One morning in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the weather was already very hot. Endless sunlight covers the vast city of Puyang, and every road and long street is wide or cramped, stretching thousands of verdant trees into an undulating green river. Beyond the ancient xinghua fu city, the grander city of Putian has stretched out its long and wide bones, laying out the fashion and prosperity of this modern city. In this way, from the edge of the ancient old city, an alley under the East Rock Mountain, the journey began, to the mountain, to the Nine Lotus Zen Temple, to find the past and present life of this temple.
The deep Yanshou Creek, the shallow stream or the look back of the stream that has been flooded with various styles, almost following the direction of the stream, the ancient and ancient Huayan Temple, slightly heard the distant bells, wandering silently on the mountain road at the foot of Chen Yan Mountain, still watching the quiet and emptiness of this mountain for thousands of years in the north of the stream. Linghua Creek, Huapi, or Yanshoupi, or Sihuaxi, or dilapidated or old Linghua pavilion, has been on this poetic stream, silently adhering to the thousand-year history, the thousand-year brilliant humanistic memory. These precious historical objects not only prove the cultural value of Yanshou Creek and the historical status of this stream in putian's "document state", but also prove the huge cultural connotation of this thousand-year-old historical city.
Maple Leaf Pond, a place name rich in cultural charm, under the slope of the south of Jiuhua Mountain, on the bank of Nan hagi Lu Creek in the upper reaches of Yanshou Creek, on a pond with scattered maple leaves, has been swaying on the wet title page of Changtaili Water, although it is still submerged in the vast water surface of ZhenHu Lake, but the place names and wind objects of Maple Leaf Pond are still stuck in geography, so that those mountains, those waters, and those historical stories have vividly preserved the humanities and history of this side in this place called Maple Leaf Pond.
The power of time is too powerful to annihilate all history and memory, so that the place names that have been inherited for thousands of years, or because of the change of appearance and then completely unrecognizable, or because the ancient buildings are completely destroyed, and even the temples and temples and ancestral halls can not be left on today's pages, let people retrograde to find. Yucang Creek, the famous cultural village of Changtaili, the village named after the stream that flows through the village, but lost in the wind and dust of time, there is no news, almost no old people and old people can know this ancient village, fortunately, this ancient stream is still there, still flowing in the vast mountain land of the village, still taking care of the ruins and broken walls of the ancient village that have been lost in the corners and corners.
Built by the mountain, next to the mountain lake, the silent Jiulian Temple in the warm sunlight of early summer, it seems particularly vast, quiet and solemn, and the Jiuhua Mountain on its back is towering into the clouds, as if it is like a green beacon standing on top of the sky, gently supporting an endless sky, endless blue paved the background of the sky, and let the white clouds flutter freely. Standing on the hillside in front of the temple, the beautiful Dongzhen Lake in front of you, with an unobstructed view of the tranquil lake, the tranquility of the turquoise waves, and the cascading Nine Lotus Temple, leave the excellent feng shui of a temple to every wise person who is sincere.
From the exquisite stone drums, stone foundations, and stone pillars on the platform, the rain marks and wind traces carved with the dust of the years, you can read these thousand-year-old relics, which have experienced countless storms and storms. From the courtyard, you can also see so many stone foundations full of wind and dust, the number of nearly 100 pieces of stone foundations, stone drums, stone pillars, these are excavated from the ruins of the Nine Lotus Temple, excavated from the ruins of the Miaolian Temple, as far as possible to measure the predecessor of the Nine Lotus Temple, the grand architectural scale of the Miaoling Temple, and the pair of stone lions of the temple, simple and simple expression of the exquisite stone carving craftsmanship at the end of the Tang Dynasty, vivid, and antique, proving that this thousand-year-old temple has experienced endless stories in the ancient millennium.
From the geography and history of the Nine Lotus Zen Temple, my pen turned into the landscape of geography. From the direction of the mountains and streams, to determine the geography of myokan temple, but also let my words meander up, crawl into every corner of history, from the broken past to find the only words of myokanji temple, but also from the corners of the history to piece together a morning bell and twilight drum about myōji temple.
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In the "Republishment of the Xinghua Fu Zhi", there is a line of text that records the history and history of the Putian Monastery in the early Ming Dynasty. "Putian County was annexed to the Jungle Fan 19th Temple, and Hongwu was annexed in the twenty-fourth year (1392). This is what the waishizhi in the "Xinghua Fu Zhi" written by the famous historian Huang Zhongzhao of Putian (1488-1505) during the reign of Ming Hongzhi (1488-1505) and Zhou Ying, the envoy of the government, said: "There are the most monks and monasteries in Putian, and only one or two Taoist temples are seen." Gu was examined because of the report of the Ershi lawsuit, and attached to the foreign discipline.". Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was born at a low level as a beggar and a monk, wantonly cut down monasteries as soon as the dynasty was established, confiscated the temples and forests, and expelled monks and nuns to return to the world. In the middle and late Song Dynasty, there were 495 monasteries in Putian County, and the Yuan Dynasty also created them, and as soon as they entered the Ming Dynasty, they were merged into nineteen temples, and other monasteries were not allowed to exist, destroyed and disappeared. This is the tragedy of the Waiji er clan and a great loss to the Buddhist culture of Putian.
