Section 525: Pray sincerely for love, burn incense and worship Buddha
An Chuyu stayed at home, and he found a good day, entrusting the black cat Black Charcoal to An Qingju for temporary care, so he drove a sea sapphire BMW to Sihai City to gather with his good girlfriend Yan Chenyu. Although An Chuyu may not be very happy to meet Yan Chenyu, one of the two love rivals, some things are not enough for An Chuyu to not want to.
I don’t know what Yan Chenyu was thinking. After An Chuyu came, Yan Chenyu asked for leave from Miss Zhen Mi, drove back to Yayuan High-end residential area with a pink BMW, and moved into the house with An Chuyu. However, after An Chuyu was resettled, Yan Chenyu did not stop and drove to work in Zhen Group.
An Chu met without going around to see the room in Yan Chenyu's villa. She didn't want to see the traces left by Yun Luo's living here. It was an emotional hurt. Yan Chenyu was probably embarrassed. The story between the two girls was also interesting. Some things had already had a tacit understanding with each other, but when they really had to face it, it was still very embarrassing.
This is the key to Yan Chenyu not staying to accompany An Chuyu. Yan Chenyu needs some time to sort out the relationship with An Chuyu. This pair of good friends will not be distant, but some places should be considered seriously.
An Chuyu did not stay at home. After getting the temporary entry and exit certificate and villa key that Yan Chenyu took and took the application, An Chuyu drove out to burn incense and worship Buddha in a sea sapphire BMW. An Chuyu is not a Buddhist girl, but she still prayed devoutly for Yun Luo whom she loved.
Perhaps it is fate that An Chushi first came to was Longhua Temple. Longhua Temple is one of the famous Buddhist temples in China and the oldest and largest ancient temple in the Four Seas.
The existing temple was rebuilt during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Today, Longhua Temple has long become a religious tourist destination composed of ancient temples, ancient pagodas, Longhua Temple Fairs, and Longhua evening bells. The scenery inside Longhua Temple is quiet, the temple is majestic, the golden and blue hooks are shining, and the Zen rhyme is solemn and solemn. The temples inside the temple are neat and the layout is reasonable.
There is a large plaque with red background on the middle of the mountain gate of Longhua Temple. The two characters "Longhua" in official script are vigorous and powerful, and are written by calligraphers. There is an enlarged gold seal on the two characters "Longhua". This is the imperial gift of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Shenzong. It is one of the "Three Treasures of Temple Town" and "I awarded the treasure seal of Cheng'entang Longhua Lecture Temple."
There is a circular relief "Three Lions Playing Ball" under the gold seal, and the outer frame of the large plaque is carved with nine dragons, which is solemn and majestic. There are two fronts of the mountain gate, and the four foreheads are written on the forehead of "Jiangnan Ancient Temple" and "Tushishi in the World". The font is fresh and elegant, and is written by calligraphers. Longhua Temple is the earliest temple in the four seas, so it is called "Jiangnan Ancient Temple".
The shrine is the most broken component of the pagoda. The flags in the temple are also called shrines. "Sha" is the synonym for the temple. After the Buddha Shakyamuni appointed Maitreya as the "successor", 12 years later, Maitreya passed away and ascended to heaven to practice in Tushita Heaven. Longhua Temple is the temple of Maitreya, so it is called "Tushita on earth".
The couplet is engraved on the stone pillar of the mountain gate, "Awareness and enlightenment of the dragon flower, look at the waves of the seven treasure pagodas, the nine heavens and the ten miles of bells, and the vast crowds of Yanbu are spread across the world; work together to practice good deeds, wishing that the eight seas are abundant, the millions of people are happy, and gathering all wise men, just like the time when Maitreya is born."
The "Awadao" in the first couplet refers to Buddhism, which means that Buddhism makes Longhua Temple a Buddhist place and promotes it to all directions. "Helu" is the heavenly gate and palace gate in myths and legends. "Yanfu" means hell with severe death and disasters in human society. The second couplet Maitreya "When he was born in the next generation" refers to Maitreya's "Three Meetings of Dragon Flowers", and 28.2 billion people have become Arhats. This is called "a collection of wise men".
