Tourist attractions in Nanyang mountain area

There are ancient temples in Nanyang mountain area, such as Yuantong Temple, Panlong Pavilion and Xilin Ancient Temple.

A Typical Building Embodying Hakka Culture in Nanyang Mountainous Area —— Surrounding Dragon House on the Peak of Huizhai Village, Meitian Village, Puchuan Town. Fiona Fang is located in Meilin Town, Nanyang Mountain, Puning City, Guangdong Province, with an area of 4 square kilometers. It is not only one of the top ten famous temples in eastern Guangdong, but also an important tourist attraction. 2002 10 17 (September 12th of the lunar calendar) was reopened.

Panlongge is a famous Buddhist shrine at home and abroad, and the ancient temple of Panlongge with a long history is here. Built in the early years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1875- 1908), this temple is a large Dojo for Guanyin Bodhisattva and Mr. Yuan Sky God. According to the Records of Puning County in Qing Dynasty, there are "six mountains and eighteen scenic spots": "Panlong Mountain, Hushan Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain, Lion Mountain, Guishan Mountain and Yingshan Mountain, with green water standing upright, Longge Sea of Clouds, Foge Longquan, Carp yue longmen, Xianping trail, birds rising to the sun, Du Fu weeping for the moon, lion jumping, toad looking at the moon, fairy lake rainbow, and running elephant carrying the sun. 1990 approved by the provincial, municipal government and provincial religious affairs bureau.

It is a key cultural relic protection unit and a place for Buddhist activities.

The ancillary facilities of Panlong Pavilion after reconstruction and expansion include: Daxiong Hall, Tianwang Hall, Tibetan Classics Building, Guanyin Pavilion, Dizang Pavilion, renovated Tian Xuan Temple of Panlong Pavilion, Yuantong Temple, seven-story Thousand-Buddha Pagoda, five-story Dharma Hall, Gongde Hall, left and right cloisters, inner and outer mountain gates, three-story Buddhist monastery, guest house, office of the Municipal Buddhist Association, memorial archway, etc.

The temple faces south, with Longzhu Mountain as the center, and the surrounding places of interest are dotted, which is called "Six Mountains and Eighteen Scenes". There are six mountains in the inner bureau and Kowloon Pan Chao outside, which is a veritable Dragon Pan Tiger Fu Panlong Pavilion. Among all the scenic spots, Longquan, Panlong Hot Springs and Chen Gong, Buddhist temples, remain behind, and natural wonders such as Toad Top Seal, Pangu Stone Spring, Shui Yuan Erect and Jiulongtan (Reservoir) make people linger. In particular, the peaks and peaks, the towering Thousand-Buddha Pagoda, and the lifelike Kowloon Opera are a treasure trove of Xiaowutai Mountain in Chaoshan.

The main building is a single-story high-rise building, facing from east to northwest. There are three pavilions and one peak around, namely, Chen Gong Pavilion in the north, Jinhua Pavilion in the west, Zi Qi Pavilion in the east and Tianyi Peak in the northeast. According to the notice stone tablet of Huilai Tang Zheng preserved in Panlong Pavilion, it was originally built as a lecture hall to spread the "extensive Oracle" and later changed into a Taoist church. In the 1950s, the Dojo stopped its activities and the site was occupied by farmers who moved here to farm. 1990 was opened as a place for Buddhist activities, and then temples were continuously expanded and surrounding roads were built. By the end of 2003, Panlongge was the most extensive temple complex in eastern Guangdong.

There are natural landscapes with six mountains and eighteen views, white marble statues such as Three Tathagata, Four Heavenly Kings, Five Bodhisattvas and Eighteen Arhats, and pavilions, terraces, pavilions and towers are scattered all over the mountain. There are 3.4 kilometers of roads running through the tourist area. It is an important tourism project in Puning and a large-scale tourist attraction in eastern Guangdong.

The founder is Master Lu from Jieyang. At that time, he took pains to travel all over eastern Guangdong, Siam, Indonesia, Singapore and other places to publicize good deeds to good men and women everywhere. His pure practice of Sanskrit and Zen touched many people. After years of hard work, he raised a large sum of money and built Panlong Temple, which began to take shape. When the temple was built, he died. In order to commemorate his achievements, later generations dried his bones and nails, dressed them up again, and then sealed them in a glass cabinet in Shang' an for people to see. After land reform, 1956 was abandoned.

