Does Longshan Temple in Anhai, Fujian Province have the value of developing tourist areas?

Jinjiang Anhai Longshan Temple, also known as Tianzhu Temple and Guanyin Store, is a thousand-year-old temple in southern Fujian. Founded in the Sui Dynasty, it has been built in all dynasties, and the temple is known as the Three Treasures. So which three treasures are they? The first is the Goddess of Mercy with Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes, which is said to be carved from the whole huge camphor tree in front of the original temple, wearing a crown, carving a sitting Buddha in the middle of the crown, and carving many small Buddha heads in a hat shape; The main hand folds, both sides 108 hands. They are all engraved in the palm of your hand, like a round fan with different postures. Today's avalokitesvara with thousands of hands and eyes is a rare national treasure, unique in the world.

The second treasure is a pair of grass pillars standing side by side in front of Longshan Temple, and dragons are carved around the pillars, which look like clouds, flying and lifelike. A pair of scaly African claws alternately extend out of the chin and drum respectively. If you tap lightly with a thin iron bar, the chin will ring and the drum will ring. It is really superb and ingenious, and it is a unique masterpiece of Minnan stone carving technology.

Sambo is the main hall with a whole board of camphor wood doors, and the bell tower with a whole wooden hollow drum, made in the Sui Dynasty. In addition, there is a plaque inscribed by Zhang Ruitu, a famous calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, which is even more precious. Inside and outside the temple, ancient trees towering, green grass, the scenery is very charming. Incense has always been very popular, and pilgrims at home and abroad come to worship. I heard that there are many legends among them.

First of all, there is a legend about Guanyin sending a child. There was a layman named Zhang in the Five Dynasties. Originally from Gushi, Henan, he settled in the lake outside the south gate of quanzhou county. Because of his contribution in recruiting Wang Chao, the younger brother of King An, to the spring, he was honored as Si Nong-qing, and was honored as the ancestor of Fujian by Zhang people in Fujian and Taiwan. The legend of Guanyin seeing off his son tells that Zhang Laisheng, Zhang's eldest son, is in his thirties, while his wife Wu has never been pregnant. The couple are very worried. Because I heard that Guanyin Buddha in Wanshan (Anhai) Longshan Temple was very effective, Zhang Laisheng and his wife went to pray for Guanyin to give them a son. So, Zhang Laisheng spent the night in the temple, dreaming that Master Guanyin was holding the baby and Nongzhang, and told him, "You precious son, you should raise it well." After Zhang Laisheng woke up, he told his wife this dream. Unexpectedly, his wife had the same dream.

It is really well-deserved to say that Guanyin Buddha in Longshan Temple works! That year, Zhang Laisheng's wife Wu was pregnant, and ten months later, she gave birth to a son. In the afterlife, she listened to her son's crying. Wow, it's so loud that she knows she must have caught her son. In order to thank Master Guanyin for giving her son, she named it "the gift of Buddha".

Sure enough, Buddha was cute and smart since he was a child, and his family was in pain like a treasure. Every time his mother holds him and teaches him to read, his memory is amazing. He remembered it at first sight. When he grew up, he finished reading the history anthology. And very martial, proficient in fencing, and finally won the civil and military juren, glorifying the ancestors. Since the story of Guanyin sending a son, the descendants of the Zhang family in the lake have always believed in Guanyin Buddha in Longshan Temple.

There is also a story about "divining the future", which is quite famous. This is about a man named Ceng Gongliang, a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, who is the second son of Ceng Hui, the second-ranked scholar. When Gong Liang was a child, he followed his mother to worship Buddha at Longshan Temple in Anhai. His mother specially asked Xiao Gongliang's future and got the Buddhist name. He said: "In spring, thunder and vibration buzzed. When he rolled over and left the mud, he knew he was still walking back and forth. Once he changes, he will become a dragon. " Its signboard is "Cao Cao judged Liu Xuande". Sure enough, Ceng Gongliang ranked fifth in Jiazi (1024) in Song Renzong Tiansheng for two years. Because of his "political career", he rose step by step and became a prime minister, a veteran of Li Renzong, Yingzong and Zongshen.

The above are some folklore of the Longshan Temple in Anhai and its famous three treasures. Speaking of Longshan Temple, we have to mention its folk art ... Longshan Temple is a thousand-year-old temple famous at home and abroad. There are not only Guanyin with exquisite wood carvings and thousands of hands and eyes, but also many folk art stalls with strong local flavor of southern Fujian.

During traditional festivals, Longshan Temple is crowded with people from morning till night, and the pear garden and Gaojia opera are often staged in the square in front of the temple. There are all kinds of stalls in the temple, among which the most attractive are all kinds of puppet heads, painted clay figurines, colored paper products, bamboo and wood products and other folk handicrafts. Many tourists and pilgrims from home and abroad also like these lively and interesting gadgets very much.

The most distinctive artworks are "Drumming Fairy" and "Grinding Monkey", which can be called "robots" in traditional folk toys. These two kinds of toys are bamboo strips with young iron wire as the skeleton and pasted with colored paper. This kind of "semi-mechanized" folk toy is very cute because of its low price, fun, vividness and fun. The "drum fairy" is a "fairy" sitting in a car with two wheels and playing drums. There is a rope tied in front of the car. As long as you gently pull the rope, the car will move forward on the floor, while the "fairy" sitting in the car will drum with both hands. That serious expression is just like a real person!

"The Monkey Pushes the Mill" is a lively and lovely monkey pushing the stone mill. As long as one hand holds the toy and the other hand gently turns the thin wire bent under the stone mill, the monkey will automatically push the stone mill round and round, and the more naughty it looks, the more people laugh. Then the two folk artworks mentioned above revived for a period of time in the 1970s, but soon disappeared. At present, it is rare in Longshan Temple.

According to historical records and old people's memories, half a century ago, in the cloisters on both sides of the main hall of Longshan Temple, there was a muppet performance by Lei Jiaban of Longshan Temple for many years. They were invited to perform traditional folk art programs for pilgrims from all over the world, winning people's praise and being well known. 195 1 year, more than a dozen muppets from the whole county joined the newly established Jinjiang Puppet Experimental Troupe, among which four were Yan Changhua, Yan Changqiong, Yan and Kishimoto in the Leijia class of Longhai Temple in Anhai. But unfortunately, with the passage of time, these traditional folk arts with a long history of Longshan Temple may have been lost.