The idea of two princesses living here for a long time is spontaneous. They became a pair of big red snails and lived in the lake in front of the temple. During the day, they become human beings and worship Buddha and chant Buddhist scriptures with the monks in the temple; At night, the two princesses turned into red snails, emitting thousands of red lights, which made the temples and foothills red.
They also use their magical power to secretly protect temples and locals. Since then, the weather has been good and the trees are abundant, and the people are grateful for the kindness of the red snail fairy. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Jade Emperor recalled them to the Heavenly Palace.
In order to commemorate these two red snail fairies, we pray that fairies can return to this place one day. People call the mountain in the north of the temple Luo Hongshan and the lake in the south of the temple Luo Honghu, so the temple is also called Hongluo Temple.
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Hongluo Temple is located at the southern foot of Luohong, 5 kilometers north of Huairou District, Beijing. It sits facing south and is built according to the mountain. Its layout is rigorous and magnificent. It is backed by Luohong, facing Luohong Lake in the south, surrounded by mountains and waters, with lush trees and towering old trees. Hongluo Temple is located in the lush ancient pine forest in front of Luohong Mountain, which constitutes a beautiful picture of "Bibo Tibetan Ancient Temple".
The development of history
Buddha Tucheng, the founder of Hongluo Temple, was the first monk to be called "supernatural". According to the biography of the monk, he is a monk who is proficient in spells, understands Zen, can see the past and predict the future. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Fotucheng dreamed of finding the birthplace of Buddhism in northern China, but it was fruitless for more than 20 years.
In the fourth year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he followed the post-Zhao Xerox and Shi Hu Northern Expedition to Yuyang City (now Huairou area), and found that the upper part of the mountain was like a Dapeng golden-winged bird, spreading its wings and dancing, and there was a Buddha statue that "touched the ground" when becoming a monk. This mountain secretly contracted a sacred religion, displaying the Buddha's instruments, which coincided with his dream. At that time, he founded this temple and named it "daming temple", which is now Hongluo Temple.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong expanded Hongluo Temple on a large scale, hoping that Hongluo Temple would protect the royal family, so as to achieve the goals of national prosperity, people's safety, national harmony and world unity. ?
In the second year of Jin Dading (A.D. 1 162), Wan sent the most authoritative abbot of An Temple at that time to Hongluo Temple to preside over it, to show that the Jin Dynasty was kind and benevolent, and the Jin Dynasty ruled like a Buddha. The Buddhist monk Jue Buddha has been lecturing in Hongluo Temple for many years with a grand ceremony.
During Genghis Khan's period in Yuan Dynasty, in order to protect Hongluo Temple, a "List Monument" was printed and placed on the temple gate wall under the code name of "Dazhazha". The List of Historic Sites concludes that Hongluo Temple is a royal temple and a place to pray for the longevity of the royal family. People of all colors are not allowed to disturb this temple unreasonably. The boundaries of temples, land and trees are fixed, and it is not allowed to occupy or cut down.
In the second year of Ming Yingzong Orthodox (A.D. 1437), princess royal princess royal, the eldest sister of Yingzong, got married, and the royal family overhauled Buddhism for the wedding ceremony and invested in rebuilding Hongluo Temple. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, a British emperor, came here to burn incense. After seeing the Buddha's top glow, he thought it was an auspicious image to protect the country and was very happy. He personally gave the temple the name "Protecting the Country and Blessing the Temple", which is still engraved at the entrance of Hongluo Temple. Zhu Youxiao, Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, gave Hongluo Temple a "big bronze bell of the apocalypse" in the fifth year of the apocalypse (AD 1626). It has a history of more than 370 years and is now hidden in the Daxiong Hall of Hongluo Temple.
In the thirty-second year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1694), Emperor Kangxi presided over the Hongluo Temple and set up a throne in the mountain pavilion on the west side of the bamboo forest in front of the temple to enjoy bamboo. In order to protect the temple property of Hongluo Temple in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, a "Four Monuments" was set up in front of Daxiong Hall, in which eight directions of Hongluo Temple were delineated. This monument still stands in front of the Great Hall of Hongluo Temple.
Empress Dowager Cixi also visited Hongluo Temple in the late Qing Dynasty, and praised the magical "bamboo forest", "ancient ginkgo" and "rattan wrapped pine" landscape behind the main hall. When viewing the panoramic view of Qinglong Mountain Temple in the south, we found that Hongluo Temple is surrounded by mountains and hidden by auspicious clouds, which is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Empress Dowager Cixi made a wish, and Hongluo Temple, where incense was flourishing, blessed the Qing Dynasty and rewarded it.
After liberation, Hongluo Temple was once converted into a school. The core building of the temple, Daxiong Hall, was demolished on 1972. A large number of cultural relics, utensils and Buddhist scriptures stored in the temple were lost, and most of the buildings in the cultural relics protection area were in disrepair.
From 1990, Hongluo Temple Scenic Area began to carry out protective development and construction, gradually restored temples, Luohan Garden and Kannonji, opened up tourist routes, planted a large number of trees and flowers to beautify the environment, and continuously increased and improved tourist facilities.
At the same time, it invested a huge sum of money to rebuild five lower halls of Hongluo Temple, such as Shanxi Temple, Huang San Temple, Chaoyang Temple, Tianxi Temple and Shengquan Mountain Kannonji, on the west side of Hongluo Temple, which integrated the traditional cultures of China such as Confucianism and Taoism, supplemented and extended the Buddhist culture of Hongluo Temple, and the integration of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism formed Luohong.
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