"Jing Ji Dong Xuan" (Yang Kui Self-Selected Works, Volume II) by Yang Kui, Writers Publishing House, May 2022 edition.
When I was in middle school, I often went to Xishan for an outing with my classmates, if I bought a ticket from Xiangshan to enter the door, I climbed to the top of the mountain, and then trekked all the way from the ridge to the southern section of the mountain, and went out from badachu Park. On the other hand, if you enter from the Eight Great Places, you will come out of Xiangshan.
From the foot of the mountain all the way up, there is a Chang'an Temple, two Lingguang Temple, three Sanshan Temples, four Great Compassion Temples, five Longquan Temples, six Xiangjie Temples, seven Baozhu Caves, and eight Zhengguo Temples. The oldest is the two Lingguang Temples, as well as the special Buddha tooth relics enshrined here, which is also the seat of the Beijing Buddhist Association, so the incense is flourishing. Nowadays, every weekend, or the first and fifteenth day of the first year, or the anniversary of the birthday of the Buddha, the birthday of Guanyin, etc., the eight major roads are blocked, and most people come to burn incense in two places to worship the Buddha, and by the way, they climb the mountain and look far away.
Although Chang'an Temple is the first of the eight major places, it has always been little known. I have lived in Beijing for more than thirty years, and I have been to Bada many times, and I never knew that there was a Chang'an Temple. Three years ago, because of some chance, I had the privilege of joining the great cause of repairing Chang'an Temple, and when I went to the field for the first time, I parked my car in the parking lot in front of the park, came down to inquire with the locals, asked the fourth person, and then pointed to a red wall on the side of the parking lot and said: Oh! There head.
Originally, Chang'an Temple was not within the walls of bada parks.
He has been involved in the repair work of Chang'an Temple for more than two years, and all the repairs of the ancient building have been completed. During this period, I searched countless times among the barren grass and dilapidated houses in the courtyard, trying to find the traces left by the ancients when the temple was first built, but the tiles were missing. In desperation, I had to go to the library to check the relevant classics, and search for stories about the courtyard on the Internet. At night, under the bright moon of Langruo Day, I will inspect this courtyard inch by inch, check and inquire with the former person in my imagination, and thus learn some stories of Chang'an Temple, and I am willing to share.
Yang Kui.
Geography of Chang'an Temple
The first time I walked into Chang'an Temple, the ruins of the wall were broken and devastated.
The temple sits on the west and faces the east, covers an area of about fifty acres, and is divided into three parts: left, middle and right:
The middle part is divided into front and back, and in front of it is an empty yard, the ground is uneven, overgrown with weeds, and dozens of pine trees, almond trees, magnolias and so on are scattered between them. In the middle of the courtyard, there is an east-west brick paving path that leads to a green stone staircase with white jade. The white jade railing is a new piece of the old one, like a patched dress, obviously repaired several times in different years. Pick up the stairs, that is, see an ancient building group, the standard Ming and Qing style two-entry courtyard, regular and tidy, four square. On the central axis, there are the Protector Hall, the Shakyamuni Hall and the Guanyin Hall arranged in front and behind, and there are several partial halls on both sides. The front and back courtyards are connected by two moon gates, one on the left and one on the right. All the houses were in tatters due to disrepair, and the walls of the side hall were covered with dusty portraits of beautiful women left by former residents. Dust off the old ashes, which turned out to be a wall calendar from the 1980s. The moon gate is about to collapse because of the decay at the top, and it is about to become heart-shaped, and when it crosses, it will subconsciously reach out to support it.
The left part, that is, the south side of the temple, is a nearly square courtyard with a huge factory-type building, made of green bricks, seven or eight meters high, far higher than the temple hall in the courtyard. From this height, it can be seen that the house must be a product of the era of complete ignorance of what etiquette is, because even the slightest reverence understands that in the temple, the roof of the main hall should be the commanding height. Yes, this factory-type building was left over from the occupation of this courtyard by the troops in the 1960s and 1970s, and judging from its shape, it should be used as a canteen, and there are still small windows selling vegetables in it. At the entrance of the canteen, there is a rockery made of rocks, and the "top of the mountain" is a large water tank, which should be the original storage of water for landscape use - a ridiculous artificial waterfall.
