"Ruzhou Visits the Ancients" - Where is the Night Moon in Longquan! Hot spring town Fengdian Longquan Temple
Liu Mengbo/Wen
Fengdian Longquan Temple is located in the southwest of Ruzhou City, 60 Lixu, hot spring town Fengdian Village south of the Eastern Foothills of Wulong Mountain, although the terrain is high, but the surface water resources are abundant, with its many springs, inexhaustible, clear water quality is famous in the world. According to local records, Longquan Temple was founded in the Yuan Dynasty and has a long history, for hundreds of years the temple was named after the spring, and the spring was won by the temple, which was actually an ancient temple. At the same time, in order to facilitate the distinction between longquan temple in Fanzhuang Village, Paper Mill Town, people also called the temple West Longquan Temple. Ming Zhengde's "Ruzhou Zhi. Temple View: "West Longquan Temple, in the western fifty miles of the state, was built between yuan and yuan." ”
In history, Longquan Temple is not only famous for its spring water, but also because of the beauty of the "Longquan Night Moon" and listed as one of the "Eight Scenic Spots of the West of the State", since ancient times, "Longquan Night Moon" has been praised by countless literati and scholars, and there are many records or poems about him circulating in the world.
Zhengde "Ruzhou Zhi. The second volume of the Mountains and Rivers records that "Longquan, in the northwest (south) of the state, Wuyuanbao, its water is clean. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds cover the moon, looking down at the spring, the shadow is self-assured, and the predecessors have the sentence 'I want the dragon spring to watch the night moon'.
Daoguang "Zhili Ruzhou Quanzhi. The first volume of the Eight Views of the West of Fuzhou records that: "The night moon of the Dragon View, the water is bright and clean, and the night moon is clear." Although the clouds are obscured, and the shadow in the spring is self-assured, it is also a spectacle. Detailed monuments. ”
Daoguang "Zhili Ruzhou Quanzhi. Volume IX of the "Monuments" records that: "The Dragon Spring, its water is pure, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds cover the moon, and the crown shadow in the spring is self-assured, see the "One Unification Chronicle". In the southwest of the city, the old Zhi is in the northwest, and Song Zhi supplements. ”
Yuan. Zhang Zheng's "Longquan Night Moon": "The Han Lord's return to the world, the Dragon Spring gushed out purple mules." A round of bright moon is green, and the shadows of the ages are unswerving. ”
bright. Zhang Weixin's "Dragon Spring Night Moon": "Chengtan is a thousand feet and the dragon sleeps steadily, and the autumn color is equally divided and pitiful." There is also a long sky of the moon, and the clear light and night are printed in the cold spring. ”
bright. Fang Yingxuan "Longquan Temple Moon": "Qiu Chan has nowhere to be pitied, and shines into the Longquan Color Beiyan." It is suspected that the Li Zhu is long and colorful, and the empty pool is a luminous circle. ”
Ming Anonymous's "Dragon Spring Night Moon": "The clear stream is a blue sky light, and the ice wheel is not soaked in the night." In the shadows, the mountains and rivers are clear, and the pine shoots are wind and rain playing neon clothes. Dragon dance in the Ice Cave, the color reflects the golden millet incense of the Toad Palace. There are smoke clouds that cover it continuously, and Qianfeng is refreshing and refreshing. ”
clear. The anonymous "Longquan Night Moon": "The clear stream is clear and the sky is clear, the Haoyue Moon is divided up and down, the reflection of the double pill is cold and radiant, and it is overlooked by ten feet of pure light." The Dragon Palace should pour wine on this night, and the rabbit cave is alone to pound the frost. Specially clean new world, generally looking into the mirror. ”
Longquan Temple has a small historical scale, the temple site is about 100 meters long from north to south, and about 40 meters wide from east to west, since the construction of the state-owned 704 factory (Yuxi Coal Machinery Factory) next to the temple in 1970, in the long-term use of various units, the temple buildings have been rebuilt or demolished. At present, Longquan Temple is only one of the great Buddha halls, which is an ancient building, which is a hard mountain structure, with three wide rooms and five deep purlins, and the overall preservation is well-preserved. At the same time, in the farmland in front of Longquan Temple, there are two ponds called "Longan" worth seeing, one of which is "Longan" in the north of the temple, known as "North Longan", one about 100 meters to the south, known as "South Dragon's Eye", these two "Longan", in fact, two swampy wetlands above the ground, rich water and grass, full of infinite vitality.