"Four hundred and eighty halls in the southern dynasties, how many towers are misty and rainy". After thousands of years, many temples in the Southern Dynasties, which were once full of incense, have been preserved very little. Among these temples, Fuyan Temple, an ancient temple in the Southern Dynasties, is famous at home and abroad.
1990 Fuyan Temple resumed opening to the outside world. Compared with Lingyin Temple, the Daxiong Hall rebuilt by Fuyan Temple has a slightly lower height and a worse building area. Sakyamuni in Lingyin Temple has a high ear, and the Tathagata in Fuyan Temple should have at least this stature. According to the inscription on the stone bell in the temple, Fuyan Temple was built in the second year of Southern Liang Dynasty (503), and was built in Taishan by Zen Master Ridong, and in the third year of Tang Ganfu (876). Tang Xizong inscribed "Thousand Rides of the Temple". The first year of Xiangfu in Song Dynasty (1008) was changed to today's Fuyan Temple. In the early Qing Dynasty, Fuyan Temple had more than 0/00 temples/kloc, five halls, such as Tianwang, Daxiong and Tong Yuan, and 500 arhat halls, which were magnificent and beautiful. Fuyan Temple has experienced ups and downs since its establishment. However, the main reason why it flourished in the Qing Dynasty was that most temples were presided over by eminent monks. Fuyan Temple is not like a "jungle of descendants" where young monks in Shadu Temple inherit the mantle, but a "jungle of selecting sages" where they visit eminent monks with virtue in the sea as heirs.
Fuyan Temple covers an area of 54 mu. There is a river in front of the temple, which leads to the canal. There is a stone arch bridge on the river: Mingquanlong Bridge, also known as Qiao Feng Bridge. Qiao Feng is in the north, with winding paths leading to secluded places, leading directly to the Temple Gate, commonly known as "Mountain Road". On both sides of the southern end, there is an ancient well. To the north of the ancient well, there is an ancient pine forest with lush foliage.
The winding is lush, and there is a giant pine in the forest. The top of the tree stands alone in the forest, and there is a big pine ball on the top, which is very strange. Fuyan Temple building on the north side of the pine forest is lined with a single pen. Everything in the temple has a winding stream lying under the Zhu wall. The northernmost is Tianzhong Mountain, with two rivers embracing each other behind the land, and the blue waves are leisurely. Looking at the whole Fuyan Temple, the Quannong Bridge is like a phoenix mouth, the ancient well is like a phoenix eye, the mountain road is like a phoenix neck, the big pine cone on the giant pine tree is like a phoenix crown, the long and narrow land winding from east to west is like a phoenix wing, and the two rivers behind the mountain are like phoenix tails, so it is called "the land of the phoenix" and has always been regarded as a "land of feng shui".
"Stone-filled bell" and "Yin-Yang mirror" are famous instruments of Fuyan Temple. "Stone-filled clock" weighs 4 tons. There was not enough copper juice at the beginning of casting. Jackson Yin Fei threw a stone, and the bell rang loudly, and his voice was very clear.
The main buildings in the temple are the Heavenly King Hall, Mahayana Mahayana Hall, Guanyin Hall and Luohan Hall. Yanfu Cultural Park, built by temples, covers an area of more than 60 mu. It is a cultural park with Buddhist culture as its connotation and integrating religious sightseeing and leisure. It is divided into two parks. Xiyuan, with Buddhist culture as its main content, is an ideal place for people to understand Buddhism, know Buddhism and appreciate its profoundness. The East Garden is a typical water garden in the south of the Yangtze River, with rocks and water for tourists to visit.
Fuyan Temple has an elegant environment, with a walkway in front of the temple, shaded by pine and cypress, and a hill behind the temple, which is pruned in the shade. Songtao bursts, bamboo rhyme is long! No dust, great scenery! It makes people feel relaxed and happy, so they forget. Looking at the whole temple, there is Zhu Yuan in front and green water protection in the back. It's quiet and solemn, with a pure Buddhist atmosphere. As soon as you step into the temple, you feel far away from the secular and elegant, so it has always been a tourist attraction. Fuyan Temple has gone through several dynasties, leaving many cultural relics and antiques. Among the cultural relics left by Fuyan Temple, "Seven Treasures of Yan Fu" is the most famous. These are crepe marble, stone clock, Yin-Yang mirror, Sakyamuni Buddha, horse drum, five hundred arhats and jade gold grinding tablets. Crepe marble is one of the three famous stones in Jiangnan. It has been stored in Fuyan Temple for hundreds of years. It was sent to Hangzhou for preservation during the Cultural Revolution and is now stored in Mingshiyuan, Hangzhou. At present, the crepe Yunfeng in Yanfu Buddhist Cultural Park is a symbol of this famous stone. The stone step clock is 2. 1 m high, 1.4 m in diameter and weighs about 8 kg. This is a rare giant bronze bell, which was built by the famous monk Zen Master Yin Fei and has a history of more than 300 years. According to Qing County Records, when casting, there was a sudden shortage of copper water, so Yin Fei Zen Master invested four bluestones and two bronze bells to make it. Among the seven treasures in the temple, the diameter of the mirror of Yin and Yang is 1.73 meters, and it weighs 560 kilograms. It is an oversized round bronze mirror, which was cast in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and made beautifully. Legend has it that it can see the underworld, so it is called the mirror of Yin and Yang. There are also jade hui gold milling tablets. In the 11th year of Yongzheng (1734), Mingpei was made a master of Wen Jue, and the calligraphy "Jade Hui Jin Xi Bei" was given to him. Horse skin drum is made in 1674, and the drum surface is 2 meters in diameter. This is a rare drum in China, made of horse skin. In addition, there are many stone tablets and famous paintings and calligraphy in the temple.
Over the past 1000 years, there have been a large number of eminent monks in Fuyan Temple, such as Zhenjue in the Song Dynasty, Yin Fei and Jingnian in the Qing Dynasty, Zhinan in the late Qing Dynasty, and Gu Hua in the early years of the Republic of China. They all made great contributions to the development of Fuyan Temple. Fuyan Temple has always been a summer resort, so it has established contact with many celebrities. The edge of the solution. Yang Wan Li, a great taoist in the Song Dynasty, once visited the temple and wrote a poem "Chongde Road Wangfuyan Temple". Kang Youwei, a pioneer of modern reformism, took refuge here after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, and left a couplet. Lin Juemin and Lin, martyrs of Huanghuagang, have visited here many times. Pu Hua, a painter in the late Qing Dynasty, lived in the temple for a long time and made a famous painting, The Picture of Crepe Marble. Feng Zikai, a master of modern comics, often came and went when he lived in Shimen, his hometown. Every year, on June 28th of the lunar calendar, it is the incense party of Fuyan Temple. About ten days before and after this date, Fuyan Temple was very lively, with a sea of pilgrims, tourists, businessmen and artists. The temple is surrounded by cigarettes and brilliant candlelight, and is known as "Little Putuo".