Temple of heaven garden

Temple of heaven garden

The temple of heaven garden is located in Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It is located in the east foot of Shantou City, adjacent to the scenic spot of Shantou City. It is close to the mountain and the sea, and faces Shantou City across the sea. It is a religious scenic spot in eastern Guangdong.

The famous scenic spots in the temple of heaven garden include baihuajian temple, Jiutian temple, ten thousand Buddha pagoda, etc.

The temple of heaven garden has convenient transportation and direct bus stops. It is now open for free.

Brief introduction

Temple of heaven garden is located in Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, facing Shantou inner bay. It's where the tourists are looking for a range rover. The temple of heaven garden was initiated by Hong Kong compatriot Chen xiqian and other overseas Chinese, who donated a lot of money to build it. There are baihuajian temple, ten thousand Buddha pagoda, Jiutian temple, dragon boat boat and Siqin hall in the garden, which can be called a good combination of natural scenery and artificial construction, elegant and magnificent temple. The magnificent temple of heaven garden is just like a bright pearl inlaid in Jinshi scenic spot.

Baihuajian temple, also known as jiutianniangniang temple, is the central body of the temple of heaven garden. When it was completed in October 1993, the building was designed and constructed by ancient architectural engineers. With its grand scale, elegant and unique, full of folk culture and art landscape, it can be called "Chaoshan folk culture Grand View Garden" and is appreciated by tourists at home and abroad.

"The mountain is not high, the immortal is famous, the water is not deep, and the dragon is spirit." the temple is full of incense and pilgrims. It has been built into a tourist attraction integrating folk custom, culture and religion.

geographical position

The temple of heaven garden is located at the eastern foot of Jinshi, adjacent to Jinshi scenic spot and across the sea from Shantou City. Its geographical location is close to the mountain and the sea, and the Cape has beautiful natural scenery. There are mountain streams, winding paths and shady trees. There is no sound of flowers and birds. There is no noise of busy traffic in the downtown area. There is no pure land of annoying and ugly elephants.

The temple of heaven garden is located in the corner of the sea. It is crowned as the first tower in East Guangdong, the nine heaven Xuannv pagoda, which rises to the sky. The statue of god Buddha, God and man together, covering the southern sky. Visitors climb the tower to look at the modern landscape of Shantou; hazy place: the sea and sky share the same color, seagulls fly, Qionglouyuyu, ring city stands, giant ships fly boats, overpass across the sky, making visitors feel like a mirage.

Main attractions

Baihuajian Temple

Baihuajian temple is located on the seashore of Tiantan garden at the east foot of Qishi. Its single area is the largest in the whole province. It is also called jiutianniangniang temple. When it was completed in October 1993, as many as 50000 people at home and abroad attended the Kaiguang ceremony, which is unprecedented. Since then, it has become a hot tourist spot in Shantou.

 

The baihuajian temple was proposed by Hong Kong compatriot Chen xiqian and other overseas Chinese, and was built with huge donations,

 

The main god of the temple is the goddess of the Ninth Heaven, also known as the "goddess of the Ninth Heaven". It is said that she is an ancient goddess with a human head and a bird's body. She is the disciple of the virgin and the teacher of the Yellow Emperor. She helped the yellow emperor to defeat Chiyou and stabilize the world, and was granted the title of goddess. Mr. Liu Xiwang built baihuajian temple in Guantang District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. And because of the dream that the goddess asked: change "hundred" to "white", so it was renamed "white flower point Temple". When Mr. Chen xiqian came to Shantou to advocate the construction of the temple of heaven garden project, he moved the incense from jiulongniang temple to build jiutianniangniang temple, which is called "baihuajian Temple".

 

The foundation of the temple was laid on September 17, 1991 (Jiawu, August 14 of the lunar calendar), and it was completed and opened on October 3, 1993. With a total construction area of 4000 square meters, it is located in the west to the East, close to the mountain and facing the sea, facing the Mayu island and the Bay Bridge, magnificent and majestic.

 

The broad shibancheng in front of the gate of the temple is 40 meters wide and 40 meters deep. It is decorated with stone carving in the middle, Double Dragons and white stone railings for carving all kinds of dragons. It is carved with stone from Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Province, which is solemn and elegant. With all kinds of bonsai, Guangcheng has a unique scenery. In the middle of Dacheng, a pavilion called "parents of heaven and earth" was set up to cast a couplet saying: "Heaven's grace is universal, the world's people are exposed to the rain, the earth's spirit is outstanding, and the people are peaceful.". There is a pair of iron censers behind the pavilion. Close to the gate, there is a pair of stone lions with exquisite carving skills, two tripods, two towering kapok trees, and an ancient well called frog spring.

 

In the gate tower of the temple, there are four Panlong pillars. On the south wall and the north wall, there is a large clay relief mural with a height of 2.6 meters and a width of 8.75 meters. In the north, there is "Nuwa mending the sky". The plaque on the left and right door of the temple is engraved with "the virgin of Lishan Mountain" and "the virgin of the queen of heaven", and the wooden inscription on the door couplet is: "the nine days are wide, the four seas are straight to the same day, and the rain and dew are applied to all living beings crossing the world.". Six color paintings of the gate of the great temple are painted to exorcise the evil spirits of the civil and military generals Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, Wei Zheng, Xu MaoGong and Xie Yingdeng, giving visitors a sense of dignity.

