Yongzuo Temple

Yongzuo temple was founded in 1599. It is built on the mountain and faces north from the south. It is composed of three parts: front yard, back yard and tower yard.

There are two pagodas, Guodian and houdian in the courtyard. The main hall, Sansheng Pavilion, Zen hall, abbot and other buildings exist in the backyard.

The main hall of Shuangta temple is made of brick and imitated wood. The whole building is made of brick without a beam or a piece of wood. The brick carving is exquisite and generous.

Since ancient times, the twin towers of Yongzuo temple have attracted the attention of the world, known as the "wonders of Jinyang" and the symbol of Taiyuan. Local chronicles of all dynasties regard "LingXiao Twin Towers" as one of the Eight Sights of ancient Taiyuan city.

Yongzuo Temple

Yongzuo temple, commonly known as Shuangta temple, is located on the south hill of Haozhuang village, about 3 kilometers southeast of Taiyuan city. It was first built in the 27th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1599). Most of the buildings were built in the Ming Dynasty.

The local chronicles of all dynasties regard "LingXiao Twin Towers" as one of the eight scenic spots of Taiyuan and the symbol of Taiyuan.

The temple faces north from south, including the temple, pagoda and stele gallery. The main buildings of the temple are the mountain gate, the second gate, the third gate, the main hall, the Zen hall, the guest hall, the Abbot's temple, the hall of passing and the hall of back. There are two East and West towers in the courtyard, octagonal in plane and hollow brick tower with 13 floors. The height of the relic tower is 54.78 meters, and the score is obvious. The height of the Wenfeng tower is 54.76 meters, and there is no obvious score. There are more than 200 stone inscriptions of Baoxian Tang Ji Gu FA tie and Gu Baoxian Tang FA tie in the courtyard.

Yongzuo temple also has more than 6000 peonies of various colors, especially zixiaxian, the famous peony. It is the only existing Ming Dynasty peony in China and the oldest existing temple peony in China. On May 25, 2006, it was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

brief introduction

Yongzuo temple was founded in 1599 (the 27th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty). It was originally named Yongming temple. In 1608 (the 36th year of Wanli), monk Miaofeng (fudeng), a famous monk in Wutai Mountain, continued to build it under the imperial edict and changed its name to Yongzuo temple.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the mountain gate was built, the Zen hall and temple were perfected, and a small-scale temple was formed. However, in the war years, the ancient temple experienced many vicissitudes. By the end of the Republic of China, it was already full of ruins and bruises.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it has been repaired many times.

The new stele corridor, the imitation of the front courtyard and the wide planting of peonies make the ancient temple take on a new look.

Cultural Temple Fair

The 23rd Yongzuo Temple double tower cultural temple fair in Haozhuang, Taiyuan will be ceremoniously opened in the cultural square of the double tower temple on July 18, 2011, which is the largest temple fair in Haozhuang over the years.

From July 17 to 22, a series of wonderful literary and artistic programs were launched for six consecutive days. The main purpose of the temple fair is to "come to Haozhuang, visit temple fairs, watch dramas, taste delicious food, watch community fire, enjoy calligraphy and painting, climb twin towers, and enjoy nabaifu.".

Yongzuo Buddhist temple

Yongzuo temple covers an area of 120000 square meters. It is built close to the mountain. It sits south to North and has three courtyards. Entering from the Northern Mountain Gate, the first entrance courtyard was expanded in the 1980s in imitation of the Ming Dynasty. The two sides of the courtyard are the side hall and the exhibition room, which is called the exhibition hall.

The second entrance is "only garden and beautiful scenery", which is called peony courtyard. It is full of peonies of various colors and has the charm of northern gardens. The exhibition room stretching to the East displays inscriptions and statues collected from the city.

The third entrance is "Yongzuo Zen forest", which is called the hall of rites, including the main hall, Sansheng Pavilion, Zen hall, guest hall, etc.

The five rooms of Daxiong hall are two eaves pavilions with exquisite structure. They are all made of green bricks, such as columns, eaves, brackets, sparrows, hanging flowers and patterns. They are built in imitation of wood structure. The hall is built with arch crown, and there is no need to nail one wood. It is a typical beamless building in Ming Dynasty, so it is called "Wuliang hall".

In the center of the hall, there is a 3.85-meter-high bronze statue of Amitabha. On both sides, there are iron statues of Sakyamuni and pharmacist Buddha. It is the place for worshiping Buddha of the Pure Land Sect. There are two cloves and peonies planted in Ming Dynasty in front of the hall.

On the top of the main hall, there is a Sansheng pavilion with a single eaves. On the top of the pavilion, there is a brick carved bucket arch, which is layered out and stacked up to form a set of arch. It is a treasure of Chinese ancient architecture.

The original statue of "three saints of the west" in the hall is now provided for the three great figures of Ming Dynasty. They are exquisite in workmanship and are also the best in Ming Dynasty.

Two towers in the sky

The east gate of the LIFO courtyard leads to the pagoda courtyard. Compared with Yongzuo Buddhist temple, the tower courtyard is also called the upper courtyard. The central axis of Yongzuo Buddhist temple is north-south, while the axis of the pagoda courtyard is southeast northwest, which reflects the traditional Chinese concept, especially the moral of Taoism praying for increasing literary movement with the southeast spirit. Along this axis, there are new tower, Guodian, old tower and pavilion style back hall.

