How about Taikang Qing’an Temple?

Taikang Qing’an Temple is a cultural tourist attraction.

Qing'an Temple is located on an earthen platform about 4 meters high on the east side of Dongfule City, with a total area of ??more than 1,000 square meters. The temple was built in the early Eastern Han Dynasty and has a long history and popular incense. Qing'an Temple is ranked among the major temples in the country.

According to historical records: The Eastern Han Dynasty was established in 25 AD. After Liu Xiu became emperor, he adopted the measure of "retiring meritorious officials and replacing them with civil servants, leaving Huang Lao useless" and released the 108 generals who had made the greatest contributions. After seizing military power, they were all granted the title of marquis. General Liu Long of the Hussars was granted the title of Fulehou (King), and was granted a title of food and entitlement for several thousand households, which was just a food and clothing tax. It turns out that Dafucheng in the Qin Dynasty was renamed Fule City (that is, Fule Kingdom in history). Historically, it was divided into Big Fule City (west) and Little Fule City (east). Now it is still East and West Fule City.

In AD 67, the 10th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Buddhism was introduced to China, Liu Long believed in Buddhism and chose a site on the east side of Dongfule City to build a temple. Named Qing'an Temple. After the Qing'an Temple was built, burning incense and worshiping Buddha became popular. Because Sakyamuni was born in North India more than 2,500 years ago, in the 24th year of King Zhao of Zhou (Jiayin), and his birthday was on the eighth day of April in the lunar calendar, Qing'an Temple celebrated the Buddha's birthday on the eighth day of April as a temple fair, which has been followed to this day.

After the Qing'an Temple was built, it was worshiped by various dynasties and the temple was repaired. According to the "County Chronicle" of Taikang County, major renovations were carried out during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty (1436), and the temple took on a new look. Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty in Fule City, the surnamed Shi was from a well-known and prosperous family. He donated more money and food to the repair of Qing'an Temple.

According to the "County Chronicle": The temple foundation was selected on the east side of the ancient Fuleguo ruins. It is more than ten feet above the ground, covering an area of ??more than 900 square meters, and is surrounded by Haizi (the deep ditch is the Shuihu Temple) ), the entire building is positioned in a square shape, with the road in the south and the mountain gate when entering the temple; in the middle is the main hall; in the back is the back hall; in the east is the east corridor room; in the west is the west corridor room, and dozens of other side rooms. , the main hall has flying dragons and beasts, and the eaves have angled corners. It has a unique royal style and is comparable to the Dacheng Hall of Taikang County School.

Enter the temple, the front hall is the worship hall, the middle hall is for the statue of Sakyamuni (Buddha), and the statues of eighteen Arhats on the left and right sides, with different postures and unique faces, look lifelike.

The back hall houses three statues of Buddha brothers. Their original faces are kind and kind-hearted, similar to the big Buddha of White Horse Temple. The monks standing on the left and right are pious and respectful, with their hands clasped together. According to some people who have visited Kaifeng Xiangguo Temple and Baima Temple, they said with emotion: The Buddha statues and the statues of Xiangguo Temple and other gods are as if they were made by a skilled craftsman. It can be seen that the statue is extraordinary and of high standard.

Since the temple was first built, there have been more than thirty or as few as twenty abbots and monks in the temple, and the incense is very prosperous. According to the birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni, which falls on the eighth day of April in the lunar calendar, the temple fair is held on the eighth day of April every year. During the temple fair, a big show, acrobatics and antiques are on display, attracting pilgrims from several surrounding counties. Tourists went to parties, people entertained and met friends, and it was the heyday of every family's support.

Anqing Temple is ranked among the domestic temples. The presiding monk is from Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, and the monks who are the abbot are all ordained at Dizang Temple in Putuo Mountain, Shanxi. It was inherited from the Qing Dynasty and was managed by Daxianfang Courtyard in Taikang County. According to the oral account of the abbot monk Lan Yongqiang (from Lantang, Qingji Township) in the late Qing Dynasty, he was the last abbot monk. All the divine fetuses in the temple were destroyed around the 20th year of the Republic of China. When the warlord Feng Yuxiang ruled the Central Plains, Feng ordered all the divine fetuses in the temple to be knocked down. The seven monks in the temple at that time were sent back to their hometowns, and each of them was given three acres of land. The 240 acres of farmland in the temple and the property within the temple were owned by the government at that time. Later it became a national education primary school, and it remained a primary school after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In the fourth year of Xuantong in the late Qing Dynasty, Anqing Temple became the "Zodiac Society", the headquarters of the peasant uprising army. The leader Zha Tianhua (from Yanling) was dispatched by the seventy-two martyrs of Huanghuagang in the south. After the uprising failed, Zha Tianhua was killed and his head hung on the flagpole of Taikang County for many days.

After liberation, the government opened a public school in Qing'an Temple. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and since the reform and opening up, surrounding people went to the temple to burn incense and fire cannons on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, which affected teaching. order, and later moved the school back to level ground.

The ancient temple fair was restored on the 8th day of the fourth lunar month in 1979. The county-level troupe was invited to sing great plays for many days. The people around were as happy as if they were celebrating a festival, and it was so lively.

In order to rebuild Anqing Temple, surrounding people donated money and materials. So far, more than 300,000 yuan has been raised to build the original appearance of Anqing Temple in phases, with guidance and support from the county cultural department.

Nowadays, according to the measurement of Anqing Temple, after thousands of years of water and soil erosion, the entire temple area is 750 square meters, effectively protecting the massive water and soil erosion.

Now the architecture of Anqing Temple has begun to take shape. It has built the front hall, the middle hall, the back hall, and 55 east and west corridors. The temple is divided into Buddhism and Taoism.

The front hall (worship hall) has a golden statue of Amitabha, with statues of the four heavenly kings on both sides.

The plaque in the middle hall is "Dacheng Treasure Hall". In the middle is a statue of Buddha, which is more than ten feet high. On both sides are statues of Eighteen Arhats, with various shapes and lifelike images. To the north is the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South China Sea, a small red statue. Prince Nezha is very attractive.

The plaque in the back hall is "Buddha Hall". There are three Buddha statues in the hall, more than ten feet high, and they are dedicated to the three Buddha brothers. Wearing a red cloak, golden armor and a golden body, he has a majestic and perfect posture.

The Taoism on the west side is a row of dozens of corridors running from north to south, with sculptures of the ten kings of hell in the underworld, punishing evil and promoting good for the people, just as vividly described by Bao Zheng's exploration of Yinshan.

In the southeast of the underworld and the southwest of the main hall, there are three statues of Bodhisattva sending children to Guanyin. The children's various actions on the Doll Mountain bring people a sense of beauty.

To the west of the back hall, there are two floors, with twelve statues of old mothers wearing phoenix crowns and hats, exactly like those in Journey to the West.

In the northeast corner of Anqing Temple, 500 meters away, there are royal tombs of the Han Dynasty. Further to the northeast, there is the "Tibetan Soldier Cave" from the Northern Wei Dynasty. The cave is completely made of blue bricks and is more than ten feet wide. , more than ten feet high, extending to the southwest. Because there was water inside after being dug underground, it has not been possible to study its details so far. There is a large group of ancient Han tombs in the northwest corner of the temple, 800 meters away from the temple, which are still well protected.