Nanyan ancient temple

Nanyan ancient temple

Nanyan ancient temple has a long history. Its predecessor is Qingyan qingniu cave. It is said that in the Shang Dynasty, the ancestors worshiped the ancient Buddha and built a Buddhist temple in the Tang Dynasty. Due to the destruction of natural disasters, yunwencai, magistrate of Puning County, and wuwuding master further built Nanyan ancient temple in the first year of Tianqi (1621 A.D.), expanding the scale of the ancient temple.

Guangdong Province

Scenic spots

Nanyan ancient temple was called Nan'an in ancient times. It is located in feifeng mountain, jiucuodou, Nanxi Town, Puning City, Guangdong Province. It is a famous spot of ancient eight scenic spots in Puning, and also a famous Buddhist Lingnan Zen.

Historical origin

During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Mr. Hui Shiqi, a famous scholar, once lived in seclusion in the ancient temple, set up a school and trained talents. In 1961, Nanyan ancient temple was listed as a cultural relic protection unit by the people's Government of Puning county.

The reconstruction of the ancient temple began in 2004. When the engineering team excavated the foundation of the main hall in 2005, 89 stone pillars were excavated one after another. According to the research on the shape of the stone pillar, some experts concluded that it was an object of the Tang Dynasty, and speculated that the broken stone pillar and deep buried soil were caused by the earthquake. Judging from the size of the stone pillars, it can be concluded that the ancient temple in Tang Dynasty had a large scale. At the same time, there are more than 7300 pieces of 81 Jin of ancient copper coins excavated, from the Han Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. Among them is the first queen of China

The Taiping commemorative coin of Emperor Wu Zetian, the Wufeng coin of Han Dynasty and the Wagang Tongbao of Cheng Yaojin are enough to prove the prosperous scenery of the ancient temple in the past.

Today, Nanyan ancient temple faces north by East. It is a courtyard style ash wood structure with a hard top, a main hall and two side rooms. There are Heshang stone in the back of the temple, razor mountain in front of the temple, Tongling mountain in the East and turban stone. Temple side low-lying there is an ancient well, known as sweet spring, spring clear sweet. There are four characters "Wanzai Yunfeng" engraved on the huge stone at the back of the temple. It is said that it was written by huishiqi, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Around the temple are some rare flowers and fruits, such as persimmon, tangerine and red bean, which were planted by wheatkey when he lived in seclusion and set up a lecture hall. Emperor Kangxi's imperial edict is hung on the hall of Nanyan ancient temple, and Qing Dynasty scriptures are hung in front of Qianshou Guanyin hall

The plaque of "Lingnan Zen" written by the famous scholar huishiqi. In front of the temple, there are well preserved things, such as the Yuanji pagoda of master I and the third and fourth ancestors.

Jade Buddha in ancient temple

There are 24 jade statues of Buddha, 25 Bodhisattvas and grandfathers, 516 Arhats, 35 Dharma protectors, one jade lion and one Jade Elephant in Nanyan ancient temple, totaling 598. In addition, there are 20008 relief sculptures of ten thousand Buddha pagodas, huge nine dragon walls and 24 Sky Dragons in pailou. All the statues, except for 10008 statues of Wanfo pagoda, are carved with white marble, and the rest are more than 10600

All of them are carved with Burmese jade. Buddhist circles believe that the large scale and complete shape of these jade statues are unprecedented at home and abroad. The raw materials of the statue are all original jade, either white and delicate, or crystal clear, high quality. Each statue is carved from a whole block of natural stone, which is rare. Among them, the auspicious reclining statue of Sakyamuni with a length of 7.21 meters, the statue of Vajra virgin with a height of 5.78 meters, the island Guanyin statue with a height of 4.55 meters, the thousand handed and thousand eyed Guanyin statue with a height of 4.3 meters, and the sitting statue of Sakyamuni Buddha with a height of 4.2 meters are extremely rare. According to statistics, the total weight of these jade statues is about 4300 tons. These statues are typical Burmese Buddhist art forms with strong exotic style, which are different from traditional Chinese Buddhist statues. The statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva are graceful and peaceful in expression, gorgeous in clothes and ornaments in the shape of pearls, agates and tassels. More than 500 Arhats have different shapes and expressions, reflecting the artist's superb technique. Many heavenly beings and Dharma protectors are peaceful and pious, or dignified and angry

Neon's air, but also triggered people's remote thinking of heaven. The ten thousand Buddha pagoda stands crystal clear, and forms a large landscape with the ten thousand Buddha pagoda archway and four Buddha pavilions. From afar, the feeling of holiness arises spontaneously.

address

Address: doufeifeng mountain, jiucuo, Nanxi Town, Puning City, Guangdong Province.

