In Wuwei, the name of Dayun Temple is not commonly known, and the ancient bell tower is well known. I remember that during school in 1996, because I did not go home on a Saturday, I visited the ancient bell tower and was able to climb it. At that time, I didn't know anything about the history of the monastery, and I had little interest in it, purely like the young people in their early twenties now, who could only play but didn't care about literature and history.
The second time I went back was around 2013, when I had been living in the city for ten years. Once my daughter went to the Development Street Primary School to take the English level test, picked her up and walked through a corner of the square, there were few pedestrians, but she was stared at by a "god mother-in-law" crouching there and asked: "Come, give the doll a gua, such a lucky handmaiden." I hadn't divined for many years, and when I heard that it was only ten yuan a time, I squatted down and asked her to look at it for the baby. She measured the eight characters and said, "This doll will be a good college material in the future, and there are two bright lights on her shoulders, and it will definitely be better to go to the temple to help her." As a result, as soon as she said that she would have to postpone it, she really couldn't lose face, so she went to the re-employment market to buy paper and incense wax, steamed bread instant noodles, etc., and she took the red spell cast god in front of the bell tower for an hour, and finally remanded 100 yuan. It cost a total of 120 yuan, so it was not painful. But today my daughter is in the second year of middle school, and I really haven't let people worry about it in learning, and I suddenly feel that it is worth it. Gossip aside, back to the point.
Located in the northeast corner of Wuwei City, Dayun Temple is the earliest Buddhist temple in the history of Wuwei and occupies an important historical position in the history of Wuwei Buddhism. In March 1993, Dayun Temple was announced by the Gansu Provincial People's Government as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit.
Wuwei Dayun Temple was originally the palace of the former Liang King, and in the seventh year of the former Liang Shengping (363 AD), Zhang Tianxi converted the palace into a temple and named it Hongzang Temple. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (689 AD), the imperial court promulgated the "Great Cloud Classic" throughout the country, and ordered all states and counties to build the Dayun Temple, so the Hongzang Temple was renamed the Dayun Temple. During the Western Xia Dynasty, it was called Huguo Temple. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was destroyed by soldiers. In the sixteenth year of Ming Hongwu (1383), Shamen Shiman, the eleventh disciple of the Pure Land Sect in Japan, crossed the ocean and made a special trip to Liangzhou to worship the Dayun Temple, and raised funds everywhere, raised funds from many sources, and presided over the restoration of the Dayun Temple. Zhiman's merits have long been recorded in the annals of history and have become historical witnesses of Sino-Japanese friendly exchanges and cultural exchanges.
A few years ago, a Japanese architectural style was built next to Ōunji Temple, and an ancient well was dug out, which is suspected to be a relic of the Pre-Liang Period, and this place is in the Former Liang Palace, and it is not known whether there are ruins underground, which will be excavated by future archaeology.
On the east side of the mountain gate of Dayun Temple, there is an ancient bell tower on the foundation of the brick-clad platform with a height of about ten meters, and the ancient bell of the Tang Dynasty with a simple shape and hardware casting is suspended. One of the Eight Views of Liangzhou, the "Great Cloud Xiao Bell", refers to this bell. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Liangzhou Dayun Temple has been continuously incense-burning and has many tourists, and is a famous tourist attraction in Wuwei.