Fuqing South Shaolin Temple is a cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province.
Fuqing South Shaolin Temple
The South Shaolin Temple Scenic Area is located in the lotus-shaped mountain basin surrounded by nine mountains in the Daiyun Mountains in the west of Dongzhang Town, Fuqing, with a planned area of ??about 13 square meters. Kilometers, the scenic spot is dominated by Songshan Mountain with an altitude of 668.3 meters. The scenic spot belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with warm winter and cool summer. The scenic area has high mountains and deep valleys, abundant rainfall, and is mostly covered with virgin sub-forests. The vegetation coverage rate is
98, with neat forests and complete communities. There are many mountains here, including 22 peaks such as the steep Tianzhu Peak and the winding Wulao Peak. In addition, there are temples, pedal roads, and ancient bridges. , ancient tombs, ancient kilns, cliff carvings, water reefs by the stream, and the unpredictable sunrise, sea of ??clouds, pines, Buddha light, etc. form a magnificent and unique three-dimensional picture.
The Shaolin Temple ruins are located on the north mountain facing the stream, facing east and south. The Wulao Peak to the east of the temple is very similar to the Wuru Peak in Henan Songshan Mountain, and the flow of Shaolin Creek is the same as that of Shaoyang Creek next to the Shaolin Temple in the north. Judging from the topography of the temple site, from the end of Shaolin, through the Shaolin Stone Road, across the Shaolin Bridge, and into the mountain gate, there are nine large terraces with distinct levels. The temple rises up from the mountain into a stepped building, with a front-to-back depth of 180 meters. The main seat and two wings The attached corridor is 68 meters wide and has a construction area of ??nearly 20,000 square meters. The temple complex is very large. The temple has an extremely complete drainage system and water supply facilities installed with special tile tubes. There is also a firewall around it, and there are ancillary buildings outside the wall. It is extremely majestic and spectacular. It is a high-standard large-scale Zen sect. temple. About 100 meters away from the southwest corner of the temple, there is a stable covering an area of ??more than 800 square meters. It is said that this was the place where monks kept horses. Villagers still call this stable stable. In addition, there is a small hillside about 300 meters south of the Shaolin Temple. It was the place where monks herded their horses. Because the horses were often injured by tigers and leopards, it was called the tiger-biting horse hillside.
Behind the Shaolin Temple, there is a towering peak named Songshan Mountain. At the southwest foot of Songshan Mountain, there is the Nanling Palace built in the third year of Yuanfeng (1080) in the Northern Song Dynasty. There is still a couplet at the gate of the palace, saying:
The palace has been prosperous to Songshan Mountain for thousands of years
The Divine Residence at Nanling Youqianjia
The Nanling Palace built in the Northern Song Dynasty can be said to be another historical witness of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Fuqing.
In addition to many written records, there is also a large amount of local word-of-mouth circumstantial evidence of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Fuqing. Field investigation confirmed that the landscape shape of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in Fuqing is indeed very similar to that of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in Henan. At the same time, they are both Zen temples under the sect of Bodhidharma. It is true that it is a branch temple of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in Henan. In addition, Shaolin Temple coincides with many local place names. There are many places named after Shaolin around the Shaolin Temple, reflecting Shaolin style everywhere, such as Shaolin Village, Shaolin Bridge, Shaolin Road, Shaolin Creek, Shaolin Yang, Shaolin Jing, Shaolin Nunnery, Shaolin Daqiu, Shaolin Donkey Road, Shaolin Tail, etc. These place names are all derived from the Shaolin Temple. Although they are not recorded in Zhicheng, they are still in actual use today and are well known to the local people, which is sufficient evidence. The ruins are more evidence of the Shaolin Temple. According to the "Continued Biography of Eminent Monks": When the eminent monk Buddha from India trekked eastward from the Western Regions, he saw that the deep Song Mountain resembled a lotus, so he intended to build the Shaolin Temple among the "flowers". The choice of the Songyue Forest Valley with its lotus throne to build the temple gave it the unique charm of the Shaolin Zen Temple. The ruins of Fuqing Shaolin Temple are also in the "Lotus". Regardless of its mountain topography, temple feng shui and cultural connotation, they are similar to Henan Songshan Shaolin Temple.
Approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Fuqing Shaolin Temple site was excavated by an archaeological team jointly formed by Fujian Province and Fuzhou City in July 1995. A large number of Shaolin Temple cultural relics were unearthed, fully verifying that the site is a historical record. Documented Shaolin Temple. The cultural relics of the Shaolin Temple are irrefutable: Fuqing Shaolin Temple has a long history and a long history, leaving behind a large number of cultural relics, such as "Shaolin Temple", "Shaolin" and other stone inscriptions found in the ruins, as well as stone bridges, stone gates, and stone troughs. , stone mill (medicine mortar), stone tablet, stone foundation, stone spring mortar, stone mill, stone incense burner, porcelain, coins, bronze mirrors, and monk tomb towers, there are thousands of cultural relics, too numerous to mention.
In addition, the provincial and municipal archaeological teams revealed a huge tomb tower in the northwest corner of the eighth terrace of the site. From the nature of the tomb bricks, it can be concluded that it is a monk's tomb in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The tomb has a very unique structure and is made of specially made tomb bricks of various shapes. Judging from the characteristics of the relics stored in the tomb, this tomb tower is probably the "Songshan Ancestral Pagoda" of Shaolin Temple recorded in "Huangboshan Temple Chronicles". The numerous monk tombs and pagodas surrounding the Shaolin Temple reflect from one side that the South Shaolin Temple is indeed a great Zen Buddhist temple with a long history.
On November 15, 1996, Fuqing held a report meeting on the archaeological excavation and research results of the Southern Shaolin Temple site. Domestic and foreign experts, scholars, religious circles, martial arts circles, as well as compatriots from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas Chinese in Japan, More than 120 people including heads of relevant provincial and municipal departments and members of the press attended. The participating experts and scholars visited the Southern Shaolin Temple site for on-site inspection, conducted rigorous demonstrations on the archaeological excavation results, and unanimously and fully affirmed that the temple site in Shaolin Village is the Southern Shaolin Temple recorded in historical records.
In November 1994, the Religious Affairs Bureau of the Provincial People's Government and the Fuzhou Municipal People's Government successively approved Fuqing's reconstruction of the South Shaolin Temple on the site of the original Shaolin Temple. What we see now is the newly built Southern Shaolin Temple, which has been funded by the government with an investment of 10 million yuan. It has an archway, a mountain gate, the Tianwang Hall, the Mahavira Hall, and the Patriarch Bodhidharma Hall.
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Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province
Dongzhang Town: a town under the jurisdiction of Fuqing City. Dongzhang Town was established in 1950, transformed into a commune in 1958, and then restructured into a town in 1984. It is located in the northwest of the city, 13 kilometers away from the city center. It covers an area of ??128 square kilometers and has a population of 30,000. It governs 18 villages including Xianxian, Xianfeng, Xiangshan, Banling, Sedi, Sanxing, Daoqiao, Xibei, Huashi, Luling, Lingxia, _shan, Cuihou, Shuangxi, Jinzhi, Yulin, Shaolin and Nanhu Committee and Dongzhang Neighborhood Committee. The main enterprises include rattan and bamboo manufacturing, food processing, tripod casting and other factories. Agriculture mainly produces rice. Places of interest include the South Shaolin Temple ruins and Dongzhang Neolithic ruins