Photography in Qing Dynasty

The most famous tower in longxing temple is Longxing Tower, which is 43 meters high. It was originally level 8. In the forty-second year of Qingganlong (AD 1777), it was wrapped in leather again, and it was raised to 13 level. The ancient pagoda is graceful and unique in that there will be smoke from the top of the tower. About the blue smoke of Longxing Tower, 100 years ago was recorded in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. "Guangxu has gone to the sea (1899), and the smoke from the top of the tower is soaring." Later, it also appeared in 1937, 197 1, 1976, and the latest one was in 1993, which attracted tens of thousands of people to witness. Why there is smoke at the top of the tower is still a mystery.

There are many historical sites in Shanxi province, among which many temples are preserved, all of which have a history of thousands of years. Xinjiang County of Yuncheng City is also an ancient capital, formerly known as Jiangzhou. It was once the city where the state capital was located, and now it has become an ordinary township. The symbol of Xinjiang should refer to longxing temple. Longxing temple has a long history. It was built in the Tang Dynasty. It has a history of 1000 years. It is located at the northern end of the village. Longxing Tower is tall and straight, and you can see it from a distance. Now it is also a tourist attraction, but there are basically no tourists.

Longxing temple originally called it "Blue Sky View", but later it was changed to longxing temple, Tang Gaozong. At that time, the scale was particularly grand. In Tang Wuzong, there was a famous Buddhist extermination movement in ancient history, and temples all over the country were basically demolished, and so was longxing temple. Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin lived here and turned the temple into a palace. Walking on the high platform of longxing temple, you can overlook the natural scenery of Xinjiang County. Now the temple is small, and it only takes more than ten minutes to visit.

Daxiong Hall is a building in Yuan Dynasty. There are Song and Jin colored sculptures, Rufo, Sakyamuni Buddha, Rufo, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Earth Tibetan statue, Manjusri Bodhisattva, Pu Xian, etc. Robbie Monument, built in front of the Hall of Heroes in the Tang Dynasty, is very time-consuming. The monument is 2.26 meters high, and the inscription is seal script, with a total of 630 words. The characters in it are unrecognizable by modern people.