Linggu Park

Linggu park is located at the south foot of Nanjing Zijin Mountain and east of Zhongshan Mausoleum. It is an important part of Nanjing Zhongshan scenic area. It is named Linggu park because of Linggu Temple.

Linggu park has Linggu Temple, Linggu tower, Wuliang hall, Baogong tower, three unique steles, Wangong pool, Deng Yanda tomb and many other places of interest. Linggu Temple was originally named Kaishan temple. It was built by Emperor Liangwu of the Southern Dynasty to commemorate the famous monk Baozhi. Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave it the name of "Linggu Temple" and named it "the first Zen forest in the world".

Linggu Park

Linggu park is located at the south foot of Nanjing Zijin Mountain and the east of Zhongshan Mausoleum. It is an important part of Nanjing Zhongshan scenic spot. It is named Linggu park because of Linggu Temple. There are many historic sites, such as Linggu Temple, Linggu tower, Wuliang hall, Baogong tower, Sanjue stele, Wangong pool, dengyanda tomb and so on.

Linggu Temple was originally named Kaishan temple. It was built by Emperor Liangwu of the Southern Dynasty to commemorate the famous monk Baozhi. Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave it the name of "Linggu Temple" and named it "the first Zen forest in the world". During the period of the Republic of China, a cemetery for the dead soldiers was built here. The main gate, memorial archway, SONGFENG Pavilion, Linggu tower, etc. were newly added. They are still well preserved.

Introduction to scenic spots

Historical evolution

Linggu park is located at the south foot of Nanjing Zijin Mountain and east of Zhongshan Mausoleum. It is an important part of Nanjing Zhongshan scenic area. It is named Linggu park because of Linggu Temple.

Linggu Temple, formerly known as Kaishan temple, was built by Liang Wudi Xiao Yan in 514 to bury his master, monk Baozhi. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Baogong temple; in the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Kaishan Daochang; in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Taiping Xingguo temple; in the early Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Jiangshan temple.

The Linggu Temple in the park, originally built in 1867, is a dragon temple. Although it is small in scale, it contains the parietal bone of master Xuanzang, which is extremely precious. The Wuliang hall, which is dedicated to wuliangshou Buddha, is also preserved in the ancient Linggu Temple. It is commonly known as Wuliang hall because it has no wood or rafters. It was converted into a sacrificial hall in the period of the Republic of China, and now it is a wax museum of 1911 celebrities. The altar in front of Tan Yankai's tomb is the original of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing.

Scenery

Linggu Temple was originally built in dulongfu of Zijin Mountain, which is now the location of Xiaoling Mausoleum of Ming Dynasty. In the 14th year of Hongwu (1318), Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, moved the temple and pagoda to build the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in dulongfu and renamed it Linggu Temple. At that time, the scale was very large, covering an area of more than 500 mu. On the mountain gate, it was written "the first Zen forest in the world", which was destroyed by the fire of war. The present Linggu Temple is a cemetery for the soldiers of the national revolutionary army who died in battle, which was built in the original Temple site from 1928 to 1935. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was renamed Linggu Park, but it was still called Linggu Temple.

The gate of Linggu park is a hall with three arches, covered with green glazed tiles and red walls on both sides. On the middle gate is the title of "Linggu Shengjing", and on both sides of the gate are the books of "Songsheng" and "Quantao". Due to the south of the gate, there is a crescent shaped release pool with a length of nearly 100 meters, also known as Wangong pool. It is said that it was excavated by Zhu Yuanzhang using 10000 military workers. Entering the gate and passing the rain road is the Wuliang hall. In the east of Wuliang hall, there is Linggu Temple, in which the main hall is for Tathagata Buddha; daojue hall is for the spiritual bones of master Xuanzang; Guanyin Pavilion is for Guanyin Bodhisattva; there are also Sutra collection building, Maitreya hall, ancestral hall and other buildings. Opposite the temple gate is a yellow screen wall with a top. There is a quality monument in the east of the temple, which is about 5 meters high and engraved with the word "Linggu Shensong". Further east across the bridge is a five Ying ancient building called Liuyuan hall, which is now a foreign restaurant.

Main attractions

The tomb of Deng Yanda is less than 100 meters southeast of Liuchu hall. In the middle of the tomb is a round flower bed. There are open-air corridors on both sides, surrounded by concrete bars and Wisteria as awning, and a Square Pavilion at each end of the corridor. In front of the tomb are cedars and cypresses. There are lawns on the ground and stone walls on the East, West and north sides. There is a granite tombstone in front of the tomb, engraved with "the tomb of martyr Deng Yanda" written by He Xiangning. The tomb is round, built on a platform, 4.5 meters high and 9.5 meters in diameter. It is a provincial cultural relics protection unit.

Wuliang Hall

At the back of Wuliang hall is the first cemetery of soldiers killed in battle. This tomb, together with the second and third cemeteries located 300 meters from east to west, buries 1029 soldiers killed in the Northern Expedition and anti Japanese war. Behind the arc-shaped tomb wall is SONGFENG Pavilion, which is built on dozens of steps. The pavilion is 10 meters high and 41.7 meters wide. It has two floors of nine pillars, an ambulatory, surrounded by red pillars. The second floor is hollow, covered with green glazed tiles and blue eaves. There is a Baoding in the middle of the corridor behind the pavilion. It is engraved with the four characters "Mingding chuxun". One hundred meters to the north is Linggu pagoda, the landmark scenic spot of Linggu Temple.

Wuliang temple, originally known as Wuliang temple, got its name because it worships Wuliang longevity Buddha. It was built in the early Ming Dynasty and is the only remaining building in Linggu Temple. From the base of the hall to the roof, it is all built with big bricks, without any wood or rafters. Therefore, it is commonly known as Wuliang hall. It inherits the traditional structure of arched structure, with five couplets and three entrances. It is 50 meters long from east to west, 34 meters wide from north to south, and 37 meters deep. 8 meters, domed, 22 meters high, with 3 arches in front and back, and windows on all sides. Its architecture has a long history, magnificent momentum and solid structure, which can be rated as the best of its kind in China. In front of the hall, there is a memorial archway with five couplets and a top. In the middle of the archway, the words "benevolence and righteousness" are engraved on the forehead and the words "save the country and the people" are engraved on the back. In front of the square, there are a pair of Chinese white jade sculptures. Inside the hall, Sun Yat Sen's "will of the prime minister" and the list of soldiers killed in the national revolution were inscribed on the wall.

Linggu Pagoda

Linggu tower is 66 meters high, with nine floors and eight sides, 14 meters in diameter at the bottom and 9 meters in diameter at the top. It is a granite and reinforced concrete mixed structure. It was built in 1933. It was called the memorial tower of the dead in battle at that time, commonly known as the nine storey tower. Inside the tower, there are 252 spiral steps around the central stone column. Each floor is covered with blue glazed tile eaves. Outside the tower, there is a circle of corridors, which are surrounded by stone railings for visitors to overlook.

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