Dear friends: Good morning, welcome to Zhengding, Hebei Province! You aretired from your journey. I hope the warm sun in winter can drive away the dustand fatigue along the way, I'm your tour guide, LV Xiang. I hope I can lead youto soar in the happiness that tourism brings us. Next, I'd like to introduce amember of our car who is impolite, because he always faces you with his back. Heis our driver, Master Li. In fact, Master Li is recognized as a driver in ourtourism industry. His steadiness is not only his character Although his car is abit heavy, it's still very stable. You will really feel safe and comfortable inhis car. Well, we will arrive at our destination in about 20 minutes. Let'senjoy the scenery 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.In fact, the name of Longxing Temple at the beginning of the Song Dynasty was"longzang Temple", that is, longzang with hidden dragon and crouching tiger. Inthe early Song Dynasty, the Tibetan character was changed to Xingxing, and itwas changed to Longxing Temple in the 49th year of Kangxi. From the name, we canalso think of how 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 best in China. They pass through the Tianwang hall and Dajue Liushi hall.Now in front of you, this magnificent hall is the only one in China that we aregoing to visit today: mani hall. Mani hall was built in the fourth year ofemperor you of Northern Song Dynasty, covering an area of 1400 square meters. Asyou can see, its layout is very unique. The center of the main hall is theXieshan peak with double eaves. In the center of the four sides of the squarehall, there is a mountain flower in each side. The Xieshan Baoxia in front of itmakes the whole building plane form a cross shape.
From the outside, we can see that the whole hall overlaps magnificently andis full of changes, which is the only existing example of Song Dynastyarchitecture in China. If you look at it again, the brackets under the eaves ofthe hall are large, the distribution is sparse, the columns are thick, and thereare obvious rolling brake side corners and rising, which are consistent with theSong Dynasty's "building French style". Liang Sicheng, an expert on ancientarchitecture in China, praised the empress of Mani hall. He said that this kindof layout was only seen in Song Dynasty paintings except the turret of theForbidden City in Beijing. Do you have the feeling of crossing time and space tobe in Song Dynasty paintings now? Let's get out of the association quickly.After appreciating the general architecture of this painting from theappearance, let's go in and enjoy it more beautiful Let's go!
Please note that next, I'd like to introduce the second one of LongxingTemple, the Chinese beauty of inverted Guanyin. Please look at the colorful claysculpture hanging mountain on the north wall of the inner trough of Mani hall.There are more than 30 existing statues in the hanging mountain, but thestriking one is the colorful Guanyin Bodhisattva in the middle, commonly knownas "inverted Guanyin". Because Guanyin Bodhisattva has the oath of "all livingbeings will never be able to reach the end of universal salvation, and allliving beings will never reach the end of universal salvation", it forms theimage of inverted sitting Guanyin. The statue of Avalokitesvara is 3.4 metershigh. Please look at the eyes with deep wisdom overlooking us. Do you feelshocked? In fact, what is beautiful about her is not only her elegant posture,beautiful face, but also her broad mind and her touching 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 form of magic weapon, ithas a history of more than 1400 years since it came into being. However, due tonatural and man-made reasons, there are few existing objects in China. Amongthem, lunzang in Longxing Temple is one of the oldest and most precious Thehistorical remains of the world.
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 calledthis stele "Sui stele", and later generations even called it "ancestor ofregular 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.
Later 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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