Author: Alec Rongtong Donglai
There is a stage in front of the temple hill.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huangchao Rebellion was held, he wanted to worship the Xingfu Temple and the Empty Master as his military division. Poetry: By September 8 of the following year, when I was in full bloom, a hundred flowers were killed, and the incense in the sky penetrated Chang'an, and the city was full of yellow scarves. Because the empty mage had been in the empty gate for a long time, and he was old, he was unwilling to fight on the battlefield, when the Yellow Nest rebelled to sacrifice the knife, he hid in the west of the temple in the empty willow tree cave, the Yellow Nest cut the tree sacrifice knife, mistakenly cut the empty, Huang Chao was angry, all the way west, attacked Chang'an, "killing millions of people, blood flowing for three thousand miles", the west of the temple road is known as the "Red Road". Later, it was adapted into the Peking Opera "Xiangmei Temple" and was widely sung throughout the country.
Handan• Feixiang • Xingfu Temple (Xiangmei Temple) is located in the west of Dajin Village, Dongzhangbao Township, Feixiang District, Handan City, Hebei Province.
Handan • Feixiang • Xingfu Temple (Xiangmei Temple) was founded in the Jin Dynasty, formerly known as Cangmen Temple (also known as Xiangmei Temple), built by the descendants of The Sima Clan, the pit on the west side of the temple is Sima Keng, the well is Sima Jing, and there are still relics. The monastery went through the two Jin Dynasties, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty, and during the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Chi Jingde was ordered to supervise the reconstruction, and because of the rebellion in the south, Jingde was transferred to quell the rebellion. After the counter-rebellion, Jingde remembered that Cangmen Temple did not build a mountain gate, so he built the mountain gate in the Zhoukou area of Henan Province, when the temple covered an area of more than 100 acres, the building was magnificent, the incense was exuberant, and the famous monks gathered, which was a rare plain temple where Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism were integrated.
After the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties of Xingfu Temple were full of senior monks. Famous in the Central Plains, the well-known abbots had time, Lao Yi, Xiao Wen, Xiao Zen and others, especially during the Qing Guangxu period, The Xiaowen Zen master of Xingfu Temple was proficient in Buddhist scriptures and well versed in Buddhism and was selected to be transferred to the capital to serve as the abbot of Beijing Guanghua Temple. When Xuantong ascended the throne, Xiaowen's disciple Yu Chan supported the young lord, that is, the emperor. In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937 AD), Master Zen returned to Xingfu Temple as abbot (Master Zen was a native of Qianzhai Village, Quzhou County) and has a poem:
Cangmen Ancient Temple residence in the countryside,
The vicissitudes of the millennium are still there.
Huang Chaoyi rebelled against the empty sacrifice,
Li Que Monastery is a remnant of Tang Zan.
Incense flourished for a long time,
Xiao Wen Zen attendant Jin Luan.
This world is blessed with great splendor,
Read the ancient style of Buddha's light again.