Located on the Emei Plateau in Yongji County, southwest Shanxi Province. Gupuzhou city site in the south and Xixiang village in the east. The temple site is towering, full of pines and cypresses, with the Yellow River Bay in the west and the water surging; In the east, Zhongtiao Mountain stands like a barrier, with a wide field of vision, which is refreshing. Under the tableland, there is a wide long street at the bottom of the slope, which is the ancient post road leading to Chang 'an. This is the location of China's famous historical drama The West Chamber. There is a square brick tower in the temple, formerly known as stupa, commonly known as Yingying Tower. This tower, together with Beijing Tiantan Echo Wall, Henan Baolun Temple Tower and Sichuan Tongnan Giant Buddha Temple, is called the four existing echo wall buildings in China. It is also known as the six wonders of the world with the Shaking Tower in Shan State, Szolnok Music Tower, Burj Dubai in Marquez, the Bell Tower in Paris, and the Leaning Tower in Pisa, Italy.
It is not known when Pujiu Temple was built. However, judging from the records of ancient books and the textual research of scholars' cultural relics, Pujiu Temple existed in the early years of Sui Dynasty. However, at that time, the name of the temple was not Pujiu Temple, but Xiyong Qingyuan. During the Tang Dynasty, the hospital underwent a large-scale renovation. Hedong Province rebelled in our time in the Five Dynasties, and the Emperor Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty sent Guo Wei to lead an army to conquer it, which lasted for a long time. Guo Wei asked the monks in the hospital for countermeasures. The monk said that as long as you are kind, the city can be captured. Guo Wei immediately turned the arrow into an oath, saying that he would never harm anyone. The next day, Guo Wei's army really captured could, and keep the oath, don't kill a person. Since then, Xiyongqing Hospital has been renamed Pujiu Temple. In the Song Dynasty, the Pujiu Temple was renovated. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1555), a major earthquake occurred in the area where Pujiu Temple was located, and all the temples, monasteries, pavilions and pavilions were destroyed. Eight years later, in A.D. 1563, the buildings of Pujiu Temple, including Yingying Tower, were all restored. In the Qing Dynasty, the Pujiu Temple was also built, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the temple was very dilapidated. /kloc-another fire broke out in 0/92o, which was later destroyed by the Japanese invaders. By 1949, only Yingying Tower, Stone Chamber and Bodhisattva Cave were left in Pujiu Temple, and other buildings no longer existed. From 65438 to 0986, the government allocated millions of yuan to repair Pujiu Temple. Today, Yingying Tower is surrounded by cloisters; There are many temples in Emei Garden, and there is another Pujiu Temple restored on the land of Sanjin.
Pujiu Temple has magnificent architecture, winding red walls, towering pagodas and looming temples among green trees. The architecture of Pujiu Temple consists of a temple and a garden, with the temple in front and the garden in the back. A plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, hangs on the gate.
The temple buildings of Pujiu Temple are roughly distributed on three axes. Up to now, the buildings on the west axis include the Big Bell Tower, the cloister of the Tayuan, the Yingying Tower, the Ursa Major Hall, and finally the garden. On the central axis, there are Tianwang Hall, Bodhisattva Cave, Tomi Hall, Luohan Hall, Ten Kings Hall, and Sutra Pavilion. On the east axis, there are main entrance, monk's house, dead wood hall, dharma hall, zhaitang, incense kitchen and so on. There are three stone buddhas in Daxiong Hall. These three stone buddhas are statues, among which Siddhartha Gautama is 3.9 meters high and was unearthed 33 meters underground behind the pagoda during the restoration of Pujiu Temple in the 1980s. Judging from the artistic style of the Buddha statue, this is a work of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that the other two Buddha statues were unearthed without heads. Today, the heads of Buddha statues were added later. According to legend, the villa garden is a Buddhist villa built by Cui in the Tang Dynasty, and the west wing is where the old lady and Yingying live. There are classic pavilions behind Yingying Tower, and wing rooms are built on the east and west sides. The so-called West Wing is the legendary place where Zhang came to Pujiu Temple to spend the night when he was born in Pudong. This story of the West Chamber is where it happened. Under the west wing of the moon, the door opens against the wind. The flowers on the wall are moving, and it is suspected that they are jade people. Zhang sheng's study is in the west wing. He fell in love with Yingying for the first time and was on pins and needles. He is leaning against the old screen in front of a short blue light. The light is unknown, and the dream is unsuccessful; The wind outside the window is thin and the notes ring; Lonely pillow, silent pillow. You are a stone man, and stone men are emotional. Passing Xixiang Academy, you will find Cuiju clause. Behind Cui's home is a garden, where Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng meet. The rockery in the garden is towering, the lake is rippling with blue waves, small bridges, pavilions, red flowers and green trees are everywhere, which makes people reluctant to part.
