Baima Temple, Tianyuan Town, Deyang City, Sichuan Province

There is an old temple-Baima Temple in Baisui Village in the east of Jiukou Town 10. According to legend, it was the pass of the Three Kingdoms period. Baima Temple is located in Baima Street, Baima Township, southeast of the city. It was originally built in the late Tang Dynasty and was later destroyed. Today's White Horse Temple was built by Shi Wucheng Shini, the president of the Buddhist Association of the city and the host of Pure Land Lotus Society, and restored to modernity. The wall courtyard is wide and large, and the Daxiong Hall is magnificent, which is really a good place for pilgrims to worship Buddha.

Baima Temple is located in the most prominent highland on Dongshan Island Road, not far from Dai Song Village, independent of other villages. It is used to pray for the lake god to bless the villagers with many children and grandchildren and protect the safety of fishermen. The White Horse Temple faces north and is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. The White Horse Temple is dedicated to Liu Yi. Baima Temple embodies the relationship between man and lake milk.

There is a white horse outside the White Horse Temple, and there are statues of Liu Yi and the Dragon Lady in the temple, as well as plaques such as the land of white horses in the Dragon Palace. There is a mirror wall inside and outside the temple, and there is a round moon hole on the wall. You can see Taihu Lake from the cave, and there is an island that moves mountains. It's really unique, picturesque and beautiful. More importantly, the White Horse Temple is a legend about the reasons for its construction. It can be roughly divided into two versions: one is a white horse, that is, Pang Tong's mount or Liu Bei's Luma.

When Pang Tong entered Sichuan with Liu Bei, he exchanged his mount with Liu Bei's horse, then attacked Luocheng and died. After his death, he was buried in Phoenix Slope of Baimaguan, and his mount was buried in Baima Temple. It is also said that the White Horse was originally Pang Tong's mount, but it was not Lu. Indeed, the history books did not tell Liu Bei and Pang Tong about changing horses.

Baima Temple is 20km away from Guanghan (Luoxian County of Three Kingdoms) and less than10km away from Shifang and Deyang. Considering the geographical location, folklore has certain credibility. At the end of last century, a tomb brick was unearthed within 200 meters of Baima Temple. This brick is engraved with patterns of clothes and horses of the Han Dynasty. This painting seems to tell a story related to the war. Later, because nothing else was unearthed, this brick was taken back by the locals for their own use, and now some people still keep it.

By luck, a few miles away from here, an official named Pang Shiyuan dreamed of riding a white horse at night during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Tianma Temple was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which is clearly recorded in Deyang County Records, or can be cited as evidence.

The other is called Baima Temple, which is the temple of Baishui, Baimabian and Baimaqiang.

This statement is more general, only that it was done by ethnic minorities such as Bian and Qiang. About Baima Miao and Baima Qiang who moved to Sichuan once lived in Beichuan and Mao Wen. Later, after crossing the Longmen Mountain, some people went down the river, settled here and built temples.

Although it seems absurd to build Diqiang Temple in the hinterland of Chengdu Plain, where almost all Han people are mainly Han people, according to the records in The History of the North Di Zhuan and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Diqiang and other "white horses" once lived in this area, so the possibility of ethnic integration cannot be ruled out.