Sweet Dew Temple

Ganlu temple is located at the waist of Huacheng peak, on the North Road of Jiuhua Mountain. It is the first scene of Jiuhua Mountain. Originally known as "Ganlu Temple", also known as "Ganlu Chan forest", it is one of the "four great jungles" of Jiuhua Mountain, together with Zhiyuan temple, Dongya temple and Baisui palace. In 1667, monk Dong'an built a temple. It is said that on the eve of the construction, all the pine needles in the mountain were covered with nectar, which is called miracle. It is also said that Sakyamuni said, "I speak for the public about the method of purifying nectar.". Amitabha has the titles of "manna Tathagata" and "manna king". When he incarnated, he said "rain of manna", so he named it manna temple. Ganlu temple is located on the hillside, and it is the only way to the North Road. The temple is spacious, with many Buddha statues, luxuriant forest and bamboo, and the environment is very elegant. As a result, the fragrance is strong. Dong an went to Fuhu cave twice after he said he had quit. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, monk youtan, the abbot, began to preach precepts and became a jungle. During the reign of Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, it was rebuilt many times. Temple built on the mountain, up to five stories, glazed tile top, glittering gold, surrounded by bamboo forest, covering the day. Beside the temple, there is a centering stone, which is steep and steep. Pedestrians sit on the stone. The wind blows, the bamboo sea and the pines make people feel better. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, monk youtan, the abbot, began to preach precepts and became a jungle. In the 16th year of Daoguang (1836), the abbot monk Qinglian expanded. Xianfeng three years (1853) Abbot Monk Biography, when the Temple Road war. Eight years (1858) Abbot Seng en Hao rebuilt. In the third year of tongzhi (1864), he suffered from the war again. The next year, the abbot monk Fayuan was rebuilt. In 1894, the abbot monk Da Hang raised money and went to Beijing to return to the Tibetan Sutra. It was rebuilt twice in 1956 and 1983, and was designated by the State Council as the national key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area. In 1985, it was rebuilt and painted with gold. Today, there are many cultural relics, such as Da Xiong hall, Pei Dian, Liao Fang, bell and drum, tablet inscriptions and so on. The building area of the temple is 3500 square meters, which is the key temple in China. The whole temple has an irregular layout, which is composed of three groups of residential buildings and palace style main hall. The two groups of buildings, Weituo hall and Zhike hall, are arranged on a 2.5-meter-high platform with three storeys of attic. Zhike hall has four storeys of windows on the wall, but actually only three storeys. The top-level windows increase the sense of hierarchy. In the south of Weituo hall, the main hall is 15 meters high, with a half corridor in front. The hall is built on a platform 6.8 meters high, 17 meters wide and 15.5 meters deep. To the east of the main hall is a two-story zoumatong building with an inner patio, 22 meters deep and 15 meters wide. The upper and lower floors are the ancestral hall, the Abbot's inspection hall, the Shan hall and the guest rooms. After pedestrians enter the gate, they go out from the side door of the mountain gate, turn to the ten steps uphill, and then enter the hall from the side, giving people an obvious sense of spatial hierarchy and the effect of light and shade changes. There are three patios and hundreds of windows in the temple. The roof of the temple is hard mountain with two or four falls of water, while the main hall is Xieshan. The temple is spacious, with neat pavilions, green hills on the back and flowing water in front, which is very poetic and picturesque. The ancients stayed in this temple, there were "the sound of the spring in the corner of the house, the haze at the head of the bed" and "to stay in this Buddhist pass, you will know the scenery of the mountains". Beside the road in front of the temple, there is a stone ice pattern flower railings. You can look at the mountains from the railings in the shade of ancient trees.

Sweet Dew Temple

Ganlu temple is located in Beigu mountain on the Bank of the Yangtze River in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province. Ganlu temple was built in the first year of Dongwu (256), so it is named. Liu Bei was famous for entering Wu to marry Sun Quan's younger sister during the Three Kingdoms period.

Ganlu temple, for thousands of years, has been visited by countless literati and poets. They are eager to show their talents, express their feelings on the spot, and have strong feelings. They have left many magnificent poems.

Historical evolution

During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei came to Ganlu temple to recruit relatives. When he saw Beigu mountain standing on the riverside, the water and sky were open, and the scenery was magnificent, he couldn't help exclaiming: "this is the best River and mountain in the world.".

The story of sun Liu's marriage has been handed down for thousands of years. Whether it is handed down by people or famous by people, the story of sun Liu's marriage has left a deep impression in Beigu mountain. Ganlu temple is located on the top of the back peak of Beigu mountain, so Beigu mountain has the saying of "Siguan mountain".

Related allusions

In Chapter 54 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms, the story of "seeing the bridegroom in the Tai Buddhist temple of Wu state, uncle Liu's bridal chamber and his wife" takes place here. After the battle of Chibi, Liu Bei refused to return Jingzhou in the Soochow Dynasty. Zhou Yu offered a trick to Sun Quan. Using his younger sister sun Shangxiang as bait, he set up a beauty trick to induce Liu Bei to come to Jingkou for marriage. He took the opportunity to take the hostage to return Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang made the marriage between sun and Liu come true, and made Soochow lose his wife and become a soldier. This is the story sung in Peking Opera.

