The second temple

The second temple

This entry introduces three temples in China, namely Jiuhuashan temple in Anhui Province, huangze temple in Sichuan Province and Qushan island in Zhejiang Province.

The second temple of Jiuhua Mountain

Location overview

The temple is located at the northern foot of Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui Province (now in Ersheng village, Jiuhua Township, Qingyang County). In ancient times, it was a mountain climbing channel in the north. It is a key temple in Anhui Province.

The second temple is a Ming Dynasty residential building in the south of the Yangtze River. It faces east from the West. The gate of the hall faces the ancient Shangshan road and the highway from Wuxi to Jiuhua street. Longtan River comes from the southeast and passes around the temple, with a quiet and elegant environment. Now the abbot monk Jueyi. In the past, some faithful men and women went to Mount Jiuhua to worship. They saw temples burning incense and Bodhisattvas kowtowing. The second temple is the starting point of their worship.

The main hall of the second temple has three bays, 11 meters high, 13 meters long and 9 meters wide, with a construction area of 117 square meters. The two images of the interior were reconstructed in 1989, wearing a black yarn, wearing a royal dress, waist belt jade belt, foot pedal foundation boots. Height 2 meters, face plump, black three wisps of beard chest, two eyes bright. The second and third entrances behind the main hall are two-story squatters with four water patios. The second one is for the statue of Guanyin downstairs and the statue of dizang upstairs. After the squatter house is the Zhaitang. The building area of the hall is 744 square meters.

Historical evolution

The second temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Qing Dynasty Guangxu "Qingyang County annals" Volume 1: two holy temple, initially known as "two holy temple", also known as "Jiuhua Temple". "It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, Jin qiaojue, the king of Xinluo state, was stationed in Jiuhua. His two ministers, ZHAOYOU and Zhaopu, failed to return home, because they built a room here to practice. The statue of houhedu temple was restored to its original site. " According to the records of Jiuhua Mountain in the 27th year of the Republic of China, "the two saints are said to be the second uncle of jindicang, who came here to find jindicang from the state of Xinluo."

The second temple was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty and has always been a place for local people to pray. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the nuns, nengfang and Youyuan repaired and restored the old system one after another. From 1912 to 1932, the abbots of bhiksunitside and Miaoxiang successively built Zhongxing. From 1936 to 1942, the abbot monk Wu Yue and Lang ran. In 1948, the abbot monk fahua. On December 30, 1984, Anhui Provincial People's government designated it as a provincial key Temple (including 30 temples such as Longchi Temple). In 1985, Jiuhuashan Management Office rebuilt the main hall. From 1988 to 1999, the abbot, Seng jueru, carried out comprehensive maintenance. Now the abbot is monk Guocheng.

The "two saints" worshipped in the temple, wearing wort, wearing a royal dress, waist belt jade belt, foot pedal foundation boots. He is seven feet tall, with a plump face, three black whiskers and two bright eyes. The two golden statues are like twin brothers. The so-called "two saints" here are only two uncles of Jin qiaojue. It is neither the two sages of Duke Zhou and Confucius as commonly known by Confucianists, nor the two sages of "he he Er Xian" in folklore.

Related Legends

There is a legend here. Jin qiaojue is a nobleman in the royal family of Silla. His uncle is also a famous family, but his name is unknown. After Jin qiaojue established a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Jiuhua and became famous, many monks from the state of Silla came to worship him as a teacher, and there was a surge of apprentices. But life in the mountains is very hard, and Jin qiaojue once lived on clay mixed with rice. Gao Tang's mother was heartbroken and asked her two uncles to trek to the mountain to visit her. Influenced by his nephew Jin qiaojue, the two uncles stayed in Jiuhua Mountain.

Later, they were driven down the mountain by Jin qiaojue because they violated the five commandments of "no killing, no stealing, no whoring, no lying and no drinking". In memory of Jin qiaojue's two uncles' trip to Jiuhua Mountain, later generations set up a temple at the foot of the mountain to offer them meat and vegetables. In the past, in some places of Southern Anhui, there was a kind of gathering of "two saints". That is to say, on July 30 of the lunar calendar, "dizang meeting" was held to burn incense and chant sutras. The participants paid for a vegetarian meal. The next day, that is, in the early August of the lunar calendar, a "two saints' meeting" was held to offer sacrifices to Jin qiaojue's two uncles. There were meat and wine for the banquet, and the participants also burned incense for worship. At the dinner, there were big wine and meat, which was quite different from the "Yulan basin meeting" and "Guanyin meeting" of Buddhists.

tourist guide

traffic

It's very convenient to travel to Jiuhua Mountain. There are tourist buses in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, Nanjing, Wuhu, Tongling, Jiuhua Mountain and Guichi, which satisfy the tourists.

Railway: the nearest railway station to Jiuhua Mountain is Tongling station, 92 kilometers from Jiuhua street, about 2 hours' drive. There are trains from Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou in Tongling. From Shanghai to Jiuhua Mountain, you can take T702 special train, which leaves at 7:00, passes through Nanjing at 9:57 and arrives at Tongling at 13:15

Water transportation: Jiuhua Mountain is 53 kilometers away from Chizhou port and 92 kilometers away from Tongling port on the Yangtze River route. Visitors from Shanghai and Nanjing can land at Tongling port, while visitors from Chongqing, Wuhan and Jiujiang can land at Chizhou port.

