist Scripture Hall. Entering the mountain gate to the east, there are 6 small living rooms in the south room and 5 warp boxes (Buddhist costumes and musical instruments) in the east room. There is a 1 iron bell in the courtyard, which is 2 meters high and has a base diameter of 1 meter, and is a relic of the Yuan Dynasty.