Both towers are 54 meters high, facing each other from north to South with a distance of 46? 6 meters. They are built of brick and imitation wood, which is consistent with the structure of the main hall.

With the rise of the tower, the height of each floor gradually decreases, and the bucket arch changes from five steps to three steps.

The difference between the two pagodas is that the old pagoda has no obvious harvest, with plain eaves and carved peony leaves; the new pagoda has obvious harvest, with glazed eaves and lotus flowers.

The center of the double tower is hollow, and the steps are set between the outer wall and the inner wall. Visitors can spiral up to the 11th floor. Each floor of the tower has four doors leading to the eaves, overlooking the beautiful mountains and rivers of Jinyang.

The two pagodas, which were praised as "two pagodas in the sky" and "two peaks in writing and writing" by the ancients, are the most eye-catching landscape in Yongzuo temple. The twin towers are towering, straight into the sky, standing majestically on the land of Jinyang.

Because it is located on a high mountain, before entering Taiyuan City, people can see its figure from a distance, as if to welcome visitors from all directions. Therefore, it has been the symbol of Taiyuan city for many years.

The twin towers have a history of nearly 400 years since they were founded.

The old pagoda in the temple, formerly known as Wenfeng pagoda, was built in 1599 (the 27th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty); the new pagoda was built by monk Miaofeng nine years later, and it will be called Xuanwen pagoda together with the old pagoda.

In 1984 and 1996, the government allocated huge sums of money to repair the Xuanwen new tower and the inclined old tower, which were damaged in the war of liberation.

Peony in Yongzuo Temple

There are more than 40 precious peonies in Yongzuo temple, such as yaohuang, Weizi, zhaofen, doulv, zhuangyuanhong, Qinglong womochi, bixue dansha, etc. What's more valuable is that there are dozens of Ming Dynasty peonies, which are called zixiaxian or ziyunxian. This kind of peony has been planted for a long time and is relatively rare. The flower type is single petal and the flowering period is long. Among many peony varieties, it blooms the earliest. The flower is as big as a plate. When it first opens, its petals are flesh red and fragrant. It is rose like. When it is in full bloom, it is lavender and has a stronger fragrance. When it is near the late stage, it is full of purple. It is the best peony variety.

The peony of zixiaxian, planted in front of the main hall of the temple, has experienced hundreds of years of wind and frost. Although it is old and vigorous, it is still vigorous. Here, peony is not only a symbol of wealth in folk culture, but also a symbol of waiting for the arrival of "southeast Qi". Once the Southeast "warm Qi" arrives, Zixia fairy will take the lead in blooming, indicating the prosperity of culture.

stele

The east side of the double courtyard of Yongzuo temple is Moyuan. Through the flower wall and moon gate, there are two sets of Jinyang famous inscriptions in the carved stele Gallery - "Baoxian hall collection of ancient sutras" and "ancient Baoxian hall sutras". Baoxian hall collection of ancient sutras, commonly known as "dabaoxian hall sutras", was carved in 1489 (the second year of Hongzhi) and 1496 (the ninth year of Hongzhi) by Emperor shiziqi of Jin Fan in Ming Dynasty. In 1980, it was moved from Fugong temple to Yongzuo temple and inlaid into the corridor. Among them, 120 calligraphers from more than ten dynasties, including Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, have collected their calligraphy works. They have all kinds of calligraphy styles, such as Zhen, Cao, Li and Zhuan, which can be regarded as the treasure of calligraphy and calligraphy. Tourists here, all devote themselves to product. Fu Shan, a famous calligrapher in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, is quite insightful about this calligraphy. He thinks that "Bian calligraphy is not rich in Fu Le, Su calligraphy is rich and thick, Jin calligraphy is round and elegant, Zhou calligraphy is superior to Su calligraphy, and ER Wang calligraphy is particularly exquisite.". Thus, we can see the calligraphy level and artistic value of the stone carving in Baoxian hall. Gu Bao Xian Tang FA tie, commonly known as Xiao Bao Xian Tang FA tie, was carved in 1718 (the 57th year of Kangxi reign of Qing Dynasty). Li Qing Yao, the magistrate of Taiyuan, selected 39 pieces of Mo Bao Mo Le Shang Shi from Chu suiliang of Tang Dynasty, Su Dongpo of Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu of Yuan Dynasty, Tang Yin of Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhengming of Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang, Wang Duo and Fu Shan of early Qing Dynasty.

At the northernmost part of the stele corridor is a set of three stone tablets named "reminiscence of the past on Red Cliff" written by Su Dongpo. It was made in 1762 (the 27th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty) by e Bi according to the old Tuofu Gou and Mo Le stone collected by his family. It is a masterpiece of Su Dongpo's cursive script. It is magnificent and incisive, which complements the bold and vigorous CI. In addition, there are also four stone inscriptions of "Zi Shi Cui Yan" written by Qi Junzao, a famous calligrapher since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, who was once in the cabinet of Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi dynasties, and a family instruction stele of LV Kunzhi, who served as an inspector of Shanxi Province during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Address: yongzuosi Road, Yingze District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 112.59651691534

Latitude: 37.847400408763

Tel: 0351-4374575

Tour time: 1-2 hours

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