The right part, the north side of the temple, is a larger courtyard with irregular edges, dominated by yellow earth and a few trees. There is a garbage dump in the west, and it stinks in summer. On holidays with good weather, men and women with white-collar or wives-like appearances carry baskets of birds to fly here, and there are words in their mouths, and it is Buddhists who are releasing.
Monument of Chang'an Temple
Just on the south side of the White Jade Staircase, there is an old stone stele, the inscription as a whole is scattered, and the individual handwriting is still faintly recognizable. Later, it was found that at present, only the National Library of China in the world has a two-piece rubbing of this stele (yin and yang). The collection of the national map is named "Shanying Temple Stele", the first inscription is "Rebuilding the Shanying Zen Temple Forever for the Ten Directions Permanent Residence Monument", and the inscription of the Seal Book is "Rebuilding the Shanying Temple Forever as the Ten Directions Permanent Residence Monument", yin and yang. Gong Dingxiao wrote an inscription, strictly roped Sun Zhengshu and sealed his forehead.
From this inscription, you can learn about some of the history of Chang'an Temple in fragments. Chang'an Temple was first established in the seventeenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1504) and was built according to the specifications of the royal temple. According to the inscription of Gong Dingzi, it was "magnificent in scale and outstanding in appearance" at that time. According to the "Imperial Capital Scenery and Material Strategy", the Chang'an Temple in the Ming Dynasty was crowned with statues in the Xishan Temples of Beijing, and these Buddha statues sat on several, and the Han people's appearance was different from the posture and appearance of common Buddha statues. The five hundred statues of Arhats in the temple, crossing the end and stepping on the sea, playing a variety of games, are modeled on the mural style painted by a painter who was given the name "Hao Unbelief" by Emperor Xuanzong in the Ming Dynasty at The Changhua Temple in Nanjing.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Chang'an Temple was repaired on a large scale, and the renovation was presided over by Gong Dingzi, the rebbe of the rebbe at that time. The Kangxi Decade (1671) was completed, and this monument was erected to commemorate it.
The two "responsible persons" of the inscription were both famous people at that time. Yan Shengsun was a good friend of Nalan Rongruo, a calligrapher and painter, which Wang Shizhen had strongly appreciated. Gong Dingzi's reputation is even greater, but this reputation is not very good. This person was a jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634) and served as an official in the Ming Dynasty. When Li Zicheng entered the Ming Palace, he first committed suicide by throwing himself into a well with his family, but failed, so he surrendered Li Chuang. Li was defeated and surrendered. Later, he successively served as the Shangshu of the Qing government.
Gong Dingzi was very talented, and together with qian Qianyi and Wu Weiye, two famous talents of that year, he was called "The Three Greats of Jiang Zuo". I found a modern scholar who studied his thesis, saying that he "ran the poetry circle of the early Qing Dynasty with the wisdom of a quick talent, the wisdom of a partial teacher, the strength of a strong force, and the appropriate feelings."
Gong Dingzi also had a matter that was often mentioned in the city, Gu Hengbo, who was known as the most beautiful among the famous Qin Huai Bayan, was adopted as a concubine by him at the age of twenty-two, and the two were similar in age and always guarded. When Gu Hengbo passed away in the third year of The Kangxi Dynasty, Gong Dingzi wrote a legendary collection of lyrics for her, "White Gate Willow". Later generations often used the image of "Baimen Liu" to depict the stories of those talented and beautiful people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, for example, in the early years, the Guangdong writer Liu Sifen created a trilogy of novels "Baimen Liu", writing the story of Mao Xiang, one of the four gentlemen of the Fu Society, and Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai.
