Zhuquan Temple

Zhuquan Temple

Zhuquan temple is a well preserved ancient temple in Xinmi City, Henan Province. According to the records of Mi County, Zhuquan temple was built in 1355, covering an area of 1800 square meters. It was rebuilt many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

There are a lot of Steles in Zhuquan temple, some of which have been destroyed. There are more than 7 existing steles, all of which are "rebuilt Zhuquan Temple" steles from Wuwu year of Ming Dynasty to Kangxi year of Qing Dynasty. In 1963, they were announced as "county-level cultural relics protection unit" by Xinmi Municipal People's government. In 2011, they were also announced as "Zhengzhou cultural relics protection unit" by Zhengzhou Municipal People's government, The front steps of the gate are being rebuilt. According to historical records, there are seventy-two temples in Songshan mountain. Seventy one temple is busy in the mountain, but one temple is quiet outside the mountain. This is Zhuquan temple. Shiji Zhuquan temple was built in Sui Dynasty. The temple is not big. It has three entrances. Its back is Ruoshan and its face is Zen water. There is a valley and a spring on the right and a village and a courtyard on the left. Temple, temple, spring, mountain and water are a great artistic conception; Zhuquan temple is a part of Fuxi mountain culture.

geographical position

Zhuquan temple is located on Yushi mountain in Niudian, Xinmi City, at the east foot of Songshan mountain. This jade is called "Miyu". Zhuquan temple is under the main peak of Dafang mountain, Fuxi mountain, in MI village, Xinmi City, the east foot of Songshan mountain. There are Erlong mountain in the East and Fenghuang Mountain in the West. There are five Dushan mountains in the East, which are majestic and solemn. In the meantime, there is another kind of cave.

In winter, standing in this realm full of Zen, it has a different taste.

Folklore

There is also a touching love legend about Miyu, which is almost a household name in the neighborhood. There is a jade craftsman who has a daughter. In order to inherit the family's carving industry, the old man accepted an apprentice to teach his skills. He fell in love with the craftsman's daughter. At this time, a royal concubine came here and chose the craftsman's daughter to take him away. His fiance came to stop him and was killed by officers and soldiers.

The craftsman's daughter cried with her corpse in her arms, moved heaven and earth, and buried the two lovers. The woman's colorful clothes turned into colorful stones and became a beautiful jade. Today's Miyu is also of these five colors. Its jade is milky white, light green, emerald green, purple, black or yellow metamorphic fine-grained quartzite, with a small amount of red, hard, fine quality, beautiful and other characteristics. It is one of the four famous jades in China. In the Shang Dynasty, there were jade carvings made of dense jade, which were mined in later dynasties. As a matter of fact, it has been recorded in the annals of Mi County that "the Yellow Emperor explored the jade of MI mountain".

In fact, not only the temple, but also the things around the temple, such as Zhuquan temple village, are full of Zen. Zhuquan temple village comes from Zhuquan temple, and Zhuquan temple comes from Zhuquan spring. There is also a beautiful legend about the origin of Zhuquan temple. A long time ago, there was a village here where it was difficult to get water. One year there was a severe drought, and people in the village had to go far to find water. One day, an old monk came to the village. Because of the long journey, his lips were dry. He asked the villagers for water. The villagers went over the mountains and found half a bowl of water for him. The monk was very moved. Before he left, he said to the villagers, "I'll stick my crutch here. When I walk a hundred steps, you'll pull it out."

The villagers didn't know what he meant, so they were very curious. They didn't wait for him to take a hundred steps to pull out their crutches. In a flash, the spring came out like a flood. The villagers cried out to the monk for help. The monk walked forward quickly. When he got to a hundred steps away, he stopped. At this time, the water was just ready to flow to his feet, and stopped flowing. The villagers walked strangely and found that the water was flowing underground. The spring is 100 steps above the ground, 45 miles below the ground, to the Jinhua spring in Chaohua town.