"Miaoyu Temple, also known as the South Pagoda Temple, was built in the second year of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the northwest of the county, within the boundaries of present-day Changtaili. This is obsolete. "Since the twenty-fourth year of Ming Hongwu (1392), after the annexation of the temple, the temple has been unconsciously abandoned. Founded in the second year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (954), the temple has survived the green lanterns of the Southern Tang and Song dynasties, and is still abandoned in the fuzhi of the Ming Dynasty a hundred years later. However, it was in this chronicle of the reign of Emperor Ming that I saw a geographical temple, twenty miles northwest of the county, in present-day Changtaili. I also saw the historical Myokan Temple, also known as the South Pagoda Temple, which was built in the second year of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the time, place, and geographical location of the temple, which made me have vivid facts about the cultural search for the predecessor of the Nine Lotus Temple and the Myo Lonely Temple.
The seventy-nine temples of the same famous Historian Huang Zhongzhao compiled the "Eight Min Tongzhi" volume, and in the temple view of Putian County, Xinghua Province, more than 400 monasteries such as Wan'an Yongfu Temple, Yunguo Qing Temple, Huayan Temple, Lingyan Guanghua Temple, Guishan Fuqing Zen Temple, and Nangshan Cishou Temple are recorded in detail, of which the temple names of the nineteen monasteries in Changtaili are detailed. However, including nineteen monasteries, there are more than 300 monasteries abandoned, and some of them, such as Baiyun temple, Lin Quan Yuan, Zifu Temple, Jiufeng Temple, and other monasteries that have some fame in history, none of the nineteen monasteries in Changtaili have been spared. The Kuzhuyuan created by the Thousand Spirits Master during the Tang Dynasty (841-846) was close to the Miaoyuan Temple, both in the west or northwest of Jiuhua, and all of them were destroyed by the suspicion or self-confidence of a monk emperor.
In the Ming Hongzhi edition of the "Eight Min Tongzhi" and the Ming Hongzhi edition of the "Xinghua Fu Zhi", both are edited by historian Huang Zhongzhao, Miao lonely temple, South Pagoda Courtyard or pagoda courtyard, Nanfeng Temple, and in the smoke and dust of history, after many times of engraving and reprinting, but it is undeniable that Miao lonely temple is indeed tied to Changtaili, twenty miles northwest of the city, this historical fact has left an accurate geographical location for Miaoling Temple.
The Qing Dynasty Yiren Liao Biqi, Lin Huanglu, Gong Zhaolin, Wang Dajing, and Wang Hengxiu's "Chronicle of Putian County, Xinghua Province" were engraved and engraved in the twenty-third year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1758). In the "Chronicle of Putian County", volume 1 of the Chronicle of Changtaili, "Changtaili, the six mountains below Tianhu Mountain are in the south of Yanshou Creek, which belongs to the middle; Jiuhua Huasi is in the north of Yanshou Creek and belongs to the north." "The six mountains in the south of Xi'an are Tianhu Mountain, Sanxian Mountain, Horsetooth Mountain, Elephant Mountain, Wuling Mountain, and Songling Mountain, and the four mountains in Xibei are Jiuhua Mountain, Kuzhu Mountain, Gaoyang Mountain, and Fang Mountain.
Bitter Bamboo Mountain, after Jiuhua Mountain, there is a bitter bamboo courtyard. Gaoyang Mountain, Tongzhi as "Guoyang", in the northwest of Jiuhua Mountain, its mountain is tall, from Songling across the front bridge of Miaoyuan Temple, into Xinghua County. Kuzhu Mountain and Gaoyang Mountain are near Jiuhua Mountain, and Kuzhu Mountain and Bitter Bamboo Courtyard, Gaoyang Mountain and Miao lonely temple are in the northwest of Jiuhua Mountain. Indeed, there is an ancient post road leading to the old Xinghua County through the Mission Pavilion through Songling, and Songling crosses the front bridge of Miaoxiangyuan on the South Hagilu Creek, and then climbs up the northern foothills of Yucangxi Mountain, along the mountain, through the White Shrine and Miaoyuan Under Gaoyang Mountain, winding upwards, to the Aoshan in Xinghua County.
Jiulian Temple is on the northwest slope of Gaoyang Mountain, Gaoyang Mountain is in Yucangxi, the old people commonly known as Gaoshan Yang, when all geography and history, let Miao lonely temple and Jiulian Zen Temple overlap in the same geographical orientation. All the historical mysteries will be solved one by one, and there is not much of the past that cannot bear to look closely.
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Changtaili, forty miles west of the county, includes a plain northwest of the county town and along the Yanshou Creek and under the Jiuhua Mountains. That Yanshou Creek runs from north to south, through the mountains and rivers of Changtaili, and several villages along the coast are pregnant with many past events in the sound of the stream, and have been in the articles and poems of Changtaili, nostalgic for the bridge and well of the temple of nashan Naxi, leaving a cultural river full of ink fragrance.
This stream, called Yanshou Creek, is one of the three major streams in Putian, and in Changtaili, each stream has a different name or name. Juxi, fifty miles west of the county. The first to receive the waters of Yuyang, Caixi, and Kukyu Lake, and the east will be Hagi, Yucang, and Yase Water to reach The Yanshou Creek. In the "Chronicle of Putian County in Xinghua Province" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a Juxi creek was introduced, or all the stories of a stream were told. Although Juxi is fifty miles west of the county, in the eyes of the Putian people, it is not far away, and many Putian poets have arrived in Juxi and left behind popular poems.
Juxi is surrounded by greenery into the Lake, and the ancient wood cloud village is the old residence.
