Xichan Temple

Xichan temple is one of the five major Buddhist temples in Fuzhou. A couplet at the entrance of the temple, which says "Lishu is passed on to the Song Dynasty in four dynasties, and the bell rings from the Tang Dynasty through the ages", reveals the vicissitudes of the temple. As soon as you enter the park, you will suddenly be enlightened. The environment of the temple is very quiet, with towering ancient trees, red walls and green tiles. The building is also very beautiful. The whole temple is very spiritual and has a strong sense of history.

Be sure to go to Baoen temple in the temple. There are 14 floors in total, and each floor has the story of Buddha becoming a Buddha. The two exquisite jade Buddhas in the Jade Buddha building are also worth seeing. In addition, there are 500 Luohan hall and Guanyin pavilion to visit.

Xichan Temple

Xichen temple, one of the five major Buddhist temples in Fuzhou, is a key temple in China. It is located at the foot of Yishan mountain in the western suburbs and on the south side of the West Industrial Road. A couplet is engraved on the square column of the gate of the ancient temple: "Lishu is passed on to the Song Dynasty in the four dynasties, and the bell rings from the Tang Dynasty through the ages." This is a couplet written by Zhou Lian in the Qing Dynasty, pointing out that "Xichan Temple" is an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that in the southern and Northern Dynasties, the king of alchemists dominated this place, which was called "alchemy medicine, stone for alchemy". Every hungry year, they rely on selling medicine and money for rice to relieve the poor people. Later, Wang BA's people built a temple in his former residence. At the end of Sui Dynasty, it was abandoned.

Xichan temple was rebuilt in the eighth year of Xiantong in Tang Dynasty and named "Qingchan Temple". Later, it was changed into "Yanshou Temple" and "Yishan Xichan Changqing Temple", commonly known as "Xichan Temple". There are 38 large and small buildings in the temple, covering an area of 7.7 hectares, such as Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Dharma hall, sutra Pavilion, jade Buddha tower, guest hall, Zen hall, Abbot's room, etc. there are also steles of Tang qixingjing's "the true life record of the ancient Yansheng master in Tang Fuzhou Yanshou Temple", Buddhist monk Huiling's relic tower of the Five Dynasties, Qing Kangxi's "pharmacist's Sutra" and murals of the Qing Dynasty.

Xichan temple is famous overseas for a long time. Overseas temples include Shuanglin temple in Singapore, Shuangqing temple in Penang, Malaysia and Putuo temple in Vietnam. Up to now, it still has close ties with Xichan temple. The Jade Buddha building in the temple is dedicated to two jade Buddha statues donated by overseas Chinese. One is the sitting Buddha, 2.3 meters high, which is the sitting statue of Sakyamuni; the other is the reclining Buddha, 4 meters long and 10 tons heavy, which is the reclining statue of Sakyamuni, which is one of the jade Buddhas. Guanyin Pavilion for thousands of hands and thousands of eyes Guanyin, made of 29 tons of brass.

The origin of history

The ancient Chan temple, about 1.5 kilometers away from the center of Rongcheng, was originally the site for Wang PA immortal to practice Taoism. It was rebuilt in 867, the eighth year of Xiantong in Tang Dynasty.

According to the records of three mountains in the Song Dynasty, Wang BA was afraid of mountains and practiced Taoism in the Liang Dynasty. The records were abandoned in the late Sui Dynasty, and the observation in the Tang Dynasty made Li Jingwen recruit new monks.

The temple has a history of 1130 years.

In front of budanrenfang, the stone flat is vast, and the Buddhist temple and Zhaitang are set off by pine forest and litchi tree, showing the garden art and Buddhist charm.

Layout structure

There are 36 large and small buildings in Xichan temple, including Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Dharma hall, sutra Pavilion, jade Buddha tower, Guanyin Pavilion, guest hall, Zen hall and Abbot's room, covering an area of 7.7 hectares. The Jiuqu bridge of fangshengchi is similar to Jiangnan garden.

