Guo Miao Temple was built in the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu in northern Song Zhenzong (A.D. 1008) and has a long history since Ming and Qing Dynasties. The abbot Zeng Zhuoxi, a master of the Song Dynasty, was deeply inspired and admired by all parties, and was the Brahma Temple on the southeast coast at that time. Master Yi Cong, a disciple of Master Jizhong, also lives in Guo Miao Temple. Guo Miao Temple was destroyed by a fire in the 14th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. Although it was rebuilt in the fourteenth year of Kangxi, its scale is incomparable. The original thousand-year-old stupa, Thousand-Buddha Pagoda, was demolished during the construction of expressway 195 1. During the Cultural Revolution, the Buddha statues in the temple were completely destroyed, and the grand occasion was once lost due to vicissitudes.
Fortunately, after the reform and opening up, the Party's religious policy was re-implemented. As a key open temple approved by the Zhejiang provincial government, Guo Miao Temple began to be restored and rebuilt on 1983. This move has been strongly supported and funded by the majority of believers and overseas Chinese. Huang Zhongying, a patriotic overseas Chinese, donated nearly one million yuan of his life savings. Old monk Xue Sheng, former president of Wenzhou Chinese Association and abbot of Guo Miao Temple, vomited blood, and talented people, Muyu Master and Dachong Master came to the temple to help. Before Guru Zhi Min went to Sanmen Duobaojiang Temple, he was also the first to go to Guo Miao Temple. 1987, Xue Sheng died, and Xi Shi's Guo Miao Temple was not built. Guo Miao Temple has been rebuilt for more than ten years, and now two buildings, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall and the Guanyin Pavilion, are resplendent. The eaves and arches are magnificent. Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, wrote the Hall of the Great Heroes, Sha Menghai, a great calligrapher, wrote the Guo Miao Temple, and Mr. Nan, a master of Buddhism, wrote the tablet of 1996 "Sujue Famous Mountain", which was dignified, vigorous and glittering. Scholars from all walks of life write couplets with plaques, adding luster to Guo Miao Temple. On the main pillar of the main hall, there is a couplet written by the original abbot before his death: "The pure light tower courtyard, the bell is generally felt, and Tang Daizong Feng Yongjia is remembered alone;" Opu Yunfeng, moonlight in the pool, I want to see the exotic fruits of the Song Dynasty. " In the back hall, there is a former abbot, Master Da Chong: "Seven treasures are solemn, and the corner of a hill hides the world;" Three times the shade, the earth expands in ten directions. "
In 2007, under the leadership of the current abbot, Master Zhao Da, Guo Miao Temple was completely rebuilt inside and outside. The rebuilt Guo Miao Temple is dignified and elegant, brand-new, exquisite and beautiful, generous and simple, and can be called a boutique temple in southern Zhejiang. Moreover, Master Zhao Da took it as his duty to spread Buddhism and benefit students, set up Yongjia Zen Hall, spread the rain of Buddhism, spread the Buddha's heart and teach the abbot Buddhism. The welfare organization was established, and the four wishes (meditation, health care, old-age care and benevolent education) were adhered to, and the Millennium temple was once again endowed with a prosperous image. This temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, known as Jinghui Temple in history, also known as Yuquan Mountain, and also known as Jinghui Temple in the late Qing Dynasty. Because it is located in the old fifty-first capital (now a university) and the seventh Yuquan Mountain, the audience can call it the land of mountains and rivers, and it is known as the legal circle of Kowloon. Jiashan, Jiashui, Jiashi, Jiafo, Jiadian and Jiazhong have many chariots and horses, so they want to be called Qijia.
Qijia Temple was initially built on a large scale, with more than 60 monk's rooms next to the four major buildings: Shengmen, Jingang Hall, Daxiong Hall and Sansheng Temple, covering an area of 7,000 square meters. It is a rare ancient temple in southern China. According to the inscription left in the temple, the temple has experienced three wastes and four prosperity. In the 15th year of Tang Zongyuan and Gengzi (820), it was founded by Zhao Shi, a monk. During the Ganning period of the Tang Dynasty, the temple was rebuilt here, and the Daxiong Hall was rebuilt in 989, the second year of Gong You Chou in the Song Dynasty. Dazhongxiang (1008) renovated the holy gate in the first year of the revival of God. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, it was destroyed by chaos. It was rebuilt during Xuande period in Ming Dynasty. In the sixth year of Zheng Dexinwei (15 1 1), when the abbot of the mountain could be built completely and brilliantly, it was extended to the thirty-eighth year of Ganlonggui in Qing Dynasty (1773). According to legend, Buddhism appeared, and it was difficult to rebuild the King Kong Hall in Jiaqing eight years. In the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1907), because the temple was in disrepair for a long time, Master Xianbhikkhu was responsible for repairing it. However, during the ten-year civil strife (1972), all the temples were demolished and the ruins were turned into fields.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Producers' Party of China, there was harmony between people and Putian. 1984, the 46th abbot of Tiantai was released and advocated to rebuild the Three Temples by raising funds. /kloc-in the spring of 0/985, Zhou Dasen and other leaders were summoned in the city to release overseas Chinese Hu Kesheng and overseas Chinese Hu Cong who worked day and night. In the same year1February, the Ursa Major Hall was completed. The main hall is a wooden structure with double eaves, with a height of14.8m, a width of 24m for seven bays and a depth of15m for thirteen purlins and seven columns. The hall is dedicated to the master Sakyamuni Buddha, which is more than 9 meters high, with eighteen arhats on both sides and the screen wall of the main hall.
1987 65438+February, the county people's government announced the temple as a county-level cultural relics protection unit with documentNo. (87) 174, and stipulated that the original temple site was protected by the National Cultural Relics Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and there was a silver smelting site of the Song Dynasty in Xiaxi Yinkeng of Yuquan Mountain.
Master Shang is currently the abbot of the temple, a lecturer and postgraduate tutor of Putuoshan Buddhist College in Zhejiang Province, the abbot of Wenzhou Temple in Zhejiang Province, and the president of wencheng county Buddhist Association in Zhejiang Province. The master is engaged in the study and research of Tiantai, Pure Land, Zen (especially Yongjia Zen) and Secret Law, and has published many monographs.