This couplet is written in the couplet in "2,500 Years of Buddha's Calendar". "Buddha Calendar" is the calendar of Buddhist years. Buddhism regards the year when Sakyamuni passed away as the first year of Buddha's Calendar. The Theravada Buddhism says that the Buddha passed away in 544 BC. The couplet is signed "Disciples of the Three Treasures", and "Three Treasures" refers to Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
There is a round gate covered with ivy in the southwest corner. This is the "Pagoda Movie Garden". When the sun is about to set in the evening, the shadow of the tower will be projected here, which is named after it. In the Chengbi Pavilion here, there is a boundary monument of the temple during the Song Dynasty, which is also the evidence that Longhua Temple was built during the Song Dynasty.
This day is sad and sad in the evening scene. I remember the wine in front of the flowers and the poems outside the tower. The morning autumn rain is sad, and the garden is closed; the joy of the past was drunk, and the flowers were drunk, and the flowers were learned from the Internet. I only remember that the spring orioles carried water and the fish were hidden in the pond.
The Longhua Temple is built in the seven-chamber building of the Song Dynasty. The first entry on the central axis is the Maitreya Hall. Because Longhua is the temple of Maitreya, the first entry is the Maitreya Hall, which is different from other temples. The plaque "Longhua Temple" written on it is hung with the eaves of the Maitreya Hall. The Maitreya Hall is a single-eaves hip-mounted style, and a pair of stone lions squat on both sides of the hall door.
The base is Sumeru throne, and the base is carved with peonies, phoenixes, and zodiacs, and lions, which are called the Three Kings Lions. The temples with the Three Kings Lions are the highest specifications. There is a pair of stone lamps on both sides of the stone lion. The base is Sumeru throne and is a lamp pavilion on it, symbolizing the great light of Buddhism, and the Buddhist lamps are passed down from generation to generation.
There are "Nine Lions" brick sculptures on the front wall of the Maitreya Hall, and there are brick sculptures for the Qilin to send a child on the back wall. An Chushi entered the Maitreya Hall, and the incarnation of Maitreya, who was smiling and exposed, was enshrined in the middle. Maitreya was born in a Brahmin family and later became a Buddhist disciple. He first entered the Buddha's death and ascended to the inner courtyard of the Maitreya Pure Land in Tushita Heaven.
Later, he was born in the world, and became a Buddha under the dragon tree in Hualin Garden. He preached the Dharma to the heavens and the man, and spread the three sentient beings in the upper and lower levels. They were called the "Three Meetings of Longhua." He smiled and laughed at the ancient and modern times. He smiled at the couplets that were big belly that could accommodate heaven and earth and people.
The statues of the sixteen Arhats are enshrined on both sides of the hall, with vivid and solemn expressions. Arhats are a Buddhist fruit-level term, which is the abbreviation of Arhats in Sanskrit. Buddhists practice and achieve the fruit-level of Arhats means that their blessings and wisdom exceed the human world, eliminate distracting thoughts, and get rid of human customs and into emptiness and concentration.
The fruit positions are divided into first, second, third, and fourth grades, and the four fruits are the highest level. The Buddha preached the Dharma for 45 years in the world, and among the disciples who followed the Buddha and listened to the Dharma on a daily basis, there were 1,250 people, all of whom were honored as the Arhat fruit.
Among them, there are sixteen Arhats: left: wisdom first, head tuo first, question answering first, righteousness first, knowledge first, offering first, education first, lifespan first. Right: divine way first, discussion first, no chaos first, appearance first, secret practice first, blessing field first, stars first, and heavenly eyes first.
These sixteen Arhats not only have different postures, but also have more distinctive facial expressions, including smiles, contemplatives, mightyness, and no facial expressions. However, they stare at them for a long time, but they seem to be thinking and very realistic.
Behind the three Buddhas is the large wall sculpture of Guanyin on the island, which is based on the Buddhist story of the boy Shancai seeking the Dharma. Shancai was born very unusual, with many gold, silver and jewelry emerging, but Shancai did not love money and believed that he wanted to learn Buddhism. He sought Dharma from all Buddhas everywhere, and asked 53 Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for advice. Buddhism is called "fifty-three visits".
