Who has been to Xinxing, Yunfu, Guangdong? What's interesting?

There is also the Longshan Guo 'en Temple, the hometown of Huineng, the sixth ancestor

The following is an introduction:

Guo 'en Temple is located at the foot of Longshan Mountain in Integration Town (now Liuzu Town), Xinxing County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, about 7 kilometers away from Zhaoqing, a famous tourist city, and about 17 kilometers away from Guangzhou, a southern metropolis. Guo 'en Temple is a famous temple in Lingnan with a long history. It is backed by Qingshan Mountain and faces Luxi Yuan Ye. Here, there are lush trees, surrounded by distant mountains, birds and flowers, and the environment is quiet. Master Xin Ru, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, has a couplet saying:

A hundred cities are full of smoke and water

Six generations of wind have been penned in one day

This couplet is engraved on the main entrance of the temple in just 14 words, praising the incomparable local scenery, praising the outstanding achievements of Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, and setting off the supreme Buddhist artistic conception.

Longshan, where Guo 'en Temple is located, is called "Jiasha Mountain" according to the Records of Zhaoqing. There are three peaks on the mountain, which are called "Sanbaoding". There is a mountain winding down from the "Treasure Peak". If it looks like Youlong, Guo 'en Temple is built in the "Dragon Head" with an altitude of 164 meters, so it is also called "Longshan Temple". Longshan, the mountain is not high and Zhong Ling is beautiful; There is a Luxi river at the foot of the mountain. The water is not deep but clear. The beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers surrounds Guo 'en Temple, and there is a poem praising:

Longshan is the first in Lingnan Sanctuary with smoke and water accompanied by sunrise.

The woodcutter who sells firewood was born here, while the Southern Zongdun taught the world well.

Meng Hui, the governor of Xinxing County in the seventh year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty, also loved Youlong Mountain very much. Now he records his poem "Youlong Mountain":

It is said that Longshan Mountain is the most secluded scenery, and the white clouds lock the east end of the ridge.

The mountains are full of fun in the sun, and flowers and birds welcome people.

when it comes to forgetting the machine and returning to yourself, who is it for today?

I've been greedy for a long time in the ancient temple of the remnant tablet, so why not think about it all the time?

Guo' en Temple is not comparable to ordinary temples. It is the former residence of Hui Neng, the founder of Zen Buddhism, the ancestor of South Zen Buddhism in China, a world-famous thinker and philosopher. It is also the place where he preached Buddhism and died in his later years, and it is also the place where he edited the Six Ancestors' Magic Tanjing. In addition, its temple name was given by Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Guo' en Temple is well-known at home and abroad, not only with Hui Neng's Buddhist Dojo, Guangzhou Hojoji (now

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a fashion for eminent monks to build their former residence into a temple, so Hui Neng's master Hong Ren and his brother Shen Xiu both built their former residence into a temple. To repay his parents' kindness, Hui Neng ordered his disciples to return to Longshan, Xinzhou (now Xinxing County), to rebuild his former residence into "Hoonji" in the first year of Hongdao, Tang Gaozong (683). On November 18th, the third year of Shenlong (77), Tang Zhongzong praised Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, for his contribution to promoting Buddhism, and bestowed "Hoonji" as "Guo 'en Temple", which was the beginning of naming Guo 'en Temple and has a history of nearly 1,3 years. On the eighth day of July in the second year of the Tang Dynasty (713), Hui Neng led his disciples to leave Hosenji (that is, Baolin Temple, now Nanhua Temple) and return to the abbot of Guo 'en Temple. He died in the temple on the third day of August of the same year. On November 13th of that year, the Sixth Ancestor moved back to Caoxi Faquan Temple for worship. President Mao Zedong spoke highly of the contribution of Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor of Buddhism, and thought that he was the real founder of Buddhism in China and the ancestor of Buddhism in China. Hui Neng and his "Magic Tanjing" have had a far-reaching influence in China and even the world. Tanjing contains rich Buddhist and Zen thoughts and philosophies, and is a precious wealth of human beings. It has been translated into many languages and spread all over the world. Therefore, some foreign institutions and media listed Hui Neng as "one of the top ten thinkers in the world" and regarded him, Confucius and Laozi as "the three great saints of oriental culture". Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, was born in poverty and had a hard time growing up. His ancestral home was in Fanyang, Hebei Province, and his later father Wang Ying was exiled to Xinzhou for the people. Hui Neng lost his father at the age of three and had a hard time with his mother. At the age of 24, he went north to Huangmei to seek the Dharma. After eight months of hard work, he said that there was no tree in Bodhi, and the mirror was not a stage. There was nothing in it, so there was no dust. This demonstration poem won the appreciation of the five ancestors and was given a mantle, becoming the sixth generation ancestor of Zen Buddhism. Since then, a new situation of China's Buddhist culture and philosophy has been created. Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, returned to Guo 'en Temple on the eighth day of July, 713, and died in the temple on the third day of August, at the age of 76.

