The past and present life of Wuyun Temple
Author: Tao Jiazong (Hubei)
This article reviews the author's experience of visiting and viewing Wuyun Mountain with his friends, and introduces the history and current situation of Wuyun Temple. The temple is the only temple dedicated to Maitreya Buddha in the province, and has gone through ups and downs and has now become a tourist attraction. The article also depicts the natural beauty of Wuyun Mountain and the architectural style of the temple, as well as the feelings of the author and his friends.
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On this day, I met a few friends to play and watch Wuyun Mountain, so I wrote this article, which is not only a review of the past history, but also an explanation for this outing, and pushed it to the Baidu platform.
It is located in the north of the county, at the south end of the top of Wuyun Mountain at an altitude of 400 meters. Jiaqing Yiyou (i.e., 1765) temple on the right side of the stone carving "Wuyun Mountain Record" contains, "ancient Maitreya Hall also". According to the Provincial People's and Religious Affairs Committee, it is the only temple dedicated to Maitreya Buddha in the province. Maitreya Buddha is the successor of the world-honored Shakyamuni Buddha, and will be born in the world of sampa in the future, so it is also called the future Buddha. According to the speculation that "every time you meet an overseas master, you will also have more provincial understanding", "the ancient Maitreya Hall", and the Tang Dynasty is the heyday of Chinese Buddhism, and the temple should be built no later than the Tang Dynasty. Judging from the topography and temple base, the temple is very small, and Xu is subject to many restrictions, so it contains "the ruins of hazel plug". From the ancient Maitreya Hall to Taoism, and then to Buddhism, it has risen and fallen several times, and has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. According to the memories of the locals, it was only 30 square meters at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
During the period of going to the countryside, I came to Wuyun Mountain for sightseeing, looked around, "I will be at the top of the mountain, and I can see the mountains at a glance", which is appropriately described in Du Fu's poem. The nine mountain ranges meander away, and the outline is deed, and it is easy to collect and release, and Luculent is in the universe, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the field of vision is broad. As "The Story of Wuyun Mountain" said, "One peak is unique, there are many cliffs on the top, hanging rocks on the left and right, and the view down can be palpitating." The mountains are standing, the delicate and exquisite, a thousand miles away, and the wonders of the world." Wuyun Mountain has a beautiful ecology and rich natural resources, which is a rare situation to create a tourist attraction.
The development of tourism is ambitious. At the beginning of 1993, as soon as I became the person in charge, I organized the leaders of the relevant ministries, commissions and bureaus directly under the county to inspect Wuyun Mountain, and introduced the concept of Wuyun Mountain as a tourist area and Wuyun Temple as a key supporting leading scenic spot. Everyone was enthusiastic and rushed to speak, and spoke highly of this vision. The first step was to make every effort to open the Wuyun Temple as a place of religious activities, but the process was too long. It is true that the United Front Work Department has great resistance, but it is not the main one; the resistance of the county government's religious affairs section is the main, but it is not decisive, and the real obstacle is a certain deputy director of the government office in charge of the religious affairs section.
The focus is: MGTO has no authority to control religion, and I also stress that since religion is a branch of tourism, the opening of the Wuyun Temple is to build it as a key scenic spot project supporting the Wuyun Mountain Tourist Area, with a view to promoting the overall development of the tourist area; I agree to my request, but the Tsz Wan Pavilion should also be opened at the same time, and I reiterate that the Tourism Bureau is not a religious management department, and I am only in charge of the Wuyun Temple, which is a supporting project for tourist attractions; After more than a year, Zhang Jiji, deputy director in charge of secretarial affairs of the government office, really couldn't get used to such procrastination and prevarication, and tried his best to turn around from Zhonghan and turn around, but after no result, he was helped by a third party, and the county government (1994) No. 46 document was issued.
With the concerted efforts of Chen Xiande, Shi Zeli and others, the construction of Wuyun Temple was slowly promoted in extreme predicament, and the steep and difficult hillside temple was built because of the simplicity, and the hall was built one after another, the statue of Maitreya Buddha, and the chat room, with an area of 1,000 square meters. Organize chanting, radio and television publicity, in order to expand the influence of yes, attract pilgrims, in order to roll development. ......
The ship arrived at the dock and the car arrived at the station, which was relegated to the second line, and the tourism bureau was separated, and I settled in Wuhan. - It should be said that all the departures are enough to save up disappointments.
