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Shaolin Temple is a well-known Buddhist temple in China, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism and the birthplace of Shaolin Kung Fu. It is located at the foot of Wuru Peak in Songshan Mountain, 12 kilometers west of Dengfeng City, and is one of the main core scenic spots in Songshan Scenic Area. Shaolin Temple was built in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 495). It was built by Emperor Xiaowen to settle the Indian monk Postuo. Because it was built in the dense forest of Songshan Mountain, it was named "Shaolin Temple". In the third year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (A.D. 527), bodhidharma, an Indian monk, came to Shaolin and spent nine years in a natural cave in Wurufeng, Shaoshi Mountain, where he first preached Zen. At this point, Shaolin is called "the ancestral home of Zen". At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, thirteen stick monks, such as Zhijian and Tanzong of Shaolin Temple, made great contributions to Li Shimin's crusade against Wang Shichong, and were praised and rewarded by the rulers of Li Tang. During this period, due to the strong support of the imperial court, Shaolin Temple developed rapidly and won the reputation of "the first temple in the world", and Shaolin Kung Fu became famous from then on. The Ming dynasty reached its peak. During the Republic of China, Shi Yousan, a warlord, set fire to most buildings in Shaolin Temple, and the Millennium foundation was destroyed. After the founding of New China, with the care and support of the Party and the country, Shaolin Temple was revived, especially a film called Shaolin Temple in 1982, which made Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Kung Fu popular all over the world and became a top tourism product in Henan and even the world. Since the establishment of Shaolin Temple, Zen, martial arts and medicine have become world-famous and enduring, with rich historical connotations and cultural connotations. It has been rated as "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Zhengzhou City" and the first batch of "4A-level Scenic Spots" in China, receiving more than 1.5 million tourists every year. It is a veritable tourist pearl in the Central Plains and a tourist destination in China. A brief introduction to Shaolin Temple, the mountain gate should be "three gates". According to Buddhist scripture, Sanmen is the abbreviation of Sanjiemen, and the temple gate is called Sanmen, which takes its meaning of entering the Tao. At present, there are three Shaolin Temple gates, which were built during the renovation in the 13th year of Qing Yongzheng (AD 1735). It was rebuilt in 1974. Above the main entrance hangs a rectangular gold plaque with the words "Shaolin Temple" on the black background, which was awarded by the imperial title in the forty-third year of Kangxi (AD 174). The shrine in Sanmen Hall is dedicated to the statue of Maitreya. Behind the shrine is a statue of Wei Tuo. There are a pair of stone lions in front of Sanmen, with erect eyebrows and bulging eyes, pure and mighty; Exquisite carving, Yuan Ming old things. Outside the eight-character wall of Sanmen, there are two stone workshops built during the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, which are symmetrical in east and west and have the same shape. The Heavenly King Hall, the second entrance to the temple, is also known as the three main halls together with the Ursa Mahayana Hall and the Sutra Pavilion. The original building was destroyed in "Huoe" in 1928 and rebuilt according to the old system in 1982. Plastic two statues of King Kong on the outside and four statues of heavenly kings on the inside. Daxiong Hall is the center of Buddhist activities in the temple. The original building was destroyed in 1928 and rebuilt in 1986. The temple is dedicated to Sakyamuni, Pharmacist Buddha and Amitabha Buddha. Hanging on the wall is the imperial book "Bao Shu Fang Lian" written by Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. Guanyin statue is hung on the back wall of the screen wall. There are eighteen arhats on both sides. The Dharma Hall is located behind the Hall of Ursa Major. Lecture and statement office for eminent monks. It contains the tripitaka sutra of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the secret of Shaolin Boxing, the bronze version of the tripitaka sutra of Ming dynasty, the wooden version of the Annals of Shaolin Temple of Qing dynasty, and the shadow stone of Dharma. In 1928, warlords scuffled, and Shi Yousan, the National Army, set fire to Shaolin Temple, Dharma Hall and its storage, and it was very sad to learn that it was destroyed by fire. The existing Dharma Hall was rebuilt in 1992 according to the old system, and it contained a white marble reclining Buddha, which was seven meters long and weighed 16.5 tons. The east and west wall cabinets store the Chinese Tripitaka, Japanese Taisho Tripitaka, Korean Tripitaka, and Buddhist and Shaolin martial arts books. The abbot's room is the place where the abbot lives and directors in the temple. In the 15th year of Qianlong (AD 175), on September 3th, when Emperor Gaozong Hongli of the Qing Dynasty visited Shaolin Temple, he took the abbot's room as his palace, so it was also called "Longting". The Thousand Buddha Hall, the last hall in Shaolin Temple, is also the largest existing Buddhist hall in Shaolin Temple. It is named after the large mural of 5 arhats painted in