Nanquan Temple

Nanquan Temple

Nanquan temple is located in the southeast suburb of Xiangyin County, 3km away from the county in the north and 38km away from Changsha in the south. According to the records of the rise of Shuanglin temple in Nanquan mountain of Tanzhou in 1694, Nanquan temple is one of the more than 40 temples in Tanzhou. During the period of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (around 1140), the founder of Pu'an went to have a rest here. He dug a well to get a spring, and the spring water was clear. He built the Shuanglin Temple by Zhumao Jianfa.

Nanquan temple is named "Nanquan Temple" because the spring is in the south of the temple. From the end of the epidemic to December 31, 2020, the scenic spot has implemented the free ticket policy for medical workers all over the country.

Brief introduction of ancient temple

Nanquan temple is located in the southeast suburb of Xiangyin County, 3km away from the county in the north and 38km away from Changsha in the south. According to the records of the rise of Shuanglin temple in Nanquan mountain of Tanzhou in 1694, Nanquan temple is one of the more than 40 temples in Tanzhou.

During the period of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (around 1140), the founder of Pu'an went to have a rest here. He dug a well to get a spring, and the spring water was clear. He built the Shuanglin Temple by Zhumao Jianfa. Because the spring is in the south of the temple, it is named "Nanquan Temple". Since its establishment, the temple has lasted for more than 300 years from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty. In 1406, the famous monk Deyong was diligent in legal affairs and won popularity. He continued to renovate the temple.

in disrepair

Nanquan temple, not a few years old, has a majestic Pavilion and a flourishing Buddha and monk. During the Zhengde period (around 1510), Qin Yihong and other masters increased the repair and expansion, which made the temple look brand new. At that time, the county magistrate Wang Gong also set up a tablet for it. During the period from Zhengde to Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (around 1551), the temple was in disrepair for a long time, and the house collapsed and was eroded by several rains. Huang tingkai presided over the fund-raising. He was sponsored by Xianda at that time and sent the door of the temple to repair. After that, a tablet was set up. At the time of the revolution of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the temple was destroyed again by war.

Heyday

In 1694 of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the great dragon master Chongshan Deding succeeded the old man tianmukai above boyuya of Chu. He lamented that Nanquan temple had been abandoned, but he brought his sons to Jielu to live next to the abandoned temple and planned to rebuild it. With the help of the county magistrate Tang Ji, the ten sides of tanyue came near and far away, and there were endless fireworks all year round. This was the heyday of Nanquan temple.

After the rehabilitation of Kangxi, the monks who presided over the monks can be examined as follows: Zen master Chongshan Deding inherited Famen renxinghe, Benshan fayangxingjian, Huyu, Hujian, Zongrong, Zonglin, zonglan and so on. Only Shen Gen is still alive. Shen Gen, originally surnamed Jiang, was disciplined in Nanquan temple at the age of seven. He once lived in ouhuatang temple, and lived in Xiangyang village where Nanquan temple is located after liberation. In 1984, as a representative of religious circles, he was a member of the Second Committee of the CPPCC.

When Xiangyin County high school was founded in Nanquan temple in 1930, only a part of the temple houses were occupied, and the appearance of the temple was not changed. There are monks living in the temple, and cigarettes are not cut off. During the Anti Japanese War, the city was often attacked by air strikes. At that time, the Xiangyin County government moved to Nanquan Temple twice.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Nanquan temple was recovered by monk an Xing. It is said that an Xing was once a county magistrate. In 1952, Xiangyin County high school moved to xiajiafen mountain in the north of the city to build a new school building. Building materials were removed from Nanquan temple, leaving a small part of Nanquan primary school. Later, the primary school caught fire, and Nanquan Temple became a ruin. In 1958, a tea mulberry farm was set up here. Today, only the stone tablet of "the story of Zhongxing of Shuanglin temple in Nanquan mountain of Tanzhou" exists, and the ancient well was filled when it was rebuilt into a jasmine field in 1978. The former Shuanglin temple is gone. In January 2002, Shi laixiu, a monk, visited Nanquan temple. He built a temple in Maoan and made good friends. Thousands of good men and women paid homage to the temple. At that time, incense flourished. Since 2001, the majority of faithful men and women have raised more than 1.2 million yuan for the construction of the temple. From October 2001, the foundation was laid on the original site of Nanquan temple to November 2002, when the first "three Buddha Hall" was completed.

Architecture in the temple

Nanquan temple was originally produced by itself: 3.4 stone in fanjiazhou paddy field, 1.4 stone in sichongli, 0.25 stone in songjialong. Before liberation, 50-60 stones were collected every year. In addition, there are vast mountains such as Tashan garden and wujiapo in the back of the temple.

In 1930, there was a banner of "Shuanglin ancient temple" at the head gate of Shangjian temple. The banner of "Nanquan mountain" was engraved on the second gate. On both sides of the two gates were passageways. Maitreya Buddha was in front of the gate, and the statue of Weituo was in the back. The third entrance is a broad courtyard, with bell towers and drum towers on both sides, and the main hall in the middle. There are three Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the main hall: Amitabha Buddha, disaster relief and longevity pharmacist, and Sakyamuni. The twenty-four heavens and forty-eight Arhats are separated by each other. There is a couplet in the main hall, which says: one Buddha, one Bodhisattva, one bell and one drum. Who can listen to the sound and observe the freedom? What I, who is the heaven, what is the dream of woodcutter and butterfly? I want to have a dream in the big dream, but I can't have a dream.

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In 1937, Chen Jiayou, the former patriotic general of the Kuomintang against Chiang Kai Shek, was buried in the east of the temple. The cemetery covers an area of more than one mu. It is surrounded by granite to form more than half an arc. The front is low and the back is high. There is a tombstone embedded in the top. There is a stone altar at the gap in front of the arc. There are stone vassals on both sides, and the middle is where the tomb is located. The eighty-eight Arhats in Shiwei are lifelike, and there are big maple trees outside. In late autumn, red leaves are floating, and the graveyard is covered with golden maple leaves.

Because the graveyard here is magnificent and magnificent, and the tombstone is bright and clean, visitors to Nanquan Temple often like to come here to enjoy the scenery.

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Address: 1 km east of Zhonggong in the south of Licheng District

Longitude: 117.02675628662

Latitude: 36.496574401855

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