During every temple festival, some bird dealers and those who carry cages and racks of birds gather here to trade. The land is narrow and the people are dense, like a nest of ants. After 1960, major t

During every temple festival, some bird dealers and those who carry cages and racks of birds gather here to trade. The land is narrow and the people are dense, like a nest of ants. After 1960, major temple fairs such as Baita Temple were replaced by modern shopping malls. A non-staple food store was set up at the mountain gate of Baita Temple. Miaoying Pagoda, also known as Miaoying Temple, is a famous temple in Beijing. It is named after an ancient white pagoda in the temple. The temple is located on Fuchengmen Inner Street in Beijing. It is one of the important buildings preserved in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a social science special site museum. It was officially opened to the public in 1980. The White Pagoda was built in the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1217). It was designed and built by Anigo, a famous Nepali craftsman who joined China at that time. After the completion of the White Pagoda, a large-scale temple was built with the pagoda as the center, and was named "Great Sage and Shou Wan'an Temple". It became one of Kublai Khan's important projects in building the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. After reconstruction in the first year of Tomorrow Shun, it was renamed "Miaoying Temple". The temple is composed of the Tianwang Hall, the Yizhu Heart Mirror Hall, the Seven Buddha Hall, the Guliu Shentong Hall and the pagoda courtyard. Among them, the Guliu Shentong Hall maintains the original layout of the Buddhist hall, and a wood carving of Sakyamuni from the Qing Dynasty is enshrined in the hall. Buddha, Amitabha and Medicine Buddha, and eight Tibetan Buddhist protector gods are hung on the east and west walls. The white pagoda in the pagoda courtyard is a bowl-covered pagoda with a height of 50.9 meters, which is exquisite and magnificent. The museum displays the "Baita Temple Precious Cultural Relics Exhibition", which displays precious Buddhist cultural relics found inside the top of the pagoda, including Qianlong's handwritten mantras, the finely carved small red gold relics of the Longevity Buddha, a set of five Buddha crowns and The patchwork cassocks and five-color hadas embellished with more than a thousand pearls and gems are of excellent quality and exquisite craftsmanship; the "Tibetan Ten Thousand Buddhas Statue Art Exhibition" features bronze Buddhas and gilt bronze Buddha statues from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. With nearly 10,000 statues, it displays the magical charm of the profound and profound Chinese traditional culture from one side with its unprecedented number of statues and different casting regions and styles.