The 27th Bodhisattva of the boy Shancai's request for advice was Guanyin Bodhisattva. In the middle of the statue was Guanyin Bodhisattva with the compassionate cultivator parade in the sea, which meant to save suffering and save all living beings in the boundless sea of suffering. There were many little Shancai who were clasped together and asking for advice from all sides on the picture.
This scene is the grand occasion of the Buddha in Lingjiu Palace 2,500 years ago, Manjushri Samantabhadra assisting the Dharma, Twenty Heavenly Gods and Protecting the Dharma, Eighteen Arhats spreading the Dharma, Guanyin upholding the Dharma, and boys seeking the Dharma.
On the right side of Guanyin is the Dragon Girl. Legend has it that the third prince of the Dragon King of the East China Sea once turned into a carp and went out for a trip, but was caught by a fisherman and caught it at the market. Guanyin saw the carp crying, so she asked Shancai to buy him back and put it in the sea. In order to thank Guanyin, the daughter of the third prince made a vow to follow Guanyin and became Guanyin's right flank servant.
The Ming Dynasty chanted the "Mahara Temple" and said: The Mahara Temple is Vairo, and all the surnames compete to burn incense furnaces; the white elephant Samantabhadra serves the right hand, and the green lion is wonderful and eternal; the three saints of Huayan are in the sky, and the Prajna True Sect has no place; the Arhats are powerful and spiritual, and the heavens are guarding to sing and dance.
The temple is also displayed in the hall. A temple bell cast in the 14th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. In the west wing of the Main Hall, a jade Buddha carved from white jade is placed. It is 1.5 meters high. It is inlaid with many agate, jade, gems, and eyebrows are like a crescent moon. It is a kind and upright one. It was invited by Hong Kong Buddhists from Myanmar to give it to Longhua Temple. There are two couplets in the Jade Buddha Hall. One is hung in the first row of columns:
People who are not far away from the Tao should not recognize the heads of the movie fans and search outside; the mind is originally a Buddha, but it shines in the light and leads directly downward. The second pair is hung on the second row of pillars: the Dharma body is permanent, without coming or going, and will last forever for thousands of kalpas; the wonderful aspects are harmonious, and it is the color and the mind, and it will appear throughout the ten directions.
Behind the Grand Historian is the Three Holy Temple. In front of the hall is a couplet, "I am a teacher in this world and will be the Buddha, but I have to worry about not being enlightened when I see Amitabha." Praise the Buddha as a "great compassionate father", enlightenment and rescue of the world, and has immeasurable merits.
The temple is enshrined in three golden bodies, "Three Saints of the West", and in the middle is the "Amitabha Buddha statue", the attendant of the left side is Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the attendant of the right side is Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva. Amitabha Buddha is a transliteration of Sanskrit, meaning "Immortal Light Buddha". He has thirteen names, and is the leader of the Western Pure Land, responsible for guiding people who believe in Buddhism to the "Pure Land of the West", so it is also called the "Guashi Buddha".
Amitabha Buddha's right hand droops, making a vow seal, and his left hand is on his chest, and there is a golden lotus platform in his palm. The golden lotus platform is the seat for rebirth in the Pure Land. The Pure Land Sect divides it into nine levels, called the ninth-grade lotus platform.
An Chuhui entered the hall and knelt down. A couplet was hung in the first row of pillars: the master was solemn, guided all living beings, and returned to the Pure Land together; he wished to achieve success, surpass the top class, and personally admire the Great Compassionate Lord.
Unlike other temples, Guanyin Bodhisattva here is a male appearance. In the history of Indian Buddhism, Guanyin was originally a male. After it was introduced to China, female appearances appeared since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and female appearances were prevalent after the Tang Dynasty.
In order to set off the atmosphere of the "Three Saints of the West", the furnishings and sculptures of the Three Saints of the Temple are also matched with it, such as banners with lotus patterns hanging in front of the statue, and lotus patterns are sculpted everywhere on the hall, because the Pure Land Sect is also known as "Lotus Sect" and "Lotus" is the most vivid and vivid symbol of the Pure Land Sect.
There is a plaque with "Lotus Flowers Far Away" in the Three Holy Temple, which shows that the family of Pure Land Sect will be bound to cover all directions. The plaque was written by the first president of the Chinese Buddhist Association. The second plaque in the temple is written by "Cool Land" and "Cool" refer to the pure land in all directions, without dirt. The three words point out the faith of Pure Land.
