Minghui Master Pagoda is located in Hongni Village, thirty kilometers east of Pingshun County, Changzhi, Shanxi, and the monastery has disappeared, only a stone pagoda remains, which is already deep in the Taihang Mountains, and continues eastward along the valley in front of the pagoda to henan province
The tower is more than six meters high, square, single-storey, the tower is a stone carved imitation wood structure, the whole tower is very complete, especially the complex tower brake is also well preserved
【Minghui Master Tower】
【Complete Tower Brake】
Master Minghui Pagoda is meticulously carved, above the base is the Sumire Seat, there are sacred beasts inside the gate, the front of the square tower opens the tower door, there are two Heavenly Kings on both sides of the door, but unfortunately the original Heavenly King statue has been stolen, and now it is made up, the tower door is also carved with Hu ren music and dance, the hu image is similar to the Seven Pagodas of Pingshun Dayunyuan, and there are broken spiritual windows on both sides of the tower
【Tower front】
【Broken spirit window on the side of the tower】
【A corner of Meruza】
【Line engraving pattern】
In the book "Shanxi Ancient Pagoda Culture", there are also old photos of the Ming Hui master Ta Tianwang before the statue was stolen
【Statue of the King before the theft】
Under the eaves, there is no carved chestnut, but a drum bag with a diamond check, which represents a web of sparrow eyes woven from bamboo, which is covered outside the fir to prevent birds and finches
【Bird's eye net under the eaves of the tower】
The top of the tower chamber is carved with a checkered ceiling, no decoration, should be flat, the edge of the flat is inclined to pave, the center is made of octagonal, built-in petals, the roof decoration is the same as the East Hall of Wutai County Foguang Temple, the East Hall is also flat, the edge is inclined to pave, the center is made of octagonal, and there may be painted or metal petals inside
【Flat at the top of the tower ventricle】
【Edge tilt paving】
【The flat and edge slope paving of the East Hall of Foguang Temple】
【Octagonal space at the top of the East Hall】
The back of the pagoda is inlaid with the inscription "Remembering Master Minghui of the Zifeng Shanhai Guild Courtyard" in the third year (932) of the Later Tang Dynasty, according to the inscription, Master Minghui died in the fourth year of The Tang Dynasty (877), and then the pagoda was built, why did it take more than fifty years to add the inscription? The answer may be found in the Changxing Three-Year Inscription, which not only records the life of Master Minghui, but also records the fourth to the fourth degree of the temple's tiansheng, which is related to the reward of the imperial court after the death of Master Minghui, which may have been ignored in the original inscription, so the inscription should be rewritten for future generations to confirm
【Inscription on the back of the tower】
There is a sentence in the three-year inscription of Changxing, "Then there is a que record in the year of Qianfu, the words are long and recounted, and the line record is an ode...", it can be seen that there was an inscription when the qianfu was built in the fourth year of the tower, and the number of words is too much to record completely, only one hymn is recorded, and the inscription of the fourth year of qianfu no longer exists
According to the inscription, Master Minghui is commonly known as Yan, a Linyi person from Langya, and is the same as Yan Zhenqing
Master Ming Hui was stationed in Songchi Temple, Xilicheng County, Songchi Temple is no longer there, originally in Songjiazhuang Village, Licheng County, Pingshun Longmen Temple has a Northern Song Dynasty Chongning second year (1103) inscription poem stele, is Licheng County Ling Sun Bo to visit Longmen Temple along the way to write several poems, one of which is "Left Title Songchi Courtyard", from The valley along the southeast direction of Licheng County can reach the temples along the Zhanghe River, SongchiYuan is on this road
【Pingshun Longmen Temple Water and Land Hall Wall Northern Song Dynasty Chongning Ii Year Inscription Poem Stele】
Later, Master Minghui came to the HaihuiYuan and collected disciples, and his influence gradually expanded
The death of Master Minghui recorded in the inscription is quite bizarre, Qianfu four years ago someone told the master, the thief Kou Baoguang wanted to harm the master, it is best to hide, the master said that I have long been not afraid of life and death, if I am killed, "to fulfill the long-cherished wish", the master was indeed killed that year
The death of Master Minghui even alarmed the emperor, who was made Master Minghui and had many rewards, and his disciples Chongzhao and others built pagodas
Master Minghui did not carve a chestnut under the eaves of the pagoda, but showed a sparrow-eye net, and similar techniques were applied to many stone pagodas and stone lamps, such as the stone lamp of the faxing temple of the eldest son in the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty (773), and the Huifeng stone pagoda of The Qinglian Temple in Zezhou in the second year of Qianning (895).
【The screen of the bird's eye under the eaves of the stone lamp of the eldest son Faxing Temple】
【Stone Lamp of Faxing Temple】
【Bird's eye net under the eaves of huifeng stone pagoda of Qinglian Temple】
【Huifeng Stone Pagoda】
In addition to weaving a grid with bamboo grates, you can also weave characters and dragons and phoenixes, and the eaves of the Tang Dynasty DomoRoshi Pagoda in The Caotang Temple in Enyi District, Shaanxi Province, are also carved out of the bird's eye net, and the pattern on the top shows the characters and Huayun
【Screen with a pattern of finches under the eaves of Kumoroshi Pagoda of Caotang Temple】
【Kudoji Temple Kumarosh Pagoda】
"Construction of the French Style" also said that if the maple is above six paving, the finch eye net is divided into two compartments, and then look at the sparrow eye net of the MingHui Master Pagoda, it is divided into two grids, it can be seen that the prototype of its imitation of the fir is greater than the six paving, the existing eight Tang Dynasty wooden structure ancient buildings, in addition to the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes 196 cave eaves are incomplete, only the Foguang Temple East Hall exceeds six paving, for the seven paving double copy double ang
【Minghui Master Ta Que Eye Net divided into upper and lower two grids】
【Foguang Temple East Hall Seven Paved Trees】