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Tianzhuyan is located at the east foot of Mingshan mountain, 4 km south of hEPO Town, Jiexi County, Jieyang, Guangdong Province. It has been founded for more than 800 years. The grotesque stone protuberance, take the natural stone cave as the Buddha Hall, now increases the new space, the scenery is picturesque. On July 1, 1989, it was listed as county-level cultural security. It was opened in 1995.

Development history

Mingshan is one of the three famous mountains. With its adjacent Jinshan and Dushan, it became the mythical source of creating the Three Mountain King Temple in Sui Dynasty. It is well-known on both sides of the Strait and can be called "the first cave in JieXi". According to the general annals of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, "Zhaoxian temple was built in Ximing mountain of Jieyang county (now Jiexi County) and Jiading middle of Song Dynasty (1208-1224). It is said that there are Yushi hiding here." In the autumn of 1472, the eighth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, the abbot huizhao raised money to build a temple, and the Buddhist hall began to take shape. On the first day of December in 1751, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhengtang Gu of Jieyang County accepted a petition from 12 people, such as Huang Yingyang, who was born on September 16. He claimed that his ancestor Yang had 12 mu of grain fields. Shiyan was used as the capital of sesame oil in 1679. In order to prevent it from being sold off, he had to ask for Leshi. Therefore, he set up the stele "customers in Lianming county approved the ban on Leshi". In 1787, Emperor Qianlong's fifty second year (1787), the master of Esoteric Buddhism was in charge of the temple. He wrote ten questions, repaired and expanded the temple, and made the temple more complete.

After 1950, the temple was abolished. On July 1, 1989, the CPC Jiexi County Committee approved the restoration and listed it as a cultural protection unit.

Main attractions

Yanshan gate is tall and magnificent, with the main gate, left and right side doors, decorated with clear colored glazed tiles, inlaid with porcelain Chu tail and animals, flowers and plants. The stone couplet on the doorpost is engraved with the inscription "Yi Shan Kai Xian". A pair of big stone lions and a pair of big stone drums were placed to make the gate more spectacular.

Further in, just opposite is a rectangular garage, decorated with clear colored glazed tiles, and the green daisies in the back mountain green forest. Climbing up the stone steps beside it, you can reach the front of the Buddha Hall built in front of the cave. The newly built Buddha Hall is magnificent, and two "hands" are built. The hall ridge is inlaid with porcelain, and the double dragon Dynasty Falun comes with inlays, which is antique. As the main hall of the natural cave top Boulder, high over the hall ridge, potential lingqingtian, in the close green forest is particularly prominent. "Tianzhu ancient rock" is engraved on the stone plaque of the foting hall. After walking through the hall of Buddha, you will arrive at the main hall in the cave. It has an area of more than 350 square meters and can accommodate hundreds of people. It has natural stone walls on three sides, a stone niche on the bottom, and an exquisite hall door built with stone bars in front. In the natural stone cover, there is a small hole, which is unfathomable and is called "Chumi hole".

There is a circuitous tunnel behind the hall and a stone chamber in it, which is like entering a labyrinth. From the dark road to the valley, when the wind blows, you suddenly see a 10 meter high natural stone Buddha sitting upright and smiling. When you look up, you can see the green pines and bamboos on the slope, the exotic flowers and plants, the bright colors, the green drops and the fragrance, and the pavilions set off in the green sea.

Address: hEPO town

Longitude: 115.8455587

Latitude: 23.39838699

Chinese PinYin : Tian Zhu Yan