According to the notice stone tablet in the main hall of Huilai County preserved here, Panlong Pavilion was originally used as a lecture hall to spread the "Oracle of Guang religion" and later as a Taoist place. On the square next to the pond in Ya 'an, Panlong, there is still a treasure of the town palace presented by people in Tuyang Village, Puning during Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. It is the exquisite and ingenious "Wannian Baoding of Panlongge Temple" with dragons, phoenixes, flowers and figures cast on an empty stomach, commonly known as the three-layer iron furnace for burning paper money, also called Ding. There are words on the stove, such as "Letter from Liu Yuqiong to Hu Yunbao Zan", which are precious ancient cultural relics in our province. During the Cultural Revolution, because it was tall and heavy, it escaped the disaster.

After liberation, Panlongge Dojo stopped its activities. From 1956 to 1992, more than 50 people, including Lin, Zhang, Liu and Lai, from Puning Huaqu and Xinliao Village, worked and lived here. Later, they moved back to their original places. 196 1 year, Panlong Pavilion was listed as a cultural relics protection unit in Puning County. 1990, with the approval of the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Religious Affairs, Panlong Pavilion was opened to the public as a venue for Buddhist activities.

Panlong Pavilion was originally divided into Shaanxi, Gansu and An Xia, covering an area of 4 square kilometers. After continuous construction, the houses in Shanghai and An Xia are now connected. In addition to repairing mountains and roads, the whole project has also built a new Panlong Pavilion Hall, Ursa Major Hall, Tibetan Classics Building, Guanyin Pavilion, Tibetan Classics Pavilion and porch. Four pavilions have been built, namely, General Pavilion, Guanyin Pavilion, Ruyi Pavilion and Chen Gong Pavilion. In the southeast, a palace-style "Garden Tongan" complex was built a few years ago. The whole buddhist nun is a palace-style Chinese fir truss, and the building structure of Shi Zhuan cement glazed tile is magnificent in scale and extraordinary in momentum. Among them, there are eight "Panlongge Wannianbaoding", which are carved from iron or stone, and the height is more than two, which is really rare. At the same time, a three-story "Thousand Buddha Pagoda" was built on the top of the mountain. Standing next to the pagoda, you can not only see the Brahma monk's room at the foot of the mountain, the pine and cypress strolling, but also overlook the rows of new high-rise buildings in Meilin Town.

Between the upper and lower halls of Panlong Pavilion, among the green trees and beside the gurgling spring, four new buildings with two to five stories high have been built. There are offices, activity rooms, a big kitchen, a big restaurant, and a grand hotel that can accommodate 100 people, which specially receives pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Under the green trees, everything is clean, the air is fresh, and there are pavilions and stone benches for people to rest. In summer, the sun is shining after the rain, sitting on the rocks on the hillside, birds singing in the trees, bees and butterflies dancing among the flowers. Listening to the sound of boiling and gurgling spring water and observing the winding and fresh spring water flow make people relaxed and happy, and the music is melodious. It is really a tourist attraction.

Now every year in July of the lunar calendar, Panlong Pavilion will hold a grand "Magnolia Festival", which is very lively. For more than a month after the Spring Festival, pilgrims and tourists from all over the world came in an endless stream.

Panlong Pavilion is a temple with the widest building area and the largest number of monks and nuns in eastern Guangdong. Mr. Zhao Puchu, Chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, was amazed after visiting in 1990s and praised it as "Wutai Mountain in the South". Yuantong Temple, formerly known as Yuantanzi Temple, is located in Yuantanshan Mountain, the back stream mountain of Nanyang Mountain, Puning City, Guangdong Province. Houxi Mountain ranges from north to south, with peaks stretching for dozens of miles. Beixi River along the valley is a tributary of Longxi River. In ancient times, there were dense virgin forests in the mountains, which were the habitat of wild deer of macaques. According to the "Jian 'an Inscription", "Yuantan Mountain is high in the sky, and those who climb this mountain are no less than Tianzhu in the western regions. "

Before the establishment of Huilai County, Houxishan belonged to Longxidu in Haifeng County (after liberation, Houxishan belonged to Puning County). At that time, Longxidu started from Jiazigang in the south, reached Wangtianshi in Da Nanshan in the north, reached Houxishan in the west (including Yunluobenkan, Meilin, Gaopu, Daping and the whole mountain), and reached Yangyuge in the east, bordering Huilai City, with a vertical and horizontal distance of more than 100 miles.