Ganlu Temple recruits relatives and makes them come true. Liu Bei is a cheap girl. Sun Quan is dumb and eats Coptis chinensis. They know it by heart. On this day, when they were traveling together, Liu Bei saw a huge stone in the pool, so he pulled out his sword and prayed silently: "if I can return to Jingzhou and become a king, the stone under the sword will crack. If I die here, I can't cut the stone." When the sword fell, the stone cracked. Sun Quan was there and asked clearly. "Why does Xuande split this stone with his sword?" Liu Bei is naturally right and wrong. Sun Quan also pulled out his sword and cleaved to another stone. The sword fell and opened. Sun Quan asked what the divination was, but Liu Bei did not ask. They looked at each other, looked up at the sky and laughed, leaving behind the two broken stones. Later generations called them "sword testing stones".

There is a stone on the west side of duojinglou in Ganlu temple, which looks like a sheep but not a sheep. It is said that on the eve of the battle of Chibi, Liu Bei came to Jingkou and Sun Quan accompanied him on a tour of the iron urn city. Next to the stone on the back peak, they set up a alliance to fight against Cao. There is a path between two cliffs in the mountain, called liumajian.

Celebrities of all ages like to visit Beigu to express their feelings, especially Xin Qiji's poem "Beigu mountain in Jingkou" in the Song Dynasty: "visiting and seeing off the eyes, in the late autumn of my hometown...".

Folklore

According to legend, one day Sun Quan and Liu Bei were drinking in the Ganlu temple, and the river was windy. When Liu Bei saw a boat on the river, he could not help admiring that "people in the south are good at boating, and people in the north are good at riding, so he believed it." When Sun Quan heard that he was not happy, he said to Liu Bei, "who said that people in the south are not good at riding." after that, he ordered him to lead the horse around. Sun Quan left his seat, got on the horse, and galloped down the mountain along Liuma stream. Liu Bei was unwilling to fall behind. He flew to chase after Sun Quan. This rock trail was named "Liuma stream" because of the story of sun and Liu's horse racing.

Beigu Pavilion, also known as Jijiang Pavilion, is located at the top of the back peak of Beigu mountain. It is said that after Liu Bei's westward expedition to Sichuan, Sun Quan pretended that his mother was ill and cheated sun Shangxiang to return to Wu. One day, Mrs. sun heard that Liu Bei was defeated and died in the army. She was very sad. She cried at Xiyao and died in the river. Later generations also called Beigu Pavilion "Jijiang Pavilion" in memory of Mrs. sun. Ganlu temple is famous for its iron tower. Ganlu temple tower, built in the Song Dynasty, has nine levels and eight sides, with exquisite shape. The original tower collapsed in the Ming Dynasty due to the tsunami, leaving only the lowest three floors. In 1960, when the Zhenjiang Cultural Management Association was repairing the tower of Ganlu temple, it found an underground palace three and a half feet away from the base of the tower.

Layout structure

In Ganlu temple, there is a rectangular stone box in the underground palace. There are small stones in the big stone box. More than 700 Buddhist relics have been excavated from the stone letters, and the number is unprecedented. One of the most precious is the 11 Sakyamuni Buddhist relics buried in a gold coffin and a silver coffin in a stone letter, which was later confirmed by scholars.

Luo Yin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Shiyang in front of Miaoshan in Runzhou." the purple bearded sanggai ponders here, but the cruel stone still exists, and things can be found. The Han Ding is not in peace, and he talks about it. Although the Chu Dynasty is beautiful and willing to work together? " This proves that before the Tang Dynasty, the story of sun Liu united against Cao in Beigu mountain was widely spread. In 1205 ad, Xin Qiji, a great poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, ascended Beigu mountain to express his feelings, leaving an eternal masterpiece. "Where to look at China, you can see the beautiful Beigu building. The rise and fall of the ages are long. The Yangtze River is rolling. As a young man, the southeast war is not over. Who are the heroes in the world? Cao Liu. Having a son should be like sun Zhongmou. “

Surrounding scenery

Nanshan is the general name of Zhaoyin mountain, Huanghe mountain, Jiashan mountain, Jiuhua Mountain and other mountains, covering an area of about 18 square kilometers (about 1800 hectares), with 73% forest coverage, more than 60 kinds of trees and more than 70 kinds of birds.

Nanshan scenic spot is 2.5km away from the city center, which is composed of Zhaoyin scenic spot, bamboo forest scenic spot, Helin scenic spot and Wenyuan. It is not only a National Forest Park, but also a famous provincial scenic spot. Mi Fu called it "urban mountain forest".

Since the Southern Dynasties, it has been welcomed by scholars of all ages: Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming in Liang Dynasty, who compiled Zhaoming Wenxuan, Liu Xie, the author of Wenxindiaolong, Dai Jia, the famous artist, Su Dongpo, the great poet, Mi Fu and Mi Youren, who founded the "Mi Yunshan" painting school, have written and lingered here. Liu Yu, the founder of the Southern Song Dynasty, used to cut firewood and fish and sell straw sandals when he was young. There is no doubt that this is a treasure land of geomantic omen. Luo Binwang, Wang Changling, Kangxi, Qianlong and other hundreds of literati and emperors have left a chapter of praising Nanshan. It's really a pleasant place.

Ganlu temple tower, upgraded to the national cultural protection unit in 2013, is located in the southeast of the main peak of Beigu mountain. It was built by Li Deyu, the Duke of Wei, in the first year of Tang Baoli (825). It is a stone tower, formerly known as "Duke of Wei tower". It was recast as an iron tower in Song Dynasty. All of them are made of iron imitation wooden tower with a height of about 8 meters. The tower of Ganlu temple not only reflects the ancient Chinese culture

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