Guo 'en Temple, built on the hill and lined with halls, is a large-scale building complex with traditional temple architectural art and unique Lingnan style. Temple buildings cover a total area of more than 16, square meters, and the garden land area is 12 mu. Inside the temple, the halls are carved with beams and painted with buildings, simple and elegant, with unique and spectacular shapes, and the overall layout of the temple is generous and decent.

In front of the temple, there are the memorial archway of the mountain gate, the Mid-Mountain Pavilion, the mirror pool, the lotus pool, the pearl pavilion, the release pool and the memorial archway of the first mountain gate.

There are the Temple of the King of Heaven, the Hall of the Great Hero and the Hall of the Six Ancestors. The front and rear halls are connected as a main shaft, and the left and right sides are the Hall of the Earth Treasure, the Hall of the Bodhisattva Ancestor, the Manjusri Pu Xian Hall, the Hall of the Great Trend, the Four Sideways Hall, the Bell and Drum Tower, the abbot's room, the sitting room, the fasting hall, the meditation room, the Tibetan Classics Pavilion and the Six Ancestors Memorial Hall.

On the left side of the temple are the Gratitude Pagoda, Guanyin Hall, Gongde Hall and Yuantong Hall.

On the right side of the temple are six grandparents' graves, Yicui Pavilion, Jingxin Pavilion, Homesickness Pavilion, Bath Pool and Mingquan Pavilion.

there is zhuoxiquan behind the temple.

When entering the temple area, the first thing you see is a grand and solemn four-column archway at the mountain gate. On the top of the archway, four characters of "Zen Sanctuary" are engraved in the middle, and on the big columns on both sides of the main entrance, there are a pair of couplets:

Outside the white rice Futian Wanshan Hua Tian,

South of Huangmeifa Dairy,

On the top of the archway, four characters of "Longshan Blessed Land" are engraved in the middle. There is also a pair of couplets engraved on the big columns on both sides:

Bodhi has no trees in the east, and it is destined to spread good species

Spiegel walked up the mountain through the memorial archway, not far away, and there was a half-hill pavilion with a couplet on the pavilion column:

The mountains are clear and the moon is white

The light shines on the sea and sky

Walking through the half-hill pavilion.

There is a secondary platform in front of the main entrance of the temple. On the stone wall of the platform are written four vigorous and powerful characters of "Buddha shines brightly" written by Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association. There is also a release pool in front of the temple.

before entering the temple, you should first step into a side gate archway, which is called "the first mountain gate archway". This archway was built in the forty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1618) and is written with the characters "the first place". On the forehead of the archway, there is a pottery sculpture of a dragon and a tiger meeting, which is 1.2 meters long and .5 meters wide. It is a precious cultural relic with vivid and exquisite craftsmanship. On both sides of the main entrance of the archway, there is a pair of couplets engraved:

The progressive party knows the mountain first;

The first entrance on the central axis of the temple is the Temple of the King of Heaven; on the top of the main entrance, there is a plaque of "Gift to Guoen Temple", which was given by Li Xian of Tang Zhongzong when he gave Hoonji the title of "Guoen Temple". During the "Cultural Revolution", in order to prevent the plaque from being damaged, someone shoveled off the imperial seal and sealed the words with mud, so the plaque we see now lacks the imperial seal. On both sides of the temple are the statues of the four great kings, and on the east are the kings who smell more and have wider eyes. To the west are the growth kings and the country kings. All of them are tall and powerful, and Buddhism believes that they are guarding the world and protecting Buddhism for a long time. In the middle of the temple, there is a statue of Maitreya, which is full of kind smiles, respectable and amiable, and the plastic workers are very fine. According to legend, the Maitreya Buddha statue was shaped according to the appearance of a cloth-bag monk (the law number is "Changting Zi") in Yuelin Temple in Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province in the Five Dynasties. Because the cloth bag monk claimed to be the reincarnation of the "future Buddha Maitreya", Zhejiang people created a memorial statue for him as a Maitreya Buddha. On the back of Maitreya, the statue of Wei Tuo, the patron saint, is enshrined.