Each kind of Hatada autumn sake, leftover Kiriko night reading book.
Snow Sunny Ridge idle calves, guests to the creek swirling fishing.
There is no hidden place in the dust of the old self, and there is room for the king to borrow the hut.
——(Yuan) Fang Jiong, "Juxi Cultivation"
Fang Jiong, a member of the Hushan Wenhui in the early Ming Dynasty, was a famous poet of that dynasty and left many poems. He was also a famous township doctor at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, who helped the dead and saved the injured throughout his life, and wrote medical books such as "Behind the Elbow of xinglin", "Book of Typhoid Fever", "Book of Fine Pulse" and so on. Zheng Shanfu is also a famous poet in Puyang, and this poem about Juxi is a masterpiece.
Obliquely, the west of the mountain, winding towards Juxi.
Meditation, and this steaming quinoa.
The grass is long and the rock is beautiful, and the peak is full of shadows.
Thirty miles from the Immortal Source, the white ape on the shore of the sky cried.
- Zheng Shanfu, "Juxi Xing"
South Hagi-ashi Creek, forty-five miles northwest of the county, is the largest of the northern waters. The first to receive Yongfu Water and the water of the ancient Xinghua County Zhuxi, across the Miaoshan Bridge for the Yucang Creek, will extend the life of the Creek into the sea. South Hagi Lu Creek, from the northwest of the county forty-five to thirteen miles section, after crossing the front bridge of myohitoin, also known as Yucang Creek. Yucang Creek, twelve miles northwest of the county, is first received by the (south) Hagi Lu Creek water, and the eastbound is joined by Yanshou Creek. Yase Creek, or Tortoise, is ten miles northwest of the prefecture. Yanshou Creek, seven miles northwest of the county.
Juxi, NanhagiLuxi, Yucangxi, Yasexi, Yanshouxi, from the distance from the county seat, you can confirm the different names of Yanshou Creek in each stream section, and the names of all the streams with different names are actually Yanshou Creek in putian geography.
In the old chronicles of Putian, in the old chronicles such as "Eight Min Tongzhi" and "Xinghua Fu Zhi" during the Ming Hongzhi period, and "Putian County of Xinghua Province" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Yanshouxi is only one of the five paragraphs. Yanshou Creek, seven miles northwest of the county, is named after Yanshou Village. The first waters of Juxi, NanhagiLuxi and Yucangxi are combined to form Pi, and their tails divert Xingang, Lupu, Chen Yinxia, and Duanming Sidoumen to enter the sea.
Yanshou Creek, or Yanshou Village, Zhuangyuan well, or Yanshou Bridge, Zhuangyuan Red Lychee, profound historical and cultural accumulation, countless literati inkers in Yanshou Creek, in Changtaili have interpreted endless wind and snow moon, or Tang poetry song words, or literati inker affair, has been precipitating the most beautiful memory of this stream.
The famous poets Guo Quan and Mr. Cangzhou used this poem "Suixi Yuyin" to leave a stunning stream of light and mountain color for the poetic Yanshou Creek, and also left the poetic color of "Seaside ZouLu".
The fisherman's family lives in Qingxiqu and buys out Xutan as a fishing town.
Homemade clothes sleep on the nagisa, so move the tea stove on the light navigation.
Lychee woods shisha are warm, and the pelican peach blossoms are long on the wild shore.
The sun is drunk and the fish is full of baskets, and Qiao Qing knocks on the fire and leans on the basket.
——Guo Quan,"Suixi Fishing Cain"
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Since the establishment of the county in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in the fifth year of Tang Wude (622), Putian County was restored, and it belonged to Fengzhou (Quanzhou) and Nan'an County (Fuzhou). Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was no examination of the administrative region in the territory. In the Song Dynasty, the county had 6 townships under its jurisdiction, and Baofengli and Changtaili belonged to Chongye Township. In the 24th year of Ming Hongwu (1391), the county was divided into 7 districts, 31 li, and 294 tu, and Changtaili only had 8 villages under its jurisdiction, and the former Baofengli was also included in Changtaili.
Changtaili, more than ten miles in the west of the county, Figure 1, Old Figure 8, the whole province, is the village of 25: Jianshou, also known as Suixi. Xiapu, Zhixian Huangwen Pavilion here. The old road passes through here, and there is the Pavilion of the Ambassador, because of the name of the village. Songling, Wuling, Lingxia, Yucangxi, Maple Leaf Pond, Qiwei, Dongxihui, Shanmen. After the creek, the water here is divided with the xingtaili boundary. Yangbian, Wukeng, Houguogong, Chenkeng, Bailuyuan, Ma'anling, Banqiao, Ironing, Juxi, Sakashang, Changji, the twenty-two villages under Songling are all in the mountains.
Since the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of Putian have built houses and established homes here, gathered ethnic groups to live together, and formed villages with mountains and streams. Although there is no historical data to confirm exactly which era Changtaili began to be inhabited, people here to open up mountains and fields, spring planting and autumn harvest, living and laboring, but still living in the military city of ethnic minorities, Lan, is the original inhabitants of Putian, living here for thousands of years of history. Even some Putian celebrities in the Tang Dynasty chose Changtaili as a place of peace for their souls, which cannot but explain the historical origin of this feng shui treasure land. Tomb of Kingo Changshi Daizi'an, in Changtaili Juxi on the Hara of The Mountain. Jin Zichang official Tingfan Tomb, under the Southern Qin Mountain in Changtaili. Former Zhi Zai: The tomb of his ancestor Shi Fangju, in Wuqi Mountain, the tomb of His father Yushi Zhongfang Yinfu, in Fengtian Mountain. It is these tombs with cultural information that make the humanistic history of Changtaili always flood with cultural light.
