Qingshuiyan

Qingshuiyan

National AAAA tourist attractions, built in the Northern Song Dynasty, rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Buddhist monk puzu practiced here. Seeing the clear spring water, he changed his name to jiansi. It is located in Fujian Province, Quanzhou City, Anxi County, Penglai Town, Penglai mountain.

In ancient times, it was called zhangyanshan, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, secluded and clean scenery, towering peaks, circling peaks, emerald drapes, and misty clouds. Often in the vast sea of fog clouds, the United States, such as "Penglai fairyland.".

brief introduction

Qingshuiyan is located in Penglai mountain, 16 kilometers northwest of Anxi Chengguan, Fujian Province, the hometown of Tieguanyin, the world famous tea. With a total area of 11.1 square kilometers and an elevation of 763 meters, the main peak is a scenic spot with qingshuiyan temple as the main body, qingshuizushi culture as the feature, and religious pilgrimage, eco-tourism, folk custom exhibition, leisure and vacation as one.

At present, it is a national AAAA tourist area, a national key cultural relic protection unit, one of the first batch of Taiwan related cultural relic protection projects in China, and a provincial scenic spot in Fujian Province. "Qingshui zushi Xinsu" is listed as a national intangible culture, and qingshuiyan and "Di" shaped trademarks are rated as "famous trademarks in Fujian Province".

survey

Qingshuiyan temple is built close to the mountain, facing deep ravines, and is a three storey Pavilion. The first floor is haotiankou, the second floor is zushidian, and the third floor is Sakyamuni. On both sides of the third floor are tanyue hall, Guanyin hall and Fangming hall. In the back of the hall is the "vacuum tower" of the ashes of the founder of Qingshui of the Song Dynasty, and on it is a new Square Pavilion with triple eaves. Hall in the red brick walls, gray tiles, dangerous buildings heavy Pavilion, hidden in the pine bamboo, haze shrouded peak, elegant and spectacular.

There are distinctive sceneries near the rock: "lion's throat", "Qingzhu curtain", "fangjiankuang", "branches facing north", "luohansong", "jueting", "Shili cabinet", "stele inscriptions on the rock map", "Sanzhong Temple", etc. "Qingzhu curtain", "a clear water flowing through the ages, looking around Cangshan base ten thousand weight"; "branches facing north" is the ancient camphor tree, which is said to feel the disaster of Yuefei and branches facing north; "rock picture stele" is a relief stone panoramic stele of Qingshui, which reflects the belief of Qingshui ancestor on both sides of the camphor

origin

Master Qingshui is also known as "master Mazhang". In Southern Fujian, he is known as "master Wumian". In Taiwan, he is known as "master zushigong" and "master Zushiye". Among the nearly 100 Qingshui ancestral temples in the whole province, the ancestral master is also called "Penglai patriarch", "Xianying patriarch", "Zhaoying patriarch", "Huiying patriarch" and "puzu patriarch".

According to legend, the ancestor of Qingshui was born in Xiaogu Township, Yongchun County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province on the sixth day of the first month of the fourth year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty. Chen Ying became a monk in Dayun temple when he was young. Because of the abuse of the temple, he went to jiemao nunnery in Gaotai mountain to build an nunnery. He closed the door and sat quietly. Later, under the guidance of Zen master Mingsong of Dajing mountain, he read Buddhist Scriptures for three years and finally realized the truth. Master Mingsong gave him a mantle, and warned him: "the greatest merit of our Buddha is benevolence, so we should give up Wanyuan and take the benefit of things as our duty." Chen Ying then applied medicine in Mazhang to save the poor. Mazhang people respected him as the "master of Mazhang".

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Yongchun area of Qingxi (Anxi, Fujian Province). The villagers invited him to pray for rain. As soon as he arrived, the rain fell. Therefore, he was honored as the "ancestor of Qingshui". Qingxi people built a house on Penglai mountain and invited master Mazhang to live in it. They called it "qingshuiyan". Master Mazhang practiced here for 19 years. He raised money, built bridges and paved roads on his own. People in Zhangzhou and Tingzhou believed in him very much. In the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he passed away on May 13, when he was 65. The local people were grateful for his virtue and reported to the imperial court, and granted the title of "master Zhaoying".

In addition, according to Taiwan's Three Gorges ancestral temple, Qingshui was born in Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Kyoto, in the Northern Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan Province). He once followed the Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty to fight against the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty. He was a national hero fighting against the Yuan Dynasty and supporting the Song Dynasty. The founder of Qingshui lived in seclusion in qingshuiyan, Fujian Province. After his death, Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty remembered his contribution to the country, granted him the title of "Duke of protecting the country" and ordered him to establish a ancestral temple in qingshuiyan, Anxi County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Therefore, Anxi, Quanzhou, called him "grandfather" and his temple "patriarchal Temple".

Cultural communication

Qingshui ancestor culture is very popular in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Qingshuiyan, the birthplace of Qingshui culture, is a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad. Penglai mountain qingshuiyan, 24 kilometers away from Anxi County, is a cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province and a provincial scenic spot. Qingshuiyan was built in 1083, the sixth year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that it was built by the founder of Qingshui. Since the Song Dynasty, it has been repaired, rebuilt and rebuilt more than 20 times. It is said that there were 99 buildings built in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It looks like "emperor" shape and is divided into three layers, one is haotiankou, the second is zushi hall and the third is Sakyamuni. At the back of the hall, the real pagoda of the Song Dynasty is the bone burial place of the founder of Qingshui. It is surrounded by myths and numerous cultural relics, attracting thousands of tourists at home and abroad to visit and worship. Xie Shihou, the founder of Qingshui, was granted imperial edicts four times. This shows that the belief of the founder of Qingshui was supported by the local government and recognized by the imperial court in the Southern Song Dynasty. It also shows that after the death of the founder of Qingshui, he became an important god in the eyes of the people in Southern Fujian.

