Centenary Palace

--The hundred year palace was built in the Ming Dynasty. The temple we see now is from the Qing Dynasty. The body of the flawless monk in the Ming Dynasty is worshipped in the temple. Because he lived to 126 years old before he died, the temple is named "hundred year Palace".

--The main buildings here are white walls and black tiles, which are arranged in a narrow and long shape along the cliff in a north-south direction, just like the city wall. The rocks on the mountain are inserted into the temple, adding an ancient and natural charm to the temple.

--It is said that in the third year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, a fire broke out in the temple. Suddenly, his hands were raised, so heavy rain came down to put out the fire. Believers believe that flawless body still has long-lasting mana, and many people come here to burn incense and worship Buddha.

--The mountain where the centenary palace is located is not high. It takes about 30 minutes to climb from Jiuhua street to the top of the mountain. You can also take the centenary palace cable car for 55 yuan one way and 100 yuan round trip.

Centenary Palace

Baisui palace is located at the top of Zhaxiao peak, 871 meters above sea level, Jiuhua Mountain. It was originally named Jiexing temple, also known as Wannian temple. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and is a national key temple. Baisui palace, together with Zhiyuan temple, Dongya Chan temple and Ganlu temple, is known as the "four jungles" of Jiuhua Mountain.

In 1982, the Jiuhua Mountain Management Office rebuilt the temple. The building area is 2987 square meters. In 1983, it was designated by the State Council as a national key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area.

Historical evolution

Initial construction

Jiuhuashan centenary palace is located at the head of Motianling, Zhaxiao peak. It is a national key temple. It was built in Ming Dynasty.

The origin of the temple name

Centenary palace,

It was built in Ming Dynasty. During the Wanli period, Haiyu, a monk from Mount Wutai, with flawless characters, traveled to Mount Jiuhua. "When I first lived in the star picking Pavilion in Dongyan, I saw that there were turtles and snakes around lion mountain for protection, so I Zhuo Xiyan.". It took more than 20 years to copy the Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo (81 volumes) with wild fruits as food, tongue blood and gold powder. It has been well preserved and is a first-class collection of national cultural relics. No time to pass away in the third year of Tianqi (1623), at the age of 110, known as the centenary Duke. Three years later, it happened that Wang qinchai came to the mountain to offer incense. At night, he saw the glow of the sun. As he looked up at it, he saw that there was no flaw in it, and he sat down with a bright face. So he painted the body with gold to protect it, worshipped it in the nunnery, and heard about the imperial court. In 1630, the emperor mingsizong granted wuzhuozhen the title of "Yingshen Bodhisattva" and the title of "for goodness and treasure" to wuzhuozhen pagoda, which was named "lotus treasure". Because of this, monk Huiguang built a Buddhist temple, a ring hall, a cubature, an Dan and Yi'an temples. The centenary palace was granted the title of "the scale of FA Yu, the rank of which is the beginning of its preparation." It is precisely because Wannian temple was built to commemorate the hundred year old monk, so it is also known as the hundred year old palace.

Renovation and reconstruction

In 1717, the temple was destroyed by fire, and in 1721, the abbot monk Sancheng rebuilt it. In the 19th year of Jiaqing (1814), the abbot monk Fudian was rebuilt. Daoguang six years (1826) rebuilt, nineteen years (1839) expansion, known as "Wannian Temple", created a "ten square jungle.". The body of the flawless monk was also moved to the hall for worship; it was destroyed in the war in the third year of Xianfeng (1853). After that, it was rebuilt. In 1879, Seng Shi Baoshen presided over the reconstruction and went to Beijing to ask for a Tibetan Scripture. At the end of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the fire was put out again. Fortunately, it was put out in time and did not cause heavy losses. The body, the gold seal, jade seal and the blood classic given by the Ming and Qing emperors were intact. In 1917 and 1932, they preached the precepts twice. From 1931 to 1953, Chang Di, juezhen, Wuguang and Xinmiao served as abbots successively. In 1982, the Jiuhua Mountain Management Office rebuilt the temple. In 1987, the abbot monk yingguan made a statue of Maitreya Buddha, which is 2 meters high and 2 meters wide. Today, there are more than 50 cultural relics, such as bells, drums and steles.

Scale system

Temple size

The building area is 2987 square meters.

architectural style

Baisui palace is a typical residential temple in southern Anhui.

The five storey high-rise building integrates the mountain gate, the main hall, the body hall, the storehouse, the Zhaitang, the monk's house, the guest room and the East Department (toilet) as a whole. It has no single building configuration. From a distance, it looks like an ancient castle stretching from heaven to earth. This form is rarely seen in the existing temple buildings in China. The layout of the centenary palace makes full use of the downward slope from south to north. The floors rise from low to high, and form a labyrinth of twists and turns. Looking from the front of the main entrance, the main hall is only one floor, while the wing room on the east side of the main hall is two floors, only 10 meters high. But from its back door, the east side wall is 55 meters high, which is a five story building. The roof is just a complete Southern Anhui residential style four roof with patio. There is a mountain pavilion not far from the temple, where you can rest. Inside the pavilion, Maitreya Buddha was originally dedicated to the image of "everyone is happy". According to the Buddhist Scripture, Maitreya lives in douhutian, so the title of xiaoshanting is "douhutian", which means to use the Shanting as the gate of the temple.