the second entrance of the temple is the daxiong hall, where there are five large stone tablets with white marble on their backs, each of which is engraved with an inscription. In the middle of it is an imperial edict given by Wu Zetian of Tang Dynasty to Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, in the first year of Long Live Tongtian (696). On the right, the first piece is the Monument to the Great Master of Zen given by the Sixth Ancestor of Caoxi written by Tang Zongyuan. The second block on the right is the Monument to the Six Ancestors of Zen Master written by Tang Wangwei. The first piece on the left is the Second Monument of the Zen Master, the sixth ancestor of Cao Xi, written by Tang Yuxi. The second piece on the left was also written by Don Liu Yuxi, and the inscription is called "Buddha's Clothing Inscription". Sakyamuni Buddha is enshrined in the center of the Hall, with the pharmacist Buddha on the left, Amitabha Buddha on the right and 2 arhats on both sides. In the temples of Han Buddhism in China, there are generally 16 or 18 arhats on both sides of the Ursa Major Hall. Why are there 2 here? According to legend, Hui Neng disciple Fahai and God will give their lives to save the manuscript of Six Ancestors' Magic Weapon Tanjing, which was set on fire by evil spirits, and they were burned, but they kept the manuscript, so they were revered by all the disciples, and they were unanimously honored as Lohan, and their laws were enshrined on both sides of the Hall of Great Heroes. Therefore, two more Lohan were added. The twenty arhats have different looks, some carrying scriptures, some holding mord or dusting, and some squeezing the silver mouse tightly, all of which are lifelike. On both sides of the Sambo Buddha statue in the Hall of the Great Hero, there is a unique couplet written by Yao Yongning, the then emerging governor in the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong (177):

DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, DPRK, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi, Qi. Among them, the 3 rd and 9 th "Chao" characters in the first couplet are pronounced as "Chao" sounds of "worship", and the rest are pronounced as "Chao" sounds of "Chaoyang"; The third and ninth "Qi" in the bottom couplet are pronounced as "fasting" and the rest are pronounced as "Qi". Its pronunciation and figurative meaning are:

Chao Chao Chao, Chao Chao Jing, Chao Chao Jing;

qi qi fast, qi qi fast, qi qi fast.

in ancient times, the words "Qi" and "Zhai" were common.

The pillars in the temple are also engraved with couplets inscribed by Zhao Baqing in the Qing Dynasty:

The Buddha country is destined to enter from here.

Those who come and go to the Zen Gate are not forbidden to pass.

The third entrance to the temple is the Liuzu Temple, which is a Ming Dynasty building with double eaves and a peak structure, with a width of 14 meters and a depth of 12 meters. A large column in the temple is inscribed with a pair of pictures:

Bodhi has nothing to return to its original

The mirror is empty and empty

The temple is dedicated to the sitting statue of six Jin Zu, which has the same shape as the statue of six ancestors in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan and Liurong Temple in Guangzhou. It was made by Fang Bian, a disciple of six ancestors, so its shape is very realistic, just like a physical bodhisattva. On the top of the statue, there is a plaque that says "Buddha spreads his heart", and there are couplets on both sides:

No mind, no phase, no living

No birth, no extinction and no moving

Next to the statue of the sixth ancestor, there is also a statue of the "black-faced seven ancestors", whose dharma name is "God Meeting", which is a powerful disciple of the sixth ancestor. It is said that he made outstanding contributions to regain and maintain the legal status of the six ancestors of Zen Buddhism, so he was named "Seven Ancestors" by Tang Dezong. His face is black, and it is said that it was burned black because he protected the manuscript of the Six Ancestors' Magic Tanjing, which was set on fire by evil spirits.

Hui Neng's clothes and utensils, as well as the golden hairpin and palace lantern given to him by Wu Zetian and Tang Zhongzong, as well as the precious cultural relics in the temple, such as the water purification bowl, the Taoyuan stone seal, the bronze incense burner and the chair seat of the faucet, were originally stored in the Sixth Ancestral Hall, but they were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Zou Hao, who served as Zuo Si's admonition and assistant minister of the official department in the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, left a poem "Paying homage to the Six Ancestors":

Xinzhou outside the ridge is a town of poverty, and I have come to the Buddha's land for shade and coolness.

Clouds appear on the cassock, and the bathing pool is surrounded by sunlight.

According to the tree, the wind is blowing, and when you enter the mountain, the birds are clattering.

Look into the sky across Chang 'an Road, and cleanse the mortal mind of the king.

