Zhongding Temple

Zhongding Temple

Zhongding temple, also known as Zhongding temple, was built in the Ming Dynasty (1450-1457). The so-called "Zhongding" refers to its location at the midpoint of the mountain route in Yinghua mountain area. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a mountain road from Yinghua town to Zhongding temple. After the completion of Zhongding temple, a bronze bell was cast, which is shaped like a Ding, so Zhongding temple is also called Zhongding temple. "Filial piety in the name of the dragon is willing to bring down rain to nourish the crops. The temple is built on the mountain and likes to live in the secluded valley." In the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xun and ZHOU Jianren came here to write couplets.

Basic overview

Zhongding Temple scenic spot, seven kilometers away from Yinghua Town, used to be a favorite place for scholars to live in seclusion

Plum forest is loved by people. It's a most elegant thing to sing poems and paint with green plum and wine. Li Yaoguang, a plum blossom poet in the Qing Dynasty, became a hundred rhymes here. Xu Zhengping, a Longju mountain native, also lived here. Wang chongpu, a Yi scholar in Hongbai mountain village, and his brother and sister also wrote many poems about it. There are historical deposits, scenery, spring flowers like snow, plums soaked in teeth, enchanting peach blossoms, endless Lin Tao wind, and the picturesque scenery of Zhongding temple are more and more popular with tourists from all over the world.

Temple scenery

Zhongding temple in the scenic spot of Zhongding temple is also quite famous. It was once one of the 48 "Tangkou" in Yinghua. In the past, pilgrims from Chaoshan mountain wanted to go to Guding temple, the main peak of Yinghua. After entering the high landscape, they had to pass through Zhongding temple and burn incense in it. Naturally, Zhongding temple has a great position in the hearts of pilgrims. To Zhongding temple, from the Zhuxi River of xiachang, Yinghua Town, to the west, through Yingfeng bridge, along the current of Zhuxi River, through the tongchepo, the two estuaries where the two rivers meet, through the double arch stone bridge built in the late Qing Dynasty, the ancient liangmozigou, nine bends and eighteen bends, through the old road of Yinghua, through the ten thousand Mu forest area of HaoGou, to the foot of Zhongding temple.

Characteristic Songtao

The most enchanting thing about Zhongding temple is of course Songtao. From the bottom of the valley, the waves are roaring. From a distance, they are like water waves cascading and the waves rolling. In a moment, they have come to the front of them. All the pines around them are shaking, and people are wandering in the sea in a trance. If it is early in the morning, the pines are wrapped in the morning glow, the morning light is surging and surging, the momentum is magnificent, and people are about to fall; but in the evening, where the wind passes, the pines rush to the distance, carrying the rest of the day's light, and disappear in the depths of the mountains. If you are in the forest, the top of your head is rough, the wind is cool, the stone path is quiet, and you are in a trance.

Temple History

In the 1930s, Liu Xiang, a warlord in Sichuan Province, wanted to visit the Central Plains and asked for the guidance of Mr. Feng Shui. He took a fancy to the "overlord spirit" of Zhongding temple, so he moved his ancestral tomb to the side of the temple. Liu Xiangzhong dominates Sichuan, but he fails to win the title of Central Plains in the end. Leng Weng Shangjian, a soldier who was guarding Liu Xiang's ancestral grave, was there. It seems that the "domineering" spirit of Zhongding temple is not much, but a lot of aura.

Status quo of temples

Today's Zhongding temple is a reconstructed Sanxiang temple. It's not grand. It's for the ancestors of Yinghua mountain. Beside the temple, there's a releasing pool. The four sides of the pool are green and vigorous, and the grass in the pool is green. Release is a kind of "good deeds" of Chaoshan people, and tourists are more interested in the high mountain pool and ancient pine cangran. A stone road beside the release pool leads to the conceivable forest. This stone road is the only way to the peak of shangyinghua town of Zhongding temple. There is also a legend about this road. It is said that after the death of Ming Ben, the founder of Yinghua, his bones were buried in Guding temple on the top of Yinghua peak. Because of his respect for Ming Ben, the pilgrims around him vowed to donate a stone slab to Chaoshan road. Therefore, although the Chaoshan road is built with stone slabs, the stone slabs vary in size and width. In addition, Xiangke also built 28 temples on the way.

Travel Tips

Zhongding temple has a vast forest. There are three paths to choose from. One is the concrete road from Xianghuang cave entrance of Yinghua town to Zhongding temple, with a total length of 7 km. The other is the 3 km mountain walk from Songjiagou to Tianfu villa and then to Zhongding temple. The other is the three forest paths from Tianfu villa to sheshenyan and Zhongding temple to guanjiadian. No matter which one you choose, you can see the beautiful scenery of Cangshi, Qingyan and Songtao in the forest. From Tianfu mountain villa to sheshenyan, there is a pine Pavilion. The top of the pavilion is covered with pine bark. The cool wind blows. The sound of the waves is like babbling when they are small and thunder when they are big. It's wonderful. If the moon is clear, you can also see the twinkling lights in Yinghua, Luoshui and Shifang and the sky red by the lights.

There used to be statues of Guan Yu, Guan Ping and Zhou Cang in the Guanjia hall. Now there are no such statues. Only the place name and the sky light and cloud shadow are left. However, the view of Guanjia hall is wide, the sky above is as green as water, and the green waves at its feet are turbulent. On the right, you can see Gexian mountain in Pengzhou and the main peak of Yinghua. You can see the smoke forest on your head, and there are a few cottages. It's winter. The snow in Zhongding temple is half a foot. Looking at the silver world, the majestic and majestic gaojingguan pass and the majestic Shitingjiang river make people feel heroic. Cao Kai from Shifang, known as the history of the West Lake in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, has a sentence like this in his travels to Yinghua: "the snow in Gengyin is three feet deep, and it is filled with Buling. He dares not to go out of the fire. Looking at the cliffs of Gufeng and the steep streams of Qinglin, the scenery is fantastic" - which can be described as the wonderful scenery of Zhongding temple.

Tasting a local Yinghua tea at Zhongding temple, you can see the cliffs, the deep streams, the clouds around the hillside forest, and almost forget where you are.

Of course, in addition to the scenery of Zhongding temple, you also need to taste the local game. The so-called game refers to the famous mountain bacon in the mountains. It is fat but not greasy. It is delicious and mouth watering. In addition, more than 20 kinds of wild vegetables, such as Trident fern, toon sprout and deer ear leek, are also unforgettable. Corn in the mountains is especially sweet, and the corn food is often amazing. Drinking tea, playing chess, singing, walking, listening to the sound of bells, chimes, surging sutras and birch waves, Zhongding temple is far away from the hustle and bustle.

Address: Yinghua Town, Shifang City, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.97037423145

Latitude: 31.333387686565

Tel: 0838-8810144

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