Jinghui Temple

Jinghui Temple

Jinghui temple is located in lingjiu mountain, 15 kilometers west of Fengxiang county. It was named Jiuding Lianhua Mountain in ancient times. It was named Lingshan for short after the hunting of lingjiu birds by Duke mu of Qin Dynasty.

Jinghui temple was built in AD (the second year of emperor Dezong of Tang Dynasty). The temple is majestic in appearance, with carved beams and painted buildings, splendid buildings and solemn Buddha statues. It is a permanent residence in ten places. After the vicissitudes of song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was destroyed and rebuilt. It is divided into four courtyards: Yin, Sleeping Buddha, iron Buddha and five Buddha.

In Jinghui temple, the Buddha statues are strict, the Buddha arhat and the sculptures are beautiful, the Vajrayana are in various shapes, and each of them shows the Dharma. There is Guanyin hall on the top of Lingshan mountain, with flying eaves and horns.

Historical origin

Jinghui temple, an ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River, is located in Jinghui village in the south of Xin'an town.

Jinghui temple is facing the vast shore of Taihu Lake. It is a famous temple in Wuxi and an ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River. It was once one of the ten famous temples in the south of the Yangtze River in history. It is said that this is the place where Zhou Yu of the three kingdoms' Soochow army trained on water. In the Song Dynasty, he served as the commander-in-chief of general Chu Fu to guard the military area of Taihu Lake.

The scale

Jinghui temple covers an area of 68 mu. It is said that Jinghui temple was originally built by Zhou Yu's water army during the Three Kingdoms period. Chufu Road, a righteous General of the Southern Dynasty, passed by it. Because it is close to the Taihu Lake and has an open terrain, including Wu and Yue, it has been rebuilt into a temple for more than 1400 years. The first thing that attracted people's attention was the two high rectangular stone strips in front of the tree. When you look carefully, they were originally used for the flagpole of the tree. There are words and patterns on them, but they are indistinct.

There is a pool in the south. Because there is a small bridge in the west, I don't know whether it is the river or the pool in front of the temple. There are some big stones beside the pool. From the remains of the stone carvings, we know that they are the relics of the former buildings of the temple. I think how majestic they would have been in those years. Now they can only lie quietly with the incense ash fallen here. In front of them are two stone pagodas newly carved by later generations. I don't know if we can see the shadow of the residual stones from them. There is also a stone on the side, which looks like pig, fish and beast from different angles Maybe it's a treasure of the temple.

Prosperous period

According to historical records, during the reign of shaoding in the Song Dynasty, there were more than 300 monks and more than 500 mu of temple land in the heyday of incense. Liu Bowen, the military adviser of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, went to Jinghui temple. There was a legend that the river turned to the west after six steps on the Xianghua bridge. < br nowadays, there are Laoying bridge, Liubu bridge and Binggong bridge in the temple. There are many historic sites and village names in the temple, such as general's tomb, double tower lotus stone building, monk's tomb, flagpole stone, ancient osmanthus tree, etc.

Plaque in the temple

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty appointed to visit Jinghui temple in Changzhou. Because he was unable to build roads for a while, Wuxi officials moved the plaque of Jinghui temple to Chongan temple in Wuxi. Emperor Qianlong granted amnesty to rebuild the plaque of Jinghui temple, and wrote a poem: "the lotus in the South China Sea is nine fragrance, and the green bamboo in the west is green for a thousand years.". Because Jinghui temple and Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou are on the same axis of 120 degrees east longitude, there is a legend that the front door is opposite the back door, so people call it little Hangzhou. Jinghui temple has been burning incense for more than a thousand years, and it has also been plagued by wars.

It has been destroyed for several times. According to historical records, in the 27th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shi was rebuilt, and in the sixth year of Xianfeng, he was burned again. In the Tongzhi period, the rebel leader and his retinue entered the temple to convert to Buddhism, and the Jinghui temple was rebuilt, which was named Baotian.

Architectural style

In December 1937, it was burned by the Japanese army. In 1940, monk Hongjian rebuilt Jinghui temple.

In 1998, with the approval of Xishan Municipal People's government, Jinghui temple was rebuilt as an architectural style of the Ming Dynasty. The main hall is 24.4 meters wide and the ridge is 15 meters high.

Address: the junction of Jinghui East Road and Jinghui West Road, Wuxi New District

Longitude: 120.372485

Latitude: 31.469628

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