Dear friends
Good morning, welcome to Zhengding, Hebei Province. You are tired from yourjourney. I hope the warm sun in winter can drive away the dust and fatigue alongthe way, I'm __, your tour guide this time. I hope I can lead you to soar in thehappiness that tourism brings us. Next, I'd like to introduce one of the mostimpolite members in our car, because he always faces you with his back. He isour driver, Master Li. In fact, master Li is recognized as an excellent driverin our tourism industry. Steadiness is not only the pronoun of his characterIt's synonymous with his driving skills. Although his car is a little heavy,it's still very stable. You will really feel safe and comfortable in his car.Well, we will arrive at our destination in about 20 minutes. Let's enjoy thescenery outside the window and have a rest!
Today, I have the honor to show you the Longxing Temple, a key culturalrelic protection unit in China. Longxing Temple is one of the famous temples inChina, known as the four treasures of North China. It was built in the sixthyear of kaihuang in Sui Dynasty, and now has a history of more than 1400 years.As a matter of fact, the original name of Longxing Temple was "longzang Temple",that is, longzang with hidden dragon and crouching tiger. In the early SongDynasty, the Tibetan character was changed to Xingxing, and it was changed toLongxing Temple in the 49th year of Kangxi. From the name, we can also think ofhow prosperous our Longxing Temple was in the past dynasties.
Longxing Temple, with Dabei Pavilion as the main body, is a large-scalearchitectural complex in Song Dynasty. The existing area of the temple is 82500square meters. The main buildings are distributed on the North-South centralaxis and its two sides. The whole building complex is high and low, and theprimary and secondary are distinct. It is an important example to study thearchitectural layout of Buddhist temples in the Song Dynasty. After so manyintroductions, you must have a strong interest in this religious complex withthousands of history. Now please follow me to see its mysterious face!
There are six cultural relics in Longxing Temple, which can be regarded asthe most famous in China. They pass through the Tianwang hall and Dajue Liushihall. Now in front of you, this majestic hall is the first one we want to visittoday, the most famous one in China: mani hall. Mani hall was built in thefourth year of emperor you of Northern Song Dynasty, covering an area of 1400square meters. As you can see, its layout is very unique. The center of the mainhall is the Xieshan peak with double eaves. In the center of the four sides ofthe square hall, there is a mountain flower in each side. The Xieshan Baoxia infront of it makes the whole building plane form a cross shape. From the outside,we can see that the whole hall overlaps magnificently and is full of changes,which is the only existing example of Song Dynasty architecture in China. If youlook at it again, the brackets under the eaves of the hall are large, thedistribution is sparse, the columns are thick, and there are obvious rollingbrake side corners and rising, which are consistent with the Song Dynasty's"building French style". Liang Sicheng, an expert on ancient architecture inChina, praised the empress of Mani hall. He said that this kind of layout wasonly seen in Song Dynasty paintings except the turret of the Forbidden City inBeijing. Do you have the feeling of crossing time and space to be in SongDynasty paintings now? Let's get out of the association quickly. Afterappreciating the general architecture of this painting from the appearance,let's go in and enjoy it more beautiful Connotation!
Please note that next I'd like to introduce Longxing Temple's second mostbeautiful, the most beautiful inverted Guanyin in China. Please look at thiscolorful clay sculpture hanging mountain on the north wall of the inner troughof Mani hall. There are more than 30 existing statues in the hanging mountain,but the most eye-catching one is the colorful Guanyin Bodhisattva in the middle,commonly known as "inverted Guanyin". Because Guanyin Bodhisattva has the oathof "all living beings will never be able to reach the end of universalsalvation, and all living beings will never reach the end of universalsalvation", it forms the image of inverted sitting Guanyin. The statue ofAvalokitesvara is 3.4 meters high. Please look at the eyes with deep wisdomoverlooking us. Do you feel shocked? In fact, what is beautiful about her is notonly her elegant posture, beautiful face, but also her broad mind and hertouching compassion.
Through the archway and the altar, we can see that there are two typicaltwo-story Pavilion style buildings in the Northern Song Dynasty on both sides ofthe central axis. They are zhuanlunzang Pavilion and Cihua Pavilion.
The zhuanlunzang pavilion was built in the Northern Song Dynasty. Thediameter of the zhuanlunzang Pavilion in front of us is 7 meters. It is dividedinto three parts: the Tibetan seat, the Tibetan body and the Tibetan roof. A10.8-meter wooden shaft runs up and down in the middle. You will be interestedto ask what is the use of such a special magic weapon? According to historicalrecords, zhuanlunzang was created for the convenience of illiterate or nonliterate believers in the southern Liang Dynasty. The believers have the samemerit in pushing the wheel for a week as in reading the Scriptures once.Although it has been thousands of years, it only needs two or three people tomake it rotate slowly. Isn't it amazing? As a special kind of magic weapon, ithas a history of more than 1400 years since it was produced. However, due tonatural and man-made reasons, there are few existing objects in China. Amongthem, lunzang in Longxing Temple is the oldest and the largest one, which is tenyears old Precious historical remains.
As we all know, in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Sui Dynasty wasa transitional period from Hanli to Tangkai. The longzangsi stele that I want tointroduce now is the representative work of this period. Its font is dull andbroad, clumsy but elegant, solemn but not dull. It can be said that it is astandard regular script and precious material for studying the history ofChinese calligraphy. Kang Youwei, a famous scholar in modern times, also praisedthis tablet as "the first tablet of Sui Dynasty", and later generations evencalled it "the ancestor of regular script". Please enjoy it!
What we are seeing now is the Dabei Pavilion, the main building of LongxingTemple. Entering it, we will see a 21.3-meter-high bronze cast iron Guanyin,which was cast in the fourth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has42 arms. Besides its two eyes, it has 20 hands on the left and right sides ofits body, holding different magic weapons. Each hand has one eye, which becomes40 hands and 40 eyes. It is said that each hand eye has 25 kinds of mana, and 40hands and 25 eyes become thousands of hands and thousands of eyes. Therefore,this Avalokitesvara is also known as "Avalokitesvara with thousands of hands andeyes". It is worth mentioning that as early as more than 1000 years ago,Longxing Temple was naturally called the "Great Buddha Temple" because of itsexistence. It was only by hand that such a large bronze Buddha was made withoutmechanization, which created a miracle in the history of metallurgy and foundryin the world.
Finally, we came to the Pilu hall, where a bronze statue of Pilu Buddha wasworshipped in the middle. "Pilu" is the Sanskrit abbreviation of "piluzana",which means "light shines everywhere". Pilu Buddha is Sakyamuni's Dharma Buddha.This Pilu Buddha is 6.72 meters high. There is a small Buddha on the Chiba lotuspetals of the three-layer lotus seat, forming a pattern of "Thousand Buddhascircling Pilu". There are also three layers of four Buddhas, a total of 12. EachPilu Buddha wears a five Buddha crown. There are 1072 large and small Buddhastatues on the whole Buddha statue, which has a high historical, scientific andartistic value. It is an isolated case at home and abroad.
The happy time always passed quickly. Our tour was coming to an end. If youhave any opinions and suggestions on me, you must tell me so that I can improveand make better progress. Thank you!
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