In the year of Jin and Yuan Dynasties (405), Tan You, a monk of Tianzhu (ancient India), sailed eastward from the sea and landed at Baiqiao Port in Sanmenwan. After landing, Fengcha floated on the other side, always called Fengcha Mountain (opposite Gangtou Temple). At that time, Tan You felt thirsty and didn't talk about water around. Tan You poked the ground with his mord, and Bai Quan gushed out, so Baishui Temple was built. There are two monuments in front of the temple, Tanyushi and Bai Quan Well. Bai Quan Well is about 1.5 meters above the ground, but it doesn't dry up all the year round, and villagers also use it as a food well. Bai Quan Well, also known as Intestinal Washing Well, is said that Tan You's mother was pregnant, and when she passed through the onion garden, it smelled bad, which made the fetus disgusted. Drinking water from the well of Bai Quan can get rid of the bad smell. This is also the reason why Buddhists don't eat five-spice precepts and allusions such as onion and garlic. Since then, Tanyou has entered the hinterland of Tiantai Mountain along the Baixi River in Ninghai, and successively established such Buddhist temples as Yongfu, Keshan, Liang Shi, Chicheng, Wannian, Duobao, Guangrun and Qingju. He became the founder of Tiantai Buddhism, and the temple was built more than 100 years earlier than Tiantai kokuseiji (Tiantai kokuseiji was built in 598 AD). Jian Zhen came here for the fourth time in Tang Dynasty. Japanese translation of Bai Quan Temple. After the temple became a Sino-Japanese cultural exchange port in 983-988, in the first year of Chunhua (990), Wang asked to change its name to Shouning Temple, and in the first year of Daoguang (995), he sent his servants to give Shouning Temple a 30-axis imperial book as a commendation. In Red Ji Cheng in Song Dynasty, Shouning Temple is the second place in Lenin Sea Temple (only Song Temple and Buddhist Dojo, followed by Ciyun Temple, and the other 44 temples are called courtyards). Since then, it has been abolished several times. 1958 was burnt down and rebuilt in recent years by master Jue Hui, director of Taizhou Buddhist Association and abbot of Gaoming Temple. It was officially opened to the public on August 3, 1933. At present, in addition to the main buildings such as the Heavenly King Hall and the Ursa Major Hall, there is also the Du Dong Memorial Hall, which preserves the true Buddha statue of Du Dong. On June 9th, 1999, delegates attending the Sino-Japanese International Seminar on Buddhist Tourism Routes visited here and unanimously confirmed that Shouning Temple is an important memorial site for the spread of Buddhism to the world and the friendship between China and Japan. Accompanied by He Siyuan, director of Zhejiang Tourism Bureau, and other provincial, city and county leaders, a Japanese friend, Mr. Bo Murakami, unveiled the stone tablet of "The Landing Site of Japanese Master Ji Fa". Let the Japan-China friendship port shine again.

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