Shita Temple

Shita Temple

Shita temple is located on the green island in shita Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Shita temple was originally located outside the west gate of Yangzhou. It was a Relic Temple of Jin Dynasty and was named Mengyin Xianqing temple. In the 17th year of Yuanjia (440), it was changed into huizhao Temple (huizhao Temple). In 712, it was renamed Anguo temple. In 758-778, it was renamed "Mulan courtyard". In 838, it was built in Mulan courtyard. It was renamed as Shita temple. During the reign of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1237-1240), it was first moved to the current site and rebuilt by Jia Sidao in Baoyou.

During the reign of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1628-1644), monk samadhi built temples and pagodas and built nine Buddha towers. In the 47th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1708), the monk Fusheng was rebuilt, and Dabei Pavilion and stone altar were built. In 1729, the magistrate Lu Chaoji restored the old amount of "ancient Mulan courtyard".

In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the temple was destroyed by fire, but the stone pagoda, the altar and the nanmulou of Ming Dynasty still exist. During the reign of Tongzhi and Guangxu, the monks built the stone pagoda temple one after another. The main buildings of the stone pagoda temple include the heavenly king hall, the great male hall, and the Sutra library. Since the Republic of China, most of the temples have been demolished and rebuilt.

Stone pagoda temple, in 1979, due to the construction of roads, stone pagodas in the Tang Dynasty circle into the road center green belt, fence protection. The road is also known as stone tower road.

geographical position

Shita temple in Yangzhou City, located in Wenchang Middle Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the green belt on the south side of Shita bridge. There are reliefs of Buddha statues on the tower. Tower body is not high, submerged in the city's high-rise buildings. Around the stone tower hotel, five-star electrical and other units.

Historical evolution

Shita temple in Yangzhou, formerly known as Mulan courtyard, was originally located outside the west gate, which was an ancient temple of Jin Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the temple and the stone pagoda moved to their present address. Over the past 700 years, the building has been damaged by wars and fires. Although it has been renovated several times, it has been dilapidated in the middle of the last century, but only the nanmu Hall (Sutra house) built in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, which was originally built in the back, was later moved to the roadside, becoming the only ancient building.

The tower is a five story regular hexahedron, with top, bottom and top arched openings, running through the north and South; each layer has six slightly upward angles; simple and rough patterns are carved on the eaves of the tower; animals such as cattle, horses, dragons and phoenixes are carved on the stone railings of the tower. The stone surfaces on both sides of the stone steps are engraved with patterns such as two dragons grabbing pearls and lotus flowers. A total of 26 Buddha statues are carved on each layer and surface.

Related allusions

The allusion of "after dinner clock" has been handed down till now

Today, the Tang Dynasty Mulan courtyard has disappeared. Only the stone pagoda of the Tang Dynasty and the nanmu hall built in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty tell the story of that year.

In Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo Shao was lonely and poor. He ate in Shita temple and ate with the monks listening to the bell. For a long time, he was disgusted by the monks. On one occasion, he deliberately ate first and then rang the bell. When Wang Bo arrived, the monks had finished their meal, which made Wang Bo very embarrassed. He wrote two verses: "I'm sorry that I've already gone to the hall, but I'm sorry that I've finished my meal.". Later, Wang Bo left the temple and went to study. He set foot on his official career and became a governor of Huainan and returned to Yangzhou.

Great significance

When he revisited the Mulan courtyard, the verses written on the wall were not erased. The monks heard that the king who drove the fast had become a festival envoy. They quickly covered the two verses on the wall with Bisha. Wang Bo saw that he was filled with emotion, and then added two sentences: "in the past 20 years, the dust has been blowing on my face, but now I get the blue gauze cage."

After Wang Bo embarked on his official career, he was only for the purpose of gaining power, without any pity for the people. When he became prime minister, he was more frantic in searching for people's fat and cream, and quickly amassed money by selling officials and knights. Fortunately, the sky has eyes, Wang Bo as Prime Minister less than a year to suffer from terminal illness, died.

When Su Shi was the magistrate of Yangzhou, he wrote a poem about Wang Bo. The last few sentences are "it's useless to keep a kitchen like a person, but it's harmful. I know the clock after dinner, and I have eyes Su Shi believed that if people like Wang Bo ate the fast food in Mulan courtyard, they were raising a tiger and causing trouble; the reason why the monks didn't ring the bell after dinner was that they had the insight to see through Wang Bo.

Address: Gaoxing village, Gaohe Town, Qionglai City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.16698271214

Latitude: 30.334995783781

Tel: 028-88774433

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