In the well-known history of Putian Buddhist culture, Jiuhua Mountain in Changtaili will always be one of the cradles of Putian culture and one of the precursors of Putian Buddhist culture. Jingxiangyuan, Changtaili, Wuli in the north of the county, formerly known as Liuli, according to chen yan's belly, moved here, the late Tang Putian famous poet Xu Yin once left a poem "Title JingquanYuan":
A stream is green around Cui Ridge, and the bottle bowl is preferably towards this one.
The peasant trees are shaded and yellow, and the white clothes come down the mountain during the fasting.
Pine because of the former gate race, the road is before the growth of the old open.
Three volumes of BedoJinsu language, poor heart refined to ashes.
——(Tang) Xu Yin, "JingquanYuan"
The Bitter Bamboo Courtyard at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain begins the bitter end of the green lantern chanting with a fascinating story. During the Tang Huichang period (841-846), the high-footed Shamen Thousand Spirits of the Six Ancestors of Huineng bid farewell to the Shaolin Temple, entered Fujian to find the temple gate of the Temple of Friendship and Cultivation, the ancestors said that "every time they are suffering is to live", Qianling built a house as a temple on a mountain pass under the Kuzhu Mountain, but the Mountain Fish repeatedly obstructed the construction of the temple of the Thousand Souls, and the Thousand Spirits fought with the Mountain Fish, dueling with internal gong, the Thousand Souls Master swallowed the iron needle, the Mountain Fish saw the situation, knew that he was invincible, immediately fled to the top of Jiuhua Mountain, sneaked into the Swallow Cave, and the Thousand Spirits Master Luck Gong buckled a mountain upside down at the mouth of the Swallow Cave. Let the mountain fish no longer come out and endanger the human world.
Of the twenty-five monasteries in Changtaili, nineteen are in the mountains, and in addition to Jingxiang temple and Kuzhu Temple, there is also an ancient temple founded in the Five Dynasties period. During the reign of Ming Hongzhi, the Eight Min Tongzhi volume 79 of the Temple View, records that "Lingyin ShanhuaYuan, Liang Kaiping Zhongjian". During the Liang Kaiping period, from 907 to 910 AD, around the same time that a monastery called lingyin shanhuayuan was founded in Changtaili, and during the Ming Hongzhi period, this lingyin shanhuayuan was also annihilated in the fireworks of the years.
Geographically, historically, and culturally, historical materials have been left for the beginning of myōsan-ji Temple. Miaoxiang Temple, northwest of Jiuhua Mountain, or west of Gaoyang Mountain, above Maple Leaf Pond, on a mountain pass with Yucang Creek on the back of the mountain. The ancient post road from the west of the city passes through Zhaofuyuan, Linghuating, Songling, yucangxi, and winds up the west side of Miaoling Temple, leading directly to Guxinghua County. Founded in the second year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (944), a pair of stone lions well preserved in the Nine Lotus Zen Temple seems to be the craft style carved by the craftsmen of Puyang in the fifth generation, simple, simple and does not lose the style of the stone lion. Myoheram-ji Temple, in the thousand-year-old cultural sequence of Changtaili, is grand and unique, and it is almost synonymous with The Buddhist culture of Changtaili.
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In the Song Dynasty, Putian ushered in an excellent dynasty, in this dynasty, the north and south of the two Song Dynasties 319 years, Putian ancestors conformed to the trend of historical development, built water conservancy, surrounded the sea to build fields, built walls and built cities, started academies to open military and county schools, in the wave of development of ancient agricultural civilization, always bravely stood at the head of the tide, leaving behind thousands of ancient Pigu yan ancient causeways, ancient bridges and ancient buildings, as well as countless temples and temples. These thousand-year-old historical relics confirm the putian people's spiritual quality of hard-working, diligence and hard work, and are also the unparalleled character charm of Putian people.
In the "Chronicle of Putian County, Xinghua Province" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there are eleven bridges in Changtaili, of which there are seven bridges in the mountainous area and the Yucangxi Bridge, the founding of which is unknown. In the second year of Song Shaoxi (1191), Zhao Yanli, the Zhijun, joined forces to rebuild the stone. Make Huaqiao, the west of the bridge has a pavilion even Huating. Daotangtang, Li Fujian. Lindian Creek Bridge, Miaoyuan Front Bridge, intersects with Yucang Creek in the South Hagi Lu Creek. Driving the Dragon Bridge, above Juxi, Song Shaoxing Geng's noon (1150), monk Hui Hui built. Iron Bridge, song chunxi second year (1175), monks no longer built, there is a pavilion. These bridges, created in the Song Dynasty, confirm the once ubiquitous wind and integrity of Changtaili, and also prove the busy labor, prosperous life, and dedication to charity of the villagers on both sides of the Changtaili Stream.
Perhaps from the numerous poems and articles, historical materials and texts still preserved in the historical records, changtaili was very prosperous and prosperous in the Song Dynasty, perhaps this is the back garden of Xinghua County, a rare feng shui treasure. In the Song Dynasty, Changtaili actually had two ancient post roads leading to Xinghua County, one was to cross the front bridge of Miao lonely temple, pass through Yucang Creek, Miaoshan Temple, and the western foothills of Gaoyang Mountain, and enter Xinghua County; the other was Songling, Lingxia, Changji, Banshang, Juxi, cross Guanyin Mountain, go to Xianyou Jiuli Lake, and go straight to Xinghua Guyi. Next to these two ancient roads, there may be more than a dozen temples, which have passed the clear morning bell and twilight drum in the years of wind and sunshine.