the hall. The temple is for Pilu Buddha, so it is also called Pilu Pavilion. On the north wall and the east and west walls behind the shrine, a large-scale mural of "Five Hundred Arhats Facing Pilu" is painted: the mural is 7.5 meters high and 42 meters long, with an area of about 32 square meters. It is rigorous in composition, vivid in image and magnificent, which is rare in the world. Inside the temple, there are still 48 footpits, which were handed down by the monks practicing martial arts in the temple. In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court banned folk martial arts, so Shaolin monks had to choose the most secluded and empty thousand Buddha halls to practice martial arts. Ciyuntang is the most concentrated monument in Shaolin Temple, on the east side of Neiyong Road in Sanmen. There are 124 pieces of steles below the Northern Qi Dynasty in the gallery, so it is also called the stele gallery. The tablet of Shaolin Temple in the sixth year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the tablet of imperial poetry in the Tang Dynasty in the second year of Yongchun (Wang Zhijing's book), the tower of the wall in the fourth year of Song Xuanhe (Cai Jingshu's book), the first mountain in Song Dynasty (Mi Fei's book), the tablet of Yu Gong in the Qing Dynasty of Yuan Dynasty (Zhao Mengfu's book), and the book of Chunzhuocai Zen Master in the fourteenth year of Yuan Dynasty. Chu Zu 'an is located on a hill under Wurufeng, about one kilometer northwest of Shaolin Temple. This is an monastery built by the Song people to commemorate the face wall of the early ancestor Dharma, also known as the "face wall monastery". Third, facing streams and ancient trees, it is a scenic spot in the mountains; Standing in the courtyard, you can look up at the Dharma Cave on the top of Wuru Peak and the large statue of Dharma. At present, the main buildings of the nunnery include the mountain gate, the main hall and the Thousand Buddha Pavilion. Shanmen, whose founding date is unknown, is now Shanmen in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties and was rebuilt in 1986 according to the old system. The main hall, founded in the seventh year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1125), has been repaired every time in the past dynasties, and the main components are still the original objects of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the oldest wooden and stone structure building in Henan Province, and it is of great value in architectural science. There is a brick-carved couplet at the door of the temple: "Twenty-eight ancestors in the Western Heaven opened Shaolin when they crossed the eastern soil." In the temple, there are statues of Dharma, and the second ancestor Huike, the third ancestor monk, the fourth ancestor Daoxin and the fifth ancestor Hongren. There are still 23 paintings of figures on the east, north and west walls, and another 5 paintings have been repaired and destroyed in past dynasties, with the contents of 36 Zen founders below the original ancestor Dharma. It was painted in the late Ming Dynasty, with a simple image of Gu Zhuo. Exquisite reliefs are carved on the shoulder stones painted below, as well as the twelve eaves columns, four inner columns and the waist-girding part of the shrine Sumeru. The contents include figures, animals, flowers and landscapes, etc. The pictures are very rich, the shapes are vivid, the ideas are ingenious, the artistic conception is far away, and the knife method is strong and healthy. All of them were carved when the hall was founded in the seventh year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 125), which has been more than 8 years since now. It is a treasure in Shaolin Temple stone carvings and one of the treasure houses of stone carving art in China. In front of the temple, it is said that the sixth ancestor planted a cypress tree, which was more than four meters in circumference. It is said that the sixth ancestor Huineng returned to Shaolin to worship his ancestors and brought the saplings back from Guangdong with a bowl and planted them here. Thousand Buddha Pavilion was founded by Fuyuan, the abbot of Zuan Temple in the early Ming Dynasty. For dharma, and for Guanyin bodhisattva. In front of the Thousand Buddha Pavilion, there is a relic stone letter in the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1126), which is depicted on all sides by wires. In the picture, the heavenly king is glaring, holding a sword or holding a pestle; Ladies hold flowers and fruits in their hands, with beautiful posture; The ghost king has long hair and a fierce face. The knife technique is fluent and free, which is worthy of top grade. There are still more than 4 stone tablets in the monastery, among which the famous ones are: Song Huang Tingjian's Ode to Dharma, Song Cai Bian's Temple with Dharma Faces, and Ming Carved Dharma Faces. Tallinn, located about 3 meters west of Shaolin Temple Courtyard, is called Tallinn because the towers are scattered like forests. Pagoda is the abbreviation of the ancient Indian sound "Tapo", which means tomb, and it refers to the tomb of monks in China. In the tower, the spirits of the deceased or the clothes of the deceased are usually placed. Tallinn is the tomb group of abbots and accomplished and contributed monks in Shaolin Temple. According to the Buddhist system, only after the famous monks and eminent monks died, did they set up palace towers and carve stone records to show their merits and inspire