Jiufeng Temple

Jiufeng Temple

Jiufeng temple is located at the junction of Xiling and Siping Village. The mountain ranges from Wuyi branch to the temple. It is surging and winding, and it just matches the number of YANGJIU, so it gets its name. The temple was founded by Zen master Jizhao in 1450, destroyed in 1793, rebuilt in 1797, and rebuilt in 1825. It is a large temple with a total area of more than 3000 square meters.

brief introduction

After driving 12 kilometers to Mount Lushan Beishan highway in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, you can get off at maweishui scenic spot. There is a memorial archway standing up in front of you, which reads "maweishui eco-tourism scenic spot", adding a kind of solemn atmosphere to this historical gate. One mile's walk leads to Jiufeng temple. Standing in front of the temple, it is an ideal quiet world with towering peaks, thousands of feet of ground, beautiful rocks, mountains, green bamboos, deep valleys, deep springs, flowing water and flowing waterfalls. Known as "less than the tail water, do not know the beauty of Lushan". Maweishui scenic spot not only has beautiful scenery, but also contains a lot of cultural landscape. It has always been a resort for recuperation. Therefore, it attracted many ancient and modern celebrities and left many poems praising Jiufeng temple.

The main hall covers an area of more than 900 square meters. There are Guanyin Pavilion, Kuixing building, reading building and monk's room on the left and right side of the hall. There are painted pillars and carved beams. There are relics of Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are four red rhododendrons blooming all the year round in the flower bed of the courtyard in front of the hall. During the "Cultural Revolution", Jiufeng temple was occupied by Jiufeng tea farm in Xiling township. After it was recovered, only some Buddha statues hidden by the group were placed. Among them, the Tathagata Buddha is more than 6 meters high, and Jiufeng temple has beautiful scenery.

Historical Retrospection

Jiufeng temple was built in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Ming Dynasty. From prosperity to decline, and then from decline to prosperity. People at home and abroad pay attention to the temple. It is named Jiufeng Temple because it lives in the south of Longmen Mountain and is surrounded by nine peaks. In the reign of emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the temple was destroyed by war. In the ninth year of Qianlong (1744 AD), Tang Ying, the number one scholar of the Qing Dynasty, was appointed as the supervisor of jiujiangguan. He donated money for the restoration of Jiufeng temple and built Qingfeng bridge (also known as Zhuangyuan bridge) in front of the temple Mixture. Compared with the Guanyin bridge in Lushan Mountain, it is a wonderful flower in the history of Chinese stone bridge. Witness the bridge. It seems grand and simple, which makes people sigh. I really feel like I'm in the boudoir. Tang Ying also donated dozens of mu of santian as temple property, with fan porcelain as a monument embedded in the temple wall. The total construction area of Jiufeng temple is nearly 2000 square meters. Ten statues of Bodhisattvas and Arhats are worshipped. The hall has a considerable scale and is full of incense. In front of and behind the temple, there are more than 40 cultural landscapes, such as the Sichu Pavilion, which is famous for the famous Tang Dynasty poet Liu Changqing, his good friends Sun Yi and Zheng Shanren for cooking wine and writing poems here. Chashan thatched cottage (built by Jiujiang magistrate's Square), Yinyuan stele, Laiyin jingshe, Jieshi mountain house, maweishui waterfall, ancient ginkgo tree, jade spring, golden tortoise stone, Luohan stone, jiangjunhu, hutouyan, sword testing stone, Yixiu stone, Guanyintan, etc. What is more remarkable are the sites of Yisheng palace, Ersheng palace, Sansheng palace. This is a site that many people don't know about. According to historical records: at that time, it was the earliest and highest level holy palace of Taoism in China, and it was said that Emperor Qinshihuang went south. On the East tour of maweishui in Lushan Mountain, you can see the rare and different flowers. The rare grass is luxuriant, and the golden light is shining. The alchemists who are engaged in alchemy build the palace here. Yisheng palace, dedicated to the spring and Autumn Period thinker Lao Tzu as the ancestor, Lao Tzu is also known as Taiqing moral heaven. It was built by Zhang Daoling's descendants. The second holy palace is dedicated to Lingbao Tianzun, and the third holy palace is dedicated to Yuanshi Tianzun. In the palace, Tao Te Ching is the main classic of Lao Tzu's five thousand essays, and there are many ways. Later, the first, second and third holy palaces were reformed by Lu Xiujing, a famous Taoist master in the Southern Dynasty, and were listed in the third palaces together with the three saints. At the end of Ming Dynasty, it was destroyed by war, but now there are only ruins.

During the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty, Jiufeng temple was also destroyed by military disasters. Later, although it was repaired by the eminent monk Xueqiao, the scale was slightly smaller. After Xue Qiao's death, Huidong, his grandson monk, and others spent a lot of money and money, which made the temple's products almost useless. In 1886, they began to build western style houses. In 1887, British missionary Li Deli purchased land from the monks of Jiufeng temple. At the same time, some Xiji merchants and staff stationed in Nanchang and Jiujiang also bought Temple products and built western style houses. At that time, there were more than ten Western villas in maweishui, which once became their resort. We can see the prosperity of that year. Huidong, a monk of Jiufeng temple, was accused of violating the law and killed several people in Jiujiang prison, which shocked Jiangxi Province. From then on, Jiufeng Temple gradually declined. It was not until the founding of the people's Republic of China that Jiufeng Temple gradually regained its vitality.