Bus: from Chizhou to Jiuhua Mountain, there is a direct bus in peak season (July and August). Usually, you can take the bus to Qingyang and get off at Wuxi (32km, 6 yuan, 1 hour). Then you can transfer to a minibus to go up the mountain (22km Panshan Road, 4 yuan)

Bus: Tongling, Guichi and Jiuhuashan have one bus every hour. In Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area, there are also shuttle buses from Jiuhua street to Minyuan. There are rickshaws to and from each tour line.

Special food

Jiuhua Mountain's diet is mainly vegetarian, and Jiuhua vegetarian dishes have long been famous, among which the most famous ones are Shier, bamboo shoots, Taier and other vegetarian supplements from Jiuhua Mountain. In addition to the temple, the most distinctive vegetarian restaurant in Jiuhua Mountain is the "Buddhist vegetarian restaurant". Famous dishes here include "Jiuhua three ears" (Auricularia auricula, tremella fuciformis, tremella fuciformis), "Tiantai Shuangdong", "braised stone chicken", "steamed turtle", "string roast rabbit", "fried pheasant", "steamed Mountain Phoenix", "Foshan ice hockey", etc. these vegetables are mainly made of beans and other vegetables, supplemented by natural wild plants such as pine nuts, walnuts, stone ears, polygonatum, lily, bamboo shoots and ginkgo And so on. Jiuhua Yunwu Tea, Huangjing, Tianzhu chopsticks, paper fans, etc. Jiuhua vegetarian food, made from bamboo shoots, mushrooms and wild vegetables, is very popular with tourists.

The second temple of huangze Temple

The second temple is located in huangze Temple scenic area, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. It is called the second temple because it worships Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty. In 649, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne. When Li Zhi was the crown prince, he had an affair with Wu Zetian, a talented man of his father (Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty). After he ascended the throne, he could not wait to make Wu Zetian queen, but was strongly opposed by a group of ministers. Li Ji (Xu MaoGong) said, "why do you ask outsiders about your Majesty's family?" finally, in 655, he abandoned the queen and established the Wu family as empress. In the late years of Xianqing (656-661), Emperor Gaozong was suffering from wind and dizziness. His head was heavy and his eyes could not see him. It was difficult to manage government affairs. Empress Wu Zetian was able to gradually master the government affairs. They were called "two saints" inside and outside the court. From then on, Wu Zetian became the ruler of real power, while Gaozong was in the position of losing power. According to the historical records, "after the first year of Linde (664), every time the emperor went to the court to discuss affairs, he sat in the east room, and then in the west room. He had no big or small political power. He heard that the world was in power, and he returned to the central palace. It was up to him to dethrone the emperor and kill the living. The Emperor just handed it over, which is called" two saints "at home and abroad. This is a very rare phenomenon in Chinese history, which fully shows Wu Zetian's outstanding political ability.

On the left and right sides of the hall, there are nine famous ministers of Gaozong and Wu Zhou dynasties, namely Li Ji, Li Yifu, Wei Yuanzhong, Li Zhaode, di Renjie, Lou Shide, Zhang Cambodian, Lai Junchen and Shangguan Waner.

After the second temple is Zetian hall. The hall was first built in the Tang Dynasty. It was called "Empress Wu Zhenrong hall" and "empress Zetian shenghou hall" in history. Different from the ordinary "private" temples, huangze temple, an "official" temple built by the empress imperial edict, has no "Mahavira hall". Therefore, Zetian hall is the main hall of huangze temple.

The second temple of Qushan Island

Qushan island is located 27 kilometers northeast of Gaoting Town, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. The first time of the construction of the two sacred halls on the island can't be traced back to now. It's only known that in 1850, Wang Kuanzhong and others from Li paid for the reconstruction. It's the second largest palace in Qushan, second only to the Dongyue palace in Guihua garden. After liberation, he ran a primary school and a brigade, but later he demolished it. In the past two years, the main hall has been rebuilt, but the front hall of God of wealth and the middle stage are still missing.

The two sacred halls are dedicated to the two saints, namely, the emperor Wenchang and the Duke Guan. The two saints, Confucius and Guandi, are worshipped. According to reports, the two temples in the past had three characteristics: more villages under their jurisdiction, more believers praying for God, and more offerings for Lantern Festival. Generally, there are only one or two villages under the jurisdiction of a temple. Believers who come to pray for God are also limited in this area. When the Lantern Festival is held in the first month, they only put some fruits and strips of meat. The second temple is an important public place with 18 DAAO under its jurisdiction. There are many believers coming and going. The second temple also has many Temple products of its own. When the Lantern Festival was held, it was naturally rich, and all the pigs and sheep were brought in. Compared with the general Palace temple, it is inevitable that it will be downcast.

During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, every time there was a drought, the old and young people in Qushan would gather in the second temple to carry out the Dragon King worshipped in the temple to pray for rain.

In 1949, many Kuomintang troops defeated in the civil war retreated to Zhoushan Islands and then crossed the sea to Taiwan. They were stationed in the

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