Xiangshan Temple - China Travel

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Zunyi Xiangshan Temple is located in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. It is surrounded by mountains in Honghuagang District and overlooks the Xiangjiang River. It has a good location, beautiful scenery and large scale. It is a place of Buddhism in northern Guizhou and a tourist attraction. It was first built in the reign of Zong Dali in the Tang Dynasty (766-779). Because the temple embraces the Xiangshui River and sits on the Xiangshan Mountain, it was renamed "Xiangshan Temple". It is an elegant and beautiful millennium ancient temple.

Now Xiangshan Temple has begun to take shape. The whole temple is majestic and beautiful, the layout is dense and dense, the structure is rigorous and lawful, the red pillars and golden roofs, and the craftsmanship are exquisite. There are three buildings on the central axis: 1. The Hall of Heavenly Kings stands at the front end. 2. On the roof of the Daxiong Palace, there are two dragons holding a tripod, and flying dragons playing in the water. The Daxiong Hall of Xiangshan Temple in Zunyi is the main hall of Xiangshan Temple, and it is also a relatively large building in the temple. There is a wide platform in front of the hall, the majestic beam structure on the roof of the hall, and various brackets in the hall. It is a wooden building with national tradition. There are five golden Buddha statues in the center of the hall, known as the Five Buddhas, which are original works of the Jin Dynasty. It is the only Liao Dynasty building in the temple of Shanhua Temple that has not been destroyed by the war.

On the east side of the main hall of Xiangshan Temple in Zunyi is the ruins of Wenshu Pavilion, and on the west side is the Puxian Pavilion built in the second year of Jin Zhenyuan. Puxian Pavilion, three rooms wide and three rooms deep, is a Liao-style pavilion with three squares, double eaves and nine ridges. The legacy of the pavilion. Many parts of the detailed structure are similar to the Yingxian wooden pagoda built in the second year of Qingning in Liao Dynasty (1056).

The Sansheng Hall of Xiangshan Temple in Zunyi is the middle hall of Shanhua Temple, and the three statues in the middle of the hall are "Huayan Sansheng". The mountain gate is the main entrance of the temple, and there are four statues of heavenly kings inside. These four Buddhist gods give people the impression of awe-inspiring and inviolable. In Shanhua Temple, there is also a wall of five dragons, which are colorful and add a lively and cheerful atmosphere to the temple.