2018-07-24 11:37 | Rooftop White Crane Town
Folk beliefs have a long history, are the traditional culture of local society, but also an inseparable part of Chinese culture, carry forward the "harmony" culture, promote the construction of beautiful villages, and guide the harmonious coexistence of folk beliefs and society.
geographical location
The White Snake Temple is located in 50 meters under Xiaotianlou Village in Baihe Town, about 10 kilometers away from the old county seat, about 200 meters from the old 104 National Highway into the village, located in the plain, with convenient transportation. In 2017, the White Snake Temple was approved as a "place of folk belief activities in Zhejiang Province".
Historical evidence
The White Snake Temple (also known as the White Snake Temple) was built during the Qing Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, and the temple was built about 280 years ago, due to its long age and vicissitudes, the exact time is not recorded. Due to changes and many repairs, the Great Leap Forward broke through the four old rooms and the temple was destroyed. The bricks and tiles in the temple were used to build the village primary school, and in 1993, the temple was finally rebuilt after the village good men and women collected funds, materials and assistant workers. It was later expanded for a second time. The temple has been restored to its original historical appearance. Due to historical reasons, the completion time and naming of the White Snake Hall are not accurately recorded, and the "Tiantai Chu Clan Genealogy" was recorded in the Qianlong Ten Years six cultivation genealogy (1745) that the Jing'an Gongxia Ancestral Property had ... "One people's field and one acre and one hill, sitting in the White Snake Hall Wheat Rent four liters and five liters, valley rent one stone five douguan" "One mouth in the water hole, one point of tax in front of the White Snake Hall". The sacrifice of the descendants as a sacrifice fee was a common practice in the clan at that time. It shows that there was a "White Snake Hall" before 1745, and the revision of the score dates back to 273 years. It is estimated that the white snake hall was built for about 280 years. As for why the temple temple is called "White Snake Temple", there is a saying that "the ancestors asked the Xiangshi to see the feng shui in the village," the terrain of the house in the village was high in the west and low in the east, and after the Xiangshi looked at it, because there was a snake-like ditch in the east of the village, it was half circled around the village to the pond under the village, and the water in the ditch was pure and pure, saying that in order to protect the feng shui in the village, a temple was built next to the ditch in the circle to keep the water mouth, and the ancestors called the temple "White Snake Hall". Later, there were the names of "White Snake Hall Front" and "White Snake Hall Pond", which have been passed down to this day.
Old appearance of the White Snake Temple
By the beginning of liberation, the White Snake Temple had three main halls, three rooms in each of the two compartments, and a gate. It covers an area of about 200 square meters. Inside, there are statues of emperors and his wife, land princes, land lords, and gods and goddesses of wealth, and statues of hades judges and trappers standing on the left and right. Usually, when villagers go out and ask for murder and auspiciousness, they all come to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and ask the "Ming Emperor Di" to bless and manage it. According to the elderly, the Buddha statue offered in the temple is Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, because emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty managed the country and prospered in the "Yongle Prosperous World", dissatisfied with the foreign political system of the Yuan Dynasty, and became an ancestral idol. It is also the reason why ancestors enshrined their nostalgia for social rejuvenation. The idols in the temple also attract good men and women from neighboring villages to pray for family peace, social stability, prayer and worship, and on the 11th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, good men and women offer such sacrifices and invite them to be a dojo and even a celebration. The festival ends and the sacrifice items are scattered. The scene is lively and extraordinary, playing a certain role in the happiness of the villagers and social stability.
The White Snake Temple is in this life
After the White Snake Hall was demolished during the Great Leap Forward, after 1972 the villagers worshipped the gods in the east of the collective house of the third production team, and then moved to the group house after the three teams of collective houses were purchased in 1983. During this period, the villagers who believed in good men and women often went to worship, and by 1993, according to the villagers' requirements, they raised funds and materials to help rebuild the main hall of the White Snake Hall. In 2009, the villagers believed that the temple was small and could not meet the requirements of folk religious activities, and unanimously demanded that the temple be expanded to its original scale, and with the help of the villagers, the hall was expanded into three rooms and two boxes of hugging houses, and the Buddha statue was reshaped. In 2018, due to the problems of the materials used and the quality of the construction at that time, the main hall leaked rain, and now the roof materials such as purlins, derivative strips, tiles, etc., and the anti-leakage materials were made on the roof, and the damaged hall columns were replaced. Bring the ancient temple to life.
Specification management
The White Snake Temple is lined with neat fire fighting equipment, the publicity window posts the fire safety management system, and every month there are special people who will come to the door to inspect the service, and the village elderly association is responsible for managing the place and standardizing the fire management. In the future, managers will continue to uphold the concept of "harmony" and continuously promote the standardization and institutionalization of management, so that folk belief sites will truly become a blessed place to carry forward the core values of socialism and spread the culture of "harmony". Guide folk religious sites to coexist in harmony with other aspects of society, unite and advance together, and realize a new pattern of social harmony and cultural integration.
(Original title: "[One Temple, One Story] White Snake Temple, White Crane Town" Editor: Xu Qiong)