Author: Gong Xianming article source: Yiwu News Network hits: 1609 Update time: 2007-9- 14

Yinan Cultural and Religious Tourist Area in our city consists of four parts: religious culture, ancient town business culture, traditional Chinese medicine health culture and Wuzhishan ecological leisure. Among them, there are three key areas: first, the ancient Buddhist Temple Street, second, the Sara Scenic Area, and third, the ancient houses of Baylor and Tangxiayang. The characteristics of the three regions are an ancient word, which is either an ancient commercial port, an ancient temple or an ancient folk house.

The "ancient" name of this Buddhist temple lives up to its reputation. 193 1 May, published by the Commercial Press, included in the Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names in China edited by Zang et al. Fotang Town: the east bank of Dongyang River, thirty-one miles southwest of Yiwu County, Zhejiang Province. Every town in the county is the most prosperous. " As early as 1920, a post office has been established in Fotang Town, and mainlanders can write letters and write about Zhejiang Buddhist temples. On the map of China before liberation, Buddhist temples were also marked on the provincial map. In the second year of Xuantong in the late Qing Dynasty (19 10), the earliest Federation of Industry and Commerce (referred to as Chamber of Commerce) in the county was first established in the Buddhist temple. The earliest electric light company in the county (founded in 19 14) was the first to shine in the Buddhist temple. Existing (Jiaqing) Yiwu County Records, republished in the early years of the Republic of China, with 22 volumes and 496,000 words. It was created by Zhu, a scholar and Buddhist monk in the late Qing Dynasty, and reprinted in the printing house attached to the library of the new Buddhist temple. Before the Northern Expedition, the Buddhist temple salt shop undertook the wholesale and retail business in several counties.

In order to do a good job in the protection of Fotang ancient town, Luo, a famous domestic expert on ancient architecture, was invited to visit the local area, and the buildings of Fotang ancient town were highly praised. In May this year, the protection plan for historical and cultural villages and towns of Buddhist temples has been compiled and passed the review. Sara Scenic Area has made a master plan, and the detailed planning and single building design have all been completed and are under construction. At present, there is no overall planning for the tourist areas of Bellegou villages, and most of the ancient residential buildings are in urgent need of maintenance and protection.

Since August, the municipal government has re-established the construction headquarters of Fotang Ancient Town and Sara, and once again put the development and construction of the ancient town and Sara on the agenda. Recently, the headquarters held a series of meetings, which also marked the development and construction of the ancient town and Sara entered a substantive stage.

Millennium Temple listens to Brahma.

There is a reservoir called Sara 6 kilometers south of Yiwu. Walking under the embankment of Sara Reservoir, I saw broken bricks and tiles everywhere, most of which were relics before the Ming Dynasty, many of which were from the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the broken tiles of the Six Dynasties can also be seen everywhere. From the ruins buried under water, we can find how noisy and prosperous it was in ancient times, especially before the Song Dynasty. Here, it is the ancient Shuanglin Temple, which once dominated the party and was the most solemn place in the Sinian period.

The once prosperous vicissitudes of life have already sunk to the bottom of the water; How time flies! In the 1980s, the country was open to the outside world, and there were frequent exchanges between the East and the West. When the Chinese didn't look at this lost land with special respect, some guests from the East Atlantic were looking for it. As a result, Shuanglin Temple, together with the name of its founder Fu Ming, was repeatedly mentioned. After years of development and construction, the "Lin Bao Prosperity" scenic spot, as the core and soul of the whole scenic spot, has been presented to people.

Compared with the beautiful but not stunning natural landscape resources, the historical and cultural resources of Sara Scenic Area are extremely heavy. Shuanglin Temple in history was built in the era of "480 Temple in Southern Dynasties". Things can be traced back to the Buddhism of Buddhism in the Song Dynasty. According to the textual research of Mr. Feng Zhilai from Yiwu, this method is bodhidharma, an Indian monk, the ancestor of Zen in China, the twenty-eighth ancestor of the Western Heaven, who lived in Songshan for nine years. In the first year of Liangpingtong (AD 520), Dharma met Fu Ming, who was 24 years old, at the lower floor of Jitingtang. Twenty years later, Fu Kun has become a respected and famous monk, and has forged an indissoluble bond with Liang Wudi. In 550 AD, Shuanglin Temple was built in Liang Wudi.

