Shuiyue Temple

Shuiyue Temple

Shuiyue temple is located in the baitanghe Wetland Park in Suining County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It was rebuilt on the basis of dizang temple in Suining County. The construction of Shuiyue Temple breaks through the traditional rules and regulations. It changes the architectural style of Chinese temples. On the premise of following the layout of Buddhist temples, it adopts modern architectural elements and skillfully combines with Buddhism's enlightening mind, cleaning dirt, praying for happiness and auspiciousness, which interprets the humanistic concept of "Dao Zhi Jian". The World Architecture Festival 2015 held in Singapore announced the shortlist of "religious" buildings. The world's nine major religious buildings were shortlisted for their unique design, and Shuiyue temple in Suining, Jiangsu Province, China was successfully selected. Shuiyue temple is a national 4A scenic spot.

In February 2020, in order to pay homage to the medical workers who are struggling in the front line of anti epidemic, Shuiyue Temple scenic spot will implement the policy of free visit for medical workers with valid certificates (doctor's certificate and nurse's certificate) from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020.

Historical evolution

According to the book of the later Han Dynasty, "zuolung built a futu temple in xiapi (now ancient Pei town in Suining). It has a golden plate on the top and an important building on the bottom. It also has a hall and a pavilion on the back. It can accommodate more than 3000 people. They were painted with gold and painted with brocade. Every time a Buddha bathes in the water, he often sets up a place to drink and eat, and places a banquet on the road. There are more than ten thousand people to eat and watch. Shanghai Tongji University provides materials and textual research: the tower built by zorong is "the first tower in the world" with written records and image description in Chinese history. In the history of Chinese Buddhism written by Huang Chenhua, it is regarded as "the Buddhism is spread among the people". It can be seen that Suining is the starting place for Buddhism to move from "official" to "folk" in China, and it is also the first place for the Buddhist landmark "futu" to be built in China. In song and Jin Dynasties, futu temple was destroyed by war.

When the stars change, the bad sky becomes. The restoration of futu temple, which has a long history, has always been the long cherished wish of the four disciples of Buddhism in Suining. With the approval of the provincial and civil religious departments, the futu temple was rebuilt. At the same time, due to the second phase expansion of Jiangsu century Tianhong Textile Group plant, located in Suicheng Town, Suining County, the dizang Temple needs to be relocated. It has a history of more than 600 years. It was built in Yongle years of the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the war of Japanese aggression against China, and almost in ruins. After the reform and opening up, due to the local Party committee and government departments over the years to vigorously implement the religious policy, the nearby Buddhists and the masses to vigorously maintain, the old appearance of dizang temple has been restored. After discussion, it was decided that the reconstruction of futu temple and the relocation of dizang temple would be located in the baitanghe provincial Wetland Park to build a modern and large-scale temple. Because the temple is surrounded by water, and because the belief of "cause, fruit, round and lack" in Buddhism is like the moon, and the temple highlights the water moon Guanyin culture, the temple is named "water moon Zen Temple".

Rectification punishment

On June 1, 2017, the reporter learned from the provincial tourism administration that the Shuiyue temple in Suining, Xuzhou, which has many problems, was warned and ordered to rectify within three months.

Main structure

The temple has a large scale and was completed in October 2013. In November 2013, an additional 8000 square meters Shuiyue square was built in front of the temple, which was completed in March 2014. In the middle of the square, please enter a water moon Avalokitesvara, which is 9.8 meters high. The standing of Avalokitesvara enhances the spirit and momentum of the square, and is more conducive to the promotion of Buddhism.

The general plan of Shuiyue temple is arranged symmetrically along the central axis in the direction of due south and due north. There is one longitudinal axis and two transverse axes. On the longitudinal axis, there are Shanmen, Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall and cangjing Pavilion. The first axis is Guanyin hall and dizang hall, and the second axis is nianfo hall and Zen hall. There are also buildings around, such as monk Liao, Xiangji kitchen, guest Liao, exhibition hall and so on.

Architectural features

The construction of Shuiyue temple takes the planning concept of "getting wind and moistening water, classical layout; simple architecture, Zen space" as the core, with unique architectural style, which subverts people's fixed thinking mode for Buddhist architecture. The design perfectly combines Buddhist elements with architectural art, with unique expression, more reasonable function and layout, realizing the integration of Buddhist elements and modern architecture The perfect combination of art creates a unique Buddhist activity place in China.

Shuiyue temple is located in the southeast of baitanghe Wetland Park, which can be accessed from the north gate of the park, along the East Lake Road to visit the temple, or from the east gate of the Wetland Park, through an arch bridge to Shuiyue square.

The east gate of baitanghe Wetland Park is an arch bridge. Why take the bridge as the gate to Shuiyue temple? As we all know, there is a saying that "Buddha has a destiny to ferry people". Ferry means "to the other side", that is, from this side of trouble to the other side of consciousness. In Buddhism, it is said that "those who can be measured are statements, while those who cannot be measured are causes." As long as you get to Shuiyue temple, you have a good relationship with Buddhism and temple. Through this bridge, please leave the world temporarily and enter the pure world of Buddhism.

Tourism information

Free policy

In February 2020, in order to pay tribute to the medical workers fighting in the front line of anti epidemic, all medical workers in the scenic area (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020, with valid certificates (doctor's certificate, nurse's certificate or medical work-related qualification certificate), will go to the ticket offices of various tourist attractions in Xuzhou City for admission free. For weekends or holidays and other tourism peak, medical workers from all over the country who come to Xuzhou as a team need to make an appointment with the scenic spot to enjoy the free tour preferential policy.

Traffic information

Xuning (Airport) road, 104 National Highway, provincial and county first-class highway crisscross, xuning (Su) expressway can reach the scenic spot.

Address: miaomiaofeng, West Island tour road, Jinting Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.2485765598

Latitude: 31.1164388606

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