More than 20 years later, I suddenly received a WeChat message from my friend Luo Kaiming, "I specially follow your "Green Mountains Do Not Ink Thousand Autumn Paintings, Green Water Without Strings and Ten Thousand Guqins", stay by the Crescent Lake for one night, and visit the Wuyun Temple, I feel very cool." And my essay is the swaying of sleepwalking in Wuyun Mountain. Brother Luo's WeChat awakened the memory that had been erased by the years. Decades have passed in the hourglass, and I have never set foot again. In this way, what kind of situation in Wuyun Temple actually made my benevolent brother in Wuhan "feel very cool"?
I really wanted to find out, and invited Zhang Jiji, deputy director of the county government office who was in charge of secretarial work at the time, and Lu Jinming, a traveler and chief physician of the county hospital, to revisit his hometown. Standing on the way to the tip of the rooster and looking into the distance, the Wuyun Temple standing proudly in the sky is directly inserted into the cloud arm, and it is shining under the blue sky and white clouds. It seems that the chaotic and dim old scene has changed.
A wide avenue leading to the Wuyun Temple had already been built, and we had to rush along the mountain trail without knowing it. Looking up, the whole building is integrated, the momentum is magnificent, and it is really a big deal. No wonder, Brother Luo feels very cool.
Although the terrain is limited, the fairy cave house, the eaves and arches, are still majestic. The hooves soar, high above the clouds, high and abrupt. Walking up the marble steps, the huge complex of buildings has completely shattered the original pattern of the past, giving you a bits and pieces that you can't get back at all. The construction of such a large hall is the main hall of the Mahavira Hall and the main hall of the Maitreya Hall, each with an area of 50 square meters, which is surprising and unimaginable. The longest stop here, two major halls are dedicated to the Buddha Shakyamuni and the future Maitreya Buddha. Raise your eyes and look around, the flags, statues are dazzling, and the Buddha statues listed on both sides of the room have different expressions and thousands of postures.
Seeing the smiling appearance of Maitreya Buddha, I remembered the couplet of Guiyuan Temple, "Laugh when you open your mouth, laugh at the ridiculous people in the world; When the brain is neutral, there is another couplet that can be used as a couplet of Wuyun Temple, "good will prosper, not prosper, the ancestors will have remnants of suffering, and the evil will be destroyed, not destroyed, the ancestors will have residual virtue and virtue will be destroyed". The third hall is built on the south side of the top of Wuyun Mountain, the area is the smallest, and the two major halls below are longitudinally straight. According to the extremely steep mountain-shaped landform, the "inverted eight-character" and "eight-character" step corridors connect the triple halls in a close and orderly manner. In order to facilitate pilgrims to choose the temple to offer incense, a pedestrian marble step was laid on the steep slope on the left side from the bottom to the top. For the sake of safety and convenience of climbing, steel railings that can be used as handrails and protective are set on both sides of the steps.
Such a scene, known as the literary accomplishment of Zhang Jiji, with the "color" ornament, comes as soon as he opens his mouth: orange-yellow walls, purple glazed tiles, blue-gray columns, white floating clouds, and blue sky, highlighting the majesty of the Buddhist temple. Lu Jinming, who sighed with admiration, kept praising him, "Buddhism is clear, solemn and solemn, and it is worth the trip, a rare tourist attraction."
About author:Tao Jiazong, a native of Yingshan, Hubei, a member of the Communist Party of China, a junior college, a Chinese Internet writer. The books and periodicals that he has collected, edited, written and published mainly include "Yingshan County Textile Industry Chronicle". The large-scale documentary literature of more than 1.6 million words, "Under the Great Bend of the Times", was reported by the Yangtze River Daily and reprinted by many media. He has been engaged in administrative management for a long time, and has successively served as a staff member of the Light Industry Bureau, the Establishment Office, and the main person in charge of the Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs and Tourism Bureau. After his retirement, he continued to write, mainly engaged in essays, novels, reportage, reviews and other creations, with a total of more than 200,000 words. Enthusiastically eulogizing the lives of ordinary people, integrating ideology and artistry, it is highly readable and deeply loved by reciters. "I Have Been to This World" (upper and lower episodes) has been officially published by Guangming Daily Publishing House.
Reprinted from "Baidu Account"