There are two precious cultural relics in the Three Saints Temple. One is a Song Dynasty cloud plate hanging on the left front corner in front of the hall. It is hit to report the time. The other is a Qing Dynasty fish hanged on the right corner in front of the hall. It is hit to tell the monks to have a meal.
On the west side of the Three Holy Temple is Guanyin Hall. In the hall is the thirty-two incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Thousand-armed Guanyin and the great merits representing gods, humans and ghosts, King Bosina, and the eight ghosts. Next to Guanyin Hall, there are five hundred arhats gathered together, with golden light shining. On the middle wall is Sakyamuni Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to preach, and next to them are elk offering Ganoderma lucidum and ripe offering peaches.
On the left is his great disciple, Kamayashi, led seven disciples, and on the right is his successor, the Heavenly Crown Maitreya, and also led seven disciples. There are five hundred Arhats on the lower side, and four great Bodhisattvas on both sides are the support of the Dharma, and the guardian of Yuweituo.
The abbot's room in Longhua Temple is a hard mountain building, and is in the closed courtyard. It is the place where the abbot of the temple receives VIPs and teaches. In the middle of the room is a statue of Sakyamuni's Dharma body, a jujube wood statue of the ancestor Bodhidharma at the east end of the wall, and a jujube wood statue of the god of the Kalan god Guanyu at the west end of the wall.
There is also a building in the northeast of Longhua Temple. It was originally a warehouse of Longhua Temple. There is a couplet on the pillars on both sides of the door, "The Yangqi lamp is bright forever, and the treasure is long and the ginger is spicy for thousands of years."
There is a garden in front of the building, with a peony garden. One of the hundred-year-old peonies was moved from near the tomb of Lu Zhishen in Donglin Temple in Hangzhou. It was originally planted during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. It has been over 140 years old. Every year, purple flowers bloom after the Grain Rain is elegant and luxurious. The famous painting monk Zhu Zen monk who is as famous as Zen Master Poshan lived here.
There is a border stone in Kongxiang Temple west of the Garden, which is the oldest cultural relic preserved in the temple. This border stone was 90 cm high and 46 cm square on the front and sides. The "Southwest corner stone in Kongxiang Temple" carved on the front is a witness to the history of Longhua Temple.
It turns out that there are also storages of Kongxiang Temple boundary monuments from the Song Dynasty and four stone tigers from the Yuan Dynasty. The stone monuments and two stone tigers are moved to the Pagoda Movie Garden in front, and the other two are moved to the tomb of Xu Guangqi. The Sutra Pavilion is the last building on the central axis of Longhua Temple. It is a hard mountain-style building. The Sutra Pavilion collects various versions of the Tripitaka and Buddhist scriptures, displaying precious Buddhist relics in the temple from all dynasties.
The Thousand Buddha Pavilion is the main body of the Sutra Pavilion, which contains the famous "Three Treasures of Longhua Temple Town Temple". The gilded Buddha statue, Longzang and Jinying, the Dharma body statues are used as preaching. They sit cross-legged, make preaching seals, wear a thousand-leaf crown, have a rich face, dignified expression, and a strong sense of enlightenment.
Longzang refers to the Qianlong version of the Tripitaka published in the Qing Dynasty. There are 1,662 volumes and 7,168 volumes of Buddhist scriptures, which are very precious. The gold seal of Wanli means "the seal of the heart of the Buddha is strong and not broken." It is given by the Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty. It has a dragon trace frame and seal script inscribed in the middle. There is also a gold lion squatting on the seal.
The Thousand Buddha Pavilion also enshrines the relics of Master Mingyang. The Longhua Pagoda is located in front of Longhua Temple. It was built in the second year of Taiping Xingguo in the Song Dynasty. It is towering into the clouds. It is a pavilion-shaped, square, seven-story and eight-sided brick and wood structure. The tower is orange-yellow and has towering stalks. Each floor has flat seats, railings, heavy curved railings, high eaves and wings, and is stretched far and wide, majestic and magnificent.