In the 43rd year of Jiajing (1564), Pingxiang Fuchen (the fifth generation grandson of Chen Meifeng, who returned to his hometown after his term of office, went to Yuantan 'an) and negotiated with the monks to rebuild it. Monks told him that they dreamed of a herd of deer sleeping in a small lake at the top of the mountain last night. Chen thinks this is a good sign, so he is in the nearby Lumian Lake (the old temple in Yuantan above). "Choosing good luck to start a business, Liang Dong is beautiful, which is produced and operated by this mountain." Take the meaning of being clean and not stagnant. The name of the temple is Yuantong Temple. Sometimes, the appearance is beautiful, the mountains are soaring, and the water is flowing. If you look at the Buddha from the heart, you should ask the gods to bless you. They say it's a small western sky. "Soon, Juye County magistrate Chen Xuepo (Chen's nephew) returned to his hometown to be an official and invited him to visit the temple. The monks told him that they would build a temple. The next day, they climbed the mountain, and from a distance, a group of deer were sleeping by the lake. Therefore, it is suggested to pull it in and expand the area of 0.8 mu under the foot of the mountain pond. "It is magnificent to worship the ancestors and knock on the golden jade. The Monument shows the beautiful scenery and grand scale of Anhu Lake in Tong Yuan.

Yuantong Temple was built for the ancestor of Chen in Qishi, and has been abandoned and repaired. 700 years have passed. After liberation, Xishan area belongs to Puning County, and the former site of Yuantong Temple is still there. The year before last, Mr. Chen Quanji, a Hong Kong businessman in Chen Meifeng, entrusted thirteen people, including Youhe and others, to preside over the reconstruction, which was completely new. Now Puning plans to expand tourism, and the monuments of Yuantong Temple and the nearby scenery will be more beautiful and spectacular. It is located at the head of Huizhai Village, Meitian Village, Puchuan Town, with a history of about 300 years. It is the ancestral home of Wu villagers in Mei Tian (from the third generation) and the only large Hakka Dragon House in Jieyang area and even Chaoshan area. The building covers an area of nearly 5,000 square meters, and there is a half-moon moat with an area of nearly 600 square meters at the main entrance, which is called "Lion Shiping" (named after the lion-shaped stone beside the moat). The overall plane of the enclosure and moat is irregular egg-shaped, with a back circle in front and an outer circle inside. The enclosure of the paddock is square, and the principal room is the "Yongyitang" of the second generation ancestor temple of the Wu family in Mei Tian. The Dragon House at the top of Huizhai Village is a typical building that embodies the Hakka culture in Nanyang Mountain Area, the precipitation of Pu Chuan's history and culture, the witness of Pu Chuan's history, and the most representative and precious heritage of Hakka culture in Chaoshan area!

Legend about the function of dragon house

In ancient times, the dragon circle at the top of the village had a defensive function, and it did play a role in history ... It is said that it used to be an old society, and the specific date needs to be verified ... According to the elders, at that time, the society was in turmoil, and a group of "river thieves" (bandits) came to the top of the village and robbed the villagers of their property ... Later, the dragon circle at the top of the village was surrounded. At that time, in the era of cold weapons, river thieves could not attack the shortlisted houses, but the villagers were trapped inside. So the old woman thief wants to use this to besiege the villagers and let them die of thirst. The villagers were also trapped for several days. Finally, the old woman thought of too many ways. Because we Hakkas are used to brewing rice wine, the old woman asked people to soak rice wine in their clothes and hold it high with bamboo poles, so that the old woman thief could see that there was water in our dragon enclosure.

In recent years, most of the original residents of Weilonglou have moved out and moved to various rows or places in Hutong. By the beginning of 20 15, only two or three old people lived in the left gatehouse. The houses in Weilonglou have been in disrepair for many years and collapsed seriously, especially those old blue brick walls. What a pity! I hope that villagers and people of insight will one day arouse the awareness of protecting and repairing ancestral houses, unite as one, protect and repair the Dragon House at the top of the village, and leave it to future generations to tell them the difficult history of our Hakka and Wu Xianmin!

The following are aerial photos of local village scenes and dragon houses. From the photos, we can see that the Dragon House at the head of the village has collapsed very badly and is overgrown with weeds. It is estimated that it will collapse soon. I hope that one day we can repair it and continue to protect the precious Hakka heritage in our village! The photo was taken by fellow villager Wu Wenji in June 2065438+2005.