Postcode: 515300

Zhejiang Province

introduce

Nanyan ancient temple is located 7 kilometers southwest of Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province. The Buddhist temple is built under Nanyan cliff, which is more than 100 meters long and 3-10 meters deep. Temples and monk houses are under the cliff without invasion of wind and rain. The main cave of the Buddhist temple is about 30 meters high, 57 meters wide, 24 meters deep and covers an area of about 1200 square meters. It has a great hall and three holy halls. It is a wooden structure with a quiet environment. It is said that there were 800 monks in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Historical development

Nanyan temple has a long history. It has been established for more than 1600 years. It is one of the early grotto temples in southeastern Zhejiang and is well-known. In Yonghe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Hui, an eminent monk, first came here. Huijiao's biography of eminent monk shitanfei records that there was an eminent monk fazang living in shannanyan temple in the Song Dynasty. Later on, Nanyan mountain was built in Yinyue and Yuanhua temples in Shicheng mountain. The temple was named Nanyan temple in yuanjiazhong of Liu Song Dynasty. It was rebuilt in 867, the eighth year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty. It was rebuilt in 1008, the first year of dazhongxiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty. Xuanhezhong (1120) was destroyed by fire. In 1131, the monk xiuren was in charge of the reconstruction of Nanyan temple. In 1382, the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was called Nanyan temple. There was an old stone tablet in the temple named "the deeds of Xuanwei master of Tang Dynasty", which was written by Li Yi. The tablet has been lost. The temple was destroyed by the Taiping Army in Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1870, Seng Jieqing raised money for reconstruction. After many vicissitudes and repeated disasters, until the period of the Republic of China, there were still halls, wing rooms, ear rooms, inscriptions, couplets and so on. Since 1950, the county people's government listed Nanyan mountain as a scenic spot and implemented protection. In 1985, Nanyan mountain was listed as Dafosi scenic spot. Nanyan Grottoes temple, there is a wisp of spring, seeping from the rock gap, the water is cool and mellow, and long drought does not dry up, commonly known as "Xianshuiquan". Nanyan Temple above, high rock abrupt, cliff top, between the cliffs there are flat caves, known as the jade girl rock. Xiao Min, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, said: "the rocks on the rocks are rugged, and the sky is half right. The sun and the moon are flying, the clouds and the clouds are weaving brocade, so is the jade girl It is said that there is a fairy who lives on brocade. At the end of the year, there is a cloth hanging from the cave for monks to make clothes.

The cliff above the moon cave is named ruxiangyan. In case of rain, there are waterfalls hanging high in the crevice, thunder and snow splashing, and water drops as fine as beads on sunny days. It is commonly known as "ruxiangdilou".

On the periphery of Nanyan temple, there are many famous places, such as Huayun Cave (Tiefo Temple), Biyan Cave (Dadong), Keyan cave, bat cave, etc.

According to legend, Nanyan mountain is the place where Chuang Tzu recorded his son fishing for AO. Mr. Ren is a giant in legend. He used fifty oxen as bait. After years, he got a big fish. After being dried in the sun, it was enough to feed the people in Southeast China for half a year. Because Nanyan mountain is a "holy mountain of sea traces", the stone quality is very different from that of other mountains. It can be broken by touching hands, but it will not collapse naturally. It is said that fish and shell fossils can be seen sometimes. It is said that when Dayu controlled the flood, Nanyan was originally "Haimen" and "formed by injecting sand into the East".

Address: Puning City, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province

Longitude: 116.232235

Latitude: 23.482456

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