On the arch bridge, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery, such as tower shadow, lake light, red plum and green bamboo, and hundreds of different sizes of litchi trees. In addition, there is a "Ji Yuan" legacy, with sparse litchi trees, rugged rockery, and carved stone to show: "Song Li".

There is a Mingyuan Pavilion nearby, where famous artists of all dynasties were invited to sing. Among them, Zhu YIZUN, Wu Zhen, Cha Shenxing and Huang zaidian's "Li Zhi Feng Dian fo Xian Deng" in the Qing Dynasty have been handed down.

Prosperous scene

In 1930's, Yu Dafu's "Xi Chan Tuo Li" made a great sensation with the famous sentence "Chen Zifang is red for chewing, this trip is really litchi.".

The litchi poetry festival in Xichen temple is famous for its unique cultural atmosphere.

Completed in 1990, the 67 meter high and 15 storey benediction tower is the highest temple in the whole province. It was built by master Tan Chan, the abbot of Shuanglin temple in Singapore.

Since 1983, master Tan Chan has been appointed as the successor of Shuanglin Temple by Xichan temple. In order to repay the cultivation of xiezu temple, he was named "gratitude tower".

Baoen pagoda is a solemn and beautiful art stone pagoda. It is made of reinforced concrete and pasted with elegant granite. Each layer of the pagoda wall is inlaid with carefully carved Buddha statues and Buddhist stories, and decorated with the patterns of birds, animals, flowers, insects and fish.

Related allusions

In the Tang Dynasty, the eminent monks in the Xichan Temple included Da'an and Huizhen. Zen master Da'an (793-883), also known as lao'an, was born in Fuqing County, Fujian Province. According to the Tang Dynasty stele "Tanei zhenshenji" preserved in the temple, master Da'an became a monk in huangboshan. When he was 24 years old, he received precepts in Qianyuan Temple of Pucheng County. Later, he visited Huaihai Zen master Baizhang in Jiangxi Province, and lived for 30 years in Heshan, Hunan Province. He took over as the abbot of miyin temple.

During the construction of the Xichan temple, Da'an returned to Yishan, where many followers followed. In 873, Emperor Yizong of Tang Dynasty gave him the title of master Yansheng, and gave him purple cassock and Kaiyuan Sutra to Xichan temple. Under the abbot of Da'an Zen master, there are 3000 monks in Xichan temple, which is of great scale.

After the death of Da'an, his posthumous title was master Yuanzhi, and his bone was buried in Mount Lengjia (today's jijiuling). Inside the tower, there is a stone tablet of Tang Dynasty engraved "true life inside the tower".

In 1953, zhenshenji inside the pagoda was unearthed. Now this precious cultural relic is stored in the guest hall of the Xichan temple, which has become a precious historical material for studying the history of the early Xichan temple.

Master of the temple

Master Huizhen, a native of Hangzhou salt official (now Haining, Jiaxing), is a common surname sun. He became a monk in tongxuan Temple of Suzhou and studied in Yicun Zen School of Xuefeng for 30 years. In 909, he was the abbot of the Western Chan temple. At that time, there were 1700 monks. Huizhen once planted four lychees before and after the Fatang, but now there is still one in the west, which has become a thousand year old relic.

In the third year of Changxing in the later Tang Dynasty (932), Huizhen passed away and was buried behind Yishan Zhangshi. Today, the memorial tower of Zen master Huizhen and the stele written by Lin Wensheng remain in the temple, which is one of the important cultural relics of the temple.

In the Song Dynasty, Zongyuan and Yuanzhi rebuilt the Western Zen temple twice in the years of Tiansheng (1023-1031) and Jiaxi. In the Song Dynasty, the eminent monks who presided over the West Chan temple were Wen Hui, Ru ran and other Chan masters. In the ninth year of Zhizheng reign of Yuan Dynasty (1349), monks rebuilt ancient temples.

