How about Nanyan Ancient Temple?

Nanyan Ancient Temple is a cultural tourist attraction.

Nanyan Ancient Temple is located in Feifengling, Dengfeng Village, Puning Nanxi Town, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, with beautiful scenery and magnificent atmosphere. The ancient temple has a long history, many cultural relics and rich cultural landscape. The ancient temple has the largest number of jade Buddha statues in China and enjoys the reputation of "Dong Fangyu Buddha Country".

The first abbot of the expansion and reconstruction of the ancient temple was Shi Miaokong, a descendant of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and the abbot of Dayuanzhao Temple Prison in Wutai Mountain.

In March 2004, expansion and reconstruction began. Up to now, many projects, such as Daxiong Hall and Wanfo Pagoda, have been completed 10. The overall construction plan of the ancient temple will expand all the mountainous areas of Feifengling and Ye Ping in the north, with a total area of more than 3,000 mu. Next, there will be more than 20 projects, such as the Wuji Palace (Buddha Hall) and the Wu Fang Buddha Hall. Welcome to visit, people of insight from all walks of life come to guide and suggest, let us win the law together!

Nanyan Ancient Temple has a long history and is well known. But when the ancient temple was built, there are many arguments since ancient times, but there is no detailed textual research, which seems to be an abstruse riddle. With the progress of the expansion and reconstruction project of the ancient temple, this problem has attracted the attention of the majority of honest people and people from all walks of life. The relevant historical materials are summarized as follows for reference.

Traditionally, the villages around the ancient temple have been handed down from generation to generation. It is said that the history of the ancient temple can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty, and it was originally named "Qingniu Cave". The main hall was built in the Tang Dynasty, and the incense has been very prosperous. In August and September, 2005, when the engineering team excavated the foundation of Daxiong Hall, 89 stone pillars were dug up successively. Experts examined its shape, concluded that it was an object of the Tang Dynasty, and speculated that the reason why the stone pillar was broken and buried deep in the soil was caused by the earthquake. Judging from the size of the stone pillars, the ancient temples in the Tang Dynasty were quite large.

A written history. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhang Rishen and Tang founded an ancient temple. At that time, the ancient temple was called "Nanyan" and "Qingniu Cave".