There is a saying that "walk 100 steps in the bright and 45 miles in the dark", so the villagers built a temple to commemorate it. It was named "Zhuquan Temple". Since then, the village has been renamed "Zhuquan temple village". The gate of Zhuquan temple is very small. On both sides of the gate, there are two statues of Vajra, the God of Yasha who guards the Buddha with Vajra pestle (the strongest weapon in ancient India), also known as "zhivajra". It is said that the Buddha often has 500 Vajra followers, whose main name is "secret Vajra". According to the joke in Fengshen Yanyi, this image is called "two generals of hem ha". In fact, there is no such name in Buddhist classics. Entering from the mountain gate is the heavenly king's hall. On the lintel of the gate is the writing of "Lu Yuan FA Jie". Although it was once smashed and damaged by later generations, it is still clear.

Layout structure

In the middle of the hall of Zhuquan temple is Maitreya Buddha with dense jade body, followed by Weituo Bodhisattva with Nanyang jade body. On both sides of the hall are four statues of heavenly kings with clay body. Through the temple of heavenly king is the auxiliary hall, there are two things. When you enter the east side hall, you first see the copper body of the merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva, who is surrounded by the red boy and the little dragon girl in journey to the West.

In the west side hall, opposite to Bodhisattvas are the three Western sages with bronze body. On the left is the God of wealth and martial arts with copper body, the red faced Guan Gong. On the right is the Bodhisattva with copper body. Out of the west side hall, you can see that this building is much more orderly than the first two. This building is the main hall, the main hall.

The main hall is very wide. There are three bronze Buddhas in the hall, representing the different worlds of China, East and West. The middle one is Sakyamuni Buddha; next to the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, there are two standing statues of bhikkhu, one old and the other middle-aged. These are the two disciples of the Buddha. The old one is called "venerable Kaya" and the middle-aged one is called "venerable Anan". In the East is the Oriental glazed pharmacist Buddha, in the west is the Western bliss, namo Amitabha.

There is also a small hall behind the main hall, which is a very cramped three cottage. The lintel of the door says "crossing the river with treasure rafts", which is dignified and simple. It commemorates Bodhidharma's experience of crossing the river with a reed. Step up, push the door in, face the bronze body of piluzana Buddha, waiters on the left and right sides. Piluzana Buddha is one of the three body Buddhas. The rosette of piluzana Buddha is the Chiba lotus. There is a small Buddha on each lotus petal. The whole rosette represents the world of China and Tibet.

cultural meaning

[Cao Xueqin has a long history with Zhuquan Temple]

According to the unearthed inscriptions and oral biographies of Zhuquan temple and the people in Jiazhai village, Zhuquan temple has a long history with Cao Xueqin. It is said that Cao Xueqin visited all parts of the country after the Cao family's misfortune. He once went to Zhuquan temple and visited Fuxi mountain. He got inspiration here and wrote the story of stone (a dream of Red Mansions). A local scholar said, "if it's just a stone, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but Zhuquan temple is one of the 72 temples in Songshan mountain. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Kongkong monk practiced here, Kongkong monk Kong monk, whose common surname is Jia, is a native of Jia village, three kilometers east of Zhuquan temple. According to textual research, there were more than 40 monks with empty name in China at that time. The only one with the common surname Jia was Jia kongye in Zhuquan temple. According to the local people, three kilometers west of Zhuquan temple, there is a Cao family, whose surname is mainly Cao. It is said that they moved in from the state of Cao in the western regions, branched into Shandong, and then into Liao. Cao Xueqin's ancestral home is in Liao Dynasty, but his distant ancestor is probably Cao family in Central China. According to local legend, Cao Xueqin came here to find a relative. When he visited the temple, he met monk Kongkong. They fell in love with each other very much. When they visited Dafang mountain, they found a strange stone, heishiya. Cao Xueqin was inspired by it and spent more than half a year here to conceive the story of the stone.

Is it the history of the association or is it true? Is the stone found near Zhuquan temple the archetype of the channeling jade in the story of the stone by Cao Xueqin or the ordinary rock? The reporter has made many verifications on this local legend which was once popular for a while. There is no clear record in the local historical records, and there is no similar statement in the research results of Redology. History can't be based on hypothesis. What's the truth of history, it needs solid evidence to prove it.

Address: zhuquansi village, Niudian Town, Xinmi City, Zhengzhou City

Longitude: 113.20963320908

Latitude: 34.55617136231

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the 40 yuan ticket of Meiyu Taoyuan scenic spot.

Chinese PinYin : Zhu Quan Si