Bright Castle is a pearl embedded in the top of the bright mountain. Although the castle walls have collapsed after thousands of years of wind, rain, frost and snow, the remaining walls are still towering and steep, with clanking ribs and standing proudly, showing inviolable majesty and domineering. The east gate of the fort is facing the purple gas and watching the rosy clouds. Around the fort, thousands of peaks converge, Qian Shan winds, and dragons fall and phoenixes fall. Peach blossoms are red in March, rape blossoms are fragrant in early summer, the moon is bright in mid-autumn, and the castle is snowy in winter. Jenny of Dade Normal School praised in the poem "Youguangming Temple": "The drama in the mountains is like a canopy, and the moon shines in the west. Listen to Luming Literature birds fighting for rhyme and sit in Changchun. " "At sunrise, the light in the east is obvious, and all the mountains are yielding." Bright Castle is one of the old four doors and eight sights.
According to the statistics of Wushan Castle, Guangming Fort was built in the Tang Dynasty and is the earliest fortress in Wushan County. Among the people, there is also a legend about Guangming Fort and Guangming Temple. According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin failed in the Western Expedition and fled here. Just when Li Shimin was in a panic, a fortress stood tall in front of him. Li Shimin was overjoyed and hurried into the castle. He saw Manjushri sitting in the pavilion with a wishful hook in his hand, and prayed for Manjushri's blessing. Manjusri Bodhisattva smiled without a word, and with a wave of his wishful hook, the sky suddenly became overcast and it rained cats and dogs. The rain gathered into a long dragon, rushed down from the east slope of Jianshan Mountain, rushed out of a deep ditch and stopped the pursuers. In order to repay the kindness of Manjusri Bodhisattva, Li Shimin returned to Chang 'an, named the temple "Shoufeng Temple" and ordered its expansion. During the expansion, a large number of colorful agate gems were dug up within a mile around the fort. The deep ditch behind the temple that blocks the military forces and horses is called "Ma Gou" by later generations (it is also said that Ma Gou was opened by Li Chuangwang's whip).
Whether the story is true or not will not be tested for the time being. Historically, there was no Western Expedition in Li Shimin. However, if we turn over the turbulent history of 1000 years ago, maybe the existence of Guangming Fort is really related to the Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Tang Baoying (763), in order to cope with the "Anshi Rebellion", the Tang Dynasty hastily withdrew its military forces guarding Longyou. Taking advantage of the emptiness of Longyou, the eyeing Tubo captured Zhou Tao, Qin Zhou, Chengzhou and Weizhou in one fell swoop. After that, the land of Wushan was occupied by Tubo for more than 100 years. It is not known whether the Guangming Fort in this period was built to resist Tubo. One thing we can know is that in a long historical period, Guangming Temple and Guangming Fort were interdependent and shared weal and woe. Guangming Temple has a written history, which can roughly outline the history of Guangming Fort.
According to the inscription on the reconstruction of Guangming Temple in ningyuan county, Guangming Temple was built in the early Hongwu period and then collapsed. In the first year of Jiajing (1555), Ming Xiu, a monk from Huizhou, traveled here with his disciple Xiang Zhen. The villagers took Mingxiu as a master and pupil of Guangming Temple and began to repair the temple. No sooner had a small auditorium been repaired than Ming Xiu died. Zhenxiang and her disciples are like flowers, adhering to the teacher's wishes and raising money in ten ways. After many hardships, Guangming Temple began to take shape during the Chen Wu period in Qin Long (1568). This is the largest reconstruction of Guangming Temple ever recorded. With the increasing incense of Guangming Temple, Guangming Castle also shines together, from silence to noise. In the fifth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1632), Guangming Temple once again appeared "old and decadent" and needed urgent repair. With the donation of the lay people, the monks raised funds in various ways to repair Guangming Temple again. Buddhist disciples "worked hard for wealth, working day and night", and the bright castle showed the breath of ZTE. Looking at the mountains from afar, the castle walls are towering, and the temples in the castle are jagged and tree-lined, which is a scenic spot.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Taoism settled in Guangming Fort, which changed from a holy place of Buddhism to a place where Buddhism and Taoism were integrated. Whether a monk or a Taoist, Guangbao, who has gone through many vicissitudes, is like a kind elder, generous in accepting and sheltering people from all directions.
The war continued in the late Qing Dynasty, and Guangming Fort became a solid fortress for the masses to escape from the war. During the Republic of China, bandits were rampant and often harmed the countryside. One dark night, a bandit named "White Wolf" fled to the vicinity of Guangming Fort in an attempt to rob the village while it was dark. The villagers were frightened and hid in the bright castle with the money. In the dead of night, the white bandit leader sent bandits to spy around Guangming Castle, and suddenly he saw Howard, a duck on the wall of the castle, with many swords. Seeing this, the bandits were terrified out of their wits and reported to the leader. Hearing this, the leader of the white bandit was dumbfounded and terrified. He thought it was sacred, appeared, shouted "Run" and hurried away with the bandits, so that the nearby villages could be preserved. It turned out that more than 200 goats from a big family in the castle came out for food in the middle of the night. They were frightened and ran back and forth on the wall of the fort. They were mistaken by the white bandits for heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals.