Qiu Jun, a great scholar of Wenyuange in Ming Dynasty and Prince Shaobao, also left a poem "Jiechao" praising the six ancestors:

Buddhism came to China from Lingnan all the time.

there is a thousand years' mantle, and people come from all over the world to participate.

On the left side of the Six Ancestors Hall is the Six Ancestors Memorial Hall, which was built in 1994. It has a four-column hall-style glazed tile cement structure and covers an area of 2 square meters. In the center of the hall is a two-meter-high sitting statue of Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor of white marble sculpture. On the shrine, a horizontal plaque inscribed by Ye Xuanping, the former vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is hung, and on both sides are a pair of carved wooden couplets written by Master Hailing Yuanzhan, which reads: < p Above the gate of the temple hangs a mahogany plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, the late president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, before his death.

There is a flower stand between the three main halls and the attached halls of Guo 'en Temple, where there are flowers and trees such as Bodhi, Osmanthus fragrans, Milan, mango, peach tree, Holly and egg tree, which are flourishing and lush all year round. What is particularly striking is the two egg-blossom trees with a height of 8 meters and a crown diameter of about 6 meters planted on the big flower terrace in front of the Ursa major hall. According to records, the tree was planted by monks in Guo 'en Temple in Qing Dynasty, and it has been more than 3 years old. In summer and autumn, green leaves are swaying, yellow flowers are in full bloom, and the fragrance is refreshing, which is unique to the Lingnan jungle.

There are also many sacred relics of Six Ancestors Yinghua in Guo 'en Temple, including the pagoda of gratitude, the litchi tree planted by Six Ancestors, the grave of Six Grandparents, Zhuoxiquan and Bath Pool. The original Gratitude Pagoda was built in the first year of Taiji in Tang Dynasty (712) when the six ancestors were preaching dharma in Hosenji, Shaozhou, and the Mingmen people returned to Xinzhou. The name of the tower is named according to the meaning of the six ancestors' "four kinds of gratitude" (gratitude to Buddha, parents, country and all beings). After more than 12 years, after several dynasties, the tower has been destroyed and repaired several times. Chen Xianzhang, a famous Neo-Confucianism scholar in Ming Dynasty, visited Guo 'en Temple during the orthodox period (1436-1449), and wrote six poems of "Poems of Longshan", leaving a message that "the old pagoda beside the temple is still there, but there are no kinds of things in Gankun." The poem. Until Pan Yuheng, a juren in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote Lu Xi Tong Zhi, there was still a scene of "the shadow of the ancient pagoda", which indicated the existence of this pagoda. When cleaning up the old tower foundation in 1989, it was found that there were still many tower bricks engraved with the words "seventeen years from Yuan Dynasty to Zheng Dynasty". The new tower was rebuilt in September 199. The tower is octagonal and has a seven-story structure. The first floor is 8 meters in diameter and 28.88 meters in height, and the foundation depth under the tower is 2.7 meters. The inscription on the plaque of the Tower of Gratitude was written by President Zhao Puchu before his death. The tower is inlaid with 28 stone statues from Jia Ye, the disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha, to Dharma, the ancestor of the twenty-eighth generation, and a white marble Buddha with different handprints stands on each floor. In addition, there are corridors around the towers on each floor for pilgrims and tourists to board and watch the exterior. Climbing to the top of the tower and looking into the distance, we can see that the peaks of Longshan are undulating, like Youlong, with steep mountains and lush trees; See also Luxi Yuan Ye, where the river flows like practice, the green fields are lush, the mountain villages are dotted with smoke. Jiangshan is beautiful, picturesque and panoramic.

On the left side of Guo 'en Temple, there is a litchi tree which is nearly 13 years old. It is said that it was planted by Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor, when he returned to his former residence in 712. Throughout the ages, this tree has withered several times and then sprouted new branches. The most surprising thing is that this old litchi tree never has worms. It is "planted by my teacher, and the old tree does not moth." During the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, it was burned by the bad guys and almost died. The black traces of the burned trees can still be seen in the empty heart of the tree. After the reform and opening up in 1979, the country prospered and the tree relapsed with new branches. After careful care, it is strong and upright, flourishing and bearing fruit. In 24, it had 15 kilograms of fruit. It can be said that this tree is blessed with the people and honored with the country. In 1988, identified by the Provincial Forestry Department and the Provincial Greening Committee, the tree was 18.5 meters high and was listed as one of the 18 oldest trees in the province, and also one of the oldest fruit trees in the province. therefore