The plaque of Chang'an Temple
On the lintel of the Protector's Temple, there is a brick plaque. When I first entered Chang'an Temple, although this plaque was damaged in many places, the color and handwriting were still clear. This plaque is in the most eye-catching position, a bit like the door number of Chang'an Temple, and naturally all repairs will focus on it. Further aside, the last repair of Chang'an Temple was in 1980, although limited to the material conditions at that time, the repair was quite simple, but because of its height, it was not easy to destroy it and maintain its general appearance.
The plaque is decorated with yellow tile carvings, blue gold characters, and the six characters of the book "Shanying Chang'an Zen Forest", and there is a seal engraved in the middle and above, and the seal book has four words: The Emperor's Six Sons Chapter.
Chang'an Temple was originally named Shanying Temple, but was later changed to Chang'an Temple. The specific time of change cannot be clarified. The name "Zen Forest" is also a bit strange to say, because according to the historical data I found, the monasteries of the Xishan Generation, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, were mostly in charge of the Xianshou Sect (also known as the Huayan Sect), and only found that from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, there was a Linji Sect monk Ren Tian zen master who presided over the affairs of the Chang'an Temple. And this plaque is signed "The Sixth Son of the Emperor" inscribed, something that happened during the Qianlong period. I don't know what the story is behind it, but I doubt it.
The "sixth son of the emperor" is also very famous, his name is Yong Yao, he is the sixth son of the Qianlong Emperor, seventeen years old Feng Belle, less than thirty years old Feng Qianjun Wang, at the age of thirty became the president of the "Four Libraries Quanshu". When the Siku Quanshu was revised and submitted to the Qianlong Emperor for review, twelve "authors" were signed, and Yong Yao ranked first. In the archives of the Qing Palace, there is also a copy of "Qianlong Was Ordered to List the Names of the Ministers Involved in handling the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" on July 19, 47", a long list, from the president, vice president, chief reading officer, general editor, all the way to the official in charge and the supervising official... There were more than three hundred people, and the first in line was still the "Sixth Son of the Emperor, the King of Dorothy County". In recent years, Ji Xiaolan, who has become popular throughout the country because of tv dramas, is the chief compiler of the "Four Libraries complete book".
To digress, it is interesting that the first edition of the "Siku Quanshu" has been more than ten years, and when it was first compiled, Ji Xiaolan was just a "bachelor of attendants" from Sipin, and during the compilation process, he was promoted all the way to the completion of the compilation, and he had been promoted to the position of Gong Dingzi in that year: from the Shangshu of the Yipin Libu Department.
Yong Yao was favored by Qianlong because of his talent, and was once considered a strong contender for the heir to the throne. At the age of forty-six, he was made a prince, which seemed to be one step closer to taking over the throne. Unfortunately, in less than a year, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, who died in front of Qianlong, and he failed to catch up with his father's eighty-year-old birthday celebration.
Judging from this plaque, after ten years of large-scale repairs by Kangxi, at least the Qianlong Dynasty repaired it again, otherwise Yong Yao would not have been able to write this plaque.
The pagoda of Chang'an Temple
In the two courtyards of the north and south of Chang'an Temple, there is a square monk pagoda in a symmetrical position, a brick and earth structure, an outer layer of brick carving, and an inner layer of rammed earth. When I entered Chang'an Temple, the North Courtyard Pagoda looked like a tower-shaped mound, and almost the entire outer layer of bricks was lost. The south courtyard tower is relatively well preserved, but the base of the tower is seriously damaged, and a large hole has been dug in the middle of the tower, it is estimated that it wants to take out some treasures, but it is not expected to be a solid brick tower, and it has not returned.
Judging from the shape of the two towers, it should have been the same system. On the front of the brick tower there are three strips of white jade in a horizontal, two-vertical, and engraved with upper and lower couplets and horizontal batches. The upper and lower links of the South Pagoda are: "Empty Hua Kai Falls back to the True Truth, Wisdom Fruit Circle Becomes Nirvana", and horizontally criticizes "Plugging the Remains". "窣堵" is a Sanskrit transliteration, also known as "窣堵波", is one of the unique types of architecture in ancient Buddhism, generally in the shape of a circular tower, mainly used to enshrine the relics, objects or scriptures of the Buddha or the great masters of the Buddha.