 

The temple is divided into three entrances and one patio, with a total depth of 60 meters, a width of 40 meters and a maximum height of 22 meters. The ground is paved with smooth stone slabs, covered with orange glazed tiles and decorated with ceramic Double Dragons. It is in sharp contrast to the blue glazed tiles of the temples under the pagoda in the south.

 

On the north and south sides of the gate building, there are three.6-meter-high statues of the four heavenly kings, majestic. In the main gate building, there is a long wooden couplet written by Cai Qixian, vice president of Linghai poetry society, and Su bojiong, vice chairman of the Municipal Association of calligraphers: "the beautiful scenery of the nine days is wonderful, the southern Guangdong can be like a stone, the Virgin Mary's grace is far away, and the white flowers shine all over the city." In the north and South Corridor, there are two meters high and 16 meters wide large clay reliefs "Lishan Yide" and "Tian Hou Xiansheng". On the wall of the North corridor is the inscription of the temple, which was written by Mr. Chen xiqian.

 

The second entrance is baiting. The two beams above are painted with two large-scale color traditional Chinese paintings, which are "a myriad of colors is always spring" and "a beautiful landscape left behind". On the ground, the color stone is skillfully used to pave a "Fu" character, which is unique.

 

The third entrance is the main hall. The couplet written by Mr. Cai Qixian said: "nine days of rain in southern Guangdong, the goddess of mercy clouds shade my tide." Mr. Yang Kai, chairman of the municipal Book Association, wrote a couplet: "the nine palaces are empty in the fog, and disasters bless all the people, and heaven will be wise and powerful to drive away evil spirits.". On both sides of the main hall, there are wooden plates for "Silence" and "evasion", as well as tools such as knives, spears, halberds and hammers. There are big bells and drums at both ends. In the main hall, there is a statue of the goddess of heaven, the goddess of Lishan, the Jade Emperor, Jiang Taigong, the great sage Buddha, the Seven Saints, Huatuo immortal master and dadebogong. In the middle of the courtyard on the top of the hall, there is a large wooden eight diagrams with a diameter of 5 meters. The animals of the zodiac with gold stickers are carved in Hezhou. Four floating dragons surround the eight diagrams. There are also murals with painted cranes, which make the whole gallery colorful.

 

Jiutian Temple

On September 29, 2007, with the support of the Chinese Buddhist Association, the ceremony of the inauguration of the Jiutian Zen temple in Shantou Tiantan garden, the Kaiguang ceremony of Buddha statues and the ascension ceremony of Dharma Masters, was held simply and solemnly.

 

Ten thousand Buddha pagoda

In the garden of the temple of heaven, on the east side of the baihuajian temple, stands a "tower king" of Guangdong, 56.5 meters high and 28 meters in diameter. The pagoda is surrounded by statues of immortals and two-story octagonal glazed green tile buildings, which make the pagoda more magnificent.

 

The pagoda is located in the west to the East, in the same direction as the temple, only tens of meters away. In front of the tower, there is a broad stone slab with an area of 850 square meters. A small temple with red brick walls was built in front of the city to worship the two gods of Boyi Gong and Fude Ye. On the north and south sides of chengshang, there are 12 clay statues of little Shami, which are of different shapes, vivid and fascinating.

 

There are three gates in the gate tower of the ancestral hall under the pagoda. A pair of stone drums in front of the main gate, each 1.4 meters high, are carved with small stone lions playing balls. The paintings of Qin Qiong and yuchigong (the main gate), Shencha and Yulei (the North Gate), Fan Li and Bigan (the South Gate) are painted on the doors of the three gates to expel evil spirits. At the top of the gate tower, there is a 1.5-meter-high clay statue of Dafeng patriarch in the middle. Beside it, there are three pavilions decorated with blue ceramic ridge beast.

 

Enqin temple is surrounded by the pagoda. The outer wall of the temple is 14 meters away from the pagoda. It is octagonal. The outer wall is 25.98 meters long. It has two floors, with a total height of 12 meters and a total construction area of 4121 square meters. It is elegant and chic with green tiles and red bricks. On the red brick wall, except the gate tower, there are 32 concave positions with a height of 1.5 meters, a width of 1 meters and a depth of 0.5 meters on the other seven sides. Each clay sculpture is decorated with a relief of ancient story characters, such as Wu Song Da Hu, Chang'e Ben Yue, Nezha Nao Hai, blowing Xiao Yin Feng, Ji Quan Fu Qiu, Mr. Dongguo, Kou Zhun Bei Ti, Longzhong Ding CE, Guan Gong, Liang Hongyu, Mu Guiying, and so on. The wall end is continuously inlaid with colored porcelain murals, such as flowers, birds, insects, fish and people. The painted porcelain murals on the wall of the temple are magnificent and exquisite.

 

The ancestral hall and pagoda are built with the combination of ancient and modern architectural methods. They stand tall and majestic. The pagoda covers an area of only 3485 square meters and is divided into nine floors. The ground is the first floor, with a height of 6.93 meters and a construction area of 776 square meters. The ninth floor is 3.3 meters high and the building area is 158 square meters. At the top is a gold gourd with a lightning rod made of stainless steel. Each floor of the pagoda is built with terrazzo railings, and the bottom is decorated with blue glazed tiles. The walls of the pagoda are inlaid with white stone slabs, with a beautiful appearance. One door and seven false windows are set on the first and seventh floors respectively, which are made of polyester (commonly known as "glass fiber reinforced plastic") to sculpture Buddha and Bodhisattva. The first floor is Maitreya Buddha (1.5 meters high and 1.2 meters wide)

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