What is particularly amazing is that each floor has exquisitely cast and antique copper bells hanging on the corners of the eaves and corners, and a total of 56 copper bells with seven-layer octagonal layers. The breeze blows, the ringtones are melodious, crisp and pleasant, and the scenery is refreshing. The brick body and foundation of Longhua Tower are still original objects of the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, and are one of the most perfect ancient towers preserved in the Four Seas region to this day.
Buddhism regards odd numbers as auspiciousness, so the pagoda is mostly odd numbers. Buddhism also regards gold, silver, glass, conch, agate, pearls and roses as the seven treasures, so pagoda is also mostly based on seven levels.
The purpose of hanging bells is that because there are many eaves on the tower, it is easy for birds to fly up to build nests. After installing bells, when the wind blows, the bells will make sounds, and animals will be afraid and dare not build nests here. Therefore, most places with towers in ancient times were loaded with bells.
This pagoda is a pavilion-style pagoda with brick body and wooden eaves. It is a pagoda from the Northern Song Dynasty. The pagoda weighs 10 tons. In ancient times, pagodas had meaning. The relics of the monks who have mastered the Tao were called the Relic Tower, the sutra tower was called the Sutra Tower, and the one who stored the sutras was called the Merit Tower, and the one who wanted to accumulate virtue for oneself was called the Merit Tower. The Longhua Temple Pagoda belongs to the Sutra Tower.
Longhua Pagoda was installed with 164 floodlight lamps. Under the illumination of novel lights, the thousand-year-old pagoda is dazzling and dazzling. According to legend, Longhua Pagoda and Longhua Temple were built during the Three Kingdoms period. Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu started construction in the fifth year of Chiwu to honor his mother. It was completed five years later. It was named according to the records of Maitreya Bodhisattva becoming a Buddha under the Longhua tree in Buddhist scriptures.
There is also a legend that Longhua Temple was built in the second year of Chuigong in the Tang Dynasty. However, according to historical records, Longhua Temple was built by Qian Chuhong, the King of Wu Yue during the Five Dynasties, and has a history of thousands of years. In the third year of Zhiping of the Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty named Baoxiang Temple.
In the garden inside the temple, there is a stone engraved with the words "The Box Temple is the southwest corner of Baoxiang Temple" and "The outer branches are marked as the big boundary" to support it. In the Ming Dynasty, the scale of Longhua Temple had great development and was renamed Longhua Temple during the Yongle period. In the early Qing Dynasty, Longhua Temple reached its heyday.
Hualong Temple was restored twice before the old view was restored. The current Longhua Temple pagoda eaves and peaceful seats were maintained according to the architectural style of the Song Dynasty. Generally, they were restored according to the regulations during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. They basically maintained the original appearance of the Seven Halls of the Jalan Temple of the Song Dynasty. They were a unique and complete ancient temple complex in the four seas.
"Longhua Late Bell" is known as "Huangpu Autumn Waves", "Sea and Sky Rising Sun", "Wu Song Misty Rain", "Stone Band Night Moon", "Wild Crossing Reeds", "Feng Tower Looking into the Far", and "Sunny Snow in Jianggao" are known as the "Eight Scenerys in Shanghai" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
In ancient times, the fifteenth day of the third lunar month was the Longhua Xiangxun. Believers from all over the world and pilgrims from all over the world arrived in the morning, strolling in the temple, climbing the tower, and enjoying the flowers until the red sun sets west and returning home with great pleasure. In the twilight, under the afterglow of the sunset, the shadows on the tower on the river were swaying, and the bells of the ancient temple were full of poetry and painting, which made people unable to part with it.
"The peach blossoms in ten miles are red", Longhua is a good place for people from all over the world to appreciate peach blossoms. Since the Ming Dynasty, the peach blossoms in Longhua Temple have been famous far and wide. Nowadays, every spring, the peach blossoms in Longhua Park southeast of Longhua Temple are bright and as bright as red clouds, attracting countless tourists at home and abroad.
According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, the prime minister of Kangju Kingdom in the Western Regions had an eldest son named Hui. He did not love wealth and saw through the world, and decided to become a monk and became a monk. He was known as "Kang Monkhui".