After reading some materials, I learned that the destroyed pagoda in the north courtyard of Chang'an Temple was built for the monk Zhou Guan Gong of the Thirty-first Ancestor of the Xianshou Sect, and there was also a joint saying on it: "Appear in the Hengsha Robbery, and the fruit is under the Bodhi Tree", and the horizontal batch is "In the Everlasting Light". The pagoda was built in the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776). Originally, there was also an inscription: "The Abbot of The Temple of Chin Ming Wanshou Temple, the Kaishan of Maitreya Temple, and the Pagoda of the Monk of zhou guan gong of the thirty-first generation of Chuanxian Shouzong." Guang zhou guan gong is a generation of famous monks, it is said that the writings are quite rich, but I only found that there are "Measuring Zhou Quotations" handed down. Wanshou Temple is the large courtyard on the southeast side of today's Zizhu Bridge, which was the big temple of that year, the world-famous Big Bell Temple Yongle Big Bell, which was suspended in the Ming Dynasty at the Wanshou Temple. The temples of the Xishan generation have been held by the abbot of The Manju-ji Temple for many terms.
Speaking of this, I can't help but sigh that life is really a strange fate. When I was in high school, I was particularly rebellious, did not want to study anymore, and worked as a temporary worker in the compound of Wanshou Temple for several months. At that time, Wanshou Temple was the site of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature that Ba Jin had initiated, and I copied catalog cards for a whole summer in the library of the Literature Museum. After more than twenty years, I met wanshou temple again because I went to Chang'an Temple to see this brick pagoda.
The pagoda in the South Courtyard was built for the 32nd Emperor Huiyue chenggong of the Xianshou Sect. The date of construction should be during the Jiaqing period, because after the joint language there is an inscription signed: "Qing University Scholar Dong Shu Shu In the Twelfth Year of Jiaqing".
Dong Yu was also a famous courtier of the Qing Dynasty, from a family of officials and eunuchs, his father was named Dong Bangda, when the Qianlong Emperor was young, he served as an imperial teacher and gave the Forbidden City to ride a horse. He is also Ji Xiaolan's teacher, and he is also a famous calligrapher and painter. Dong Yu, also unambiguous, Qianlong twenty-ninth year (1764) temple test of the flower. Later, he successively served as a ceremony, worker, household, official, squire of the criminal department, military minister, and Hubu Shangshu, and was a very popular minister. Shortly after the Jiaqing Emperor ascended the throne, he was neutral in his campaign to eradicate Hezhen. When Dong Xuan died, the Jiaqing Emperor personally came to pay tribute, and the imperial lamentation had the sentence "Only the article is passed on to the children and nephews, and there is no currency to put the farm".
Interestingly, Dong Huan is also the vice president of the Four Libraries. From Yongyao to Dong Yao, the cultural atmosphere of Chang'an Temple is quite strong, which is probably one of the potential reasons why I loved this place deeply when I came to Chang'an Temple.
The tree of Chang'an Temple
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, xishan bada was not only a famous feng shui treasure land of the Beijing master, but also a favorite place for people to go to the green and escape the summer at that time. At that time, this generation was known as "three mountains, eight brakes, and twelve scenery". There is a scene in the "Twelve Scenic Spots" called "Spring Mountain Apricot Forest", that is, it refers to the dense almond trees around Chang'an Temple, and when the spring returns to the earth, the pink and white apricot blossoms bloom, the four wild aromas, and the landscape is pleasant.
Unfortunately, only one apricot tree remains in the front yard of Chang'an Temple. Every time the apricots ripen, full of small and yellow apricots, no one picks, ripe and fall to the ground, pick up and eat, sweet and sour, excellent taste, not supermarket fruit stalls sell those nutrient solution ripe apricots can be compared.
