The Lengyan Temple in the Huguangyan Scenic Area of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, has been expanded and repaired in recent years and has regained its style. The structure of the temple is balanced, deep, strict and unified, and the cornices, gate towers and pavilions made of brick and tile wood and stone all reflect the charm of the classical architectural culture of the East. According to the Chronicle, HuguangYan was once known as a trap lake and a clean lake. In the seventh year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1126), there was a monk Sun Chun who "promoted the customs and could not enter the city", who knotted grass here as a nunnery, borrowed the Baiyun Grotto as a Buddhist hall, enshrined the Three Treasures buddha, named "Baiyun Zen Nunnery".
Zhanjiang Lengyan Temple is located in Zhanjiang City, about 25 kilometers west of Huguangyan Scenic Area, Lengyan Temple, has a long history. Legend has it that as early as the Sui Dynasty, it was called "Linghui Marquis Ancestral Hall", and at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jing Kangnian (1126-1127), the Suixi Leiyang monk Sun Chun (琮師) practiced Zen here, taking the name "Baiyun Zen Nunnery". From the Yuan Dynasty to the Great Era (1308-1312), Sun Yu and other statues of Buddha were enshrined in the temple, and Sun Gui and others donated land property. Ming Hongwujian, Zhixian Zhang Zhao ordered Peng Jiusi and others to rebuild, and Sun Xiwu and others wrote articles to record this matter. In the 25th year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty (1686), Song Guo of Suixi Zhi County built three study rooms in front of the temple, which were used for Huguang Social Studies, and later merged into the temple. In the twenty-eighth year of Qing Daoguang (1848), Yu Bingrong of Suixi Zhi County rebuilt the monastery, and in the eleventh year of Qing Xianfeng (1861), it was rebuilt again, and Chen Guilin, a yiju person, wrote a preface to his deeds. Later generations changed the Zen Nunnery to Lengyan Temple because Buddhism had the "Lengyan Sutra", and Chen Guilin wrote it on the left side of the mountain gate by The Yiju people, which is still in use today.
Lengyan Temple is a two-entry small courtyard layout, the back entrance is the Daxiong Treasure Hall, between the cliffs, built according to the rock, built by the cave, pure natural cave, about 40 square meters. Around the rock, the situation is natural, hard summit, top of the rock covered, to. HuguangYan is famous for its three-character cliff carvings, which are rare handwriting left by Li Gang, the chancellor of the Southern Song Dynasty, who was relegated to Leizhou in the third year of jianyan (1129). The hall is dedicated to Shakya, the Medicine Man, the Midas Buddha, and the Eighteen Arhats. Advancing into the Wei Dao Hall, three compartments enclosed, brick and wood structure, the central hall for Maitreya and Wei Dao, the original temple forehead "Lake Light Mirror Moon" and the temple association: "The lake is vast, the guests to the road from outside the flowers to ask; the rock mountain silent calendar, the monk returns to the door to knock on the middle of the moon", is the Qing Dynasty's first envoy to the United States minister, China's first student director of the United States Chen Lanbin (1816-1894) left by Chen Lanbin of Wuchuan County (1816-1894) after the Hanlin Academy, returned to his hometown to visit his relatives to visit The Lake Guangyan. The courtyard between the two halls, flanked by each other. In the depths of the white clouds, "the guest hall and the corridor built according to the grotto, after the destruction of the corridor were changed into monks' houses, halls, brick and wood structures. In front of the original temple, the left and right are adjacent to the lake, and the entrance and exit of the temple is by taking the left cliff stone path, when the high monks and masters who are "Hobb's customs, not enough to enter the city" send guests to the mountain gate every time, so the mountain gate has a link as:. The cave entrance leaves a stone bed with fairy eyes, and the door sends guests to the cloud ladder", inscribed by The Qing Dynasty Xiucai Peng Jiayu. On the right, there was originally a stone arch, which was written on it. Nam no Amitabha. , the endorsement of "back to the shore", the pen is as strong as life. The temple is surrounded by rock trees, the situation is natural, and the rock lake is hidden, which complements each other. The poet described it as "the ridge is like a lion squatting on the cliff, and the water is like a mirror pouring into the sky", and the lake is beautiful and magnificent. In the 1970s, the lake was diverted for irrigation. The lake is falling, there is nearly 100 square meters of space in front of the temple, and there is a road on the left side of the temple, and the car can go directly to the front of the temple mountain, which is more convenient for tourists to visit the Buddha.