Reconstruction period

After five dynasties, it was renamed Changqing temple in the fourth year of Changxing (933 AD). After the war, only the main hall, sutra Pavilion, Dharma hall and Western monk hall survived. It was rebuilt in the Tiansheng period of Song Dynasty (1023-1032 A.D.).

In the fifth year of Jingyou reign (1038 AD), the imperial edict number was "Yishan Changqing Temple". In the seventh year of Shunzhi, the Zen master KongYin of eastern Guangdong visited the old site of Langan, visited Yuantong Guoding, and invited the abbot to donate money for reconstruction.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the subtle Zen master crossed the ocean to raise money, and raised and abandoned the buildings. Today's temples and gardens are all their relics. The walls around the temple are more than one hectare in the interior and the same outside.

In the old days, there were Zen temples in the eastern, western, northern and southern suburbs of Fuzhou, while Changqing temple was in the western suburbs, so it was commonly known as "Xichan Temple".

Folklore

According to the Song Dynasty Chunxi years Liang Kejia "three mountains" recorded: "Liang wangba immortal in Yishan Road." According to legend, Yishan is a blessed place for "flying phoenix and falling sheep" and a place for alchemists and kings. Later, Wang Ba "shed the cicada" under the acacia tree and emerged into an immortal. According to the general annals of Fujian, Li ruochu ascended the city tower in Zhengyuan period of Tang Dynasty and saw clouds of five colors floating to the sky on Wang BA's residence, so he built Chongxu temple on the original site.

In the eighth year of Xiantong (867 AD), Li Jingwen invited Chan Master lao'an of Changsha to build a Buddhist temple here. Two years later, it was renamed Qingchan temple and soon Yanshou temple.

The abbots of the Yuan Dynasty were fokeng and Daojie. In the second year of Zhengtong (1437) of Ming Dynasty, the monks were determined to preside over the reconstruction of the Western Chan temple. In 1637, master liang of Ming Dynasty rebuilt it again. In the Ming Dynasty, there were also masters such as Xucheng and Mingfang. In the early Qing Dynasty, KongYin, Jiyun and other Zen masters successively took charge of the Xichan temple and repaired it. From 1877 to 1889, the subtle Zen master raised funds from various sources to carry out the re cultivation. Subtle Zen master, also known as YaoYuan, was born in Xianyou County, Fujian Province. At the age of 15, he became a monk in Xichan temple, and then went to Yongquan temple for ten years. At the end of Tongzhi's reign, when he returned to Xichan temple, he saw that the hall was abandoned and the Sanbao Buddha in the main hall wore a hat to cover the wind and rain. In 1876, he went to Beijing to study the classics. Emperor Guangxu gave him a copy of "Longcang" and Emperor Kangxi wrote a copy of "yaoshijing". Later, she went to Singapore, Malaysia, India, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan. After returning to China, he presided over the construction of a new Sutra Pavilion, and rebuilt more than 30 halls, including Daxiong hall, FA hall, and Tianwang hall, forming the scale and pattern of the Western Zen temple. At the request of some overseas Chinese, Zen master subtle built a Mazu Palace (also known as Tianhou Palace) beside Jiyuan in the temple to worship the statue of Mazu. nineteen

In the 28th year, the abbot Zhishui and Jianyuan Zhengliang rebuilt the temple, built an additional Mingyuan Pavilion, and opened up a garden and a pool for releasing life. Today, there are hundreds of ancient litchi trees in the garden. Lychee in Xichen temple is "light and thin in skin, clear and sweet in taste", which has been appraised by people since Tang Dynasty. Scholars of all ages came to taste Li, leaving many anecdotes and poems. The lychee Festival is still held every year in Xichen temple, where celebrities and refined scholars chant poems and paint. "Yishan eating Li" became a love affair. During the Anti Japanese War, Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Abbot's room and nianfo Hall of Xichen temple were destroyed by gunfire, which were later repaired by Jianyuan Zhengliang and fanhui.

During the war

During the Anti Japanese War, Xichen temple was bombed by Japanese planes, and later was certified by the temple's supervisor

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