QinQuan Temple

QinQuan Temple

Qinquan temple is located in Changping mountainside on the left side of Beiquan Road, Tongchuan Town, Santai County, Sichuan Province. Founded in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581 AD), it was originally named Anchang temple. After Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Huiyi temple in the early Tang Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Husheng temple. Because the mountain spring behind the temple sounds like a Qin, it was called Qinquan temple in Wanli of Ming Dynasty.

layout

Since the early Tang Dynasty, Qinquan temple has been built according to the stars. Its layout is rigorous, magnificent and elegant. The existing buildings are built in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The main building is connected by two side-by-side quadrangles in the northwest and Southeast. The layout is special, and it is located in the main position of the mountain temple in the past dynasties. The left courtyard has front hall, main hall and left and right side hall, and the right courtyard has side hall and wing room.

The whole building area is 1602 square meters, covering an area of about 6000 square meters. Main hall, also known as Guanyin hall. It is 14 meters wide in three rooms and 12.1 meters deep in six rooms, with a construction area of 168.4 square meters; the front hall with Mountain Gate was rebuilt in 1873, with a construction area of 109.62 square meters.

Ganludong mineral spring

Behind the main hall is Ganlu cave, and inside the cave is the "Qin spring" mountain spring pool. The main spring is sweet and cool in summer and warm and sweet in winter. It is proved to be high-quality mineral spring by provincial inspection.

Cultural Relic

There are more than 700 statues in 10 niches at the foot of the temple. On the right side of Qianfoyan is the second room of "zhaoyandong". Originally a cliff Tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was a secluded place where yuerui lived and wrote books in Tang Dynasty. In the temple, there is a sitting statue of Guanyin in Tang Dynasty, which is made of iron from Qing Dynasty. It is 1 meter high. It is decorated with wreaths and wreaths. It has drooping jaws, auspicious seal and falls on the lotus platform. There are also stone inscriptions, Yin inscriptions and regular script of "Mo Yu Er". There are some cultural relics in the temple, such as shuangzhushi in the 22nd year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (1152), yanshiganlu calligraphy in the Song Dynasty, tombstone of zhaofujun in the Yuan Dynasty, and the bronze bell in the 4th year of mingmingshun (1460). The ancient trees around the temple are towering. The stone path in front of the mountain gate is surrounded by two Ginkgo trees for nearly 3 meters. From a distance, it looks like two giant umbrellas. From the temple, you can see the city from a distance. The mountains are green, and the North Tower is opposite to the East Tower. Looking down at the city profile, Fujiang and Kaijiang converge around Rao. Qinquan temple is close to mountains and rivers, and the scenery is unique. In May 1981, the people's Government of Santai County announced it as a cultural relic protection unit, in June 1986, the people's Government of Mianyang City announced it as a cultural relic protection unit, and in 1996, the people's Government of Sichuan Province announced it as the fourth batch of provincial cultural relic protection units in Sichuan Province.

Address: Beiquan Road, Tongchuan town

Longitude: 105.08018

Latitude: 31.1017756

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