Miaoshan Temple, also known as the South Pagoda Temple, must have had a unique earthly story and clear Buddhist language in the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty. In Changtaili has an extraordinary influence, in the folk tales of the two circles of folklore and Buddhism, the morning bell of Myo Lonely Temple is so moving, those abbots of the great virtue and monks in Changtai li spare no effort to dedicate their efforts and efforts, so that the whole of Changtaili preserves many cultural relics, so that the Myohi Temple is still silent and peaceful in the smoke and dust of the multitude of sentient beings.
An ancient large stone trough speaks on the temple chronicle of Myoku-ji Temple, which was carved in the year of Song Zhiping Jiachen (1064), and the text on the side of the trough truly records the buddhist event of incense and fire that the predecessor of this temple once had. Monk Shao Weishe silver two two fifty two carved, stone trough length seven feet, width two feet six, its shape and characteristics and the size and shape of the stone trough preserved in the Forest Spring Temple is similar, its writing style is also very consistent, but also with the existing two stone troughs in the Kuzhu Temple, slightly larger than the Kuzhu Temple stone trough. It can be said that Lin Quan Yuan, Ku Bamboo Temple, Miao Lonely Temple, these precious stone troughs, are used by the monks of Xi Wu to fry herbs to heal their wounds, like this kind of stone troughs weighing five or six hundred pounds were difficult to transport on the rugged mountain roads at that time, and the monk Shaowei master hired stonemasons to painstakingly chisel and carve in the Miaoshan Temple for several months, and now there is such a large stone trough.
Excavated from the ruins are also the lotus seat, Galan gold body, these extremely precious cultural relics have told the long history of myokoji temple, but also said the vicissitudes of this Buddhist pure land, from the ruins of myokoji temple found a large number of lotus stone seats, stone foundations, stone pillars, but also the vast area of myokoji temple, magnificent building complex, in front of all the faithful. Myokanji Temple is undoubtedly the largest temple in Changtaili, whether in the poetry articles, or historical place names, buildings have made me look for real and reliable historical facts, and in the memories of the Yucangxi aborigines who have been passed down from generation to generation, this temple is full of incense, the roof ridge is undulating, the eaves are connected, and the magnificent momentum of the Temple can be imagined from the nine temples circulated by the people.
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The beautiful mountains and streams of Changtaili, the cascading terraced cottages, the morning and dusk of flowers and fruits, have been the unstoppable spring flowers and autumn moons in the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty. Changtaili is closer or farther away from the military city, is the paradise of countless literati and inkers to visit the landscape, but also the excellent place for many famous courtiers and sages to return to the soul, Changtaili from The Village of Yanshou under Jiuhua Mountain to juxi realm under Tianhu Mountain, dozens of Song Dynasty ministers Xianda have chosen Changtaili as the final destination of their lives.
Wei Wujun Jiedu pushed the official Yuan Yu, Shi Lang gave the young master Huang Ai, Lang Zhong Xu Ruohan, Li Fu of the Dianqian System, Dai Jixian of Chengxin Lang, Lang Fangxuan of the Missionary, Zhongyi Henan Shaoyin Ruan Jun, and Fang Dajun, the assistant teacher of the four doors... The landscape of Changtaili is full of feng shui treasures. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous politician and literary scholar Chen Junqing was the highest-ranking official here, and the tomb of Chen Junqing was presented to Chen Junqing, which is still intact in front of the Miaoyuan Temple. His son Chen Mi (陈宓), Zhibao Mo Ge (直宝谟阁), chen Mi (陈宓), was also in the lower Yu Chen YanShan. ChangTaili may become the place where the father and son of the Puyang literary circle are haunted by dreams.
Chen Mi, Character Teacher Fu. "Less Dengwen Gongmen, long from Huang Ganyou." Chen Mi followed the master of science Zhu Xi when she was a teenager, and when she grew up, she worshiped Zhu Xi's disciple Huang Gan as a teacher, and was a senior disciple of Mr. Zhu Xi. Since childhood, he had a deep respect for Zhu Zi Lixue, and when Zhu Xi traveled to Putian, he also inscribed the Yangzhi Hall in Chen Mi's reading office, as an important place for Chen Mi to preach science, a representative figure of the Yangzhi school in Minxue, and eventually became a famous scholar of science in Puyang, and his biography and deeds were selected as the "Character History" of the "Character History".