At the beginning of the founding of the people's Republic of China, during the period of economic difficulties and Cultural Revolution turmoil, master Guoyi was sent to work and stationed in xijiufeng Temple twice. He spent his hard years and left a legendary historical footprint. Master Guoyi always strictly abides by the commandments and rules. He takes a small Buddha statue with him. No matter how tired he is, he must chant sutras and sit incense every day. Although the environment was dangerous and life was hard at that time. He never forgot his Buddha status and planted tea in Jiufeng temple. In more than seven years, more than 100 mu of tea has been planted and the temple cultural heritage has been protected. Especially after protecting Jiufeng temple with his own life, three rare ancient ginkgo trees survived. According to historical records, one of the ginkgo trees was planted in the Tang Dynasty, with an age of more than 1200 years; the other two husband and wife trees were planted in the late Southern Song Dynasty, with an age of more than 800 years. This tree adds ancient flavor to the ancient temple.

Master Guoyi

In the autumn of 1954, when master Guoyi was at Zhenru temple in Yunju mountain, he often missed Donglin temple. For this reason, he left Yunju mountain and asked to live in Donglin. He said, "Donglin has been a descendant's temple for a long time. How can we allow tourists to live here?"? This is master Xu Yun's request. I hope you can find another treasure temple. Master Guoyi sighed with emotion and said: why was Donglin Naiyuan's temple reduced to a descendant's temple before it opened the jungle. Then he walked away. Whirling to Jiufeng temple in maweishui. At that time, the temple property of Jiufeng temple was dilapidated and desolate. Master Guoyi got married to this temple and made up his mind to build a thatched hut and live in peace. Chang Yao looked at Donglin temple. One day, he swore that he would return his vow to Donglin within ten years. At this time, Jiufeng temple was under the jurisdiction of Beishan Forest Farm of Lushan reclamation farm. Master Guoyi was also incorporated into the forest farm. Soon master Chang Zhi was also sent to the forest farm. From then on, the two people joined hands and insisted on chanting Buddhist scriptures in the morning and evening.

In 1960, the tenth Panchen Lama of Tibet visited the Luna Pagoda in Lushan. At this time, master Guoyi, at the request of Lushan Administration Bureau, stayed in the tower courtyard and warmly received the Banchan master and his party. Soon he returned to Jiufeng temple. In 1961, the Lushan administration sent the Secretary of the Religious Bureau to Jiufeng temple to visit master Guoyi. In the name of the government, master Guoyi was invited to come out of the mountain to preside over Donglin temple. Master Guoyi gladly obeyed his orders and stayed in xidonglin temple. He led the land to reclaim wasteland and returned to the temple property to support the temple. After that, he invested more than 2000 yuan of his years' savings into the construction of the temple, restoring the vitality of the temple and revitalizing the pure land ancestral court. By 1965, Donglin temple had taken shape.

In the summer of 1966, after the beginning of the cultural revolution, a cold wind blew into the Donglin temple. The Bodhisattvas were hard to protect, the monks were sent down, the cultural relics were destroyed, and the temple became a fertilizer plant of Saiyang commune. Master Guoyi was deeply distressed. He still obeyed the assignment and left Donglin temple. He put down his labor to Jiufeng temple. He returned to Jiufeng temple and worked as a farmer. He reclaimed tea garden, practiced in secret and recited Mitha frequently.

In the autumn of 1970, following the arrangement of the government's devolution, master Guoyi left Jiufeng temple to Tongyuan Agricultural Science Institute, where he worked with the masses and asked the Institute to assign the tea team of Baoguo temple to reclaim the tea garden. During this period, he continued to chant Buddhism in the morning and evening after hard work. In 1977, he was elected executive director of Lushan Buddhist Association. In the winter of the same year, he was elected deputy to the Fourth National People's Congress of Lushan and Jiujiang. In March 1978, he was elected a member of the Fourth Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

In June 1978, at the request of the Lushan administration, he returned to Donglin temple again to take charge of temple affairs. After 1979, master Guoyi was elected as the executive director of the National Buddhist Association, President of Jiangxi Buddhist Association and Jiujiang Buddhist Association, as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and a deputy to the Municipal People's Congress.

When master Guoyi was alive, he talked about a mysterious story in Jiufeng temple. It was the summer of 1959. After supper, master Guoyi was still sitting quietly under the ginkgo tree behind the temple, reciting Buddhist scriptures. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound like a rabbit whining, white light shining, and suddenly disappeared. Master Guo Yi felt strange. He dug deep with a hoe and got a pot with dozens of silver ingots. He took it back to the shrine and swore to the statues that the treasure is now in the world. He will use it in Donglin and build Jiufeng again. After the revival of Donglin temple, in the spring of 1993, in order to fulfill his vows, master Guoyi went to Jiufeng Temple many times to fulfill his vows under the busy Buddhist situation of Donglin temple. He also invited master Chang Zhi, a Taiwan disciple of the benefactor, to donate a lot of money for the restoration of Jiufeng temple, so as to restore the ancient temple to life. At the Kaiguang restoration meeting of Jiufeng temple, master Guoyi announced that Jiufeng temple was the lower courtyard of Donglin temple.

In 1994, master Guoyi died of illness and was buried in the pagoda of Donglin temple. His disciples at home and abroad donated money to build a relic tomb at the back of the temple to commemorate the achievements of the great monk Guoyi. The tombstone is engraved and traced back to its origin. It is three times near Mount Sishan and has been a lifelong pioneer. Its ambition is strong, the ancestral court is thriving, and its noble spirit is felt in the sky. It has made great contributions to the world, and has made great achievements.

Chinese PinYin : Jiu Feng Si