The successive abbots of Lengyan Temple could not be fully examined, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were Shi Zhi Void, Shi Xin Zhai, Shi Sui Ru, etc., and the monks also organized Buddhist societies here. At the beginning of liberation, it was held by the monk Shi Zhenru. In 1954, the temple was washed away by wind and rain, and some buildings were destroyed, and the government funded 2. 50,000 yuan for restoration, protection of places of interest and historical sites. In 1966, Buddhist activities ceased and the temple Chinese lost. In 1980, Buddhist activities resumed, and the monk Shi Qinghe became the temporary abbot, during which the temple was placed. "Lake Light Mirror Moon" was changed to "Lengyan Temple", written by Zhao Puchu, president of the Buddhist Association of China and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1982, he was appointed abbot by the monk Shi Mingzhi, and in 1982 and 1984, he partially restored the Buddha statues.
In recent years, due to the sinking of the foundation, wind and rain, the wall of the Wei Dao Hall has cracked, and the scale of the building is narrow, which does not meet the needs of development. After the approval of the local religious and cultural relics departments, this reconstruction, except for the Daxiong Treasure Hall with the cave as the temple, the rest of the buildings were all demolished and rebuilt, according to the architectural characteristics of the late Qing Dynasty. The Wei Dao Hall expands forward 1. 5 meters, changed the original closed box to a two-pillar gold frame structure, the front porch column with stone pillar foundation, the rear railing with cement imitation stone, the outer wall painted with red pressed line false brick stripes, the temple to restore the Qing Hanlin Chen Lanbin book "Lake Light Mirror Moon" to preserve its cultural relics value. The two sides were changed to a two-story hall and a monk's house, the corridor was made of cement imitation stone, all made of mahogany sculptures, ancient patterns, copper and chrome compound treatment, the outer wall was painted with gray pressed line fake brick stripes, and the eaves were glazed tiles. The reconstructed part of the construction area totaled more than 500 sub square meters, with a cost of 540,000 yuan, and all the projects were completed in early 1996.
Lengyan Temple is not only a Buddhist place, but also a scenic spot, but also a place where the rioters gather inscriptions, and there are 16 inscriptions of celebrities inside and outside the temple. In 1985, the Huguang Poetry Gallery was held to collect ancient and modern celebrity inscriptions and poems: There are Song Xiang Li Gang < Inscription Master), Yuan Xuanwei Si Zeng, Ming Inspector Yushi Chen Zhenyu's handwriting and poems, Qing Dynasty Zhixian Huang Engui's "Title Lake Guangyan", Zhixian Hongpansu's "Huguangyan Landscape Record", Zou Shuang's "HuguangYan Record", Song Guoyong's "Tang Jianhu Guangyan Library", modern Guo Moruo's "Huihu Guangyan" (1961), Dong Biwu's "Huguangyan" (1964), and so on. In 1986, the Zhanjiang Municipal People's Government designated Lengyan Temple as a municipal cultural relics protection unit;
The lake in front of Lengyan Temple, according to Kao, is a lake formed by the underground water after many eruptions of the volcano, and has a history of at least more than 200,000 years. Ancient legend has it that there are "dragon fish" and "god turtles" in the lake, and locals also say that these "god turtles" have saved many drowning people. At about 4 p.m. on May 28, 1996, in the middle of the "Dragon Fish" and "Divine Turtle" splashing water lake, a spectacle that no one had witnessed for decades appeared, which made the tourists feast their eyes, and at that time, there were 60 cadets of the General Class of the People's Liberation Army National Defense University who were sightseeing in Huguangyan, and the appearance of this spectacle added a more mysterious color to Huguangyan.
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