The trees currently left behind at Chang'an Temple are mainly pine trees. There is a huge tower pine in the south courtyard, which is mighty and majestic in summer, covering the sky and the sun; Winter is slightly withered and pine needles are scattered. Because it is in a nest outlet, the pine needles scattered on the ground will be blown into a ball of shape, much like a dense and solid futon.
Chang'an Temple also has two whitebark pines that are very famous, and in the second courtyard, one south and one north are listed in front of the Guanyin Hall. These two trees were planted in the Yuan Dynasty. I saw in a 1912 archive of the "Peiping Special Municipal Social Bureau" that experts inspected the whole of Beijing that year and identified hundreds of large trees to be protected, and these two trees were listed.
The two trees are now in charge of the government, and every year they are a meter or two away from the trunk, and the ancient trees are subjected to nutrient solution through special pipes, so they are still full of vitality.
There are also two whitebark pine trees in front of the Sakyamuni Temple, which should have been planted slightly later than the two. In the spring and summer, there are often small squirrels jumping between the branches of the tree and playing happily. One afternoon I was idle, standing under the tree interacting with the little ones, and when I made a sound, they jumped; I was silent, and they didn't move. So and so, I don't feel the sunset is full of sky.
The people of Chang'an Temple
Since the establishment of Chang'an Temple, I don't know how many abbots I have experienced and how many monks have been accepted to practice here, but the information I have is limited and cannot be verified, but I can only know some fragments, such as the aforementioned Quan Zhou Guan Gong, Hui Yue Chenggong, and Shou Tian Zen Master are closely related to it. The data has gradually increased during the Republic of China, and many details of the original file can still be seen. Here, part of the archives from 1930 to 1952 are selected and presented here, and the leopard is glimpsed in the tube, from which the decline of Chang'an Temple can be roughly seen, as well as some of the living conditions of the monks of Chang'an Temple at that time.
On June 24, 1930, the abbot of Chang'an Temple, Hua Chen (31 years old, from Wanping, Hebei Province, commonly known as Zheng), submitted a report to the Beiping Special Municipal Social Bureau on the chang'an Temple real estate:
In order to report the registration of temple property, the thief served as an abbot at Chang'an Temple, No. 70, the fourth platform of Xiangshan in the western suburbs, and is now registering temple property in accordance with the rules. The monk's temple has a total of 41 Buddhist hall group rooms, 20 acres of mountainous land inside and outside the temple, an abbot, two workers, the rest of the utensils list is attached, the outside report is not hidden, etc., it is reasonable to abide by the rules and guarantees, and the petition for registration is for public convenience.
General Table of Temple Registration Terms:
It was rebuilt in the seventeenth year of Ming Hongzhi and rebuilt in the tenth year of Kangxi, for the Tanyue Gongde. Guangxu funded the reconstruction of the monk (Note: Shoutian monk) for the 25th year.
Number of houses: nine in the main hall, thirty-two rooms, the majority of the collapsed.
Number of acres of land: twenty acres of hillside land inside and outside the temple.
Types of magic objects: one large bronze bell, one small iron bell, one iron □, one iron chime, two sides of the old drum, five offerings of wood, one stone stele, and six trees.
(The large bronze bell was cast by the Ming Dynasty, as evidenced by the inscription on it.) The remnants of the generations have passed down the faith to the Buddha. ）
Buddha statue: one bronze statue of Emperor Guandi in the front hall, nine clay statues of the gods. There are five wooden statues of Buddha in the Nave III. There are eleven clay statues of The Lady of the Apse, one small bronze statue, one wooden statue of the Jade Emperor, and three statues of the Vedic god.
On March 11, 1935, He resigned from his position as abbot due to illness. The abbot of Zhengguo Temple, Kuang Kuang (then sixty-one years old, a native of Hengshui, Hebei Province, who lived in Huayan Temple outside deshengmen) petitioned the "Beijing Special Municipal Social Bureau" and was temporarily replaced by Ben Rong as abbot of Chang'an Temple. Judging from the existing data, the "resignation" of the dust is not the cause of illness, and there are many hidden feelings, such as people from other temples who come to the government to accuse him of indiscriminately cutting down trees in the temple, and some people secretly ridicule him for mental illness, and so on. This batch of information is very speechless to see - at that time, the small society of the sangha in the Xishan area did not seem to be pure, especially in the state of poverty, and it was even more unkind.
