Five Mountains and Ten Brakes - the highest official temple in the ancient Chinese system. The monasteries are located in a scenic wonderland, a treasure land of feng shui, and a gathering of high monks. Each monastery has its own unique experience, the rise and fall of a thousand years.
The Zen Temple of the Song Dynasty enjoyed many privileges, and the abbot was selected by the court to serve as a senior monk. The temple is majestic and magnificent, and there are countless precious cultural relics; the temple fields given by the officials range from thousands of acres to tens of thousands of acres. They are not only the sixteen highest-ranking temples in ancient times, but also the most solemn and magnificent temples, which can be called the top "rich temples".
Snow Mountain Temple
Temple name: Xuefeng Temple
Rank of Guansi Temple: 7th in the Ten Brakes
Founded: 11th year of Tang Xiantong (870)
Zen Temple Address: Minhou County, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, northwest of the snow peak phoenix mountain southern foothills
Opening hours: 8:00 ~ 18:00
Nearby attraction: Emperor's Cave Grand Canyon
Monastic history: 1151
Seokho-ji Temple
Xuefeng Chongsheng Zen Temple, also known as Chongsheng Temple, is located in the southern foothills of Xuefeng Phoenix Mountain in the northwest of Minhou County, Fuzhou City. Xuefeng Mountain, whose original name is Elephant Bone Peak, stretches for more than 60 miles, spanning the four counties of Minhou, Luoyuan, Gutian and Minqing, and is 77 kilometers away from Fuzhou. Xuefeng Mountain, together with Drum Mountain and Qishan Mountain, surrounds Fuzhou, and is collectively known as Fuzhou's "Three Absolutes".
Xuefeng Temple in Xuefeng Mountain
Xuefeng Temple, formerly known as "Yingtian Xuefeng Zen Temple", was built in the eleventh year of Tang Xiantong (870), more than thirty years before the establishment of Yongquan Temple in Gushan (Yongquan Temple's founding ancestor Shen Yan was a high disciple of The Zen master Yicun of Xuefeng Temple), and most of the existing temples were rebuilt during the Guangxu years.
Snow view of Xuefeng Temple
The "Dead Wood Temple", a few hundred meters southeast of the temple, is said to have been the place where Kaishan's ancestor Yi yi was deposited in the mountain.
Dead wood temple
Inside the temple, there is a dead tree more than 3,000 years old, only the trunk of the tree is more than 3 meters high, the belly of the tree is hollow, can accommodate more than 10 people, and now enshrines the golden statue of Yi Cun. The inner wall of the belly of the tree has the oldest surviving woodcut inscription in China, which records the historical facts of the min king's house and the construction of the pool.
Inside and outside the dead wood, there are more than 20 inscriptions of famous people from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which have been eroded by more than a thousand years of wind and rain and the burning knife slashing during the Cultural Revolution, most of which are now blurred and incomprehensible, and are roughly composed to recount the history of the nunnery and endow the dead wood.
This "tree belly stele" is one of the three wonders of wood carving in Fujian Province, which is unique in China.
Tree belly monument
The high monk Yicun (822-902) was the founder of Xuefeng Temple, a native of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, commonly known as Zeng Mian, and a legendary figure. Coming from a Buddhist family, he wanted to become a monk at the age of nine, but his parents did not allow him. At the age of twelve, he traveled with his father to putian Yujian Temple, and as soon as he saw the famous monk Qingxuan of high morals, he immediately knelt down to worship and called him a teacher, refusing to leave the temple. His father had to let him be a child attendant of Qingxuan's lawyer and stay with him.
At the age of seventeen, he finally fulfilled his wish, lost his hair, and changed his name to survival. During the Huichang period, Tang Wuzong destroyed the Buddha, destroyed the temple and expelled the monks, and made the monks and nuns return to the world. Soon after Yi Cun was forced to return to the world, he became a monk again. After several years of asceticism, he raised funds to build a monastery in Xiangkuo Mountain in Fuzhou, and his reputation was widely spread, and there were 1500 monks in his heyday. At the age of seventy, he traveled to Siming, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and the land of Danqiu in Jiangsu. Later, he entered Fujian and died at the age of eighty-seven. Proficient in Buddhism, highly respected. Two of the five Zen sects are from his sect.