Anxi qingshuiyan is the ancestral temple of many Qingshui ancestral temples in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. They have a long history with Anxi qingshuiyan. Since the Ming Dynasty, with groups of Anxi people moving to Taiwan and Southeast Asia to make a living, the incense of Qingshui ancestors also spread there. When Zheng Chenggong recaptured Taiwan, there were many Anxi people in the team, who carried the fragrance of "Qingshui grandmaster".

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Li Guangdi, a great scholar of wenyuange, a native of Anxi, recommended Shi Lang to pacify Taiwan and later Lin Zongbing to pacify Taiwan. Shi and Lin paid great attention to Anxi people, and promoted them to settle down in Taiwan with their families. With the increase of Anxi people's immigration and the formation of villages, the ancestral temple of Qingshui was built one after another. Where Anxi people live together, there are Qingshui ancestral temple. The belief of Qingshui patriarch has become the spiritual strength of Anxi immigrants in Taiwan to maintain the unity of their respective groups.

According to the survey materials of Taiwan temples in 1930, the god Buddha ranked in the front, among which the Qingshui patriarch of Anxi ranked 10th and 83 temples. This shows that the belief of Qingshui patriarch in Anxi has a wide influence in Taiwan and plays an important role. Anxi Qingshui ancestor belief is also widely spread in Southeast Asian countries. As Anxi people floated across Nanyang and settled down in Nanyang, they brought the incense of Qingshui patriarch and built temples in Nanyang countries. In Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries, there are temples of the patriarch of Qingshui.

There is a famous "snake temple" in Penang, Malaysia, which is actually dedicated to the ancestor of Qingshui. This snake temple has a history of more than 100 years. Anxi guild hall in Myanmar, in the name of "Qingshui ancestral temple", applied to the local government for registration. In 1875, Myanmar first built the "Fushan Temple" ancestral temple in Yangon city to worship the Qingshui patriarch. There is a couplet written by Zhao Puchu, President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, when he came to Myanmar, that is, "the thousand mountains are beautiful, the hundred blessings are solemn.".

There are many ancestral temples in Singapore. The larger one is Penglai temple. In Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and other places, there are also ancestral temples in Qingshui to worship the patriarch. Historically, believers from Taiwan and Southeast Asia often visited the Qingshui ancestral temple in Anxi for cultural exchanges. They paid homage to the ancestral temple and donated money to repair it.

As early as the end of the Second World War, many overseas Chinese returned to their hometown to pay homage to ancestral temples and donate money to build them. For example, Ke Xianshu, a Singaporean overseas Chinese, initiated the idea of building rock. After 1966, Li Yue's mother and son and Ke Qiushui's father and son in Singapore continued to advocate Xiuyan. In 1982, Liu Muxian proposed to invite overseas Chinese surnamed Liu from Singapore and Malaysia to raise funds to rebuild tanyue temple and Guanyin Pavilion. After that, many overseas Chinese visited the ancestral temple and donated money to build it. On January 6, 1988, overseas Chinese Lin Yujing and Zhuo Zhenqing came all the way back to celebrate their ancestors' Christmas. They initiated the founding of the Qingshui ancestors Education Foundation and took the lead in donating hundreds of thousands of yuan.

In recent years, more and more Taiwan compatriots have come to qingshuiyan ancestral temple in Anxi to pay homage and offer incense. They have visited qingshuiyan ancestral temple to offer incense, and some have inscribed inscriptions as souvenirs. Dozens of groups, including the Qingshui ancestral temple in Yuandong of Jingmei, Taichung County, longquanyan pilgrimage group in Longquan Township of Taichung County, qingshuiyan pilgrimage group in Danshui County, and Baoan Temple Management Committee in Danshui Town, visited qingshuiyan in Anxi to seek their roots.

Nine people, including Su Wanfa from Jiaoxi of Three Gorges in Taipei, made a special trip to visit the ancestral temple and engraved "tracing back to the origin" on the rocks of Penglai mountain as a memorial. From 1987 to 1990, more than 50000 Taiwan compatriots went to the ancestral temple to offer incense. Since then, the number has increased year by year. More than 300 statues of patriarch Qingshui have been invited to worship in Taiwan to express their respect for the ancestral temple and their love for their hometown.

legend

The legend of Qingshui patriarch is full of strong mythological color, which reflects the people's admiration for the patriarch's expelling evil and fighting evil and helping the world to do good. The first one is the legend of "sword testing stone". It is said that Chen puzu's early construction of Qingshui was not smooth sailing. He was often disturbed by mountain ghosts and fought with Taoists. One day, Pu Zu holds a sword and points to the huge stone on the dangerous cliff on the left side of the rock. He says that a sword can cut the huge stone in two. If the Mountain Ghost didn't believe it, he pointed his foot at the big stone and waved his sword. The big stone was split on both sides, and the ghosts retreated when they saw it.

Then there is the legend of "Fangchi pass floating fir": it is about that time

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