Kang Monk Hui followed the Buddhist order and came to China to spread Buddhism and made good friends. He traveled eastwards across the world and Suzhou. One day, he came to Longhua Dang and saw that the water and sky were the same color and dust was untainted. He thought it was a treasure land for cultivation, so he built a hut here. He didn't know that the reason why the scenery here was quiet and extraordinary was because the Dragon King of Guangze built the Dragon Palace here.
When the Dragon King Guangze saw a monk living there, he was very unhappy. He had evil thoughts for a moment, and wanted to stir up the wind and fog, overturn the monk's thatched cottage and scare the monk away. However, the Dragon King suddenly found a ray of light emitted from the cottage, with five-colored auspicious clouds on it. The Dragon King was shocked. When he approached, he saw that the monk Kang looked at him and was meditating and reciting scriptures.
After listening for a while, the Dragon King was moved by the Buddhist decree recited by the monk. Not only did he dispel his original evil thoughts, he also walked up to the Kang Monkhui and said to him: He would like to go back to the East China Sea and give the Dragon King Palace to the Kang Monkhui to build a Buddhist temple.
Kang Monkhui accepted the good intentions of the Dragon King, so he converted the Dragon Palace into Longhua Temple and made a special trip to Nanjing to visit Sun Quan, the monarch of Wu, and asked him to help build the pagoda so that he could place the Buddha relics he invited. In this way, 13 pagodas were built in Longhua Temple and 13 Buddha relics were placed.
It is said that this "Kang Monk Association" also did something that has a profound impact on the world and even the surrounding areas. That is, he once set up the "Hushengtang" near Longhua Temple to teach the sugar-making methods passed down from India and benefit the local people.
An Chu met the temple and knelt down, burned incense and prayed devoutly, walked out of the temple and came to the Old City God Temple Market. The Old City God Temple Market is located in the northeast corner of the old city xiang, adjacent to the Old City God Temple and Yu Garden. The market combines the cultural landscape of the Old City xiang area, the buildings and characteristic commercial markets in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is a commercial center and tourist destination with local characteristics in the four seas.
The formation of the Laochenghuang Temple market is closely related to the development and changes of Laochenghuang Temple and Yu Garden. During the Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods of the Qing Dynasty, the Chenghuang Temple was incense and the festival-oriented temporary temple market evolved to a fixed market. Merchants opened shops along the garden, forming more than 10 shopping streets. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, shops such as paper fans, jade artifacts, glasses, book stalls, and portraits were scattered, forming a lively market.
The shops and workshops in the area of Zhachuan Road focus on small commodities such as buttons and hairpins produced by imported plastics, and the development of industries such as cricket jewelry on the site makes the small commodities operation characteristics of the Laochenghuang Temple market more significant.
Sihai Chenghuang Temple Snacks were formed in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and are one of the four large and small food groups in the country. They are an important part of Sihai Snacks. Sihai Old Chenghuang Temple Snack Plaza is located in the central area of Yuyuan Mall, connecting to the Chenghuang Temple Hall in the east, facing the central square in the south, facing Ninghui Road in the west, and facing the Jiuqu Bridge in the north.
It is the largest business area, the most popular variety, and the most consumer-friendly snack restaurant in Sihai Yuyuan Mall. The special snacks in Sihai Old City God Temple are very rich and numerous, and after entering, it is simply dazzling:
Nanxiang Xiaolong, barbecue buns, chicken leg rice, meat dumplings, three-slime spring rolls, large noodles, crab shell yellow, soy milk, fried dough sticks, vegetarian dish buns, purple rice balls, coconut milk purple rice balls, sweet potato porridge, onion oil noodles, shepherd's purse wontons, heavy fried wontons, pot stickers, raw fried, Ningbo tangban, wine-stewing rounds, pigeon egg rounds, red bean sugar porridge, fish ball soup, fried stinky tofu delicious.
Sweet potato porridge, gluten stuffed meat, glutinous rice lotus root, coconut milk purple rice, chicken and duck blood soup, shredded radish crispy cake, golden leg shredded radish crispy cake, three-slim eyebrow crispy, date paste crispy, wealth ingot crispy, nut plum blossom crispy, fish fuchsia spring roll, golden leg small rice dumplings, pea autumn leaves wrap, and cream yellow tongs flower wrap exquisite.
