The temple faces east and west, with the west gate facing Fengqiao Scenic Area across the ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It was built in the Tianjian period of the Six Dynasties period from 508 to 519 AD. It has a history of 1,500 years ago. It was originally called "Miaoli Puming Pagoda Courtyard" and was renamed Hanshan Temple in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the top ten famous temples in the history of our country. . At that time, Zhang Ji's song "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge": "The moon has fallen, birds are singing and the sky is filled with frost, and the river maples and fishing fires are facing melancholy. Outside the Hanshan Temple in Gusu City, the midnight bells are ringing for passenger ships", which made it famous all over the world and became a household name. During the 1500s, Hanshan Temple was destroyed by fire many times and rebuilt many times. Most of the temples in the temple today were built in the Qing Dynasty.
On one side of the foyer is the ancient bell showroom, and ancient bells are also placed on the floor of the stele gallery.
The big bell in the courtyard
Guanyin Peak is named after its shape as if Guanyin is riding on the mountain. It is 7 meters high and weighs about 35 tons. It is known as "the best in Suzhou". Chen Jingen, the owner of Suzhou Jingsi Garden, spent one million yuan to buy it from Anhui and gave it to Hanshan Temple free of charge.
Hanshan Zen Room
Huihe Tower, two plaques are hung in front of the door, which are: Hanshan Temple Propaganda Department and Hanshan Temple Buddhist Editorial Department.
? Hanshan Zhangshi
The poem "Mooring at Maple Bridge at Night" is located in front of Hanshan Zhangshi. It was written by Yu Yue in the Qing Dynasty. The stele is 133 cm tall and 86.5 cm wide. . There are six poem tablets of Zhang Ji's "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge" in Hanshan Temple: the first one was written by Wang Gui, a Hanlin scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Duke of Xun Kingdom. It was reengraved in 1996 and is now erected next to the Puming Pagoda; The second piece was written by Wen Zhengming in the Ming Dynasty, and is now a fragment of the stele with less than a cross, displayed in the wall of the stele gallery; the third piece was written by Yu Yue; the fourth piece was written by Cangzhou native of Hebei Province and the former director of the National History Museum of the Republic of China. The book written by Zhang Ji is now in the Puming Pagoda courtyard; the fifth piece, written by Li Dazhao, was engraved in 1993 and is now in the Hanshan Courtyard; the sixth piece was engraved in the spring of 1995 and written by the painter Liu Haisu when he was 86 years old, and is now standing in the Hanshan Courtyard. Inside the stele corridor wall.
Pu Ming Pagoda was newly built on October 30, 1996. It is a pavilion-style pagoda with imitation Tang wood structure. The tower is 42.2 meters high, has 5 floors and is square in shape. The pagoda brake is made of gold-plated copper, 9.6 meters high and heavy. 12 tons; there are 108 wind chimes hanging around the outside of the tower; on the three sides of the tower in the southeast and west, there are "Smiling Flowers", "Immeasurable Life Buddha", "Clear Mind Seeing Nature", "Supreme Bodhi", "Buddha's Light Shining", " Like Entering Zen" and other plaques. There are wooden ladders on each floor of the tower for visitors to climb up and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Wuzhong. The "Miaolipu Ming Pagoda" when Hanshan Temple was first built was later destroyed by war, rebuilt in the Northern Song Dynasty, and then destroyed in the late Yuan Dynasty. Since then, Hanshan Temple has been without a pagoda for more than 600 years.
The bronze sculptures on the four corners of the base platform of the Puming Pagoda (I think they are lions, but in theory they should be Tingting)
The Dharma Hall faces south and is a typical Tang Dynasty Buddhist temple architectural style. . In front of the hall, there is a pool surrounded by koi carps swimming in the pool. There is a terrace above the pool, and there is a bridge connecting the terrace to the pagoda. The current Dharma Hall is used as the Buddhist library in the temple.
Han Shi Hall is the only temple in my country dedicated to the founders of He He, Han Shan and Shi De. Han Shan and Shi De are also known as the "Two Immortals of He He". Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty decreed that Hanshan was named "Hesheng" and Shide was named "Hesheng". The second floor of Hanshi Hall is the Sutra Collection Building, with solemn Buddha statues and giant vermilion lacquer sutra cabinets neatly arranged on both sides, containing many sutras and Buddhist works.