Honjo died eight years after succeeding the abbot of Chang'an Temple. In November 1943, the broad monk petitioned the Social Bureau -
In order to petition, the abbot of Chang'an Temple in Cuiwei Mountain, in the western suburbs of the city, was robbed of the abbot of Chang'an Temple, Who died of illness at Huayan Temple on October 19, 32 of the Republic of China, and left behind a seat for the abbot of Chang'an Temple, and on November 8, the abbot of the First Sect of Benxian was put on behalf of the abbot of chang'an Temple. In addition to filing with the Beijing Buddhist Association, it is actually a public convenience to submit a petition to the Jun Bureau according to the instructions for the record.
Followed by the source of the measure of the curriculum vitae ——
Dharma name Shi Huai, word quantity source, now forty-eight years old, originally from Xingtai County, Hebei Province, Song Clan, five-year-old monk, touben County Longhua Temple Li Chenglin master, Zhu Fa in the winter of the fourth year of the Republic of China, Yi Xishan Jietai Wanshou Temple, Yi Dawen old monk seat under the full ordination, the Republic of China seventeen years back to the Flower Temple, Eighteen Years August 16 conferred the abbot of the Flower Temple.
The Social Bureau sent someone to interrogate the reporter, and the archives were also preserved.
Transcript of the interrogation of the Chang'an Temple and the Zong family (November 29, 1943):
Q: Why hasn't Chang'an Temple implemented an official abbot yet?
Answer: Because the temple site is remote and the income is very small, and it is impossible to provide for one person's life, the Zhenwu Temple Rendao was elected to take over, but Rendao refused, so it was jointly decided to temporarily appoint the abbot of The Abbot of Nianhua Temple, and then elect the official abbot in a better year.
Q: Does Ben Rong have any disputed debts to the temple?
A: There are no disputed debts, and this case is jointly responsible for guaranteeing.
Q: Who will be sent by the acting abbot of The source to take care of the temple?
Answer: It is proposed to send a monk to take care of everything, and the cost will be borne by the Nianhua Temple.
All of the above offerings are true.
Signature: Yousheng Temple ZhongBao Guangji Temple Qingyuan Yanshou Temple Certificate and Jingmo Temple Benli Jingye Temple Jade □ Baotong Temple Huicheng East Guanyin Temple Yuxi Shouxing Temple Chonghui Western Temple Yong'an Guangci Nunnery Bishan Nianhua Temple Volume Source Lingguang Temple Shou □ Xiangjie Temple Defu Zi Tong Temple FaKui Xian Liang Temple Sacred Spring Ci'en Temple Huiming Guanyin Temple Puxian Fu □ Zhengguo Temple wide
In 1950, the Park Management Committee of the People's Government of Beijing Municipality of New China issued a "Survey Report on the Eight Major Sites of Xishan and the Retreat Valley Mountain Field". The report said:
Chang'an Temple (a Zenying Temple)... There are forty or fifty houses that can be used soon (except for the main hall), the abbot monk Liang Yuan now lives in Beijing, and the deputy monk lives in the Dragon King Hall, which is now occupied by Lao Da. Complete utensils. Within the realm to which it belongs, there are five private villas and one cemetery, which are described as follows:
First, the monk's tomb of the Wuliang Temple, there is a tomb house in the east, and seven or eight stone rooms, which are now occupied by the police station, which is located in the south of chang'an Temple.
Second, Wang Yintai Villa is on the slope of The South Mountain in Hutou Mountain, with more than 20 rooms, Western-style □□ and sanitary equipment, and lack of utensils. One or two rooms have collapsed into the open air. Wang was a traitor to the chairman of the puppet North China government, and the room was not dealt with by anyone to guard.