Chen Mi was the fourth son of Chen Junqing, and his father Junqing Yin served as the salt tax inspector of Nan'an in Quanzhou, and then promoted to Anxi Zhi County. In the seventh year of Jiading (1214), he was imprisoned and entered the concert. At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty was controlled by the minister of power, Shi Miyuan, but Chen Mi always held a patriotic feeling and spoke a lot about current politics. "The virtue of the Lord of Man is noble, the heart of the Minister is noble, and the justice of the Taiwan Counsel is noble and straight, and the three are related to each other, may Your Majesty repent and show that the Virtue of the Emperor is to illuminate the hundred officials; the Minister's Counselor should also be straight-hearted and straight, with the intention of ruling with vice-president." Chen Mi pointed out that Chen Shi's political shortcomings were bold, and his heart to worry about the country and the people made his career more bumpy. Seeking to relocate the military weapons supervisor, promoting the Taifu Cheng, and knowing the Southern Kang Army. In the post of Zhijun of the Southern Kang Army, "the displaced people will be gathered, mi will be enslaved, and the river embankment will be built and fed to them." The White Deer Cave Academy was rebuilt, and zhuzi theory was often discussed with Confucian students. Changed to Nanjian Prefecture, as soon as he arrived, "the great drought epidemic, the number of people is tens of thousands, and Chi Xin has lost a third, and he has led the officials to hold the Money Valley medicine bait households to give it." Nanjian Prefecture is the birthplace of Zhu Xi and one of the sources of Zhu Zi's science, Chen Mi founded Yanping Academy and moved all the rules and regulations of Bailudong Academy. Ren Rank, changed his name to Zhangzhou, and before he was out of office, he asked for Zhi shi. In the second year of Song Baoqing (1226), in addition to mentioning the Guangdong prison, he resigned and was replaced by the Chongxi Temple, who was in charge of the Zhi Secret Cabinet. Died at home. During the Song Dynasty (1234-1236), he gave the Zhilong Tuge .
Chen Mi was also an outstanding poet in Puyang in the Southern Song Dynasty, and wrote hundreds of poems, several of which had poetic themes, about YucangXi and Miaoxiaoyuan, which was by far the poet who found that the Song Dynasty poets wrote the most about ChangTaili. Eight hundred years have passed quietly, and we can still find the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the Miaoyuan Temple from Chen Mi's poems.
The cold mountains are little known, but the wind and currents are here.
But this jun is a good friend, and he is not jealous of the young woman.
We should worry about how late my generation is, and Whether the spring breeze is selfish.
Can't bear to fold branches and fly to reduce jade, stay to see when the light rain turns yellow.
——Chen Mi, "Visiting Mei in Miao lonely courtyard"
Chen Junqing's tomb is near the Miao lonely temple, the tomb of the gurudwara, keeping filial piety, is the ancient literati's spiritual direction, the mysterious courtyard naturally became a place that Chen Mi often visited, and even the monks of the miaoyuan temple also became Chen Mi's close friends.
Zirun brought a comfortable temperament, and Lantian was empty and negative.
The old rabbit is still able to be healthy, and the light snail is not aware of the sound.
The dragon at the bottom of the abyss wanted to sleep, and the core of the rock was chiseled and the ground was frightened.
I have no talent to think about the long embrace, and when will the vitality be formed.
——Chen Mi," "Titled Miao Silent Monk Without Hindrance Duan Yan"
Miaoyu Temple may already be a Buddhist highland in Mr. Chen Mi's heart, and there is often such a feeling flowing in his poems, and the direction of the heart is the final way home. Mr. Chen Mi's MyoKulsung Temple has always appeared in the poem.
Towards the city of Run, near the temple to dusk.
Step by step, covet the color of the mountains, clinging to the light of the water.
The flock of fish is still playing, and the return road is tired and soaring.
Zheng Xi was not seen, and the monk wanted to go down to the church.
—— Chen Mi, "To the Miao Silent Temple"
Changtaili, Miaoxiang Temple, Yucang Creek or the eternal soul dwelling place of Chen Junqing and his descendants, here is Chen Junqing's eldest son Chen Shi, second grandson Chen Jie, and nephew Chen Gui, the father of the anti-Yuan hero Chen Zhan. Chen Junqing, another grandson of Chen Junqing, with the cultural feelings of a commoner scholar, wrote the two books "Song Chronicles" and "Preparations", "not leaving the study room, and the mouth is not in time." "He did not stand out, but won the favor of history, in order to attach Chen Mi Lixue biography, known as Mr. Blunt Qi, whose tomb is also in the Yang of The King Jian She, Changtaili."
07
There are countless clouds and dust in history, inadvertently covering those precious words, and also destroying one temple after another with morning bells and twilight drums, and those scriptures and green lanterns and those wooden fish robes have sunk in the vast ocean of time, or there is nowhere to be found, so they have to rely on some fragmented history to piece together a vague historical face of an era.
In my long years of searching, Miaoyu Temple or has been in a corner of a certain time in the Southern Song Dynasty, in that crying ghost god anti-Yuan war, Yuhu Chen Yimen almost all threw himself into a fierce battle, until the family was destroyed, until the village was destroyed, until the Yashan War, the Chen Men people who survived the disaster, scattered in Guangdong and Hainan, and some of them lived in Chen Jiapu outside Guangzhou. Under the Iron Curtain rule of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the ninety years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Miaoyuan Temple had either sunk in a certain beacon or had been deserted in the hasty glance of the fleeing crowd.
In that thick book of the Ming Dynasty's "Chronicle of Xinghua Province", the Myokan Temple, or myoko-in Temple, or Pagoda Temple, or South Pagoda Temple, are all annihilated in time. In this vast history book, none of the monasteries in the Changtaili Mountains survived, and the Kuzhuyuan was also submerged in the storms of time, and almost in the "Eight Min Tongzhi" compiled in the same era, the monasteries in the Changtaili Mountains did not have a single word, which was related to the catastrophe of history, and also related to the Buddhist policy of the Ming Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to open the national dynasty, using supreme power to try his best to cut down the temples under the world, and how many long-established temples were deserted on a cold government decree.
