Wensi Temple

Wensi Temple

Wensi temple is located in the northwest of Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. Originally known as Tongyuan temple, Dabei temple. Wensi temple was first built in the late Tang Dynasty. It is a riverside Lake (also known as West Lake) in the west of the city. After the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to floods and wars, there were several ups and downs. In the Song Dynasty, the monk Lan Yu rebuilt the temple and named it Dabei temple, which was very strict. During the yuan and Ming Dynasties, Dabei temple was inundated several times due to the flooding of the Yellow River. In the early Qing Dynasty, the appearance of the temple gradually recovered. In 1705, Xuanye visited Jiangnan again. He passed by fuhexia town in Huai'an. The temple was granted the name of "Wensi Temple".

historical background

Wensi temple was first built in the late Tang Dynasty. It is a riverside Lake (also known as West Lake) in the west of the city. After the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to floods and wars, there were several ups and downs. In the Song Dynasty, the monk Lan Yu re established the temple and named it Dabei temple. The Qing regulations and laws were very strict. During the yuan and Ming Dynasties, Dabei temple was flooded many times because of the flooding of the Yellow River. In the early Qing Dynasty, the appearance of the temple gradually recovered. In 1705, Emperor Xuanye of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River again. He passed by Hexia ancient town of Huai'an prefecture (now Huai'an District). The temple was granted the name of "Wensi Temple". At the same time, Youji temple, formerly known as Huxin temple, also known as Shifang Temple, was granted the name of Youji Temple across the canal from Wensi temple. Zhanzhen temple, formerly known as Shaolong temple, is located in the west of Chenggong bridge.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, jizhugong was appointed abbot of Wensi temple. Believers from all over the world vied with each other to worship in the temple, and scholars and sages in Jianghuai area also communicated with him. At that time, there were more than 100 monks in the temple.

In 1748, Han Kong took the order of Ju Yong to succeed the abbot and rebuilt the dizang hall to expand the scale of the temple. Later, he set up several acres of farmland to produce food for the temple expenses and monks' daily life.

In 1845, the abbot of Wensi temple, Hai Ren, invited Xu Wei to set up the "bury bones and cherish words association" in Wensi temple to collect the words and paper discarded by scholars and make monks register day by day. In 1845, a well intentioned man raised money to buy 48 mu of land. Later, in the 13th year of Tongzhi, Xu Wei raised another 5 mu and 5 Fen of land. The rent was used to bury bones and pick up words for two monks in the temple and some expenses of the temple. When I was a child, my elders always told me to put the waste paper in the crack of the wall behind the ancient tianxingguan hall in front of my house, so that the monks of wenen temple could collect it and burn it.

Wensi temple is one of the famous temples in Huai'an. Most of the abbots and presiders of the past dynasties have profound knowledge, and scholars are willing to contact with them. When Yanwen was the abbot, most of the literati and bureaucrats had contacts with him. The master received him with sincerity. When he came to the throne, he spoke highly of the internal canons and the ancient morality cases, which became the moral spirit everywhere. Yuan Changzhang is good at painting red and blue, and loves to paint plum blossoms in the snow. He has the meaning of Zen and silence in his pen and ink. The abbot of Xihua is ancient in appearance and simple in nature. He is good at cursive writing and poetry. He has contributed to each other with Huai'an literati. In 1664, Yang Shouheng, a descendant of Yang Guang, a Jinshi in the third year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, was erudite and well-known for his poems and essays. He once lectured in the altar of Wensi temple, with an audience of more than 100 people.

Modern background

In 1945, the central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was stationed in Huai'an, and its office is located in the South Campus of Huaian district middle school. Liu Ruilong, then Secretary of the military and Political Committee of the Northeast Anhui Jiangsu Anhui border region, Secretary of the military and Political Committee of the Huaihai District, deputy secretary of the Party committee of the Huaibei district and director of the administrative office of the Huaibei Jiangsu Anhui border region, member of the central China branch of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the democratic movement, deputy chief of staff of the East China Field Army and commander of the logistics command, once lived in the main hall of Wensi temple. At that time, wenen temple was the chief of the central China branch of the CPC Central Committee A health center.

In November 1981, Liu Yandong, Liu Ruilong's daughter, was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Chaoyang District Party committee of Beijing. He wrote her a long poem, in which there was an aphorism: "everything depends on hard work, not" Ke Li Kong ". If you encounter difficulties in your work, you can find a way to investigate. " At the time of Liu Ruilong's death, his wife Jiang Tong presented him with a long elegiac couplet with such words: "honest, loyal, firm and upright, he wrote a noble life; upright, broad-minded, he left a lot of passionate memories." This is the true portrayal of Liu Ruilong's life.

Address: Chenghe street, Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province

Longitude: 119.134401

Latitude: 33.524446

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