The main hall is 19 meters wide and 14 meters deep, with a "Jiulong Xizhu" caisson in it; the niches are built on 4.5 meters long and 2 meters high rocks according to the situation of the ground; the flesh hall on the same floor can be accessed from the side door of the main hall, with a patio in front of the hall and a reservoir under it, which is also used for water collection and fire fighting; behind the flesh hall are the Buddha Hall and the monk's house. Its four floors are surrounded by huge rocks and inlaid with rocks. The organic combination of rocks and buildings, buildings and mountains is amazing.

Main landscape

Yingshen Bodhisattva

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there were Haiyu, a monk, and Wanping (now Lugouqiao in Beijing) from Shuntian, with flawless characters. In 1536, he became a monk in Wutai Mountain.

Flawless Zen master Zeng Yunyou visited Emei and other Buddhist holy places, and came to Jiuhua Mountain in Wanli year. "When he first lived in Dongyan star picking Pavilion, he saw that there were turtles and snakes around lion mountain, so he Zhuoxian.".

Flawless Zen master is a national key cultural relic. It took 28 years for him to practice hard. He wrote 81 volumes of Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo by stabbing his tongue with blood and mixing gold powder. It is now collected in Jiuhua Mountain historical relics museum.

In the autumn of the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), when the monk was 124 years old, he said: "the old man is more than 100 in shape, thin and fat. The bank head trace loses the magic side matter, the hole mouth speech comes specially the opportunity. The stars in the sky are high, and the world is far away. Guests come and ask me where I am going. When I go back to spring, I will see spring again. " The end of the speech is quiet. The disciple put his body in a vat. Three years later, he opened the VAT. His body looked as if it was alive, and his body was in good condition. Huiguang, his disciple, immediately "built a temple, a ring hall, and a cubature". At that time, people respected his age, so he changed the name of the nunnery to "centenary Palace". In the sixth year of Tianqi (1626), Zhu zizong of Ming Dynasty granted Wuxu Zen master the title of "Yingshen Bodhisattva", inscribed with the title of "doing good is treasure", and granted the four words of "lotus treasure" to Wuxu Zen master's body tower.

During the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty, the centenary palace was destroyed by fire and the main hall was destroyed, leaving only the body Hall of Zen master, which was rebuilt later. During the period of the Republic of China, we invited President Li Yuanhong to present a plaque with the title of "100 year old palace, Wannian temple to protect the country". During the cultural revolution, the mountain monk could only protect his flawless body by spreading his light and understanding, risking his life to secretly transfer his body to the ground to escape the disaster of being burned. It is still worshipped in the centenary palace.

Five hundred arhat Hall

With a total construction area of more than 1000 square meters, the 500 Luohan hall is a palace like structure, coordinated with the centenary palace, forming a castle like building complex built on the cliff. Five hundred Arhats are worshipped in the five hundred Arhats hall. The whole hall is magnificent. Five hundred Luohan hall in the palace of centenary is the only one in the four major Foshan in China. Its construction adds a unique new landscape to Jiuhua Mountain.

A corner of centenary Palace

Through the pavilion, about 100 steps to the peak. On the top of the gate of the main hall (which is also the Mountain Gate) of the Shiku style, there is a plaque on the name of kaishu temple, which is "built Wannian Temple by imperial edict and granted Baisui Palace by imperial edict". It is written by Li Yuanhong, the president of the Beiyang government. In front of the temple gate, the cottages on both sides are symmetrical, with a rectangular flat in the middle. The walls are inlaid with more than ten inscriptions of Yongzheng and Qianlong of Qing Dynasty. There are poems, inscriptions of giving Sutra, repairing temples, donating "merit" and other inscriptions. The handwriting includes Wei style cunshu, bangshu, Guange style Xiaokai. A row of bungalows in the west, for Xiangji kitchen, warehouse, etc. There are several bungalows in the East, which are built near the cliff. There are ancient clocks hanging in the house, which is called the clock room. The bell is made of copper and weighs about 2000 Jin. Its face protrudes with inscriptions and patterns. This clock is also called "Youming species". The bell striking monk rang the bell while reading the words on the bell. It went round and round, day and night. From the side door of the main hall, you can enter the body hall on the same floor to worship the flawless monk's body dressed in gold. He wears a lotus crown and a scarlet cassock. His head is similar to the size of ordinary people. His body has shrunk like a child, and he sits on a lotus stand. It is said that this kind of gold body is made by putting the corpse into a pottery jar, sealing it with lime, putting charcoal outside the jar, and then baking it with slow fire for decades. It has been exposed to the air for more than 350 years and has not rotten up to now. It is said that there were seven gold bodies in Jiuhua Mountain. Six of them were destroyed in ten years of turmoil. The flawless body was preserved in a cave by a monk. There is a patio in front of the hall of the body, under which a reservoir is built, which is also used for water intake and fire fighting. Behind the body hall are the Buddhist hall and the monk's house.

Centenary palace cable car

Jiuhua Mountain centenary palace cable car is located in Jiuhua street, one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. It is a subordinate enterprise of Jiuhua Mountain Tourism Development Co., Ltd. From the jungle Temple Zhiyuan temple under the cable car to the Millennium Temple centenary palace dedicated to the flawless monk of Ming Dynasty, the whole set of equipment is imported from Austria's gilak grafinda company, which is the first one in China with world-class standards

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