I have also been looking for the words and phrases of Miao lonely temple, miaoyuan temple, pagoda courtyard, and south pagoda courtyard in the vast three-volume "Putian Qinglai Collection", but none of them have been obtained, perhaps only a poet and literati like Chen Mi in history has used such a grand artistic conception to leave the poetry of Miaoxiao Temple, and only Chen Mi has made my search have a different understanding.
Hundred Dynasty Cemetery, Millennium Miaoyinglin.
Incense follows the clear day forever, and the mountains cry in late autumn and deep.
Liegui tuan wind dew, Takamatsu resistant to ancient and modern.
Late at night and month after the wall, it is doubly sad to the eye.
——Chen Mi, "Titled Miao Silent Temple"
The temple is still quiet, and the small windows are deeper.
When you look at the time, you know the sentence and the eye, and it is easy to read and see the heavenly heart.
Frost and dew increase the feeling, and smoke clouds see invasion.
Sitting alone and thinking about the past, I was filled with tears.
The old magpie called the eaves people to get up early, and the Whale urged the afternoon to be late.
If it is not because of the sparse dust of the land, it will be like summer in winter.
Three identical poem titles "Title Miao Silent Temple", Chen Mi's efforts allow us to more or less touch the natural scenery of Changtaili and the unique Buddhist realm of Miaoshan Temple in the early thirteenth century, although the three poems were created at different times, Chen Mi's state of mind is also different, but his talent completely makes Miao Silent Temple leave a beautiful memory.
What is left in the memory is also the Yucang Creek where the Miaoling Temple is located, Yucang Creek is the name of the stream, but also the name of a tributary, and also the place name of a village, Chen Mi's "First To Yucang Creek", is a young and crazy time, from the rhythm and context of the entire long poem, you can read a poet's spiritual code.
In ordinary life, I will not be able to meet in Yucang Creek, and I will meet each other as if I had an appointment.
The distant view has been amazing, overlooking the unknowing fish music.
When you try a bait for the first time, you have the first impression of the scales.
Whiskered ants are mixed with beehives, and short hyenas are lightly jumping.
The small fish are clumsy and unscrupulous, and the big fish are incompetent and bitter.
The bait floats before the crowd fights, and the birds will eventually be difficult to win.
In the past, Lu Housi went to Tang, and Gao Qing was tied up by Xuan.
Andre is idle, and it is not easy to enjoy each other all day.
The cold spring is still cute, and I want to see the Breeze in June.
To wait for the bright moon to return, the frost and snow should not be evil.
——Chen Mi, "First Sight of Fishing Cangxi"
08
After more than a hundred years of restoration and governance, the Ming Dynasty or the beginning of the sixteenth century has not been as harsh and oppressive as during the Hongwu years, the national policy of taking the examination is getting better and better, and the Putian students have erupted with amazing motivation, and in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "Putian Time", "Five Classics Kui", "One And a Half List", "Father and Son Brothers, Uncles and Nephews and Nephews and Gongsun Jinshi" abounded, and the prosperity of Putian's Kejia directly brought unprecedented prosperity to putian's social economy and culture.
Changtaili, it is the wind and the sun, and the birds and flowers, although there are no numbers to support my point of view, Changtaili also has a lot of people to enter the soldiers, there are also many academies and bookstores, opened the yearning and dreams of Changtai people, Changtai li Yucang Creek also saw people and people coming and going.
On the ruins of the Miaoshan Temple, hundreds of believers have donated money and materials, a huge temple reconstruction movement, quietly carried out in Yucang Creek, a nine-seat temple of the Miaoshan Temple, after decades of Changtai people's labor and dedication to goodness and beauty, reappeared on Yucang Creek, the western foothills of Gaoyang Mountain.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years, the nine temples passed down by mouth in Changtaili and Yucangxi have replaced the elegant name of Miaoshan Temple, and the intuitive name of the folk has drowned the name of Miaoshan Temple, but although a large number of cultural relics have been silenced and buried for more than three hundred years, and now, in the morning bell and twilight drum of the nine temples, the ancient nature of this temple is confirmed.
Writing this, I stopped the work at hand, and then carefully read the "Pufeng Qinglai Collection" edited by Zheng Wangchen in the early Qing Dynasty, hoping to find a few words of Miaoshan Temple or Nine Temples from nearly a thousand poems. Unfortunately, I only read a few poems by Chang Tai-ri and did not find a single poem about myōsan Temple.
Dozens of pillars are still presented to the world with their thick and quaint appearance, which is a historical memory that cannot be ignored. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the miaoling temple was rebuilt with such a grand architectural complex, which was once located on the mountain pass between Jiuhua Mountain and Yucang Creek, and what a pleasant morning bell and twilight drum sounded in the distant memories of the world. This memory is passed down by word of mouth, in the colloquial language of the Nine Temples, from generation to generation, to this day.
Such a rich amount of pillar stones and foundation stones is enough to support the architectural scale of the nine Buddhist temples. And why the nine temples were annihilated during the Ming Jiajing period, or in the history of the villagers in Yucangxi, they left a page of the past that resisted the Wu and destroyed the Wu rebellion.
During the Ming Jiajing period, the Wokou plagued the southeast coast, and in a period of twenty years, there were eleven large-scale intrusions into Putian, bringing deep disasters to Putian. Until the night of November 29, the forty-first year of Ming Jiajing (1562), the city of Xinghua fell, more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians died, and the Wukou burned and plundered, and the lives were destroyed, bringing pain to Putian that will never be forgotten. In this great war of resistance against the Wo, countless Putian gentry, officials, villagers, poor people, and even tens of thousands of monks also joined this war of life and death to defend the homeland and the country, performing a great drama of anti-Wu that wept and frightened the gods.