3. Feng Guozhang Villa. There are five stone rooms, under Wang Yintai's room, the door number is No. 80, which is built by Feng Da's daughter-in-law, there are not many utensils, the room is not used, and it can be used after □ wipe, and it has not been processed.
Fourth, Qian Fangshi Villa is in the north of Chang'an Temple, the small medicine shop is uphill in the west, across the dry stone river on the shore, there are more than ten buildings, now used by the University of Labor, Qian once served as the General Administration of Salt Affairs, and is now guarded by Li Gui.
5. Qian Wenguang villa is in the north of Chang'an Temple, the gate is diagonally opposite the small wooden bridge, fifteen or six Chinese-style rooms, all utensils, the caretaker Zhang Baocai, the room is used by Lao da. Qian worked at the Salt Affairs Bureau.
Sixth, Cao Liming villa in Chang'an Temple diagonally opposite the north bank of the gate, the national primary school south (middle partition Kong house) has more than 20 buildings and bungalows, the ground is bought from Zhao Qinghua, the house is still intact, the garden is beautiful, the furniture is incomplete, the current labor university use, the room has not been processed has no one to take care of, the main department is the former pseudo Kuomintang Sixteenth Army quartermaster.
On April 13, 1951, the monk Shinmei of The Temple of Reiko proposed to hand over the Temple to the Park Management Committee. At that time, the temple was home to the Laoda Medical Center and the Engineer Battalion.
On November 12, 1952, the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Beijing Municipal People's Government sent a letter to the Beijing Municipal Park Management Commission stating:
First, the eight scenic spots of Chaxi Mountain have been handed over by our bureau to the seven temples such as the second to the eighth place, and you will take over, and according to the first Chang'an Temple, the thick monk said, "I will hand over the Chang'an Temple to the public family, and ask for some treatment to solve the difficulties of life" and so on.
2. I hereby write to you to receive the temple in order to unify the management of the temple property in the scenic area, and ask you to give the jihou monks a case of assistance to give due care, and I hope to check and handle the reply as a charge.
At this point, Chang'an Temple as a temple, one era ended, another era began.
P.S
I was building a temple at Chang'an Temple, and sometimes relatives and friends came to visit, and I encountered two coincidences, which are recorded here.
One day the writer Zhao Zhao came to play, and as soon as he entered the hospital, he stared at the shadow wall in front of the door. The shadow wall should also be an old object that has not been moved, and there are four big words in the book on it: "Climb the land of joy."
Zhao Zhao didn't say anything more at that time, and then when he left, he stared at the shadow wall again, as if he was remembering something, and finally left with a suspicious face. That night, her fox mystery was revealed, and she sent a photo from MSN that she had taken in front of the shadow wall about twenty years ago. Zhao Zhao lived in Shijingshan, close to Chang'an Temple. But she couldn't figure out how she had come here and how she had left the picture.
Another day, a classmate of mine from college came to visit, and when he was wandering around the courtyard, he scratched his scalp from time to time and said: How do I always think that I have come to this place! I was joking: I came in a dream.
Early the next morning, my classmate called excitedly: For Chang'an Temple, you have to count me as a junior, I have not only been to Chang'an Temple, I was born in that courtyard.
That afternoon, the classmates came with his elderly parents, and the two old men kept talking from the moment they entered the courtyard door, lamenting that the change was too big and they didn't know each other. It turned out that they were civilian cadres of the Beijing Military Region, and their departmental offices and accommodations had been in this courtyard.
All the way to a side hall on the north side of the first courtyard, the old two looked around, and finally pointed to the house and said to their son: Yes! Just this one! Son, your father and your mother were married in this house.
This article is selected from "Jing Ji Dong Xuan", which has been abridged and modified compared with the original text. It has been authorized by the publishing house to publish.
Original author / Yang Kui
Excerpts/Ann also
Edit/Aoruko
Introduction Proofreading/Chen Diyan