Guoqing scenic spot

Guoqing scenic spot

Guoqing temple was built in 598, the 18th year of kaihuang reign of Sui Dynasty. It was first named Tiantai temple, and later renamed Guoqing temple after "if the temple is completed, the country will be Qing".

Features of scenic spots

The Southern Song Dynasty was listed as one of the "ten temples in the south of the Yangtze River". The existing buildings were rebuilt in 1734. The total area of the temple is 73000 square meters, which is divided into five vertical axes. The central axis is Maitreya hall, Yuhua hall, Daxiong hall, pharmacist hall, Guanyin hall from south to north; there are also fangshengchi, Zhonggulou, Juxian hall, abbot building, Sansheng hall, miaofe Hall (upper is the Sutra building); Jialan hall, Luohan hall, cultural relics room, etc., which constitute an ancient temple with more than 20000 square meters and more than 8000 rooms Buildings. The temple is built according to the situation of the mountain, and is raised layer by layer. It has the characteristics of strict symmetry of Buddhist architecture, and gives people a sense of flexibility.

Compared with other famous temples, the natural landscape and cultural landscape of Guoqing temple have more local characteristics.

Main attractions

natural landscape

From the perspective of natural landscape, most of the ancient temples in China are located in the valley surrounded by mountains on three sides (such as Tiantong temple in Ningbo, Fayu temple in Putuo, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, Shaolin Temple in Songshan, etc.), while Guoqing temple is located in the geographical environment of Taoyuan style, which is surrounded by mountains on four sides. Three or five miles out of Chengguan, you can see the "wild goose pagoda high out of Qingzhang". The Sui pagoda, which is 59.3 meters high, looms and flickers. You can only see the full view of the pagoda at the foot of Muyu mountain, the "South Gate" of Guoqing temple. And Guoqing temple is still "raised in the boudoir, people do not know.". When I turn around the Hanshi Pavilion, I see the ancient temple of Sui Dynasty. I don't know where to open the gate of the ancient temple. Wait for fenggan bridge, walk a few steps to the east to see the ancient temple gate. It turned out that the Mountain Gate of Guoqing temple was unconventional and opened to the East instead of the south. When you enter the mountain gate and turn straight, the corridor is covered with shade on both sides of the sun, and the bamboo road is built, adding a deep and mysterious atmosphere. Entering Maitreya hall, the spectacle of the Qing Dynasty is like a picture screen. This is the "starting, inheriting, transferring and combining" of the ingenious architectural layout of Guoqing temple.

places of historic figures and cultural heritage

In addition to the natural landscape, Guoqing temple is also an ancient historical and cultural temple. Meng Haoran, Li Bai, Jia Dao, PI Rixiu, Lu guimeng, Du Xunhe, Hong Shi, Guo Moruo, Deng Tuo, Zhao Puchu and other scholars all left immortal masterpieces. Inside the temple, there is a "Sui Mei" hand planted by Zhang an guanding, the fifth ancestor of Tiantai Sect of Chinese Buddhism, which is still lush. The "Sanxian hall" commemorating Hanshan, Shide and fenggan, the famous poet monks of Tang Dynasty, the 13 ton bronze statue of Sakyamuni of Ming Dynasty, 18 Nanhu Arhats carved in Yuan Dynasty, and the cliff manuscripts of Wang Xizhi, Liu Gongquan, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Zhu Xi. Outside the temple, there are steles commemorating Seng Yixing, an astronomer of Tang Dynasty, who compiled the Dayan calendar and went to Guoqing temple to seek arithmetic "The tower of teachers" and so on. More importantly, during the period of Chen and Sui dynasties, master sophist (538-597) founded Tiantai Sect, the first Chinese Buddhism in Tiantai Mountain. During the reign of emperor Zhenyuan of Tang Dynasty, Japanese eminent monks went to Guoqing temple to seek Dharma. After returning home, they founded Tiantai Sect in birui mountain of Kyoto. In the 11th century, Yitian, a Korean monk, went to Guoqing temple to seek Dharma and introduced Tiantai Sect to the Korean Peninsula. With the continuous development of tourism, Guoqing temple has become a famous religious tourist attraction at home and abroad.

Address: guochi Road, guoqingsi village, Tiantai County, Taizhou City

Longitude: 121.0471

Latitude: 29.165325

Ticket information: market price: 5.0 yuan

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