Dafu Stone (AD 497-569), the founder of Shuanglin Temple, was born in Jiting, a Buddhist temple in Yiwu. He has a mysterious name and is also known as the Master of Good Wisdom. Among the more than 2,000 eminent monks recorded in the history of Buddhism in China, few can be called "masters". Also regarded as the body of Maitreya, he was the first person who advocated the unity of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. His thought of "natural wisdom and profound understanding of Mahayana" was one of the theoretical sources of the later Zen Sect.

In the first year of Chen Taijian (569), Master Fu died and ordered his disciples to divide his relics into two parts, one on the mound and the other on the top of the mountain, and build towers in two places respectively. In the fourth year of Tai Jian, Chen wrote an inscription for Da Shi in the East China Sea. In the fifth year, Xuan Di agreed to be the custodian of Shuanglin Temple. By the time of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, in the sixteenth year of Huang Kai (595), Emperor Wendi had paid three visits to Master Hui Ze, a disciple of Da Shi, and then wrote to Shuanglin Temple three times. During Yang Dishi's time, Shuanglin Temple still kept correspondence with North Korea. This is probably the heyday of Shuanglin Temple, which was run by Tuas and their disciples in the past dynasties, that is, "from the emperor to Shu Ren, we must take advantage of the situation to popularize it", "Infinite Man" and "Talking about the Palace" (the re-engraving of Dafu Stone and the postscript).

In the Five Dynasties, King wuyue moved to honour the Buddha and asked the Buddha relic to support him in Qiantang. Song Yingzong was pacified for three years (1066), and the emperor gave him "Baolin Temple". At that time, there were more than 2200 monasteries. In the second year of Daguan in Song Huizong, the emperor granted 65,438+00 hectares of land. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Shuanglin Temple was listed as one of the five temples. By the Yuan Dynasty, Shuanglin Temple had received dozens of Japanese monks. This is about the revival period of Shuanglin Temple, and the early prosperity made people call it "Shuanglin Temple is the Great Temple in East Zhejiang". In the preface of rebuilding Shuanglin Temple in Ming Dynasty, it was said that "the upper reaches of the temple are everywhere, and the ancient temples are double forests, which is called the most solemn of the Sinian country". When the Linshuang Pagoda was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, it was still called "Shuanglin Temple, which was called the third in the world and the first in Jiangsu and Zhejiang".

At present, there are eight scenic spots in Sara scenic spot planning, namely Brahma in Lin Bao, the shadow of Huang Ying, Shi Guang in Zhongde, Chai Fei in bamboo forest, Kongse in Sara, sword test in Jintai, and listening to waves in Huilan. It is a "scenic spot featuring famous Buddhist temples and focusing on cultural leisure". Among them, Brahma in Lin Bao is the core and soul of the whole scenic spot, including the remains of the iron tower recast by Shuanglin Temple for more than 1000 years and five generations.

When I came to the newly-built Shuanglin Temple (Lin Bao Fansheng Temple), I saw a large-scale building complex imitating the buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. It consists of memorial archway, mountain gate, Heavenly King Hall, Ursa Major Hall, Fu Dashi Hall, Tibetan Scripture Building, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, poems of famous poets in past dynasties, imperial tablet gallery, etc.

Walking out of Shuanglin Temple, the Sara Tower, the oldest existing tower in China, stands in the pavilion next to Sara Reservoir, which is also the treasure of the ancient temple in Sara. It was cast in Tuesday of the Five Dynasties (952), and the shape of the tower is an octagonal pavilion. Today, there are only two towers with three eaves, one at the top and one at the bottom, with a residual height of 2.15m. Among them, the tower foundation is a three-story ladder, and the surface is covered with waves and marine animals, which shrinks from bottom to top, similar to Qixia Mountain in Nanjing. 128 Buddha statues are cast on the tower. Each tower on each floor has a forehead and a bucket arch, a Buddha statue is placed between each bucket arch, and two dragons are cast on each diagonal column. At the same time, the 938 Sea is also cast on the tower, with dragons spraying water, magic clouds soaring and horned beasts galloping. After reading it, it's ready to go, with exquisite craftsmanship and a unique skill.