The roof of the Sutra Collection Building is decorated with sculptures of Tang monks and their disciples seeking scriptures from the West in "Journey to the West", and the sculptures of the four heavenly kings are also lifelike.
Hanshi Spring is said to be a well dug by Hanshan Shide, the founder of Hanshan Temple. In order to commemorate Hanshan Shide, later generations called this well "Hanshi Spring". The monks drank water from this ancient well for a long time and used the well water to give tea to passers-by.
In the main hall of the Mahavira, there is a seated statue of Tathagata Buddha in the middle, with Ananda and Kasyapa as attendants on the left and right. Along the walls on both sides sit eighteen gilded gold and iron Arhats in the Ming Dynasty, with different expressions. They were moved here from Mount Wutai, a holy place in Buddhism. Behind the Buddha statue are enshrined stone carvings found by Hanshan in the Tang Dynasty. The statue of the two immortals Hehe is mounted on the gable wall.
Hehe Zuting Screen Wall
The west gate screen wall of Hanshan Temple, this is the main entrance of Hanshan Temple.
The outer walls of the temple are decorated with poems about Hanshan Temple written by poets of all dynasties, including poems by Zhang Ji of the Tang Dynasty, Han Shanzi of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xiaozhen of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Kuilong of the Qing Dynasty and others.
Jiangcun Bridge, a single-arch stone bridge on the ancient canal, faces the mountain gate of Hanshan Temple. It is one of the two "Jiangfeng" bridges mentioned by the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji in his poem "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge". Fengqiao is located next to Tielingguan not far away, and the two Jiangfeng bridges are basically the same in shape.
The ancient bridge where Zhang Ji parked at night no longer exists. The two bridges were rebuilt in the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1867).
The Maple Bridge Scenic Area opposite Hanshan Temple was closed for renovation at that time and could not be visited. It could only be seen across the river.
Yuyin Bridge
Wumen The Ancient Rhyme Stage is the main building in the central part of the Fengqiao Scenic Area. It features exquisite carvings. The top is a canopy carved with dragons and phoenixes, hanging hanging hanging columns with carved flower baskets, and the doors and windows are all carved with flower windows.
Outside the south wall of Hanshan Temple are the newly built Hehe Avenue in recent years, and the Puming Pagoda in the north. A gold plaque with the words "Supreme Coolness" hangs above the foyer, and the white marble screen wall in the foyer is engraved with the words "Pu Ming Pagoda." "Mingta Courtyard".
The newly built mountain gate at the east end of Hanshan Temple has a plaque on the middle gate: Hanshi's Remains; on the left and right: Zhongwen Jiuling and Lukai Tiantai. Mountain Gate Couplet: After a thousand years of tracing the shape of the bowl, the cold rocks on the stone wall opened up a unique scenic spot outside the Changlu Gate; it transformed into three hundred poems and flew to the west and the east, and crossed Yingzhou between the Song and Ming Dynasties.
Copy a passage from the Hehe Daoji as a conclusion: Fuhanshan Ancient Temple is located in the west of Gusu City, along the line of the Ling Canal and the two Suojiang Feng Bridges. It was founded during the Liang Tianjian period in the Southern Dynasties and was named Miao Lipuming Pagoda Courtyard. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Han Shanzi came here to live here, and sang with the poems he found, which made him famous all over the world. Later, Xi moved to build Jialan and named Ehanshan Temple, so the name of the temple became famous. Later, travelers and poets had many sentiments, including Yisun's "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge". Huang Tong and old people all know that Zhongwen Jiuling is connected to the rooftop by the road, and the vase and bowl have been used for thousands of years, and the seeds have been widely produced. As for the unity of heaven and man, among the noble monks, the so-called unity of one righteousness, the most outstanding contribution is Han and Shi. Fenggan is the incarnation of Manjushri and Samantabhadra. In the eleventh year of Emperor Yongzheng's reign in the Qing Dynasty, he decreed that Hanshan be conferred the title of Hesheng and Shide the title of Hesheng. Following the example of the "Two Immortals of Harmony" among the people, the three religions were unified and harmonious.