pond where fish are released

Hangzhou West Lake is one of the popular places to release animals in the old days. The West Lake was set free and flourished in the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1020, the fourth year of emperor Zhenzong's Tianxi reign, Emperor qinruo of Hangzhou invited the imperial court to hold a free life meeting on the Buddha's birthday on April 8 every year. He took the West Lake as the heaven's sacred free life pool and made his own "free life Tzu Chi method". Since then, the West Lake is also known as "free pool". In the third year of Tiansheng (1025), Siming Zhili asked for the permanent establishment of Nanhu release pool, which was the release meeting on Buddha's birthday, and wrote the release article to set its etiquette. Later, the people vied with each other to follow suit and set free here every birthday.

Ming Wanli thirty-five years (1607), Qian Tang County order Nie Xin Tang imitated Su Dongpo's story, took the embankment in the lake, and built a "Lake in the lake", specially for release, this is the essence of today's West Lake Yingzhou (one of the ten scenes of West Lake "Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon"). Shortly after that, the release pool in front of Jingci temple was also quite large and still exists today. In addition, yunqi temple also has a releasing place, which was used to release land creatures such as horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, rabbits, deer and monkeys.

In the Qing Dynasty, the releasing activities of West Lake became more and more popular. According to the third volume of Zhao Yi's Xin Yu Cong Kao, on April 8, the Buddha's birthday, tens of thousands of people in Hangzhou gathered at the West Lake to set free, "millions of fish and birds.". At that time, the lake was very busy, and people burning incense and worshiping Buddha were everywhere. Outside the gates of Zhaoqing, Jingci and other temples, there are all kinds of things released in advance, most of which are Shui people.

pond where fish are released

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Release pool: a facility in Buddhist temple

Free pool: Wang Shipeng's Poems

Address: No.15, Nanshan Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou

Longitude: 120.1492250783

Latitude: 30.229750815811

Ticket information: 80 yuan

Opening hours: 6:00-17:00

Chinese PinYin : Fang Sheng Chi