The golden body of the Righteous Zen Master
The five Buddhist Zen sects are: Dharma Eye Sect, Yunmen Sect, Linji Sect, Cao Dong Sect, and Shu Yang Sect. Among them, the Dharma Eye Sect and the Yunmen Sect both come from the Dharma system of the Yi Cun Zen Master. Therefore, the Buddhists of both sects revere Xuefeng Temple as the "ancestral court".
Nanti Pagoda, or Tomb Pagoda of Yicun Zushi, is the flesh pagoda of Yicun, located on the right side of the Dharma Hall, built in the first year of the Fifth Dynasty Liang Kaiping (907). The tower is like a round bell, and each square stone is engraved with a pebble, a total of more than 200, there is a legend of stone egg popcorn. According to the "Chronicle of Xuefeng Mountain", there are 225 inscriptions and prefaces in the pagoda, which are self-written by Yi Cun and signed by the King of Min.
Nanti Tower
In the fifth dynasty, King Zhenzhi of Min once asked Yi Cun, "What is the difference between The Master's Residence in Elephant Bone Peak?" Yi Cun replied, "In the summer at the top of the mountain, there is still snow." Wang Yue: "It is a mountain that can be called a snow peak." As a result, Xiang Bone Peak was renamed "Snow Peak".
After King Min died of illness, his eldest son Wang Yanhan succeeded to the throne. After reigning for only one year, the second brother Wang Yanjun seized the throne. 10 years later, Wang Yanjun's eldest son, Wang Jipeng, seized the throne.
View of Snow Peak Mountain
Less than four years after Wang Jipeng seized the throne, his confidants Lian Chongyu and Zhu Wenjin launched a mutiny to meet Wang Yanxi, the younger son of Wang Zhenzhi. Wang Yanxi, who had already claimed the title of king, chased and killed the family of his eldest brother Wang Jipeng on the way to escape. Who knew that he had only been on the throne for five years, and Lian and Zhu had once again launched a mutiny, Wang Yanxi had been killed, and Zhu Wenjin had proclaimed himself the King of Min.
Zhu Wenjin
When Zhu Wenjin became king, Zhu and Lian were killed by their subordinate Lin Renhan.
Lin Renhan wanted to establish Wang Yanzheng, the eleventh son of Wang Zhenzhi, who was proclaimed emperor in Quanzhou. Wang Yanzheng, who was known as Emperor Xiangfu on one side, did not come to Fuzhou and sent his nephew Wang Jichang to Fuzhou to oversee military affairs. The commander Li Renda had previously betrayed Wang Yanzheng and defected to Zhu Wenjin. Fearing reprisals from Wang Yanzheng, Li Renda and Huang Renyi launched a mutiny and murdered Wang Jichang on the second day of the third lunar month of the following year (945) and seized power in Fuzhou.
Li Renda wanted to claim himself king. But he knew very well that he had a thin foundation and could not convince the public. Thinking about it, he finally lied to the people: "The monk Zhuo Yanming of Xuefeng Temple is the true son of heaven. So he came to Xuefeng Temple with the crowned imperial robe, and involuntarily took off Zhuo Yanming's monk robe and replaced it with a dragon robe, and welcomed Zhuo Yanming as the "King of Min". Feng Zhuo Yanming's father was the "Emperor Taishang".
This is the first time in history that the "yellow robe is added to the body", and its original is Li Renda, not Zhao Kuangyin.
Yellow robe plus body
Three months later, Li Renda seized power in Fuzhou and, believing that the time was ripe, killed Zhuo Yanming and his father and established himself as the "King of Min".
A few years later, an upgraded version of the "Yellow Robe Plus Body" was staged. The protagonist is still not Zhao Kuangyin.
Later Han general Guo Wei killed Liu Chengyou, the Emperor of Han Yin, and made Liu Yun emperor, and when Liu Yun had not yet arrived, he falsely reported military information and "led his army to meet the battle", and on the way, he encountered a "mutiny", was "supported" as emperor, and staged the "yellow robe plus body" for the second time. Liu Yun was killed while on his way to Song Prefecture. In 951, Guo Wei was proclaimed emperor, and the history was called "Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou".
Guo Wei
Nine years later, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied, and the "Yellow Robe Plus Body" was staged for the third time, and "Later Zhou" was changed to "Song". The Yellow Robe of the Zhao and Song Dynasties added to the body for 319 years, and a total of 18 emperors were served.
Zhao Kuangyin "yellow robe plus body", plagiarism overshadowed the original, became the final victor.