1930, Ma Tingxian captured Tianshui, and thirteen counties in Longnan surrendered without a fight. Ma Shaotang, the county magistrate of Lixian County, disobeyed orders and detained An Lan, the county magistrate sent by Ma Tingxian. Ma Tingxian was furious and sent people to besiege Lixian County. Horse bandits pass by Guangming Castle, only robbing food, not killing people. The ancestral home of Song family in Taier Village is Li County. Hearing the news of the horse bandits crossing the border, he was terrified and hid in the hole in the wall of Guangming Fort. After hiding for a few days, I thought that the horse bandits had passed and ran out of the hole. Unexpectedly, I happened to bump into horse bandits from all over Malaysia, coming with portable broadswords. The ancestors of the Song Dynasty thought that the horse bandits were coming for themselves, and they were in a state of confusion. They panicked and their legs went soft. They knelt down and begged for mercy: "Sir, listen to me ..." On hearing the Lixian accent, the horse bandits dropped their hands, chanting the words of the Song ancestors, and their heads fell to the ground. After that, the horse bandits whipped the horses and went straight to Lixian via Jianshan. Wang villagers in Taier Village buried the ancestors of the Song family in a triangle behind Guangming Fort.
During the period of the Republic of China, it was inconvenient for people in Baozhou to seek medical treatment. Patients often asked Bao Wang, a traditional Chinese medicine, to prescribe prescriptions and take medicine to treat diseases. Bright Castle flourished for a while. Master Jenny praised in the poem "Nishimiya Shinji": "The magpies and ducks croak faintly, and people send sesame oil into the temple." The prosperity of incense in Guangming Temple and the liveliness of Guangming Fort can be seen. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the castle was brightly lit, filled with cigarettes, and the people around it were bustling. It was a great event to gather in the castle to watch the lights. Xue Huating's yangko "Bright Temple Lights" is well known to women and children and is still sung today.
Once, the voice of chanting in the bright castle stopped temporarily, and the vibrant voice of reading poems and chanting in childhood suddenly rose, which existed in the bright castle for thousands of years and floated out the voice of civilization. During the Republic of China, the government built Guangming Temple Primary School in Guangming Castle, one as a classroom and the other as a teacher's office. 1949 After liberation, Guangming Temple Primary School was dissolved. In the early 1970s, Guangming Temple in the castle was devastated, and its statues, murals, Tibetan scriptures and utensils were all destroyed. The West Auditorium and the East Building were demolished to build four middle school classrooms. There are two halls in the north and south, and three cypresses in the courtyard, and the classroom attached to Shanggou Middle School is built. Huayan Temple now holds a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Some small cultural relics are hidden in the tunnel under the castle wall. The light of civilization rested for a while, and the castle of light escaped into the dead silence.
Breeze brings happiness, bauhinia blooms, and the spring breeze of reform and opening up blows into the bright castle. At the initiative of enthusiastic people in Kangping, Zhou Chi, Shanggou, Yangping, Shanzhuang, Hanshan, Zhou Wan and other villages, the people around the temple spontaneously organized and donated money to rebuild the Guanyin Temple, the south temple of Guangming Temple. Tel: 1985. The bright castle once again ushered in vitality and vitality. In the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, colorful yangko teams from various villages poured in from various intersections and gathered at the gate of the castle. Cowhide drums are tearing at the throat, and the rumbling drums are generally drowned by the waves. The firecrackers were connected in series, shot on the fort wall, crackled and exploded among the treetops. Bright Castle has become a pot of boiling porridge, so lively! However, the excitement of Guangming Fort is as beautiful and short-lived as fireworks in the night sky. Because of an episode, Zhouchi and Yangping Village staged a story that Yangko became a real knife and gun on the land outside Guangming Fort. Hundreds of villagers in makeup were tearing and tumbling in the snow, and their guns and bayonets were cut, which was a mess and almost caused a disaster. The first world war, cold and cheerless nostalgia of the two villages, cold and cheerless wind in Shan Ye, cold and cheerless thick grass on the light fort, cold and cheerless incense in front of the Buddha. ...
When the wheel of history entered the 2 1 century, people around the fort raised money and materials, and built several rooms of the North Temple and the Monk's Zhai in Guangming Fort, forming a layout of one temple, one scene and one temple. In addition, the interior of the fort was decorated and the inscriptions in the fort were re-established. The masses held cultural activities such as blessing, singing and dancing performances, calligraphy and painting exchanges. In 20 16, Wushan County Religious Affairs Bureau officially issued a document, which determined that Guangming Fort was a place for religious activities in the county, and officially listed it as "Shoufeng Temple in Guangming Mountain", and established an organization.
After listing, the bright castle shook off all vicissitudes and stood on the top of the mountain with a brand-new attitude, heading for the next Millennium. ...