Yongfu Temple Pagoda

Yongfu Temple Pagoda

Yongfu temple tower is located in the middle of tujing Lane in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province. It was built in the first year of Tianjian, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty. It is said that Xiao Hui's mother was blind at that time. Xiao Hui prayed to the Buddha, but her mother's eyes were restored. So the almsgiving palace was called "Xianming Temple".

Name source

In the second year of Tiansheng of Song Dynasty (1024), a visiting monk of Shouxing temple in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province, presided over by Yanhe baolunlai temple and built a pagoda in the east of the temple. In 1362, when the monks were repairing the pagoda, they dug a crystal nectar bottle at the bottom of the pagoda and presented it to the emperor. Emperor Dayue gave "Xianming Temple" as "Yongfu Temple" and the tower as "Yongfu temple tower".

architectural composition

Because there is Guanyin hall in Yongfu temple in Tashi, it is also called "Guanyin Hall Tower". The tower has seven levels on eight sides, with a base depth of 10 meters, a tower height of 42 meters and an area of 80 square meters. The tower has a stem bottom at the bottom, arch rolling doors on eight sides of the tower body, and a bucket arch on the column brace. The shape is ancient and elegant, and it has survived more than 10 earthquakes in history. Yongfu Temple Pagoda and Miaogou Temple Pagoda are one of the ten scenic spots of East Lake in ancient Raozhou.

History and culture

Yongfu Temple Pagoda has solid construction quality and strict structure. It is said that in the hundreds of years from the Yuan Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were eight earthquakes in Poyang, which damaged many houses and buildings, but the Yongfu temple tower was not damaged once. Yongfu Temple Pagoda has been destroyed and restored several times in history. It has experienced many vicissitudes, but it always stands in the middle of the county, witnessing a period of historical process and development. Careful observation shows that the color and structure of the exterior walls of each floor of Yongfu temple tower are different, which is a deep mark and witness of many renovations in history. Among them, the most modified is the top of the tower. +In 1978, when the county people's government appropriated special funds for repair, because the top of the tower was destroyed, it was rebuilt according to the Northern Song tower, the circular tower top, which is quite different from the original Yongfu temple tower, the Southern Song tower. +In 2002 +, the government allocated funds to rebuild the pagoda, which restored the original appearance of Yongfu temple to the maximum extent.

In the early 1980s, two crystal balls were unearthed when the Yongfu temple tower base was cleaned up in our county. The two crystal balls are crystal clear, and are the treasures of the town tower. They are identified as national first-class cultural relics by experts and are treasured by the County Museum.

Speaking of the name of Yongfu Temple Pagoda, there is another origin. In the first year of the Tianjian reign of Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, Xiao Hui, the younger brother of Xiao Yan, the king of Poyang, donated the palace on the east side of the palace to build a temple called "Xianming Temple" in order to pray for the Buddha to protect his mother's early cure of eye disease. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed "Longxing" and "Dayun", and in the Song Dynasty, it was renamed "Yongning". In the second year of emperor Tiansheng of Song Dynasty, pagodas were popular all over the country, and Yongning Temple also built a pagoda in the east of the temple. In the Yuan Dynasty, the tower was slightly inclined. During the maintenance of the tower, a bottle of manna was dug out at the foot of the tower. It is said that drinking this nectar can make you live forever. The abbot paid it to the imperial court. After the emperor got it, the abbot was granted the title of Yongfu Zen master of Qianyuan Wanshou. From then on, Yongning Temple was renamed Yongfu temple, and the pagoda was also named Yongfu Temple Pagoda.

Now, on the basis of protection, the people of Poyang will repair and expand the relevant buildings, and strive to restore the former style and become a real scenic spot of Poyang. It used to be free to enter the tower, but now it costs 2 yuan to enter the tower. This ancient pagoda, which has been built for nearly a thousand years, stands majestically on the shore of the Pohu lake.

Address: Jianshe Road, Poyang County, Shangrao City

Longitude: 116.678564

Latitude: 28.989146

Ticket information: market price: 10.0 yuan

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