Dajie Temple

Dajie Temple

Dajie Temple of Wulongshan is located in Wulongshan, Hunan Province. It is not only the holy land of Buddhism, but also the important place of culture. It is an important part of building Baishi's traditional culture brand.

brief introduction

Dajie temple is located in Wulong mountain, Zhutang village, zhonglupu Town, Xiangtan County, 69 li away from Yisu River in the new county. Wulong mountain is located between Xiang River and Wei River. Tianma comes from the south, and Wuling mountains are winding, just like Wulong playing with each other. You Gu Li spring, forest deep show, beautiful scenery.

According to Li Chengli's stele of Wulong mountain in Xiangtan in 1929: "the spirit of Zhong Hengyue, the beauty of Yuxiang water The five peaks are broad and winding, so they are called "Five Dragons". On Wulong mountain, the ancient wood can be seen in the sky, and the clouds are shining. Dajie temple, a famous temple at the foot of the mountain, is located here. Wulong mountain is located between Xiang River and Wei River. Tianma comes from the south, and Wuling mountains are winding, just like Wulong playing with each other. You Gu Li spring, forest deep show, beautiful scenery.

According to historical records, Dajie temple was built in 1623, the fifth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, where Master Huian of Wudang Mountain lived. It is a Buddhist temple with unique cultural heritage. It has always been the habitat of humanities scholars. In particular, seven talented scholars, such as world cultural celebrities Qi Baishi and Wang Zhongyan, established the "Longshan poetry club" here, which is well-known and far-reaching. According to relevant people of Dajie temple, after the reconstruction approved by the county government in 1994, after several years of construction, Dajie temple has completed the construction of Daxiong hall, Tianwang hall, bell and Drum Tower, nianfo hall, etc., and has been listed as one of the scenic spots of Hunan Provincial Key Open Temple and Baishi tourism development zone. Dajie temple still has Guanyin hall, sutra building and other engineering facilities to be completed.

history

It is said that the Taoist temple of Xuandi Bodhisattva, the Dharma protector of this mountain, used to be in the YUEWU Pavilion on the middle road. At that time, Emperor Zhengde was sacrificing in Nanyue temple and staying in YUEWU Pavilion. He had a dream at night. He dreamed that Emperor Xuan said to himself, "there are many people coming and going to YUEWU Pavilion. They are prosperous and complicated. They don't want to live here. They want to move to Wulong mountain." Emperor Zhengde woke up in his dream. The next day, he went to Wulong mountain. At the foot of the mountain, he ran into a snake to lead the way. When he arrived at a small temple in the hinterland of the mountain, the snake stopped moving. Emperor Zhengde knew that emperor Xuandi wanted to build the palace here, and when he returned to the palace, he was able to build the palace. The imperial edict granted 360 mu of incense fields, and ordered two vassal kings of Ji and GUI to donate money to build temples. When it was first built, there were Wuzheng hall, Yuesheng hall, Guanyin hall, etc. After the three-story main hall, more than 120 large and small houses such as Wuliang Buddha Hall, Xilin Chan hall, Yunshui hall and Donglin monk Chan hall were successively built.

During the great leap forward, Dajie temple was completely destroyed. During the cultural revolution, it was once turned into a rural forest farm.

In 1994, monks and nuns were admitted to the mountain. Later, master Xiaochen led Tu Weijing to come to the mountain from tielu temple in Changsha to stay in Wuxi. He went around to collect money and rebuild the temple. After several years, he spent more than 3 million yuan to build more than 50 rooms, including the main hall, the mountain gate, the wall, the East and West squatters, the Zhaitang and the Buddhist Chanting hall. At the beginning of the temple, it was covered with green pines and cypresses, with trees and flowers. It's a pure land of the world, the Buddhist palace of the world. After the reconstruction of Dajie temple, with the approval of the people's Government of Xiangtan County, the temple has been listed as a key Buddhist activity site in Xiangtan City, and two highways have been built at the entrance outside the mountain to the temple.

After the death of master Xiaochen, master Weijing took over the stick of promoting Buddhism and promoting life, continued to lead the disciples to expand the scale of the temple, and built the temple of heavenly king, the Sutra collection tower, the bell and Drum Tower, the Guanyin Pavilion and the hall of preaching scriptures and explaining Buddhism. Last year, Dajie temple was rated as "five good religious sites" by the provincial Religious Bureau.

humanity

At the end of the spring in 1894, because of internal strife and foreign invasion, the government collapsed, resulting in the death of the people. At that time, there were seven talented scholars, such as literati, scholarly children Qi Baishi, Wang Zhongyan, Luo Zhenwu, Luo Xingwu, Chen Fugen, Tan Ziquan, Hu Lisan and so on, who pointed out rivers and mountains, inspired words and expressed their aspirations. He often gathered in Dajie Temple of Wulongshan and founded "Longshan Poetry Society". The poetry society not only studies literary and artistic works such as poetry, calligraphy and painting, sculpture, but also carries out cultural and sports activities such as music and chess. Qi Baishi served as the president of the society and has been active for more than five years. They are known as the "seven sons of Longshan" in Jiangnan. Wang Zhongyan once wrote two poems about the rhyme of Longshan Temple and songan temple

I'm late for the Double Ninth Festival. How many yellow flowers are left by the fence.

The hotel is a lonely old testament, and the famous mountain has a dream to fill in the new poem.

Garden autumn old heart, frost dew cold born thin bone know.

You can laugh at the end of the work, the world is empty.

In thousands of valleys and peaks, smoke locks the Buddhist palace.

There is no fixed place for the immortal, but there is a trace for the crane.

The cloud and shadow lie in silence, and the bell flies far away.

Stone bed heavy migration, melancholy long dust.

Qi Baishi, who was the president of the society in those years, refined his painting industry and studied poetry and prose. After a lot of practice, he finally became a great master of Chinese painting and was well-known at home and abroad.

Li Jinxi, a famous linguist, Professor of Peking University and mentor of Mao Zedong, lived in Dajie temple in his early years. He studied hard in the cold window and achieved great success.

Li Peijing, one of Zeng Guofan's "four sons", was a native of Xiangtan County. He served as the governor of Guizhou and the governor of Jiangsu in Qing Dynasty. He also studied Buddhism in Wulongshan when he was young. His son Li Chengli also learned from the Imperial Academy, and wrote a handed down inscription for Dajie temple, which is now well preserved.

Address: 028 Heung Road

Longitude: 112.92786299992

Latitude: 27.589634999373

Tel: 0731-57590433

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