The famous historical drama The West Chamber describes the love story between Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying. At that time, Zhang Sheng went to Beijing to catch the exam, but it rained on the road, so he went to Pujiu Temple to play. As it happens, I saw Cui Yingying, who was trapped in the temple while helping his father's coffin to go home. It was love at first sight. Zhang Sheng's reading room, Xixuan, is located on the west side of Daxiong Hall. The pear flower deep courtyard where Yingying lives with her mother and maid matchmaker is located on the east side of Daxiong Hall. There is a place where Zhang Sheng climbed over the wall to meet him, and there is also an apricot tree that Zhang Sheng stepped on the wall. Now, pear flower deep courtyard, bookstore, back garden, cliff jumping place and so on. Reconstructed along the road that Zhang Sheng walked in the past, and created a number of Buddha statues and wax figures of the characters in the West Chamber. According to the story of The West Chamber, dramatic scenes such as panic, borrowing a carriage, fasting and making trouble, seeking accommodation, refusing marriage, listening to the piano, crossing a cliff and copying red are reproduced.
Yingying Tower stands on the west side of Pujiu Temple, simple, dignified and independent. It was also destroyed by the great earthquake during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and what we are seeing now was rebuilt in A.D. 1563. The inside and outside of the tower are square, and the eaves of the tower are slightly concave, which shows that Yingying Tower retains some characteristics of Tang Tower.
The welcoming tower surrounded by cloisters is made of brick. The tower has thirteen floors and is 36.76 meters high. The sudden contraction of more than seven floors makes the whole tower more dexterous. There is a tunnel between floors in the tower, and most people can go up to the ninth floor. However, the sixth floor and the seventh floor cannot be directly connected, and you must go from the sixth floor to the fifth floor to get up. What is more striking is that Yingying Tower has a peculiar echo effect. Near the tower, people can hear the echo of croaking at a certain position, similar to the chirping of frogs. It is said that craftsmen put the golden toad in the tower when they built it. In fact, the tower is hollow. There is a frog-beating platform outside the west side of Yingying Tower cloister, which is the best place to beat stones. There is a small pavilion on the hillside not far from the stage, called frog pavilion, which is the best place to listen to the echo of frogs. Yingying Tower also has the functions of radio, bug and power amplifier. Under Yingying Tower, people can hear the songs, gongs and drums of Zhou Pu Town, 2.5 kilometers away from the tower, the sounds of cars and tractors in nearby villages and towns, the voices of people laughing at home, and the crowing of chickens and dogs. In addition, the birdsong under the tower, amplified by Yingying Tower, becomes louder and can spread far away. Its echo mechanism is mainly in three aspects: 1, the tower is hollow, standing in the middle of the tower listening to the people above, because of the acoustic reflection effect, the sound seems to come from below; 2. The complex structure on the tower eaves has reflection function; 3. Wall reflection. The echo wall of the Temple of Heaven mainly reflects through the wall. Therefore, when you clap your hands around the tower, you can hear the clear echo of Wang Sheng. With the change of position, the frog echo from the air or the ground will also change.
Behind Pujiu Temple is a group of garden buildings, including rockeries, bamboo forests, bridges and pools, as well as the fascinating Yingying Pavilion and Yue Bai Terrace. The scenery is beautiful and charming.