Lingya Temple

Lingya Temple

Lingya temple is located 3 kilometers southeast of Lueyang County in Shaanxi Province. It is built on the two natural caves on the rocks and is close to mountains and rivers and sits east to west. The natural landscape and cultural landscape in the temple are skillfully combined, known as "the Pearl of the old way" and "the forest of small steles in southern Shaanxi". The two treasures of Lingya temple are the Han Li stone inscription "Ode to Yinge" and China's earliest traffic rules "Yizhiling".

Lingya temple is a national key cultural relics protection unit. Lingya temple was built in the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty (713-714 AD), with a history of more than 1200 years. Since ancient times, it has been a religious tourist attraction in the surrounding areas. With a long history, there are numerous legends and anecdotes. Li Bai, Du Fu, Wu Daozi, Li Keran, Yu Youren and other literati all wrote here.

Brief introduction to the temple

Lueyang is located in the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan provinces. It is a mountain city with a long history, known as the "Pearl" of the Jialing River. It has beautiful mountains and pleasant scenery. Many places of interest have been left here in the past dynasties, such as Lingya temple, Wuwang City, Ziyun palace, jiangshen temple But the first is Lingya temple. Lingya temple is located on the Jialing River, 3.5 kilometers southeast of Lueyang County in Hanzhong. It has enjoyed the reputation of "Lingya cave" since ancient times. Lingya temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a provincial scenic spot. It was built in the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty and can be called the Pearl of Shu Road. Lingyan temple is known as the "forest of small steles in southern Shaanxi". There are nearly 130 steles in the temple since the Han Dynasty. The famous Han Dynasty calligraphy stele "Ode to Yinge" is also in the temple.

Landscape relics

Yi Zhi Ling

Yizhiling is a stone carving of the Song Dynasty. It is the earliest traffic rule found in China so far. It is now placed in Lingya temple in Lueyang county. It is about 60cm high and 40cm wide. The stone carving is clearly engraved with 12 characters: "cheap and avoid expensive, less and avoid long, light and avoid heavy, go and avoid coming". Yizhiling stone carving is 130 years earlier than the Yizhiling stone carving in Songxi County, Fujian Province.

Lingya cave

Lingyaqian cave is about 25 meters high, 50 meters wide and 100 meters deep. The Wangjiang tower, built on the edge of the cliff at the entrance of the cave, is gorgeous. Climbing the tower, leaning on the fence and overlooking the Jialing River, it is winding and boundless, just like a white silk flying in the mountains and valleys of the Qinling Mountains. Pilu Buddha, first built in the sixth year of Zhengde (1511 A.D.) of emperor Wuzong (Zhu houzhao) of Ming Dynasty, sits quietly in the main hall. The "golden Tortoise" behind the Buddha hides deep in the cave to induce people to go and explore. Two "Tang palm" stand in front of the Buddha in the cave. The wind is swaying, as if the cave like a tiger's mouth is in one piece, and you are in the scene, like a tiger's cave and a mangtong. From the front to the left, through the "Naihe bridge" and along the cliff to Houdong, also known as "Luohan cave". "Yuzhu" and "Sleeping Buddha" are listed in turn, which are more mysterious and interesting. There is a spring between the two caves, which flows into the Jialing River in the West. It is said that drinking this spring, the leader of Shangqing Dynasty, Zhongshun intestines and stomach, has the function of clearing the heart and improving the eyesight, relieving fever and getting rid of trouble. Therefore, it is called "Yaoshui cave". The right side of the cave is called "Yaoshui cave". Every spring and summer, there are birds singing, flowers fragrant, trees refreshing, and people flowing.

Water Unicorn

The unicorn in Zhenshui is made of iron and stands on the left side of the gate of the temple. Tongling like eyes, alert to the rushing river, as if always watching the ups and downs of the river, in order to exert their own skills - Zhenshui. This water unicorn is 120 cm high, 150 cm long and weighs 250 kg. "Feixian stone", beside the poetry reciting Pavilion of the temple, is a sharp stone. Roughly, it looks like a natural screen, and meso, it looks like an immortal standing. Feixian stone is also called Feilai stone. "Three incense sticks in front of Buddha" is in front of Pilu Buddha. It is said that it was planted by the ancients of Qin Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty when they built buildings. Therefore, it is called "Tang palm" and named "the top three incense of Buddha". There are only two of them. There is a round pool in front of Tangzong. The water is clear and the goldfish play.

Golden turtle

The golden turtle is behind the big Buddha. There is a natural karst cave, which is unfathomable; along the greasy inclined stone road, to more than 100 meters, there is a natural stalactite turtle, which has a vivid shape and spirit. Outside the cave, the stone turtle is shining, known as "golden turtle".

Yuzhu

Yuzhu, next to the Sleeping Buddha in the back cave. It is an upright stalactite pillar formed naturally, which seems to support the whole natural cave. It is said that touching the "stone pillar" can become a pillar of the wood, visitors have to help the pillar touch each other, over time, so that this natural stone pillar increasingly bright, shiny silver, so called "jade pillar". "Moneho" in front of the cave next to the flying stone, is a strange shape of things, cast by pig iron (iron mound), spiral spire shape, a total of five layers, from the bottom up, layer by layer convergence, forming a round spire. It is 32 cm in height, 104 cm in circumference and weighs about 75 kg. When people come to burn incense, worship Buddha or play, they touch the iron mound to try their strength. But because there is no place to grasp, it is not easy to hold, and it is not easy to grasp the balance, so we can not hold it, so we call it "moneho".

