Shiniu Temple

Shiniu Temple

Shiniu temple, located in Duodao District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province, is about 4 kilometers west of Ma'anshan, a suburb of Jingmen City, and about 500 meters south of Guotai, Shuangxian village. It is named after two Shiniu outside the temple.

legend

According to legend, these two stone cows have been born since Pangu opened the world, one male and one female. The cow is in the front, bowing like a man, and the bull is in the back, gazing at the cow. Every time he receives the innocent show, he feels the beauty of the sun and the moon, and feels that he has been psychic for a long time. It is also said that when King Mu of Zhou Dynasty came into the world, Jinniu star fought with the gods of Luohan mountain and turned into a stone bull. What's more amazing is that the farmers around Shiniu always grow less wheat in the dry land at night. The villagers guess again and again, but they still don't know why, so they decide to guard themselves at night to find out the truth. After the first, second and third watch of the night, there was movement in the wheat field. The young man came up with a lantern and found that it was two cows. He drove them out of the wheat field. When he arrived at the stone cow, he found that the cows were gone. Only the two stone cows were still squatting there. It was strange that the two stone cows were chewing wheat and panting. The story spread ten times, ten times and one hundred times, and the more it spread, the more God became convinced that the God of Taurus came down to protect the local people. Therefore, later generations set up a temple here to worship and named it Shiniu temple.

According to the legend, the God of stone ox prays for rain every year. In dry years, local people kill cattle to pray for rain. They use cow blood and mud, thick mud on the back of stone ox, and salt brine on the mouth of the ox. they sing the song of herding the ox to enjoy it. After the sacrifice, the rain powder falls down, and the mud on the back of stone ox is washed, and then it clears up. Shiniu temple has been expanded several times. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shiniu temple has covered an area of more than ten mu. Around the temple are holly, with an interval of about one meter. Some of them are more than 40 cm thick. In front of the temple is a square weir of one mu. The temple is divided into front hall, back hall and wing room, white walls, green tiles, cornices, carved beams and painted buildings. There are 48 wood carved Bodhisattvas in the hall, of which 44 are life size Bodhisattvas and 4 are smaller. In the middle of the back hall, there is a long large censer with three small censers on each side. Four Bodhisattvas in qinglongfang are made of copper. After the completion of the temple, the incense was strong, and there was an endless stream of worshippers here. It also became an important traffic route from south to north.

During the period of the Republic of China, there were private schools in Shiniu temple. During the war of liberation, Xu Fuchu, a former military doctor of the Kuomintang, returned home and set up a clinic in Shiniu temple. In February 1949, the battle to liberate Jingmen started. The only second brigade of Jianghan military region of the people's Liberation Army set up the field hospital at the residence of long Yongjin, a villager in Shuangxian village, 500 meters southeast of the temple. The wounded soldiers transported from Xiangshan, Maanshan, Jingmen mountain and other places were sent to the Shiniu temple for treatment, and the dead soldiers were buried in the east side of the Shiniu temple. A few days later, Bai Chongxi's Department of the Kuomintang fought back. When the PLA withdrew, dozens of soldiers and some guns were buried here, and another eight were buried near the ditch near the Shiniu temple. This tomb is the tomb of revolutionary martyrs in Shiniu temple. After liberation, during the Qingming Festival, primary and secondary schools in Jingmen organized students to visit the Shiniu temple to pay homage to the martyrs.

history

The Red Army monument in the town of shiniumiao township was set up by the Party committee and government of Yanting County in 1988. The Red Army monument is hidden among the ancient cypresses. Through the inscription on the monument, we have opened that unusual chapter in history. The inscription is as follows:

At the end of March 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, which went north to resist Japan, broke through the Kuomintang's Jialing River line and marched into Northwest Sichuan. On April 3, a small Red Army detachment of more than 50 people set out from Yuanshan field in Jiange, passed through the watershed, and arrived at Shiniu temple on April 7. Defeat the recalcitrant Minlian brigade at the top of the pot, and take advantage of the victory to pursue Banmiaozi. At the same time, a reconnaissance group of the red army attacked the tea pavilion, settled down and other places, and was invincible. The puppet county magistrate and the gentry and landlords fled.

The Red Army stationed in the Shiniu Temple (located in the primary and secondary school of xiandingshan), mobilized the masses to fight against local tyrants, divide land, open warehouses and divide grain, and set up the village Soviet regime. The mood of the working people was agitated, and the northern two districts of Yanting quickly set off a revolutionary war. At the end of April, the red army moved northward and the reactionaries made a comeback. Liang Changyou, Wang Chaokun, chairman of the village Soviet, Yang Chaozhu, fan Dengfeng, Yang Shanpin, Yu zuoyuan, father and son who led the way for the Red Army and Li naowa were killed.

In Shiniu, the Red Army led the hard-working masses in a lamentable struggle, sowed the seeds of revolution and wrote a glorious historical chapter. In order to inherit and carry forward the revolutionary tradition and build Yanting, this monument is set up for the eternal aspiration.

Address: juxingxia Street

Longitude: 105.340451

Latitude: 31.128264

Chinese PinYin : Shi Niu Miao