Three hundred words about the feelings of visiting Dazhong Temple

at 9: 54 a.m. on January 9, 216, my husband and I strolled from home to the gate of Dazhong Temple Ancient Clock Museum in the north of North Third Ring Road. This is the second trip after we bought the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei tourist card. Dazhong Temple Ancient Bell Museum is located in Dazhong Temple, a famous temple in Beijing. Formerly known as Juesheng Temple, Dazhong Temple was built in the 11th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (AD 1733), with a total area of 3, square meters. The temple pattern is rigorous and imposing. It was once an important place for the royal family to pray for rain and hold Buddhist activities. Because the temple treasures a huge Buddha clock cast in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, it is also commonly known as "Dazhong Temple".

Yongle Bell was cast in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (143 ~ 1424) and was ordered by Zhu Di, the founder of Ming Dynasty. It is 675 cm high, 33 cm in diameter and weighs 46,5 kg. Inscriptions of Buddhist sutras are cast all over the clock body, in both Chinese and Sanskrit languages, totaling more than 23, words. Yongle Bell was selected as the "Best World Tourism in Beijing" with "the world's number one inscription". Yongle Bell was cast in the most developed period of casting technology in Ming Dynasty. It is the master of metallurgical technology in this era and the treasure of the Guzhong Museum of Dazhong Temple.