Brief introduction of Xiangu Temple in Wuxue City, Huanggang

Xiangu Temple in Wuxue City, Huanggang City, Hubei Province is an ancient temple with a history of 1000 years. It has been destroyed by war many times in history, but after several generations of maintenance, it still retains its basic features and becomes a famous local tourist attraction. The surrounding natural landscape is very rich, which is worth a weekend visit.

Xiangu Temple is located in Xiangu Mountain, Wuxue City. The fourth ancestor came to Xiangu Mountain as an abbot to promote the Buddhist industry of "paying equal attention to Zen and agriculture".

In the middle of the Five Dynasties, it was burned by soldiers. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Master Yuezhao rebuilt the temple and renamed it "Xiangu Temple".

Now the temple area in the scenic spot was rebuilt on the original site where the famous monk Yao Yi rebuilt Xiangu Temple in the early Qing Dynasty.

Reading-Xiangushan Scenic Area is located in Wuxue City. According to legend, three women, why, Chen and Xu, entered a training place in the mountains. There are seven scenic spots on the mountain, such as temples, caves, historical sites, flowers and trees, and water entertainment.

Among them, there are stone towns built during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and trenches built during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. At the foot of the mountain, there is the family tomb of Mr. Ju Zheng, a veteran of the Kuomintang and the president of the judiciary, and there are inscriptions by Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Lin Sen to mourn their parents. There are Xiangu Cave, Tiger Cave, Monkey Cave and Xiangshui Cave in the cave area. There is a Shenxian Temple building in the temple area.

There is a Xiangu Temple building in the temple area, which receives 200,000 pilgrims every year.