The monk Zhuo Yanming of Xuefeng Temple, the man who was really imposed by the "yellow robe", died in Jiuquan. Who would have guessed that being a monk is also a risk drop!
Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added
Zhao Song yellow robe plus 319 years
In the third year of the Song Dynasty (978), the "Yingtian Xuefeng Zen Temple" was renamed "Xuefeng Temple". The temple has been repeatedly destroyed, and at its peak there were more than 1,000 halls and houses, and more than 1,500 monks.
Most of the existing temples were built during the Qing Guangxu period and are large in scale.
Inside the Daxiong Treasure Hall is the Third Rulai Jade Buddha from Burma. The eighteen arhats in the hall have different postures and come to life.
There are four ancient trees outside the mountain gate, and it is said that the two large ones were planted by Wang Zhenzhi of min and the monks of the Tang Dynasty, which have been planted for more than a thousand years. The two smaller plants were planted by Ming Dynasty monks and have a "high lifespan" of five or six hundred years.
The temple contains statues of the Buddha, the Moraine Sand Sutra, the Indian Sanskrit Baye Sutra and the entire 8,000-volume Pinjadha Sutra, all of which are extremely precious.
The scenery around Xuefeng Temple is beautiful, comparable to a fairyland, and there are "twenty-four views of Xuefeng Peak". Among them, the hanging rock waterfall fell hundreds of feet, up and down five times, each layer is different in situation, the pool is filled with pouring, surging and unrestrained, flying and churning, and it is a spectacle. Pedestrian trails, step by step, in the clouds, the so-called "winding and winding edges, noda high and low mountain farming" .
Climbing from behind the temple, there is a spring at the top, named "Ying Tide Spring", with a peculiar source, about three feet wide, the water inlet is only a few inches, and the spring rises and falls with the tide. At high tide, a trickle flows out of the rocks on all sides, and when the tide sets, the spring water dries up and dries up, and the dripping water does not flow.
Xuefeng Mountain, steep mountain, beautiful scenery, the summit peak is 800 meters above sea level, enjoying the beauty of "Minyue God" and "Qiongyao First Peak".
Xuefeng Temple has a long history, and was rated as one of the "Ten Brakes" in the Southern Song Dynasty, known as the "First Zen Forest in Jiangnan".
At the same time, it is also the birthplace of the Yunmen Sect and the Dharma Eye Sect among the five schools of Zen Buddhism. It is known as the "first brake in the south" and has a lofty status.
View of Seokho-ji Temple
The Five Zen Sects:
Yunmen Sect: Founded by Zen Master Wen Yan (864-909 AD, Jiaxing, Zhejiang). Wen Yan became a monk at the age of seven. Born astute and intelligent, intelligent and eloquent. Later, because he felt that he had been a monk for many years and had not known anything, he went out to travel to study. A few years later, he studied as a Zen master at Xuefeng Temple. After leaving Xuefeng Temple, Zen Master Wen Yan opened a new temple in Yunmen Mountain, Ruyuan, and spread the purpose of Xuefeng, known as the Yunmen Sect.
The Yunmen Sect believes that everything is only on their own, no one else can replace, and a good teacher only awakens the potential of students at the right time.
Dharma Eye Sect: Founded by Wen Yi Zen Master (885-958 AD, Yuhang, Zhejiang). The Dharma Eye Sect believes that all things are ready-made, there is no difference between good and bad good and evil, after being turned into a name by people, so the peacock is beautiful, the crow is ugly, and the peacock is really beautiful, is the crow really ugly?
The Yang Sect: Founded by Liuzu Huineng (六祖惠neng -- Nanyue Huairang -- Matsu Daoyi -- Baizhang -- 沩山-Yangshan) and his disciple Yangshan. The Yang Sect believes that the basic concepts are originally simple and clear, but the words used for expression are a deceptive demon, and reading the Bible should not be bound by words.
Linji Sect: Among the five Zen sects, the Linji Sect is the only sect founded in the north (Zhengding, Hebei). Its founder was Linji Yixuan (六祖惠能 -- Nanyue Huairang -- Matsu Daoyi -- Huang Berberry Xiyun -- Linji Yixuan).
Cao Dong Sect: Founded by Zen master Liang Price. It takes the name of Jogye Liuzu Huineng and his 6th grandson Dongshan.
Some people regard Buddhism as a religion, and some people regard Buddhism as a philosophy, is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?
But there is no doubt that these famous Zen masters are all thinking-thinking-home.
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