In some of the corners and corners of history, I also found a highly credible historical record, which is enough to prove the bravery and strength of the nameless heroes of the Nine Temples and Changtaili.
"In the spring of the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), there was a great plague in the city. Wu came again, and the villages of Caizhai and Hangtou outside Tunnan Pass attacked the city on March 8 and returned on the thirteenth. "Xinghua Province Ya Li sent people to ChangTaili, contacted hundreds of monks and tiger smiths, went to Hangtou, broke the thieves, these martial monks and tiger smiths crossed the Forest Bridge and Zhukeng from Songling, attacked the Wu nest at night, "shot the thieves with poisonous crossbows", the thieves killed and injured hundreds of people, determined to retaliate, under the guidance of the mountain thieves, the Wu chieftain sent nearly a thousand elite Wu soldiers, over the mountains and mountains, chased after the warrior monks and tiger smiths, until the nine temples, the martial monks were outnumbered, and the Yucangxi tiger smiths fought and retreated, fled into the deep mountains and dense forests of the old Xinghua County, and the Wu thieves set fire to nine temples.
Myoku-ji Temple, the Nine Temples, and the ancient temples that survived for more than a hundred years in Changtaili were destroyed in the long-standing War of Resistance against the Japanese Empire, and the stories of the nine temples and the heroes of the warrior monks have been passed down to this day.
09
In the forty-second year of Ming Jiajing (1563), Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu led tens of thousands of Qi family troops and Yu family troops to carry out twelve overwhelming encirclements and annihilations, completely suppressing the twenty-year-old rebellion that had plagued Putian, and Putian was also rebuilt in the devastated ruins of war.
"First, Pucheng was restored, and the Maritime Police was on January 45. If the building has not been built, it cannot be guarded; if the house has not been established, it cannot be ruled. Navigation is forbidden, and the water upstream is not allowed to come on rafts. The prefect Yi Daotan was good at taking measures, collecting wood from the abandoned temple's former residence to reset the castle tower. "This is a historical record in the Putian County Chronicle during the Qianlong period." The prefectural government was rebuilt in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), and the Xinghua Weizhi and Dayoucang were rebuilt as late as the third year of Longqing (1569). Barn 8 is reduced to six. The thousand households before and after the jurisdiction of the Wei Place will not be rebuilt. The restoration of the temples in various colleges and monasteries has taken more years. For example, Shuinan Academy was rebuilt in the twelfth year of the Wanli Calendar (1584), Zhuba Academy was rebuilt in the seventeenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1589), and meifeng and Guanghua temples began to restore the old view in the sixth to thirty-fourth years of the Wanli calendar (1578-1606). ”
Miaoxiang Temple, the thousand-year-old temple has sunk in the ocean of time, the magnificent nine temples, has been silent in the ruins, Changtaili, Yucangxi can no longer pick up the kindness and love of rebuilding the nine temples, the putian people who have suffered many times of looting by the thieves, no longer have the financial resources to rebuild those ruined temples and palaces in the past few decades, can only wait for the years to come, the country is rich, and then build the morning bell and the twilight drum.
History did not leave a window of time for the nine temples to see the light of day, eighty years later, at this cruel historical juncture of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the putian people again with the nationalist sentiment of "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood", in the fifteen-year-long war against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, countless casualties were killed and injured, and the xinghua fucheng changed hands several times, especially the "cut-off" of the winter of the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1661), which drew a border defense line inside and outside the boundary, and even more fatally damaged the Economy of Putian. Later, Honghuating founded Hongbang and burned the Southern Shaolin Temple, and one anti-Qing struggle after another brought a poor and weak society to Putian, and ChangTaili no longer had time to take care of the smoke and candles of the nine temples.
In modern times, the Putian people drifted south and north, and countless Putian people turned around gorgeously in this dynasty, going to far away, going farther away, looking for the spiritual homeland where they were settled. Hometown is already synonymous with Putian, generation after generation of Putian people have become foreigners, Putian is only the ancestral hometown of the place of origin, Putian is just some of the customs of life that cannot be forgotten, Putian is just a distant place frequently overlooked during the festival, and Putian is already the hometown that cannot be returned.
Changtaili, or almost no temple rock temple, Changtaili, endless historical objects are drowned in the rush of the sound of the stream. Yucang Creek, the thousand-year-old white shrine, also sank into the distance of time.
July 8, 2020
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△ About the author: Lin Chunrong, male, Han ethnicity, born in April 1967. Since 1986, he has published thousands of poems and prose works in more than 100 newspapers and periodicals across the country, provinces and cities, and the long-form political lyric poem "China Season" was serialized in "People's Literature" in 2001. He has published 10 poetry and prose collections, including "Chinese Seasons", "China in the Name of Life", "Character Putian", and "Crossing Putian". He has won 27 literary awards or poetry awards at or above the provincial level, including 7 Fujian Provincial Excellent Literature Awards, the first prize of the 4th Fujian Provincial People's Government Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award, the second prize of the 5th Fujian Provincial People's Government Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award, the first prize of the 6th Fujian Provincial People's Government Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award, the 11th and 12th Chinese Culture Award, and the 2nd China Excellent Publication Award. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Putian Writers Association.