Egg yolk bread, crab noodles, celery steamed cake, phoenix tail sauce, Jing vegetarian vegetable bread, crown dumplings (shape hat), fortune fish ball soup, pea crystal cake, chess board cake, auspicious Ruyi cake, roll sand cake, egg yolk printing cake, gluten hundred pages, Changzhou macake, oil-flavored squid beard, crab roe soup and other breads are endless.
The Old City God Temple Art Competition Museum contains "one of the best Chinese folk arts" such as cockfighting performances, acrobatic performances and Pili calligraphy.
After An Chuyu had eaten a lot of delicious food, he went to Puyou Temple on the east side to continue his tour. Puyou Temple is an affiliated temple of Puning Temple. It was built in the 25th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and was the main place for the lamas in the eight temples to preach.
Before the establishment of Puyou Temple, Chengdeji had three royal temples and a large number of lamas were stationed. In order to strengthen the connection between the mainland and the Mongolian and Tibetan areas through religious channels and improve the cultural quality of lamas, the Qing court established a cage for lamas to recite scriptures in the east of Puning Temple in the 25th year of Qianlong's reign, and this sutra courtyard became the later Puyou Temple. Puyou Temple was managed by the abbot of Puning Temple.
During the Qianlong period, Puyou Temple established the "Four Studies", which is equivalent to the current department, and it teaches exoteric classics, tantric classics, calendar mathematics and medicine. Not only did the lamas trained in the outer eight temples, but the lamas from various Mongolian tribes also selected to study the scriptures here. All the fees for studying the scriptures were provided by the Qing government.
Puyou Temple sits north and south, with a rectangular layout. The plan layout breaks the traditional Han-style technique of "Galan Qitang". The Heavenly King Hall is in the middle, and a Buddhist temple is built in front and a concave sutra building is added later, making it form a two-story courtyard in front and back, with a very rigorous layout. The Buddha statues worshipped in the hall are also different from other temples, including Han-style and Tibetan-style.
It is a unique temple among the eight outer temples. In 1964, Puyou Temple caught fire due to lightning strikes, and most of the buildings were destroyed by fire. At that time, only the mountain gate and four side halls remained.
The temple’s architectural style is mainly Han people, but the layout is unique. When you enter the mountain gate, you will find the Dafang Guang Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, etc. In the Dafang Guang Hall, there are three Tibetan Buddhist statues, and sixteen Arhats are shaped on both sides. In the west side hall, the three great masters of Manjushri, Guanyin and Samantabhadra are worshipped, and in the east side hall, the Vajrasattva is worshipped.
Puyou Temple is connected to Puning Temple. The mountain gate is parallel to the Puning Temple gate. It has five rooms wide and three deep. There are waist gates on both sides. The north side of the mountain gate is the Dafang Guang Hall. The eaves of the front eaves of the hall are "The wonderful appearance appears solemn and benevolent and Huafan, and the wisdom is happy to communicate with the human and heaven because of blessings and virtues"; the inscription in the hall is "The Great Thousand Merits".
There is a couplet "The Dharma is the wonderful cause of the Mahayana clan, and the blessings are the best in all worlds and the mercy of the world are the companion halls, each with three pillars, forming a courtyard. In front of the courtyard is the Heavenly King Hall, with three pillars wide in front of the courtyard, one bedroom deep in one bedroom, one bedroom deep in one bedroom, and two bedrooms in front of the courtyard is the Heavenly King Hall, with three pillars wide in one bedroom deep in one bedroom, with a waist wall and a waist door on both sides.
The square double-eaves are covered with a pointed roof, and the roof is covered with yellow tiles. There is a base of Sumeru seats below, three steps out of the north and one step out of the east and west. Three arranged columns are arranged along the square platform, and diamond-shaped partitions are installed between the old eaves columns. Three rooms in the north and south, one room in the east and west, and the other rooms are equipped with sill windows. The upper eaves are equipped with seven single-sided single-sided single-sided single-sided brackets, and two-step frames are placed in the lower eaves; the lower eaves are equipped with five single-sided single-sided brackets.
The wellhead ceiling is installed in the hall, and the four corners are matte beams to form an octagonal wellhead, and a square caisson is formed in the center. The hall is dedicated to Sakyamuni's gilded bronze Buddha, and there are five halls in front of the hall.
Chapter completed!