When is the best time to go to Guo Zi Temple?

The best time for Guo Zi Temple: Ningde has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate, with a warm and humid climate, with an annual average temperature of 14℃-20℃, a maximum temperature of 28℃-29℃ in July and a minimum temperature of 1 month of around 8℃. The landforms of Ningde are complex and diverse, including mountains, hills, basins, plains and other landforms, and the microclimates in different regions are quite different. Although there is a certain temperature difference between coastal areas and inland areas, on the whole, Ningde has a warm climate and abundant precipitation, and can travel all year round.

March-June is the rainy season in Ningde every year, with continuous rainy weather, and July-September is the season with frequent typhoons and heavy rains. When traveling to Ningde at this time, you need to pay attention to the weather forecast and prepare rain gear and other related items.

Guo Zi Temple, built in the first year of Xian Tong in Tang Dynasty (860), was built by Pang Ye brothers in Tang Guanzhuang, which flourished in Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. In the long history of 1000 years, there are ups and downs and prosperity alternately. Guo Zi Temple is located in the southeast of Fuding County, 5 kilometers away from the county seat, on Lianfeng Mountain in Guo Zi Village. It is the birthplace of the ancestor of Caodong Buddhism in Fuding. The temple is surrounded by mountains and seas, with beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery. The top of the mountain is flat, surrounded by mountains and arches, and the forest is quiet. Every time Dongjiang watches the high tide, it emerges as strong as a lotus. When the eastern dawn turns white, overlooking the Lotus Peak, it looks like a Lian Bi bathed in water, budding and standing on the river waves. On a clear night, it seems that you can see the palace, which is called "Lotus Moonlight" and is a major tourist landscape in the suburbs of Fuding.

At present, the ancient buildings are magnificent and exquisite in craftsmanship. Both the wooden hall and the Buddhist temple are buildings of the Ming Dynasty. 1753 Rebuilding the ancestral temple and Qielan Temple. Legend has it that there were nine wells and thirteen piers in the heyday of the Song Dynasty; There are Tang Jing, Song Quan, stone tools, cornerstone of the Buddhist temple, beams, buildings, columns, and Millennium Cycas of the Ming Dynasty (1985 began to bloom, lasting for 6 months every year). Cinnamon, cypress and so on. Now the temple is magnificent and complete, and the environment is quiet. Buses in the city go straight to the front of the temple, and tourists and pilgrims make pilgrimages into the mountains, enjoy flowers and eyes, and stop all the time. With the development of Buddhist culture, the scale of Guo Zi Temple is constantly expanding, with a total area of 8.67 hectares after land acquisition. In the near future, Guo Zi Temple will be built into a garden-style temple with Buddhist culture as its content, Tang and Song architectural styles as its main body, and integrating pilgrimage, sightseeing and tourism to reproduce the wonderful scenery of Lotus Peak.

Scholars of past dynasties came here to gather, give lectures and explore the mountains, leaving many poems, such as Sun, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, "If you dream, you will feel at home everywhere", the champion of the Qing Dynasty, "The fragrance is full, the sea is high and the moon is high", and Master Yuan Ying, a modern monk, "I can't tell others, I am happy with you", and the customs and habits of local She residents make them even more fascinated.