Sleeping Buddha

Millennium Sleeping Buddha, beside the jade pillar of the back cave. It is a plump, kind and sleeping bell milk natural Buddha. This lifelike natural bell breast Buddha, wearing cassock, eyes closed, bare chest and abdomen, barefoot side lying. In the dim, tranquil and gloomy atmosphere inside the cave, this Sleeping Buddha once passed around. If you feel pain, you can feel it, and it will get better immediately. Up to now, visitors still caress the Sleeping Buddha with their hands and express their best wishes.

Ode to Yinge

"Ode to Yinge" is a cliff stone carving carved in the fifth year of Jianning (172 A.D.) by Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, it was written and engraved in memory of Li Xi, governor of Hanwu capital, repairing the plank road of sword Pavilion. Therefore, the full name of the song is Li Xi, the prefect of Wudu. "Ode to Yinge" is a precious stone carving in Han Dynasty. Its calligraphy, with its own family and unique standard, is the standard of Hanli Bafen, which is well-organized, well-organized, elegant and simple, rich in style and elegant in posture. Among the beautiful and colorful Hanli, it is indeed a fine art of China and an important material for the study of Chinese characters, calligraphy and Hanli Bafen in the Eastern Han Dynasty. As early as the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was well-known both at home and abroad, and was highly praised by the writers and calligraphers of the past dynasties. All kinds of monographs and miscellaneous notes on epigraphy, and all kinds of monographs or monographs on calligraphy were mostly recorded. There were 128 records in Li Bian, which is of great value. The Japanese calligraphers have traveled a lot to see this gem of carved stone on the cliffs of the Eastern Han Dynasty and studied it from various angles. It is the same as "Ode to Shimen" and "Ode to Xixia" in Han Dynasty, and is also called "three Ode to Han Dynasty" in China.

The stone carving was originally in guojiadi, xujiapingkou village, Lueyang, In December 1979, farmers built a country road, and the ode to Ying pavilion was damaged. Later, it was moved to Lingya temple and restored. It was embedded in the stone cliff of Qiandong cave, with a height of 170 cm and a width of 125 cm. The full text consists of 19 lines, the sixth and twelfth lines are 11 characters, the fifteenth lines are 18 characters, and the rest lines are 27 characters, with a total of 472 characters On the forehead, there are seven marks of the abrasion of the ancient tugboat ropes, the longest of which is about 20 cm. Because the carved stone on the cliff is located at the corner, the ancient trackers used it to pull the rope to save labor. Today, we can see the traces of the rope

In 1230, the third year of emperor LiZong's shaoding reign in the Southern Song Dynasty, Tian Keren, the prefect of Mianyang (now Lueyang), loved calligraphy when he was a child. He once copied the ode to Yinge. When he became the prefect of Mianyang, he was overjoyed to learn that the ode to Yinge was in Mianyang. When he saw that the original engraving was exposed by the river and eroded by the wind and rain, he was afraid that it would disappear for a long time. He imitated the size of the original engraving and re engraved it on the right cliff of Naihe bridge in Lingya temple. In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the upper right corner of the stone was peeled off, and the oblique mark was 102 cm long. The magistrate Shen Rulong made up the inscription and added the seven characters "magistrate Shen Rulong re carved" at the end of the stone. Since the late Ming Dynasty, Shen Rulong made up the inscription and risked the risk of "re engraving" the ode to Cuan. Because of the clear handwriting and the spread of rubbings, it caused confusion. Some people arbitrarily decided to re engrave it for Shen Rulong. Because of its high calligraphy value, Yinge song was written by calligrapher Cai Yong for a long time. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Gao Zecheng compiled Pipa Ji, he regarded Cai Yong as the "Number One Scholar", which was very popular. Therefore, the masses falsely said that the cliff of "Ode to Yinge" written by Cai Yong was called "No. 1 stele". It has been said that up to now, the old provincial, government and county annals have been falsely recorded.

However, the scholars of Steles in the past dynasties, such as Li Shi by Hong Shi of the Southern Song Dynasty, graphite engraved by Zhao Shan of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Shi Ji by Weng Fanggang of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Shi Cui Bian by Wang Chang of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Shi Yi Wen Lu by Chen Yixi of the Qing Dynasty and Jin Shi Xue by Zhu Jianxin of the Qing Dynasty, confirmed that the ode to Yingge of Liqiao was Qiu Jing Wen and Qiu Cheng Shu. Because of their low status at that time, their life is unknown.

traffic

You can take the shuttle bus from Mianxian to Lueyang, get off at a T-junction near Lueyang, and take a 2 yuan motor tricycle along Lingya road. It's also 2 yuan to take three rounds from Lueyang. From Lingya temple, the scenery of Jialing River is very good. You can walk back to the city. If time is tight, you can talk to the coachman and ask him to wait for you to come out of the temple and take you directly to the railway station in the north of the city. The round trip cost 5 yuan.

Address: near Lingyan Road, Lueyang County, Hanzhong City

Longitude: 106.145709

Latitude: 33.300312

Tel: 0916-48

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