later generations. The shape and level of the tower, in addition to the influence of the fashion and specific conditions in various historical periods (such as the war era, the change of dynasties, etc.), also reflects the status, achievements and prestige of the deceased in the Buddhist community before his death. There are 232 tombs pagodas in Tallinn since Sui Dynasty, including 1 Sui stupa, 1 Tang pagoda, 2 Song pagodas, 7 Jin pagodas, 43 Yuan pagodas, 139 Ming pagodas, 1 Qing pagodas, 2 contemporary pagodas, 27 pagodas with unclear age, and 35 remnant pagodas and tower foundations. It covers an area of more than 14, square meters. It is the largest Tallinn in China. The shapes of these towers are colorful, divided into single-layer and multi-layer, and the maximum level is seven, which is known as the "seven-level pagoda" and the highest is 15 meters; According to the plane shape, there are squares, rectangles, hexagons, octagons and circles. According to the type, there are dense eaves type, wave blocking type and Lama type. Most of them are made of bricks and stones, and some are chiseled with whole stones. Towers are often engraved with exquisite patterns and reliefs. The contents of the tower inscription are more abundant, and the front of each tower has a tower forehead to identify the name of the tower owner; Some pagodas have a pagoda inscription behind them, and several influential monks stand by the pagoda, and they also set up steles to record the life story of the tower owner, the inheritance of the law, the people who set up the pagoda, the age of setting up the pagoda and so on in detail. Therefore, Tallinn in Shaolin Temple is not only an artistic treasure house for studying ancient masonry, calligraphy and sculpture in China, but also a very precious material for studying the history of Buddhism and Shaolin Temple. It is particularly worth pointing out that the Yuan and Ming Dynasties were one of the most important periods in the history of Shaolin Temple. From the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Xueting Fuyu, a great master, entered Shaolin, and the Zen Buddhism Cao Dong returned to his ancestral home until the end of the Ming Dynasty. During this period, there were many famous teachers and eminent monks, which was called "the period of Shaolin rejuvenation" in history and respected Xueting Fuyu as "the ancestor of ZTE". Combined with the historical biography of Zen Buddhism, we can see that this golden period of Shaolin Temple is also the main performance of Cao Dongzong's golden period, and it is also an important performance of China Buddhism in that period. The tomb towers and inscriptions of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties in the Tallinn of Shaolin Temple are especially valuable for the academic study of Zen history of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. In addition to Tallinn, there are 17 tomb pagodas scattered in and around Shaolin Temple since the Tang Dynasty, including 4 Tang pagodas, 1 Five-generation pagodas, 2 Song pagodas, 1 Yuan pagodas, 2 Ming pagodas, 4 Qing pagodas and 3 pagodas with unclear dates, which are also of high value. Among them, Faru Pagoda was built in the first year of Yongchang in the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 689), and there are monuments in the pagoda room, which is of greater value to the study of early Zen history. Lixue Pavilion, behind the abbot's room, was built in the seventh year of Ming Zhengde (A.D. 1512) to commemorate the Dharma Huike, and the hall was for the early ancestor Dharma. Above the shrine, the plaque "Snow-printed Heart Beads" is the imperial title of Emperor Hongli, Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty, when he visited Shaolin. The plaque is the seal of "Treasure of Qianlong Imperial Pen". After the shrine, Kinnara is served, cast in iron, with simple and powerful shape. The Bell Tower and Drum Tower are located on both sides of the Hall of Great Heroes, with the Bell Tower in the east and the Drum Tower in the west. They are four stories high and 45 meters high, which are rare in China. In 1928, Shaolin Temple was hit by a fire, the bell tower was destroyed, and the big iron bell fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. The bell tower was rebuilt in 1994 according to the old system. The bronze bell was cast according to the prototype in 1995, weighing 6.5 tons. The broken big iron clock on the platform in the north corner of the bell tower, that is, the original cast by Jintai and four years ago, has an inscription on it, and the karma is recorded in detail. Drum Tower was destroyed by fire in 1928. The existing Drum Tower was rebuilt according to the old system in 1995. Shaolin Temple Historic Shaolin Temple-Located at the west foot of Songshan Mountain in Zhongyue, 13 kilometers northwest of Dengfeng City, Henan Province, it is backed by Wuru Peak and opposite Shaoshi Mountain, such as Cuiping, with lush forests and charming scenery. Surrounded by mountains and mountains, the peaks are connected and scattered, forming a natural barrier of Shaolin Temple. In 1983, the State Council designated Shaolin Temple as a national key Buddhist temple and a national key cultural relic protection unit. Lingyue in the sea is like Songshan Mountain; In the Dojo in the mountain, Shaolin wins. Shaolin Temple is the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and martial arts in China, so it is known as "the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism and the Wulin resort" and is famous all over the world. Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 495). Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty deeply believed in Buddhism, and the Indian monk Postuo came to Luoyang in the east to preach Buddhism, which was highly respected by the emperor. Emperor Xiaowen ordered him to build a temple in the north of Shaoshi Mountain to provide him with food and clothing. Because the temple was built in the deep forest of Shaoshi Mountain, it was named "Shaolin Temple". Posto Tuo was the first monk to come to Shaolin Temple. He devoted himself to translating Buddhist scriptures in Shaolin Temple, and received hundreds of disciples, including Hui Guang, Daofang and Monk Thich. The second monk in Shaolin Temple is the legendary bodhidharma. According to legend, Dharma is the son of King suddhodana in South Tianzhu (ancient India), and his teacher Prajnaparamita is the 27th ancestor of ancient Indian Buddhism. After Dharma Dharma, he traveled across the ocean for three years, and when Liang Wudi heard of Dharma, he sent envoys to meet him in Nanjing. However, it was not an opportunity for Dharma to talk with Liang Wudi, so he crossed the river and came to Songshan Mountain, where he spent nine years in the inner wall of Wurufeng Cave in the back of Shaolin Temple, and founded Zen Buddhism in China. Later generations revered Dharma as the first ancestor of Zen, and Shaolin Temple was also called the ancestral court of Zen. In 574 AD, "Zhou Wu destroyed the Buddha" and Shaolin Temple was not spared. A few years later, Zhou Jingdi renamed the Shaolin Temple "Huyong Temple", restored the temple and the Buddha statue, and sent more than 12 monks, including Huiyuan and Hongzun, to stay in Huyong Temple. In the Sui Dynasty, Buddhism was strongly advocated. During the Emperor's reign, the old name of "Shaolin Temple" was restored, and it was given 1 hectares of wasteland in Baiguwu, making Shaolin Temple a manor with certain economic strength. At the end of Sui Dynasty, soldiers rose from all over the country, and Shaolin Temple suffered the first fire, which destroyed many temples, leaving only the remaining stupa. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, thirteen Shaolin stick monks saved Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and made great contributions to protecting the country. The Tang Dynasty constantly gave Shaolin Temple property, built a lot of buildings, and built a stupa hall. The emperor and queen often visited Shaolin Temple and regarded it as a treasure house of Buddhism. At that time, Shaolin Temple had more than 14, mu, 54 mu of temple base, 5,418 temple buildings and more than 2, monks. As "Shaolin Temple Monument" recorded: "Miao Lou Gao Ge, overlooking the forest, golden brake treasure bell, shaking the Qing Dynasty." In particular, in 723, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered an astronomer monk and his party to build a jade palace in Shaolin Temple. The monk and his party carefully designed and built a "Brahma Palace", and the carving was extremely exquisite, "to make it shine, to build a Buddhist garden, and to move the clouds." At that time, Shaolin Temple was brilliant, ranking first in the world. In the first year (AD 695), Wu Zetian enshrined Songshan Mountain and changed the title to the first year of "Long Live Dengfeng". The name of Dengfeng county was obtained from this. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many famous monks in Shaolin Temple, including good care, ambition, Tanzong, Ming Zen, Fa Ru, Tongguang and so on. Neo-Confucianism rose in the Song Dynasty, and Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism merged. Neo-Confucianism was influenced by Zen, and Zen and its ancestral temple Shaolin Temple also developed. During Song Yongxi's reign, there were more than 9,5 volumes of Buddhist scriptures in Shaolin Temple, which was called "the first temple in the world". The Yuan Dynasty was the revival period of Shaolin Temple, and the abbot of Fuyu was Shaolin Temple. He founded the Bell Tower and Drum Tower. "What is promoted is abolished, and the disciples say that the giver is like Yue, and the visitor is like the city." There were more than 2 monks at that time. Shaolin martial arts has also been fully developed. In the Ming Dynasty, Shaolin Temple was often renovated, making it new and resplendent. The Ming government exempted the grain difference and built a new Thousand Buddha Hall for Shaolin Temple. In the Qing Dynasty, the Shaolin Temple was renovated and rebuilt on a large scale. During the 13th year of Yongzheng, the emperor personally looked at the temple plan and approved the plan, and all the rice prices saved in the 12th year of Yongzheng and the accumulated public funds in Henan Province were spent. The cypress trees around the temple were cut down, the mountain gate was created, and the thousand Buddha halls and the old houses were rebuilt. In 175, Emperor Qianlong visited Shaolin Temple, stayed in the abbot's room for the night, and wrote a poem and set up a monument. In the late Qing Dynasty, Shaolin Temple declined day by day. Especially in 1928, blazing temple, Shi Yousan, the National Army, burned down the Dharma Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall and thousands of precious scriptures. The fire lasted for dozens of days and nights, and most of the halls of the Millennium Temple turned to scorched earth and became ruins.